Custom T-Shirts

pics for what? i use the wcra ones for flyers

For a flyer. the in-laws probably won’t fly so well with the retirement crowd down here.

there are lots on the site though that be pulled out for your own design.

I just went back in there and there is a bunch. Some need heavily modified but that’s ok. I’m getting better at the graphic design side. This is the flyer I was going for yesterday. Feedback?

I’m still seeing it pixelated on my logo, I’ve got no idea how to remedy that. I have coupons and stuff on the reverse.

well i don’t know anything about about gimp but…
when you enlarge something too much or change DPI you may loose quality.
where did you take the logo image from and was it the same DPI and size as needed in the flyer.

I no comprende yet. Yes, I rescaled the logo from smaller. Is that what your referring to?

yes, that is likely your problem.
when you create a logo or something you want to be able reuse it needs to be sufficiently large and high quality.
generally for screen viewing 72 dpi is ok but for print normal is 300 dpi.
so for print purposes your original logo should be created at 300 dpi in a size that does not require enlarging.

you cannot just enlarge it reliably. when you create a text character and change the font size the program knows how how to keep everything looking good. once you change that text character to an image and just enlarge it the program has to make up info and the results are not as good.

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additonally saving images in jpeg or any other compressed format will reduce quality, not a problem if it is a good compression and only once but repeated can really be bad.

have you looked through the gimp tutorials?

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After following @Infinity 's advice, I got Inkscape to create everything, then I’ve been kind of putting it together in Gimp if it needs it. Inkscape can do everything creativity wise that Gimp can do except some photo touchup effects like red eye removal, etc. I think Inkscape is the way to do it now. And everything is Vector, so scaling becomes less of an issue from what I understand so far. This appears much better to me.

Hahaha, thats an awesome shirt. I need to make something like that! I currently just have my logo super big on the back.

Nice observation! Only difference I see is that Nike has supreme brand recognition. Show anyone in the world the swoosh and they can tell you it’s Nike. I would be surprised if any of our customers recognize us by our logos. They probably recognize us more by the color and type of uniform we wear or vehicle type and color etc. The more you can make things the same the more recognition you will develop in your market.

A good comparison is UPS. Most people would know there logo but would tell you they know them by their big brow trucks and brown uniforms.

That said it is interesting to think about creating recognition like Nike on a local level.