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T-shirt color problems Part II
06/02/2007 @ 05:59 PM Filed in:
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So I finally got around to emailing
the order of Skreened.com how I can get better color and if they
had color profiles for their printer.
His reply was no profiles are available and he claims they they get so many low quality images uploaded they do their best to improve them and sometimes colors get weird. I replied back asking if it was possible for them not to tweak my designs. If they can NOT do that, I'll try again and see if their is any improvement (I thought it may be possible their tweaking is ruining my colors). I'm currently awaiting his reply.
If in the end I don't get what I want I may just scrap all my t-shirts or maybe go elsewhere. I don't want to come off as saying I think their service sucks because it doesn't. They offer one off t-shirt printing a pretty low prices, that's pretty cool. I'm just not happy with the color reproduction of their printing.
His reply was no profiles are available and he claims they they get so many low quality images uploaded they do their best to improve them and sometimes colors get weird. I replied back asking if it was possible for them not to tweak my designs. If they can NOT do that, I'll try again and see if their is any improvement (I thought it may be possible their tweaking is ruining my colors). I'm currently awaiting his reply.
If in the end I don't get what I want I may just scrap all my t-shirts or maybe go elsewhere. I don't want to come off as saying I think their service sucks because it doesn't. They offer one off t-shirt printing a pretty low prices, that's pretty cool. I'm just not happy with the color reproduction of their printing.
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T-shirt color problems
05/25/2007 @ 10:36 PM Filed in:
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I recently received a t-shirt I
designed in the mail. The print quality actually seemed really
good. I was pleasantly surprised in that respect. However, the
color seemed too dark. The design is of a heavily scratched Seirra
Nevada beer bottle cap and I wanted it to keep its distanctive
green color but the t-shirt turned out way too dark. I plan on
talking to the owner of the print company and asking him how I can
help ensure I get accurate colors.
T-shirts
05/20/2007 @ 07:55 PM Filed in:
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So after a long long search on how to
turn my images into cool looking designs to place on t-shirts, I
have created a few. They, a current grand total of 6 to be exact,
are available at skreened.com/jclphoto
Why don't I just place my photos directly on a shirt?
In my opinion, most if not all photos look amateurish on a t-shirt. It'll look like DIY iron ons. Not exactly what I want. So it has to be modified to look "cool".
What method did you come up with?
For some reason the idea of converting photos into light art just dawn on me one evening. So I then went searching on the net for "turn photos into light art". The techniques I came up with involve using Photoshop to apply particular filters: Cutout, Find Edges, and Smart Blur. Granted that's a fairly simplistic explanation, but you as anyone else can perform the search on the net for more information (however if you want to know how I do it, let me know and maybe I'll write a full on article and post it here).
How do I purchase the shirts?
Go to www.skreened.com/jclphoto My t-shirt store front is on their web site because you are actually ordering from them, they print them on demand, and ship direct to the customer. That's you. All questions, comments, suggestions, etc on the designs themselves can be directed to me at john at johnlarsonphoto.com.
Can I get a particular shirt in a particular color?
It depends what particular color you want. Assuming Skreened has the color, you can get it. As a matter of fact they use American Apparel shirts using 8 styles of shirts and a decent selection of colors to choose from.
Why don't you place your name or URL on the shirt?
Excellent question. At the moment, Skreened doesn't allow to design a shirt so that there is printing on the front and back. I know they can do it, I just have to contact and make a special request. I'm too lazy to do that for so many shirts (I'd do it for one shirt, but if my selection grows, that seems like a lot of work). Maybe I should find a way to do it on the front of the shirt.
Can I see the designs?
Sure can. Although I haven't actually asked for permission from the company that prints the shirts, I can not imagine them being upset with me posting images of their shirts with my designs on them. Seems like a win-win situation for all as it is basically advertising for them, I'm helping to promote my work, and they get more money,
Here goes...
Scratched Sierra
This is my first design. I didn't use any of the Photoshop filters I mentioned earlier. What I did do was go to a nearby park with my girlfriend and a couple of her friends. We brought some beer and I scratched the cap of one of the bottles. I thought it looked kinda cool so I told myself I'd make a shirt out of it. I then scanned the cap using a Epson flatbed scanner. That explains why some of the cap looks kinda shinny. After I uploaded the image to Skreened.com, I realized I could have photographed the cap instead. But I think I'm happy with the "scanner" look.
SK8
CA State Parks
Lamp Post
Utility Truck
No Person Allowed
Why don't I just place my photos directly on a shirt?
In my opinion, most if not all photos look amateurish on a t-shirt. It'll look like DIY iron ons. Not exactly what I want. So it has to be modified to look "cool".
What method did you come up with?
For some reason the idea of converting photos into light art just dawn on me one evening. So I then went searching on the net for "turn photos into light art". The techniques I came up with involve using Photoshop to apply particular filters: Cutout, Find Edges, and Smart Blur. Granted that's a fairly simplistic explanation, but you as anyone else can perform the search on the net for more information (however if you want to know how I do it, let me know and maybe I'll write a full on article and post it here).
How do I purchase the shirts?
Go to www.skreened.com/jclphoto My t-shirt store front is on their web site because you are actually ordering from them, they print them on demand, and ship direct to the customer. That's you. All questions, comments, suggestions, etc on the designs themselves can be directed to me at john at johnlarsonphoto.com.
Can I get a particular shirt in a particular color?
It depends what particular color you want. Assuming Skreened has the color, you can get it. As a matter of fact they use American Apparel shirts using 8 styles of shirts and a decent selection of colors to choose from.
Why don't you place your name or URL on the shirt?
Excellent question. At the moment, Skreened doesn't allow to design a shirt so that there is printing on the front and back. I know they can do it, I just have to contact and make a special request. I'm too lazy to do that for so many shirts (I'd do it for one shirt, but if my selection grows, that seems like a lot of work). Maybe I should find a way to do it on the front of the shirt.
Can I see the designs?
Sure can. Although I haven't actually asked for permission from the company that prints the shirts, I can not imagine them being upset with me posting images of their shirts with my designs on them. Seems like a win-win situation for all as it is basically advertising for them, I'm helping to promote my work, and they get more money,
Here goes...
Scratched Sierra
This is my first design. I didn't use any of the Photoshop filters I mentioned earlier. What I did do was go to a nearby park with my girlfriend and a couple of her friends. We brought some beer and I scratched the cap of one of the bottles. I thought it looked kinda cool so I told myself I'd make a shirt out of it. I then scanned the cap using a Epson flatbed scanner. That explains why some of the cap looks kinda shinny. After I uploaded the image to Skreened.com, I realized I could have photographed the cap instead. But I think I'm happy with the "scanner" look.
SK8
CA State Parks
Lamp Post
Utility Truck
No Person Allowed