The Ultimate Round-Up Of T-Shirt Design Tutorials

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If you have yet to design for apparel goods, today is your lucky day! Below, we present over 20 useful t-shirt graphic tutorials written by fellow designers, followed by a selection of great resources (such as vector apparel mock-up templates), an inspirational showcase to get your brain thinking and some great websites where you can submit your new t-shirt graphics.

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T-Shirt Graphic Tutorials

Create a Balanced T-Shirt Graphic

• Work with vector image tools to trace stock photos.
• Learn how to make great compositions.

How to Design a T-Shirt on a Budget and a Tight Deadline

• Use existing vector packs to produce new graphics.
• Work with limited color schemes.

T-Shirt Design in Photoshop

• Work with the Saturation Settings to manipulate photos.
• Use the Circular Marquee Tool to produce custom shapes.

Super-Slick Screen-Printing Separations with Illustrator

• Set up documents and bleeds ready for screen printing.
• Use Calligraphic Brushes to trace photographs.
• Separate colors to be ready for screen printing.

How to Create Photorealistic T-Shirt Mock-Ups

• Use apparel templates to produce realistic digital mock-ups.
• Use layer masks to hide unwanted areas of a graphic.

Screen Printing Effects

• Simulate silk screen imperfections in Photoshop.
• Learn how to use alpha channels.

Create a Custom T-Shirt Stencil Design

• Create stencils for your t-shirt artwork.
• Use craft knifes and spray paint to produce home-made t-shirts.

Screen Printing Tricks

• Get your hands dirty and produce home-made screen-printed t-shirts.
• Use various objects from around the home to save money on one-off production tees.

Separating Colors for Screen Printing in Photoshop

• Use the Magic Wand Tool to select individual colors.
• Use registration marks to help line up artwork when screen printing.

How to Win at Design by Humans

• Learn tips and tricks for submitting your artwork to Design by Humans.
• Use Pantone Color books to get your colors correct.

How to Prepare Artwork for Screen Printing in Illustrator

• Use various Pathfinder Tools to separate your colors.
• Use the Magic Wand Tool to select individual colors.

Designing Ultra SceneXCore Apparel

• Manipulate stock photos using various tools.
• Use existing vector images to spice up your artwork.

Create a Three-Color Illustration for Screen-Printing

• Separate colors in Photoshop to be ready for screen printing.
• Learn about trapping to avoid slight alignment on press.

Easy Color Separations for Screen-Printing in Photoshop

• Learn the process of screen printing and how it all works.
• Learn how to separate your artwork colors in Photoshop.

How to Create Awesome T-Shirt Mock-Ups like Jimiyo

• Use the Transform Tool to correctly position your artwork.
• Use the highlight and shadow levels to give your digital mock-up a realistic look.

DIY Vintage T-Shirts

• Combine Photoshop and Illustrator to produce stunning artwork.
• Use an imported sketch as a guideline.

Rapid-Fire Illustration Tutorial

• Use the Live Trace Tool to quickly and effectively trace traditional ink drawings.
• Use the Pen Tool to create custom shapes.

How to Create a T-Shirt from Scratch

• Use various Photoshop Tools to create custom shapes.
• Use the Polygonal Lasso Tool to delete unwanted areas of artwork.

Create a Complete Apparel Tech Pack

• Learn how to prepare your files correctly.
• Learn how to separate colors correctly.

CMYK Process Printing for the Emerging T-Shirt Designer

• Learn how to mix existing resources to create a good composition.
• Work with unusual color schemes to produce eye-catching artwork.

Digital T-Shirt Mock-Up Resources

After giving a few of the above tutorials the once over, you should have enough knowledge to begin making your own separated t-shirt artwork. Below are several links we have collected to help you present your work in the most stylish way possible.

GoMedia Ultimate Apparel Vector Collection

Freebie T-Shirt Template

T-Shirt Templates: Free and Paid

Free Blank Vector Clothing

Huge Collection of T-Shirt Design Mock-Up Templates

VIP Mock-Up Templates

T-Shirt Inspiration

Now you've got everything you need... except maybe for some ideas! Take a look at these great inspirational posts to help you get your thinking cap on!

• 20 Awesome T-Shirt Illustrations by Glennz
• 50 Best T-shirt Designs of 2008
• 40 Rad Vintage T-Shirt Designs
• 30 Kick-Ass Vector Based T-Shirts from Top Designers
• 30 Clever and Cool T-Shirt Designs You Will Love
• Super-Cool '80s T-Shirt Designs
• 20 Super-Cool T-Shirt Designs
• Amazing Typography T-Shirt Designs
• Designer Tees: Wear your art on your sleeve!
• 20 T-Shirts Designs about Typography
• Geek Fashion: 55 Fresh T-Shirts for the Creative Community
• Tasty Designer T-Shirts
• T-Shirt Factory's Photostream

Where To Sell And Submit Your Artwork

Below we have collected various online stores and open-ended competitions that invite you to submit your t-shirt designs, with the chance of getting them printed and taking home some well-earned cash!

• Design by Humans
  An ongoing design contest and community where artists and t-shirt lovers can create, buy and talk about everything related to art and t-shirts.
• Threadless
  Threadless is a community-based tee-shirt company with an ongoing open call for design submissions.
• Teetonic
  Teetonic is about passion for design. It wants to create the best t-shirts and is always open for submissions.
• Allmightys
  Submit designs to win tees, commisions, fame, friends and more!
• Oddica
  Submit your artwork for a chance to earn 41% of every sale made.
• Zazzle
  Make money online by selling your designs on hundreds of retail-quality products! It's free and easy.
• Cafepress
  Design, make and sell your t-shirts.
• La Fraise
  This is pretty much the French version of Design by Humans.
• Spreadshirt
  Create your own t-shirt shop for free, and fill it with your very own designs.
• BigCartel
  BigCartel is a simple shopping cart for artists. Create an account and start selling!

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