T-Shirt Design Tutorials!

Create Your Own T-Shirt Design Experience

Funny Graphic T-Shirts has created this section of the website dedicated to helping the average person design their own amazing T-Shirt designs! We have such a passion for T-Shirt design that we've decided to share our experience with the whole World! In this process, not only are we helping others enjoy the experience of creating their own custom T-Shirts, we are learning things about ourselves and strengthening our position in the industry as we are forced to explain the processes of T-Shirt design (and production) in an accurate and efficient manner. In this frame of thought, we will be creating custom graphic design tutorials to cover just about every aspect of the T-Shirt design experience.

Here are our current tutorials:

Currently we are writing articles about:

Scanning & Cleaning Images
Print Resolution & File Prep
Software Tutorials
Fixing Bad Images
Tracing images
Color Mode, Level Adjustment, Altering Color
Top 10 Tips for Creating a Great T-Shirt

T-Shirt Design from a Marketing Perspective

Most people who are designing a shirt never think about marketing principles when doing the fun work of laying out a graphic design. Here are a couple points to always consider though when you do your design (especially if you are making them for a group of people).

1) What's your Target Audience?

Never forget who you are designing the shirt for. Who is it that you expect to be seeing the shirt and, most importantly, who's wearing it? This will help you focus your creative design elements (like color, fonts, images, etc.) to the type of people it's meant to attract.

2) What's the Purpose of the T-Shirt?

A T-Shirt or design without a purpose is either a T-Shirt that will never sell or will just end up in the closet or attic until it turns musty. Focus on what your message is and what you want it to convey. This will allow you to cater your fonts, text, colors, images, etc. to suit the purpose and, hence, create a much more effective design.

3) Content is King!

A bunch of cool shapes and colors laid out in a graphic design program are just that, cool shapes and colors laid out. If people don't get what it's about and there's no meaning behind it, people can't relate to it and will not take a liking to it. Meaning for you = NO SALE. Great artists and designers may see a vision in the countless hours they put in on their elaborate designs but the true professionals will put their mind-set into the "heads" of others so they can make the content sensible to their target audience.

4) Have Fun

A T-Shirt that wasn't fun to create will probably not be fun to look at. Our primary message at Funny Graphic T-Shirts is that this process is fun and you should never feel like you are doing a chore when creating a great piece of art!