My New T Shirt + Question on Photoshopping.

[justcruzin]

I was messing with photoshop and I made this.



What I did was used the eraser to take out all the background. Then I used the brush stroke feature and that was the result.

I decided to put it on a T Shirt. Was going to go with a white T so I could tie dye it later on, then decided to just go with the dark blue figuring I wouldn't tie dye for a while. I liked how it looked on the blue T on Zazzles site so I had it made. This is the result when all was done.



When making the shirt on Zazzle that light background didn't show up, but it does on the T. My question is, how do I get that out of the picture and just have the busses and no background at all? I thought the eraser did that, but obviously not. It will be ok on a white T because you won't see it, but it would look much better without that on a dark T!!

I still love the shirt, even though it has that light area. Would just be better with out it!

Noticed after I submitted, you can actually see the white background on the site too ( in the first pic). How do I get rid of that???
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Kim
Sacramento, CA

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[Unclesalty]

For me, what I do in photoshop is to open up a new file and at the bottom of the "new file" info, change it from White Backround to transparent backround. Once you have it opened, place the picture on it. Once done, you can either use the eraser or the lasso tool and cut out the around the picture. So your van picture will be able to be put on any t-shirt color or where ever you place it. You can also do this in Adobe Illustrator by opening a new file, then place the picture and use the "live trace" tool at the top and go under "simple trace" in the options box. This will also have the same effect on photoshop but faster. Any more questions let me know!

[justcruzin]

[joehadams]

how did you save/export the photo out of photoshop when you were done editing it? JPEG? TIFF? PSD?

i want to assume JPEG considering you hosted and embedded the pic to this thread. try saving and uploading to zazzle as a TIFF. the file size will be large but it should work out.

[justcruzin]

[joehadams]

[90volts]

Have you tried ordering it yet? I bet you get a response saying its copyrighted material and they cannot produce it. That's what I've gotten on my shirts I tried to make up.. even with my own pics of my own bug.

[justcruzin]

[justcruzin]

[joehadams]

jpeg and jpg are the same thing it shouldnt matter. however, they dont support layers or transparency. TIFF does.

[justcruzin]

[joehadams]

since you already saved it as a jpg it compressed your layers and filled in the transparency. your going to have to do the whole process over again and save it as a tiff

[ned]

That would be a nicer shirt if you photoshopped the bus in the background out too.

[justcruzin]

[justcruzin]

[&Dan]

You can also save a layered P-shop file as a PDF.
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