| In fact many people regard Inkscape as superior to | | | | You then need to add grunge effects to the custom |
| the Adobe Illustrator alternative because it is an | | | | t-shirt. This includes your grunge font text but you |
| ongoing project created by users with all the top | | | | can also add ink spatters, speckles and splats and |
| vector image programs in mind so it has the best | | | | play around with abstract imagery until you get the |
| elements of everything. Please remember that if you | | | | look and feel you like. Again, these images can be |
| use Adobe Illustrator to create a legitimate t-shirt | | | | drawn before hand to make it easier to create. After |
| business and create a custom t-shirt for sale in an | | | | you have nearly finished designing your custom |
| online shop you will need a legitimate licensed copy of | | | | t-shirt, and you have the design all set up and ready |
| Illustrator. If you cannot afford this, use Inkscape | | | | to go, you just need to actually create and make |
| instead. If you want to make your own t-shirt on | | | | your own t-shirt. This is easier than you may think, |
| Inkscape or Illustrator the controls are very similar | | | | so long as you used a vector program to make your |
| but Inkscape has some more flexibility on the | | | | design. If you use a pixel based program such as |
| anchors and curves. Your first step is to download | | | | GIMP or Adobe Photoshop you may encounter |
| some free fonts. You can do a search for some | | | | resizing problems at this stage. The bigger your |
| grunge fonts online that are available for free | | | | image gets the more distorted it gets and also if |
| download. Check the licensing on these fonts, as | | | | your image is too large and needs to be reduced to |
| some are free only for personal use. | | | | fit the custom t-shirt you can also get distortion. |
| Draw your design on paper first then scan it in to | | | | To make your own t-shirt with a perfectly sized |
| your vector program. It will make your design easier | | | | design you don't need to know the t-shirt size. Just |
| to create as your hand gets free reign over the | | | | create a vector image to make your own t-shirt |
| space on your paper. Drawing free hand in Illustrator | | | | design and you will be able to easily resize the image |
| Inkscape is very difficult and you may block this way. | | | | until it looks just right on the t-shirt. Use a flash |
| When making a custom t-shirt you want it to make a | | | | custom t-shirt application on a t-shirt design website |
| statement so draw a selection of images that appeal | | | | and upload a large copy of your vector image (or |
| to your ideals. You can include city icons, hobbies, | | | | one with 300 or 600 dpi) that has been saved for |
| themes and random images. As you make these into | | | | web. The custom t-shirt application will resize and |
| vector designs on Illustrator make each image | | | | position the image for you. You can then click and |
| separately and group them so they can be easily | | | | drag the image to where you want it to be. Once |
| moved. Then move the images around until you have | | | | you have the design for your t-shirt it really is a |
| the perfect t-shirt layout to make your own t-shirt. | | | | matter of seconds to upload it and order the t-shirt. |