Modifying a Blank or Making a Tshirt with PI

[chaoscent]

Someone asked for these & I hope they find them helpful. As I keep telling people PSE is supposed to be easier and more people use it. I just happened to learn on PI even though I have PSE.

So Here's the document I started with

Making of a t shirt in PI

• Open a new document. Under file, hit file, new image.
• A new image box will open in your work space.
• Image size is 8 ½ x 11 & it is a portrait size and I chose a white background for the canvas.
• Hit ok. Mine comes up in the work space and also appears at the bottom. I can then hit another project I am working on if I am doing more than one project at a time. This helps if I am cutting/pasting from one document to the other.
• I then go to Object (at the top), insert image object, from file.
• I insert a background that you like. I am going to use the background listed above these directions. It can be found here http://s226.photobucket.com/albums/dd181/Chaos1Cent/Backgrounds%20and%20Clipart/Tink%20and%20Fairies/?start=28. use tinkongrass-2 and save it to your file so you can pull it in.
• When I insert it, it isn’t very big so I hit the transform tool on the left so I can make it bigger. I make it as wide as the 8 ½ size.
• Now I want to get rid of the writing that is there as I want to use the background without the writing.
• I make sure the transform tool is on. I go to the left side and hit the Object Paint Eraser tool button. Make sure you use the top on and not the bottom one.
• Go to the Attribute toolbar. Mine is at the top. On the left there should be a round button that says “choose a brush shape”, I will use the default (which is round) for this one. Next to it is “set the brush head size”. I move it up to 100 as I am getting rid of words and I am not being careful going around an object.
• I erase all the wording and some of the cloudiness around her wings. I also clean up some of the cloudiness around the outline. Once I am happy with how it looks I save it. Remember, if you end up getting too happy and cut off part of her wing or body, just go to Edit, Undo Before and go down to the last two or three you did and this function will undo them. I will now save this document as a jpg.
• I then close the document out & then reopen it. Otherwise it will not think it is a new document.

Here is the new document I opened, it can be found in the same spot as the document above and is called Tinkongrass3

• I am now going to put a pretty frame around the new document. If you have the new version, go to the “share” drop down box at the top of the page and hit photo frame.
• now there are many different types of photo frames to use. I like the simpler ones as I am going to be putting the t-shirts on dark transfers, because I don’t wear white shirts. It is easier to cut out a simpler frame. I always use a frame as otherwise I would have to cut around everything and that isn’t easy for me.
• So I check these buttons. First check frame, then check style to Photo Frame 3D. Then check “do not merge frame” (you want to be able to play around with the color, bump, etc. and if you merge it, you can’t make any changes to it.
• Then pick a frame you like. You can also change the color in here if you want or wait until after the frame has been picked. I don’t normally mess with the inner shape/outer shape, but this time I did. I sometimes picked a frame I liked & changed the inner shape to B5 for a new look. This is something you need to play with.
• I click ok, my frame cuts away the outside of the picture I have. I then click on another button, just to get out of the mode I am in and then click the path drawing tool. That will allow me to change the attributes of the frame. Then go to Galleries (on the right), then to Text/Path Effects, then to Material Attribute Gallery, then go into Bevels and pick a bevel that will make your frame pop so it looks 3 D. I used B-27 on this DISign. You can also change the color by looking in the top left and see the color there. Right click on it and see the many options you have. If you are doing a t-shirt and you want to match a color in the shirt you can do that. If you want to go a little lighter right click and pick windows color picker and move the slider up or down. This & fonts is where I spend most of my time. Everything I am telling you about frames is also applicable to fonts.
• Don’t forget to save…… Save as an UFO. Very important, if you save as a jpg, it all goes together and you can’t change anything.
• Now you can add some more objects. I am going to add gifs of some of the other fairies. Go to Object, insert image object, from file. I will add 3 or 4 fairies.
• Again, for each fairy, go into the attribute bar. Change the direction they are flying, change their angle, play around with the buttons.
• Now comes the font. You need to know I am OCD about the fonts. So I have quite a few fonts saved and I constantly troll for new ones. Now I kind of want a font that is fun. SO Now I open Word and go into my 27 page font listing and use Find/Replace and put Fairies in replacing something else I had in there. I come up with 4 or 5 fonts I like so I play with them in PI.
• Start with hitting text (above the crop button). Type in what you want. Then right click it until it has the box around it and hit “edit attributes”. Now go to your attribute toolbar. Mine is at the top of my screen. Right click color. I Played around with the color. After 5 or 6 different font changes and color changes I settled on fontdinerdotcom sparkly. Here it is Then I right clicked on the font, went to the drop down box and picked the font I wanted.
• I hit save again as I am very paranoid about loosing things I have been working on for a while so I hit save every so often.
• I decided to color it with under the material attribute gallery, Metallic, I chose Copper 11.
• I then change the font size. I settle for 499 as it looks ok at that size.
• Then I hit border and right click the color next to where it says border. I hit the eye dropper and go back to Tink’s hair. I then go back, right click color again and hit “Windows Color Picker”. It brings up the color in a bar on the right. I slide it down to make it a little darker. I outline it by 7.
• Then I hit the shadow button. Now you can go to the shadows in the material attribute gallery and play around with them. If you want to change them, right click and hit properties and you can change them, but that’s another lesson. I played around in here modifying the yellow (S24). I wanted it to sparkle some more and the yellow complimented the border.
• You can also play with the “bump” in the materials attribute. There are many different looks you can get by playing around in here.
• also play with the bevel button. As mentioned before, this is where you can make your wording POP. If you use a bevel, your wording won’t look flat.
• For this wording I used bevel B20.
• Now when you are all done, save it again to make sure you got the UFO file saved. That way you can go back, check the text, change the color of the font and the frame, add or take away clip art, etc.
• Now save as a jpg. That way you can upload it. Go here to see the final project, http://s226.photobucket.com/albums/dd181/Chaos1Cent/Shirts/?start=56 or it is below.
• Hope this was helpful.

here's another one that I did a while ago using the same background.

Feel free to ask questions. Penny

 

[Moeluv4u7]

Penny!! I just got home- & grabbed a look at my e-mail- This is incredible- Thx so much! & Great job! Thx for the help also- I will try as you said and insert as an object I think that is what I was doing wrong) I would also open a file and browse to grab a pic so I guess I never had it as an "object"- I am going to try that next and see if it makes a difference-