Everyone loves a unique t shirt design. Fashion statements aside, they do give a slight insight into your personality, your current mood and sets you apart from the crowd.

This article is not a collection of the best t shirt design by the best designers; this article is collection of t shirt designs especially for designers, developers and tech gigs.

Those poor suffering souls that have to endure the pain and distress of the questions from everyday (“you work with a computer, do you? Will you fix mine?”). Yes, this collection is for All Developers, Designers and Tech gigs!

All fabulous designs are compiled from SpeckyBoy by Paul Andrew

Yes I am a Web Designer, No I won’t make you a Website for Free!

Web Designers – Making the Net a Safer Place

You Read My T shirt…That’s Enough Social Interaction For One Day

I Skipped Your Flash Intro

Do I look like the Help desk?

It’s Not A Bug, It’s A Feature

Web Designer

Loading….Please Wait….

I See Dead Pixels

I Know HTML (How To Meet Ladies)

Page Not Found

Photoshop Helping The Ugly Since 1988

Don’t Bother Me, I’m Rendering…

Photoshop

I design Websites, I don’t Fix Computers!

Speackyboy is a design magazine which has a wide collection of great designs.

Please share if you know any other funny tshirt design!

Would you like to have an original T-shirt? You can use your own photo and just by few editing in Photoshop you can make your text photo t shirt design. Simply place a text picture on a t-shirt. Just need two things a Picture and text and here we go. You can use text from something you like or just your name. It’s an awesome idea to have a unique t shirt which you can use as gifting purpose too.

Here is a fantastic video tutorial of Photoshop for how to make plane picture into text picture from logongod’s channel. Follow the step given in video and you can make your fantastic and unique t shirt design in few minutes.

how to make a picture with thousands of words, it easy than it sounds.

I have tried to demonstrate how to make a picture with thousands of words, it easy than it sounds, I would rate the skill level needed with Photoshop to do this one to be about a little more than a beginner. The choice of a photo you use is also critical a non dramatic straight forward head shot with not too much contrast would be ideal.

T shirt Design – Personalised Text Picture as Using Photoshop (Video)

logongod’s channel has described step by step tutorial for Photoshop editing of your photo.

Are you ready to create your t shirt design using text photo?

Custom Tshirt Printing Ideas – Preparing your own Unique Image Using Photoshop

Ever imagine your favorite Picture or some funny Picture onto your tshirt?  Here are few easy steps for making your tshirt unique using simple Photoshop editing. You can simply modify any Photograph of yours or your loved one and get it on your favorite color tshirt using our tshirt printing service.

Here are few really easy steps of making your own design using Adobe Photoshop by Diane Steinbach, eHow Contributor.

How to Make a Custom Tshirt Using Photoshop

Modern technology has made it easier than ever for us to do just about everything from our PCs. Whether you want to order an emu for your farm or download images from Iraq, your computer and internet connection make it all possible. Couple your internet access with your own creativity and Adobe Photoshop, and you have the makings of creative and unique gift making opportunities. Want to create a personalized T-shirt for yourself or a friend? Photoshop is your first step to making a one-of-a-kind item for your pal. Gather your materials, photos and imagination and let’s get going.

Preparing Your Image for Custom Tshirt Printing

First, come up with an idea for a T-shirt. The most unique and fun personalized images are those that you create using your own photographs plus some fun image from the internet. I like to take the “head” of a friend and put it on the body of something else, or better yet, deposit it in a famous work of art like the Mona Lisa! For that type of image, gather some good head shots (digital images) of your friend and download an image of the famous Mona Lisa. I found mine at the Wikipedia site. The image’s copyright has expired, so no problem! To grab the image, go to the Wikipedia link below and click on the Mona Lisa image.Right-click, select “Save Image as” and click. Remember where you locate the image, so you can open it up in Adobe Photoshop.

• Open Adobe Photoshop. Open your Mona Lisa file and a file with a good head shot you want to use for your personalized T-shirt.

• Using the “magnetic lasso” tool, outline the face that is to be put over Mona Lisa’s face. Then click on the “selector” tool (the arrow) and drag the image onto the Mona Lisa image.

• Next, go to “Edit” and “Transform” to resize and angle your facial image over the Mona Lisa image. Hit the selector arrow to apply the image and move around to perfect.

• Next, go to “Image” and “Adjust,” then “Color Balance” to match the tone of your image and the Mona Lisa.

According to steps Diane has described above making your own custom designed tshirt is a very easy process. So now you can make your own unique designs by just following five easy steps. You can use many more pictures as your templates ( ie Famous cartoons, famous painting and many more) for custom tshirt printing.

For those of our customers who like to play around in Photoshop, a good tip for prepare your artwork for silkscreening, is to reduce the amount of colours in your picture, to make it easier to print

With other types of printing, it’s fine to use photographs, the higher in resolution the better, and there are no issues with the amount of colours. But screenprints look the most effective when they’re made using flat colours with a limited palette.

Reducing the amount of colors also makes it cheaper to print, and it gives
you a better idea of what your design is going to look like once it’s been screen printed.
The key to reducing an image’s amount of colors for screen printing is the Posterize image adjustment.
Some other photo enhancing programs give these options now, as well as Photoshop, so you can play around with your photos and get some amazing results.

Bring up the image you want to use, and go to : Image > Adjustments > Posterize on the tool bar. The Posterize  filter reduces the amount of colors in your image to the number of levels you specify.
Depending on what kind of a look you are going for you can reduce the amount of colors once, or sometimes twice to get the desired look for your image. I’m sure you can even reduce it further, but I generally use 3 or 4 levels.

To posterize your image, first make sure you are on the selected layer you want to posterize.
Then, go to Image> Adjustments> Posterize…

After posterizing your image, you can either desaturate it or try varying the amount of levels
within the Posterize settings to get the desired effect. Here’s an example of a black and white picture of Paul McCartney, one of the famed members of  The Beatles. The first picture has been changed from colour to black and white, then in the second picture, the posterizing filter has been used, and you will notice the amount of tones have been reduced and simplified, which will make an outstanding screenprint for a Tee shirt:

Paul McCartney

Paul Posterized

You can see the marked difference between the two pictures, and the screenprinter will much more easily pick up the simplified colours (if in colour) and tones and your tee-shirt will be much more striking. There are many other methods of simplifying your pictures for print, this is just one of them….and just goes to prove….LESS IS MORE!

Most of us these days have various electronic devices which are capable of taking multi-megapixel images….the latest digital cameras start at about 8 megapixels, and go upwards from there…mine takes 14 megapixel photographs. Mobile phones and smartphones start at at 3 mp, and the latest smartphones make picture files of about 10 mp’s.  Scanners make high definition scans of our photos, which can then be increased even more in programs such as Photoshop. But the original picture needs always to be high in resolution to start with, to increase the quality.

Yet, for all our latest technology, very few of us have a good understanding of photograph quality, and the use of high or low file size for different reasons.  In the T-Shirt printing business, our job is to provide you with a shirt design of the highest quality, which will say what you want to say, and show what you want to show, without people having to squint, or come right up to you to read what your text says..

If you’re thinking of taking a photograph of  little Sally, and presenting it to Grandpa on a T-shirt for his 60th birthday, here are some tips:
a) Program your camera to shoot the highest possible quality…don’t skimp on quality just to save space on your camera
b) When taking pictures of children, it’s always a good idea to use the multiple shot function, in case the child moves. That way, the camera will take several shots in quick succession, and at least one of them should capture the child before he/she runs away, or puts his/her finger up their nose!
c) If you’re taking a group of kids, set the “smile” sensor on the camera, or if possible, the “multi-smile” sensor which detects when each person is smiling, and takes the shot.
d) If you want to capture and freeze movement, put the ISO setting up higher than the default 100 ISO which is standard for a sunny day.
e) Have your subject facing the light source…many pictures get deleted because what you thought was a great picture comes out as a dark blob.
f) Plan your picture background. You may take what is a masterpiece photo of your child displaying his first missing tooth, only to realise when you see the photo, that in the background there is another child sitting on the toilet, or an overflowing Otto-bin next to him!

If you would like your photograph printed onto a t-shirt, and you might not want to include the background at all, make sure that you put the child against a plain contrasting or white background, so that we can delete it for you. 

This is where the importance of a high resolution picture comes in. As we talked about in our last blog, pixels are square blocks of colour. On a low-pixel picture, when we magnify the picture to take out the background, the pixels resemble a set of coloured, blurred, steps and stairs. This makes it impossible to take out the background. On a pixel-packed photograph, using a selection tool in Photoshop, all the unwanted area of the photo is selected easily and deleted, and you will be left with a well-defined picture against the background colour of the t-shirt.

Here is an example of a medium quality picture which we were able to use. The customer wanted the background cut out, and a pair of angel wings drawn behind the little girl, and some text inserted. First the little girl:

Mum's Little Angel

And here’s the same image with the background cut out, and text inserted:

"Angel" artwork for t-shirt

And finally, a sample of the artwork placed on a t-shirt, and sent to our customer:

Angel Shirt Sample

We hope this blog has been helpful for you, when you use your camera next….when you’re racking your brain trying to think of a creative gift to give someone you love, what better present than a t-shirt, polo, cap, mousemat or cooler bearing the images of your friends and loved ones? And remember….keep those megapixels high!:-)

Last blog, we talked about the importance of pixels, and the use of high resolution pictures for printing. For those of us who are asking “Well what is a pixel anyway?” it means “picture element”, which is a literal description of what goes together to make a picture. Every picture is made up of tiny square blocks of colour, which go together to make up the whole….invisible to the naked eye, until you zoom into the picture and look up really close. The more pixels that are packed into a picture, the clearer the picture will be.

If you look at a picture which has a very low count of pixels, you will see the block structures more clearly, and the picture will be blurred and distorted. The edges become very jagged, which makes it impossible to print a nice clear image onto a T-shirt. Below is a sample of the colour blocks of pixels up close:

Pixels Up Close

From looking at this arrangement of colour blocks, it’s impossible to imaging that when zoomed out, it’s actually a picture. Underneath we have a sample of a picture that has been redrawn in Illustrator for a customer’s t-shirt, which is now so packed with pixels, it could be printed onto virtually anything!

Hi Resolution Cartoon Character

Poor resolution affects every aspect of the picture..especially text. Often we receive artwork to print which has text included. Sometimes the actual photograph can be touched up in Photoshop enough to be printed onto a shirt, but the text is another story. Blocky, pixelated text will either need to be redrawn, or replaced in the relevant font. The problem with retyping the text, is often the difficulty in finding some obscure font that has been used, and is not on our system. Unless the customer knows the name of the font, it’s like searching for a needle in a haystack. If the picture has been taken from a website, then it will be impossible to know the font name. Trolling through thousands of fonts in an internet font library is time consuming, and often non-productive.

Another result of pixelation we mentioned, is that all around the edge of the artwork will be jagged. Sometimes, if the picture is basically printable, we can draw a line right around the artwork to straighten out that jagged pixel line. Adobe Illustrator has a “pen” tool which is used to draw a vector line around the image, which turns the edge into a very high quality product, packed with pixels, and also preventing colour inside the picture from “bleeding” outside the print zone. Here is an example of this method:

Outlined Text And Images

Here is the artwork displayed on a sample proof T-Shirt:

Sample of Vector-Outlined Picture

Here is what problem-text looks like when it’s presented to us:

Pixel-Distorted Text

As you can see, it’s not a pretty sight. We at Customyourshirt always endeavour to deliver quality printing, on good quality shirts to our customers, but we can only work with what you send us. Now with more and more people buying high-megapixel digital cameras, more of us are learning the importance of high resolution. Those photographs that we view down at the local Camera Club exhibition, or art gallery have been shot with the highest possible pixel count, and then usually enhanced even more later in a photo editing program. If a photographer takes a picture that doesn’t make the grade, he simply deletes it, as he knows it’s not worth the time and effort to make a passable picture out of a dud!

So keep snapping those photographs customers, and creating those amazing artworks, and send them in to us for printing and advertising your products on our wide range of t-shirts and other products, and always keep your pixel quality in mind.

We’d like to show you some of the processes your designs go through, before they come out the other end on a T-shirt. There are a great variety of designs we print for our customers each day, ranging from the weird to the wonderful, but all of them interesting.
When you send in a picture for printing, it really makes the process easier for us if the artwork is of high resolution.  Just as the latest digital cameras are creating pictures of such good quality, they are able to print large crisp images without pixelating, the same principle applies to artwork needed for printing on T-shirts.

We recommend you provide your artwork as a PDF/PSD/EPS/JPG/JPEG/PNG @ 300dpi print size when applicable with transparency background for print on colour T-shirts.

T-shirt printing is an amazing way to make a statement, or display your photos, logo, website or your own artwork.
We’re often also able to re-draw your design, if your artwork is not quite high enough in resolution for printing.
Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator are the programs we use to create and edit artwork. Some of the following things can be done to make your artwork stand out on your T-shirt:
Backgrounds can be changed or edited, with unwanted content taken out. As long as your original artwork is of high enough resolution, the white background which often appears with your artwork on your web sample can be extracted. If your picture quality is lower, we can print at a lower resolution onto a white shirt, leaving the white background to blend in with the shirt. The same principle applies to black backgrounds against a black shirt.

Unwanted objects in your picture can be taken out with different methods, usually using the ‘clone’ tool, as shown in these two pictures:

In this picture, there’s a photographer’s arm which is spoiling the picture.

…And with a few strokes of the clone tool, just the pelicans and the sky.

Don’t hesitate to contact us for all your custom T-shirt printing, we can print anything and accept any type of document.