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Howdy.
I’m setting up a file to be direct-printed to a green t-shirt on a website called zazzle.com
It’s currently a PSD with layers and transparency. Black text and a logo on a transparent background.
Their help files say to save it as a 32 bit PNG with alpha transparency and that transparency will be retained. I’m sure the 100% transparent areas will be transparent but what happens to the edge pixels that aren’t 100% transparent? They’ll no doubt be printed as an opaque color, giving me a halo. I can deal with that by mimicking the t-shirt’s color in a bottom layer, I suppose. The shirt will be a lighter color, so it might not matter much.
My questions are:
Which Save for Web should I use? PNG-8 or PNG-24? or can I save as a 32 bit PNG from PS7?
Should I really create an alpha channel transparency? Is it somehow better?
And finally, has anyone had an experience designing a shirt at zazzle or similar.
Thanks
Amy
I’m setting up a file to be direct-printed to a green t-shirt on a website called zazzle.com
It’s currently a PSD with layers and transparency. Black text and a logo on a transparent background.
Their help files say to save it as a 32 bit PNG with alpha transparency and that transparency will be retained. I’m sure the 100% transparent areas will be transparent but what happens to the edge pixels that aren’t 100% transparent? They’ll no doubt be printed as an opaque color, giving me a halo. I can deal with that by mimicking the t-shirt’s color in a bottom layer, I suppose. The shirt will be a lighter color, so it might not matter much.
My questions are:
Which Save for Web should I use? PNG-8 or PNG-24? or can I save as a 32 bit PNG from PS7?
Should I really create an alpha channel transparency? Is it somehow better?
And finally, has anyone had an experience designing a shirt at zazzle or similar.
Thanks
Amy
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