Thanks everyone for all your help!
I will get to working on this and hope I can figure it out.
Appreciate everyones suggestions.

This may be one solution: Having your text converted to path -by pressing Shift+Ctrl+C when selected-, ungrouped the letters -by pressing Shift+Ctrl+G-, merged them together -by either combining them with pressing Ctrl+K or added them togeter with pressing Ctrl++ when all selected- subtract the whi...

Well if I change the background to Opaque then When I use the image on a shirt ill have a big white block instead of just lettering, correct? I guess. If the 'grunge' is white. If that's why it's not visible on your computer. If you are printing your tshirt by making a screen then the white parts m...

http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/5066/anwelcomewavese02.gif Welcome to InkscapeForum! I'm not exactly clear what you're doing. It sounds like you've typed some text, then put something like a large rectangle filled with the pattern, over top of all the text. Or maybe you just drew a bunch of lines ...

Before exporting to PNG (and you are using the file menu command, right?) you should make sure the background is opaque if you want your bits and pieces that are the same color as the white canvas to actually be invisible. You can do this in the document properties dialog near the top, there's a co...

Hello, I am trying to create a distressed looking font but creating lines and shapes and developing a grunge pattern. Once I put the pattern atop the font and change the color to the same as background color of course it looks great. After I export the image to a png to use on my Tshirt design, all ...