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I am trying to format some designs to be printed on shirts/hats/etc...
I have a black and white design that I would like to prepare to be printed on black cloth.
I would like to alter the design so the black parts of the design are transparent, so only the white parts (the negative space) is printed on the apparel.
Any ideas?
Design for apparel printing?
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iamshawnrice
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Design for apparel printing?
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Re: Design for apparel printing?
What format is this? Since it's probably raster, not vector, you should use a raster application like GIMP. There you can use Threshold function to select only black parts and then you can probably just cut them out. Don't forget to add alpha channel to the image when you open it in GIMP, but you don't need to do it if you duplicate it and work on the duplicate layer while switching the original one off.
Or maybe you used Inkscape to draw this?
Or maybe you used Inkscape to draw this?
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Re: Design for apparel printing?
Why not just trace the bitmap in Inkscape? Check the remove background option, 2 colors, 8 scans or less, change the color white and put on a black background. 
In Gimp you could select according to color and take the selection to the alpha channel.
In Gimp you could select according to color and take the selection to the alpha channel.
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EarlyBlake
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Re: Design for apparel printing?
heathenx wrote:Why not just trace the bitmap in Inkscape? Check the remove background option, 2 colors, 8 scans or less, change the color white and put on a black background.
In Gimp you could select according to color and take the selection to the alpha channel.
With all those little fringes and circles, I think tracing would result in so many nodes inkscape would crawl to a stop. Gimp or even photoshop elements probably a better choice. The magic wand in elements is better than the one in gimp.
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EarlyBlake
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Re: Design for apparel printing?
heathenx wrote:Tracing this particular image doesn't slow down Inkscape. See the below file.
faces.svg
Hum 2145 nodes. I figure it would have more. There is some lose of detail. I guess it depends. Is he going to make T-Shirts for fat people with a big print and lost of detail or just skinny people
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iamshawnrice
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Re: Design for apparel printing?
Mostly just skinny people 
This image was originally drawn with crayons, with multiple colors. I used Gimp to convert it to black and white.
Then I used the threshold to set it to only two colors.
The the color selection tool to select all black.
Then the good old delete key did the trick.
Thanks for the help.
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This image was originally drawn with crayons, with multiple colors. I used Gimp to convert it to black and white.
Then I used the threshold to set it to only two colors.
The the color selection tool to select all black.
Then the good old delete key did the trick.
Thanks for the help.
Check out thepolitesociety.net for a glimpse into what this is all about.