T-Shirt Design Workshop 3: Using Photos and Type

Designing in Procreate App, Photoshop, and Illustrator

Created by: Ray Dombroski
Graphic Designer

What Will I Learn?

• Develop an idea into a finished t-shirt design, ready to send out to be printed
• Find ideas using Pinterest
• Turn those ideas into quick thumbnail sketches
• Optimize snapshot photographs from your phone in Photoshop
• Add some color in Photoshop
• Add custom typography to t-shirt designs in Illustrator
• Use Adobe Typekit fonts, a resource included with most Adobe CC subscriptions
• Bring everything together with hand-drawing techniques in the Procreate App for iPad Pro & Apple Pencil
• Optimize & simplify your final art file, ready to send out for printing (production color separations for screen printing are not covered)

Requirements

• You should know basic tools in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator and how to use layers

Target audience

• Anyone who wants to improve their t-shirt designs