How to Design your Own T-Shirt and Make Your Own T-shirt in Small Order

It’s fun to wear t-shirt with your own design on it. There are a few ways to make it happen. The old fashion way is one of the options, draw your design/image, print it on a piece of paper, make a stencil of your art work and screen print it. Or you can use services provided by online t shirt maker or use online t shirt design software. These companies provide their own graphic software and even though it’s not as sophisticated as Illustrator or CorelDraw, these applications has all necessary features for vector and image creation; make design your own t-shirt and print it much easier.

Don’t worries about t shirt design ideas; this t shirt maker provides plenty designs to begin with and customized it on-the-fly or you can start with your picture and image and make some changes. Most of these services require raster artwork, typically in JPEG or PNG; PNG is preferred because it allows transparent background.

There are a lot number of custom design t-shirt services; most of them allow custom image/artwork submission to print as well as online software that you can access to create your own design. And when you happy with your design, they provide services to print on various types of clothing or on merchandises. Below you can find few popular custom t shirt services that will help you to make your own t shirt.

CafePress

Cafepress is the largest and in my opinion one of the best and easiest sites to create custom design t-shirt. They provide good quality t-shirt and the prints stay on for years of washing. Other than custom print, CafePress offer poster/art collection and the wide variety of options including t-shirts, hoodies and sweatshirts, tank tops, baseball jersey, baby gear and many more. They also provide print on dark color t shirt including black, military green, brown and charcoal.

And the best this is you can create your own store base on your own artwork design. Setup a store is free, very easy and the store wizard makes it very fast to do. You can set your own margin for each product. However the free store package is pretty standard, to upgrade they require small monthly subscription fee.

Zazzle.com

Zazzle provides two types of printing: digital printing and screen printing. The digital printing system allows for an unlimited number of colors that won't fade on any fabric, even dark apparel. For screen printing, you may use up to 8 colors per design, however fewer colors means less costs.

Zazzle design system supports JPEG, PNG, GIF, or TIFF files. To create printed t-shirts minimum 150 ppi (pixels per inch) image resolution is recommended, horizontal 2100 x 1800 pixels minimum and vertical 1800 x 2100 pixels. If you have bigger image than these sizes it will be better. If you're proud of your design then you can create your own store and sell it. You can promote your site using facebook, twitter or any social media you have.

These two companies also provide international services and local support for Australia, UK, Europe and Canada. There are a few more website where you can design your own t-shirt and sell your artwork online such as Uberprint.com, Redbubble, and Prinfection. One tip if you plan to design your own t-shirt using these online services: you need to use over-saturate colors in your design to compensate tinted colors cause by the underlying shirt color. And if you are ready to make your own t shirt, feel free to read these hubs: