steady viper
For minimalist shirt design, black text imprint only, do you suggest to do it on a white background or should I do transparent background and save the design as BLACK TEXT ONLY if I would print it on a white shirt? Thinking the white version of the shirt is different from the design's background.
How do you save this kind of design/file?
red grotto
I would prefer transparent blackground, in the off chance your printer picks up white as a faint grey (it can happen) then you'll ebd up with lines around the design which won't happen in a transparent background
sage frost
This post is from 2024 but instead of starting new one I have a question to AE Team. Canva which I don't use has something like save for print and can adjust download appropriately. Adobe Express has only PNG. I used T-Short template and then downloaded as PNG because. I needed transparent background. Unfortunately upon upload to printing company it shows too low DPI. PDF is no go as it is PDF after all. I use Printful, Gelato and FourthWall. The last one added AE editing witching their design tool but still they have to upscale and modify to make it work. Any plan to add print ready download with transparent bkg. ?
red grotto
I'm not here to talk on behalf of the team, but just to let you know that PDF should be an acceptable format for printing (Tee shirts of otherwise). After all, any printer around will ask you for a PDF as a working file and if you ask for a digital proof, you will be sent back a PDF. It's the issue with print on demand companies only accepting PNGs with transparencies which is a bit problematic.
Obviously it doesn't solve your issue, but in the world of printing companies. PDF is king, and I can understand why the team decided to make it the right format for that.
The straightforward solution would be to be able to change the resolution, which you can do in -say - photoshop (resolution doesn't change the quality, it only indicates to the printing machine which size will the item will be printed in, but there is no way you can by-pass that for the moment unless you change it in a program that allows it.
You can still post in the official feedback (just click on the beaker icon on the top right of the interface)
There is probably someone already who asked the team to be able to change the resolution of the exports, but if not, make sure you create your own feature request, and you can post the link to everyone on this server, publicly, so everyone can vote on it.
The more votes, the better chance there is to be picked up for the next new feature!
sage frost
Thank you @red grotto I appreciate it. I know PDF is good but the background stays like jpeg. mostly white. I will request it as you suggested 🙂
red grotto
Thank you <@705735115434622987> I appreciate it. I know PDF is good but the ba...
If you build your PDFs without a Background, the PDF, read by competent printer (with Acrobat Pro) will be displayed without a background (It all comes down to being able to read the plates in Acrobat)
I routinely submit print artwork in multipasses (so all of them in transparent backgrounds)
And they turn out well
sage frost
I just found that Acrobat from v5.0 support transparency.
red grotto
That's what the printer asks anyway so it's not like I have the choice.
sage frost
Acrobat Express has pdf export for print but not setting as transparent.
am I missing something ?
red grotto
If you go with print on demand companies, they do not double check the files, and they do not want to have to intervene on them, so they go for the lowest headache, not necssarily what others would ask.
red grotto
Acrobat Express has pdf export for print but not setting as transparent.
You will need to open it in Acrobat to remove the background, so yes, in a sense, you cannot send your artwork directly from Adobe Express
I get where you're coming from
(Acrobat or illustrator)
sage frost
I will try it. I e never tried to remove background in Adobe. I hope it does the job without removing part of design or text like thin lines or shadows
red grotto
Look at this one:
I opened a tee shirt mock up where I removed the background using Adobe Express, and opened it in Illustrator.
in the layer stack, the file opnes with all the different elements as layers (so far, so good)
One of this layer is the white background, that shows with no background in Adobe Express
All you need to do, in Illustrator, or in Acrobat (and InDesign as well, basically anywhere that can read PDFs as layers), and hide this layer.
It's difficult to show you in Illustrator because it doesn't have a transparency visualistaion like in Photoshiop, but If I replace this layer colour with , say, red, you see how it should look without any background
You see that Adobe Express have done a decent job of it, obviously not 100% accurate, but that's the kind of things I would do in Photoshop anyway if I needed something precise
That, obviously doesn't distract from the fact that having a bigger resolution in Adobe Express, even for PNGs would be nice
My go to method would be to make your design big enough so that when you open it in Photoshop, change the resultion, it still prints OK. Resolution, as I said earlier, is not an indication of quality, but a command for the printing machine to print at a certain size, so as long as you set up your dimensions large enough to print in 300 dpi, and then go into Photoshop and change the resolution (without interpolation), then you're good to go
For the record, an A4 size needs that pixel dimension to print in A4 at 300 dpi
The resolution is irrelevant at this stage, but it will need to be "baked" into the file details for the printing machine to be able to read it. You do that in Photoshop (or similar software)
sage frost
Thank you soooo much 🙂🙏🏻
I like Illustrator and will check.
Meanwhile this is what I got when I downloaded PDF print ready from AE
I tried to have only text. If I downloaded as PNG then it wouldn't be a problem. This ready template in AE I used as sample to check how and if it works.
I also use WPS office which does very good work changing PDF to Image. I can even choose resolution (DPI). However I still have white background. I think PS is needed here. As I mentioned earlier, Canva has that good feature to increase size and download transparent for print. However one must pay for Pro 😔