Showing posts with label design tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label design tips. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

How To Design for Cups

Zazzle put out a great little  video on how to design thier new paper cups.  This is the first product with a conical backgroup image, so it's important to know how designing for that is different than designing for other full bleed images.

Learn how to design our new custom paper cups.
You'll be ready to party in no time!

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Design Tips and Tricks

Various articles to help you get your designs looking their best.


Testing Fonts and Dark Stroking on Dark Shirts
Article shows a test of various font sizes, and the difference between color areas with a tiny dark "stroke" (1 pixel outline) and without (on CafePress Dark Shirts). VERY USEFUL!
CafePress Color Swatch Test
Shows a color swatch and font size test on various CafePress shirts. I like this one because you can download the original color swatch so the you can sample the colors.
Kerning
A technique for good looking text designs.
CMYK vs. RGB - Things You Should Know
Helps you learn how to best use color so that your designs look the same printed as they do on screen.
List of Cool Color Tools
Helpful resources when picking out your colors.