Designing Your Custom Shirt 

Designing your custom t-shirt can be a challenge especially since you can use unlimited colors and details for your custom t-shirt.  Direct to garment printing uses CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow and black) garment dye cartridges.  The printer automatically prints the color that matches your image so you can use as many colors as you want, up to 100 million.  The sky is the limit and the number of colors you can use is virtually limitless.

We can print just about anywhere on an t-shirt, sleeves, color, around the side, vertically, horizontally, on the inside, and more.  Try to think outside the box in creating your own unique t-shirt design.  But, if you get stumped, remember not to get frustrated and just send us an e-mail and in no time, you'll have a first draft to inspire your creativity.  The maximum image size is 14" x 14", so that's our only limit for your design.

Soon we'll have the ability to allow you to design your shirt on-line.  However, for now, you can use Word, PowerPoint, Publisher or any other software program on your personal computer and come up with a basic idea.  For clip art, you can visit www.ClipArt.com where you can choose from millions of interesting photos and clip art.  Bay Area Custom T-Shirts has a subscription to this site so just write down the item number you want and we can download it for you. 

To send us a graphic's file, it is best to send it at 300 dpi resolution in a .bmp, .jpg, .cdr, .eps, .pdf or Photoshop file.   We currently use Corel Draw and Adobe Photoshop exclusively in our stores.  If you need to export your file to a jpg, have it convert the colors to RGB for best printing.  If you are e-mailing your design, please make sure it is under 6mB to get through our e-mail servers.

But, don't get frustrated, send us an e-mail with your basic idea and we'll put together a design for you.  You can then have us modify it until you like it.  There's no charge for this and you can have lots of stress-free fun designing your own shirt.