You are bold, creative, different, and want to show those things in your everyday clothes? Wear your personality on your sleeve by personalize your T-shirt with images and copies of things you are passionate about. Read the article below to see tips to design a unique shirt that you want to wear everywhere in the simplest and fastest way!
1. Take time to explore your concept
The most important thing when designing a shirt is choosing a concept. Therefore, you should spend more time searching for ideas and sketching the shirt you want in your head. You can use images from your favorite movie, cute selfies of yourself, or pictures taken with family, friends, or your pets. If you have no idea, just go to “personalize your T-shirt” on Google or Pinterest or search with a keyword related to the concept you want to build for your shirt, for example, “Renaissance T-shirt”, “Kpop T-shirt”,…
Sometimes, the creative block can happen and you may be too lazy to spend hours scrolling through Pinterest or Google images. RareCustom can take care of that with many professionally designed templates to get your wheels spinning or create your T-shirt from scratch. You can build a theme/concept for your T-shirt using our library of styles, graphics, icons, patterns, and photos to make them feel entirely authentic. Or you can use the existing templates and remix them a bit to make them your own.
2. Use complementary colors
A second tip for creating a cool T-shirt is using colors that compliment others. Some of the color pairs that work well together when designing are black & white and red & gray.
Use the available color palettes if you feel stuck on colors and don’t know how to combine colors. You can easily find these color palettes online. These are some suggestions for this year’s hot color palette and are very suitable for designing T-shirts. Using these color palettes will save you much time thinking about finding colors and combining them. As a result, you will have more time to focus on the images and messages for your unique creation.
There’s almost always an ideal number of colors to choose from, depending on what you might need. Try to achieve your design goals in the least amount of colors possible, and your shirt will probably be worn more often than if it had all the colors of the rainbow.
3. Create balance
One key to creating an impressive and eye-catching shirt for beginners is not to underestimate balance. The balance of images, copy, left, right of the shirt, and vice versa will create a harmonious, easy-to-see overall for your T-shirt.
To do this, use symmetry tools such as rulers, alignment tools as you design. You can use these tools in professional design software such as AE, Photoshop, or the built-in alignment tool right on RareCustom to quickly design the shirt.
4. Level up images with Borders, Masks & Edges
Print photos directly on the T-shirt without any edges can sometimes make your T-shirt look boring and lack highlights.
The simplest way to fix this is to “put a border on.” It’s easy to add a border or edges to your image with RareCustom’s exclusive design assets. The most simple is a thin white or black border, which can instantly improve the appearance. But if you don’t want your shirt to look too monotonous, you can search for available patterns in RareCustom’s inventory, which gives you a variety of shapes to choose from. When selecting a frame for your photo, remember to consider the color and the subject of the image. If it’s an anniversary design, you might want a fancy frame. If it’s a tough competition, you might wish for distressed edges.
5. Get a team to design together
Although this is a personalized T-shirt, it would be nice to have the opinion of someone you trust. You can add collaborators to your designs on RareCustom to brainstorm and create together. Or, after completing your creation, you can save and send it to your teammates. RareCustom allows you to share your designs via email, text message, or post them directly to social networking sites. We also help you preserve your designs so you can go back and edit them whenever you want.
However, keep in mind that companionship is a double-edged sword. You can create the product faster and easier with the help of a companion, but conflicts can also arise when it comes to personal opinions. Therefore, always consider carefully before listening to other people’s views because, after all, this shirt is also your own “personalized” shirt.
Conclusion:
A perfect custom T-shirt requires a combination of ideas and quality of fabric, ink, and printing technology. And that combination is available at RareCustom. Come and design your first shirt with the exclusive set of creative tools and professional design templates here. Save, share your design, press the order button, and enjoy the custom T-shirt with soft fabric quality and aesthetic appeal.
