What's The Best Way To Get An Image On To A T-Shirt?

[Wee67]

I realize this is a pretty basic question for many of you, but I'm not to tech savvy. I want to get this image on a t-shirt. I've already saved the image on to my computer. I'm actually about to buy a new printer, also. Don't know if that can come into play, but I'd like the shirt to come out decent.

[Confessional]

http://www.zazzle.com/create

[Wee67]

Cool. Unfortunately this will only take the image with the blue rectangle background. Maybe I can figure a way to clean the image.

[Duncan]

I've had luck with my ink-jet printer and iron-on transfer paper. Maybe put a border around your image and drop it onto a blue T shirt a shade or two lighter or darker.

[Wee67]

Thanks. I really appreciate the suggestions!

[HardyGirl]

About the iron-on paper; always buy the paper for DARK fabric, whether it's a dark shirt or not for 2 reasons: 1) you don't have to reverse your pic, and 2) it last longer through the laundry, (as long as you don't use pre-wash and don't put it in the dryer. I've done many shirts this way.

[Fitski]

You might try scanning that then getting someone who is good in vector or illustrator to fix up your image or re-draw it. I just had this done with a bunch of Iron On transfers in a book that bled into each other, I scanned them then I hired someone on freelancer to color correct them and redraw them where needed they look amazing.

[emeraldknight47]

If you have a place called Big Frog anywhere in your general vicinity, they are a great fallback option. You can take your image in on a thumb drive and, as long as it's a light-colored t-shirt, they can literally "tattoo" the image onto the fabric via a fancy-schmancy inkjet permanent ink process. I've had a couple of t-shirts made that way and they hold up great in the laundry and never have that stiff feeling that you can get from transfers.

[Hedji]

About the iron-on paper; always buy the paper for DARK fabric, whether it's a dark shirt or not for 2 reasons: 1) you don't have to reverse your pic, and 2) it last longer through the laundry, (as long as you don't use pre-wash and don't put it in the dryer. I've done many shirts this way.

Hmmm.. I didn't realize they made paper for dark shirts. Thanks HardyGirl! I'll have to look into that.

And with that, I'll take the shameless opportunity to show off the last t-shirt I made of my cat. Yep, I'm that guy. I wanted the design to have a 70s groove. Here's me and my best buddy in the world, Elvira.

[HardyGirl]

"My heart's on fire for Elvira!" Sorry, couldn't resist. That's a great retro looking shirt!

[CrimsonGhost]

Fitski is right. The best way is to scan the shirt and have it redrawn as a vector file.

[Duncan]

About the iron-on paper; always buy the paper for DARK fabric, whether it's a dark shirt or not for 2 reasons: 1) you don't have to reverse your pic, and 2) it last longer through the laundry, (as long as you don't use pre-wash and don't put it in the dryer. I've done many shirts this way.

Yeah, I've made the mistake of using the paper for light fabric...though I didn't know to always use the dark. Thanks!