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Hey guys, I have an e-comm site where I sell book quote posters (pic related), and a decent amount of people have requested t-shirts. I honestly don't think the poster designs would look great on t-shirts, but I have Amazon Merch, so it's easy enough to throw them up there.
Anyway I am looking for input on what I should do with my poster images wrt the white border that surrounds the poster. I am sure some of you guys have worked with t-shirts, so you'll probably know what looks best.
Here are options I'm thinking about.
1) Leave the white border as is
2) Leave some of the white border (make it smaller)
3) Eliminate white border
4) Any of the above with slightly rounded edges. I feel like rounded edges might be nice. Somehow the right angles don't feel right on a t-shirt.
What makes this all a little more complicated is that the color of the t-shirt influences which option looks best. A very dark design on a black shirt might look better with some white border for separation.
I'm gonna post 6 options. I have my favorite, but I don't want to influence you guys. if you could take a second to look and tell me what you think is best, I would appreciate it.
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option 1/6. left as is.
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option 2/6. full border but with rounded edges.
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option 3/6. smaller white border
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option 4/6. smaller white border with rounded edges.
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option 5/6. no border
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option 6/6. no border with rounded edges.
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>>315707
option 3 is the best among those and I get it that you like the white border but honestly, I think it looks better without a border at all
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>>315722
thanks for the input m8
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gonna bump once and ask for more opinions. anyone else?
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>>315715
this but not quite so rounded at edges.
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>>315707
you wanna put the author in don't u? And the character who said it maybe. u cant jus put moby dick.
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>>315778
there's a bit of a conflict between keeping it simple and including extra information like author and character. maybe it would be better with just the author honestly. I go back and forth on it. I have sold a decent amount of posters and no one has said anything about it, so I don't think most people really think about it.
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>>315707
Moby Dick was a sperm whale.
Why on earth did you use a humpback?
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num 3. the square white border is not as bad as you think.
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>>315783
calm down Ahab.
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>>315707
how did you make the sky? nice design
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>>315797
Well, a majority of the work is about obsession, and details of the whale are expounded upon. I also consider it slightly unjust that the whale is being represented as a different species.
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>>315783
looks like a blue whale not a humpback.
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>>315822
>How was I not calm in asking my question?
you said "why on earth" seems like you were a little worked up tbqhm8
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drop the background and try to blend in the whole picture into the t-shirt
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>>315827
Ok, but that's assuming vocal tone. It's an honest question, though, if you're OP, as a sperm whale looks unlike any other whale, and Moby Dick as a character in the book is both culturally associated as one, and quite literally one. If one is selling a shirt with a quote from a book that is partially about hunting a sperm whale, with a white whale that isn't a sperm whale, it just makes the artist look ignorant or worse.
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I'd make the shirt white imo, white shirts with b&w photographs/square designs are really popular right now so you could get away with the color design too. If the shirt won't be white then include the thinner white border but overall I don't think the design works with the navy colored shirt you posted, try black or grey instead
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>>315886
I didn't want to outright say "make you look you stupid."
I really am not freaking out- I'm not sure how my thoughts are coming off as hot under the collar!
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>>315890
I work as prepress at a printshop, and we're often the last "are you sure about this?" guys. That's where I'm coming from in my critique.
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>>315887
on Amazon Merch I can choose five colors. I think offering additional colors would be more worthwhile (profitable) than just making a single color (white) look good.
Think I'm gonna go with the thin white border for now. Should be essentially unnoticeable on white anyway.
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>>315892
Dont care for the book, desu. Mostly just a note to prevent having some pimpled nerd push up his glasses, and bother you with "well, actually..." BS.
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>>315894
>Mostly just a note to prevent having some pimpled nerd push up his glasses, and bother you with "well, actually..."
like you?
:)
jk m8, thanks for the heads up... will change it soon
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As you said, the color of the t-shirt influences which option looks best. Opt for contrast in value/lightness, you can skip the border when the contrast is already present between graphic and shirt. Grays are good options for borders too
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>>315907
fuck the border and hard edges, do something like this, without the shitty 5sec eraser job
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>>316826
This!
Do it or OP is a faggot.
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>>316826
desu I think It looks better without the stock font typography. Its a nice graphic just alone. Or do better typography
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>>316856
my first thought when I saw the poster graphic then the font below it
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Hw much do you make with this stuff OP?
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