Final Product What You'll Be Creating
This tutorial is the second installment of a 2 part series on designing graphic tees in Photoshop. If you have not already checked it out, please take a look at Part 1: An In-Depth Look Into the Graphic Tee. As printing technology and methodology improve, designers are given more freedom to push the canvas in this case a t-shirt to its limits. Don’t feel like you have to design in your favourite Vector package, Photoshop is a powerful creative tool that can be used to great effect. In todays tutorial I will demonstrate how you can create a composite t-shirt design from photo assets and basic drawing techniques.
Resources
The following resources were used during the production of this tutorial:
A photo of myself
Top Hat
Bow Tie
Step 1
Open your start image and draw a path roughly around the face using the Pen Tool (set to Paths). Imagine you’re using scissors to cut the face out of the background and work loosely. This doesn’t mean you can’t create sharp corners though. Do this by drawing in an anchor point with a handle and then splitting the handle by holding Alt and drawing out from same point.
Step 2
Create a selection from your path by opening the Paths palette and Cmd-Clicking the path thumbnail. Copy this to the clipboard. Create a new canvas set at 300dpi 300
