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Whats the simplest and quickest way to make this type of design?
#1
Good afternoon guys,

So as the title of this post reads I want to know the simplest and quickest way to make this type of design in either gimp of Inkscape.

Keep in mind I need to make some areas transparent so that the natural color of the t-shirt can come thru as seen in the design.
(The clover I am not concerned with obviously)


This will be designed for a t-shirt.

Thanks!


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#2
You intend to send a design off to a printing company for printing on a tee shirt? You mentioned 'Merch by Amazon' in your previous post.

Usually white = transparency so you example will not usually work

Traditionally for white, the printer will use screen printing. For screenprinting the advice is:
Flat images: One ink: You can simply send an image as a grayscale. Make sure that if you want a solid color you have a solid black. Then ask the printer to use any ink you like.

That last bit is the important one ask the printer which might be difficult with 'Merch by Amazon'

However. This shows examples of white printing https://blog.placeit.net/selling-t-shirts-on-amazon/ Their Gimp template zip includes advice:
“Export” your artwork out as a new PNG file (1). This will save your artwork at 300 ppi and 15” x 18” (4500 px by 5400 px) dimension. This will be the asset that you upload

That is good news. Looks like a PNG with white logo and transparency will work.

Gimp or Inkscape? Does not really matter. The end quality will be the same provided you do not do any scaling as you said you were doing in earlier post.
There is a Gimp template provided. Start off with that, correct size and ppi. (I would add a temporary grey layer so you can see what you are doing)
Using inkscape? Set up and save as a png as this screenshot. https://i.imgur.com/Eq6I5tT.jpg
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