Almost a craft: T Shirts!
Hey reader!
This post is not very photo heavy. Sorry about that! This whole blog has always been craft projects and stuff. I have been making shirts online for a while and never thought it would be appropriate to include them since they aren't a craft. Technically speaking, this is a making blog, so making stuff should count no matter what! Yay rationalizations for not having a craft room finished yet!
I have made some fun shirts in the past. For Kirk's birthday a few years ago I did a Gremlins themed shirt. I went with a deep cut and recreated the Peltzer logo that is used by the main dude's father. If you aren't familiar with Gremlins, shame on your face.
Since the podcast is deep in season two of Dollhouse. It was time to make new shirts to commemorate! I do all my shirt editing using Photoshop. I am fortunate enough to have one of the old copies before they completely sold out and went to a month to month pay model. I have no interest in that, especially how infrequently I am on Photoshop. That's actually a lie, I am on it every week to slap my logo on stuff for this very blog. I know there are definitely free programs out there that could accomplish that though.
The reason I thought it would be cool to talk about the shirts is because it really does go with the primary thesis of this blog: You can do it! Me and Rosie the Riveter have the same idea. I taught myself how to use Photoshop completely on my own. When I first started there wasn't even a YouTube to get tutorials from. I learned through lots and lots of trial and error. I looked at what others were doing and practiced all the time. I even read books on it, which is horrifying now.
Today, you can find literally hundreds of amazing tutorials on YouTube of people showing you how to do things in Photoshop. Be like Rosie and have confidence in yourself! I made the logo for the podcast, this blog, and a few other projects I have in the works. All because I taught myself how to play around in Photoshop. There are definitely people with way more skills that make amazing stuff, but there is a certain pride in teaching yourself a skill.
I have been keeping a list of my favorite quotes from the past few episodes of our podcast, ready to commemorate them on a shirt. The Spreadshirt model is cool, but it doesn't have a robust editor on its side. That's a complicated way of saying I can only upload one picture per shirt. You would think that would be fine, but when you want a primary image and then a logo where the breast pocket would be, that can get tricky. Also, save your images as .gif so you can get rid of the background. Save yourself some frustration!
Spreadshirt is really cool though because it manages the store parts all for us! I wanted to have merch for the show and needed to try out a few different vendors. Visit our store to get a look at the shirts I designed. They aren't super complicated or anything. This truly isn't an ad for shirts, more just an example of: if you want something, give it a shot!
Keep making (and trying) cool stuff!
Until next time,
JoshPrime
This post is not very photo heavy. Sorry about that! This whole blog has always been craft projects and stuff. I have been making shirts online for a while and never thought it would be appropriate to include them since they aren't a craft. Technically speaking, this is a making blog, so making stuff should count no matter what! Yay rationalizations for not having a craft room finished yet!
I have made some fun shirts in the past. For Kirk's birthday a few years ago I did a Gremlins themed shirt. I went with a deep cut and recreated the Peltzer logo that is used by the main dude's father. If you aren't familiar with Gremlins, shame on your face.
Since the podcast is deep in season two of Dollhouse. It was time to make new shirts to commemorate! I do all my shirt editing using Photoshop. I am fortunate enough to have one of the old copies before they completely sold out and went to a month to month pay model. I have no interest in that, especially how infrequently I am on Photoshop. That's actually a lie, I am on it every week to slap my logo on stuff for this very blog. I know there are definitely free programs out there that could accomplish that though.
The reason I thought it would be cool to talk about the shirts is because it really does go with the primary thesis of this blog: You can do it! Me and Rosie the Riveter have the same idea. I taught myself how to use Photoshop completely on my own. When I first started there wasn't even a YouTube to get tutorials from. I learned through lots and lots of trial and error. I looked at what others were doing and practiced all the time. I even read books on it, which is horrifying now.
Today, you can find literally hundreds of amazing tutorials on YouTube of people showing you how to do things in Photoshop. Be like Rosie and have confidence in yourself! I made the logo for the podcast, this blog, and a few other projects I have in the works. All because I taught myself how to play around in Photoshop. There are definitely people with way more skills that make amazing stuff, but there is a certain pride in teaching yourself a skill.
I have been keeping a list of my favorite quotes from the past few episodes of our podcast, ready to commemorate them on a shirt. The Spreadshirt model is cool, but it doesn't have a robust editor on its side. That's a complicated way of saying I can only upload one picture per shirt. You would think that would be fine, but when you want a primary image and then a logo where the breast pocket would be, that can get tricky. Also, save your images as .gif so you can get rid of the background. Save yourself some frustration!
Spreadshirt is really cool though because it manages the store parts all for us! I wanted to have merch for the show and needed to try out a few different vendors. Visit our store to get a look at the shirts I designed. They aren't super complicated or anything. This truly isn't an ad for shirts, more just an example of: if you want something, give it a shot!
Keep making (and trying) cool stuff!
Until next time,
JoshPrime
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