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One challenge in creating artwork for use on a dark shirt is how best to display the artwork against a dark background obviously. Colorizing the art a lighter shade isn’t always effective and what should be read as a negative tends to turn to a positive and it runs the risk of ruining the arts effectiveness.

One way to get around this is to create a halo type of effect using large easy to silk-screen halftone dots to glow if you will from behind the art. This also allows you to keep the art simple. In this step by step you’ll see how to effectively pull off a one color t-shirt illustration on a dark background using this method.

Keywords: Halftone, Dot, Big, Tiff

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1. Argblat wrote: July 20, 2006 at 1:50 pm

   Does anyone have more examples of work done with the dot technique?

2. denx wrote: July 24, 2006 at 11:17 am

   That is one mighty fine tutorial.

   Thanks!

3. felipecaro wrote: April 15, 2007 at 9:34 am

   Great turotial, you are very helpful, thanks a lot

4. luma wrote: April 13, 2010 at 3:39 pm

   Is there any good way to keep it in vector? I assume autotrace might be a poor option, but an option nonetheless. I would think there would be a similar filter in AI but I can’t seem to find one.

5. Merc wrote: December 2, 2010 at 12:38 pm

   Great tutorial.. is there a way to make the dots even bigger? I tried setting the lpi to 5 but it didn’t do much different after that.

6. admin wrote: December 2, 2010 at 1:04 pm

   Play around with the resolution setting before you go to the halftone stage. It has something to do with how they interact? So if you did 600 dpi and 5 for the line screen try 800 dpi and 5 for the line screen, or 450 dpi and 5 for the line screen.

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