The hottest memes... it's fun to do these even if there are already a thousand iterations. Hard to make the joke work tho, so I went a different route.
(historians note: something about a guy saying he needed (legit) an AR-15 for when 30 to 50 feral hogs come into the yard when his kids are out there. The internet thought that was hilarious)
What a weird side gig this is. Since this meme had its day 3 years ago, I've sold 10 of these, including one just now.
The old Skeleton Balladeer - took me a while (a little rusty) to remember how get the black areas transparent without losing too much detail to print just white ink on a dark shirt.
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Hm. You only put one shirt up for sale, Procl? Was gonna go look for availability, to no avail, sadly...
I haven't set up that shirt for European sales yet. The Amazon interface wouldn't save those settings on a new product for some reason. I have to "edit" it to add int'l markets - it should show up in a day or two.
Are you a private seller or do you have a merch account? I'm a mercher at Tier 6k
Hm. You only put one shirt up for sale, Procl? Was gonna go look for availability, to no avail, sadly...
I haven't set up that shirt for European sales yet. The Amazon interface wouldn't save those settings on a new product for some reason. I have to "edit" it to add int'l markets - it should show up in a day or two.
The old Skeleton Balladeer - took me a while (a little rusty) to remember how get the black areas transparent without losing too much detail to print just white ink on a dark shirt.
The old Skeleton Balladeer - took me a while (a little rusty) to remember how get the black areas transparent without losing too much detail to print just white ink on a dark shirt.
I scan at ludicrously high resolution. Convert to grayscale, then use the crude "threshold" adjustment to find a happy on/off point. Then you can set the layer to "Blend if This Layer" set it to 1 or higher and the black should knock out.
You want to avoid any antialiasing, if possible, so if you scale the art up and down, do the Threshold again so all pixels are either on or off.
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I have NOT tested this but there's a theory that if you make your white objects a bit non-white, like 254/255/255, that forces the printer to lay down a second layer of white on top of the white underbase, for a thicker better white. Probably not desirable on this detailed image but file it away for other stuff..
Thanks for those pointers. Yeah, I usually scan hi-res and convert after; it's not like the ancient days of using a stat camera when you wanted detailed, print-ready black and white. I'm using Corel PSP these days - works well for my purposes. There are also some useful "tolerance" settings for transparency in the optimizer option when I save as a PNG - it shows a good preview; it is tough with fine-lined, detailed stuff though. I need to play around in there some more with things like alpha channel but I'm primarily scanning black ink work anyhow.
The old Skeleton Balladeer - took me a while (a little rusty) to remember how get the black areas transparent without losing too much detail to print just white ink on a dark shirt.
I scan at ludicrously high resolution. Convert to grayscale, then use the crude "threshold" adjustment to find a happy on/off point. Then you can set the layer to "Blend if This Layer" set it to 1 or higher and the black should knock out.
You want to avoid any antialiasing, if possible, so if you scale the art up and down, do the Threshold again so all pixels are either on or off.
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I have NOT tested this but there's a theory that if you make your white objects a bit non-white, like 254/255/255, that forces the printer to lay down a second layer of white on top of the white underbase, for a thicker better white. Probably not desirable on this detailed image but file it away for other stuff..
If the feathered edges are blowing out etc I do a curves adjustment first so I can control what areas go black/white but you have to end with the Threshold to get that hard edge.
