TechLife Australia – September 2019

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Now we can bring in the third and final

colour; the white paint that will fill in the

middle section of the dog. With the addition

of the green background the artwork will be

complete. The final effect would make a great

print, and would also work very well as a

T-shirt design. The final steps will show you

how to edit and save the artwork in order

to create a clever effect when printed

onto products.

[ STAGE 3 ]
FINISH THE ART
ADD THE FINAL COLOUR AND PREPARE
FOR PRINTING.

LAYERSELECTIONS

Eachlayerhasa thumbnail

imageintheLayerspalette.

HoldCmd/Ctrlandleft-clickit

toselectthelayer’scontents.

STENCILEFFECT

Thestyleofoutlinethat’sbeen

createdplustheaddedpainttexture

givestheeffectofa stencilleddesign.

LOWTOLERANCE

WiththeWand’stolerance

setto0 it doesn’tpickup

surroundingpixelsofany

othershade.

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USE A LAYER MASK
Go to the white paint layer and add a layer mask. Hide the Colour
layer and the Background layer so that only the black and white is
visible. Save the file as a .png so that the background remains transparent.

04

UPLOAD FOR PRINTING

Now, when you upload the .png file to a printing and selling site such

as RedBubble (redbubble.com) and apply it to a T-shirt, you’ll find

that the colour of the T-shirt becomes the background colour for your artwork.

02

BEGIN PRINTING PREP

The artwork is now finished. However, if you want to print it onto a

T-shirt this will require some further prep work. Hold Cmd/Ctrl and

click the Colour layer’s thumbnail in the Layers palette to select its contents.

Press Shift-Cmd/Ctrl-I to invert the selection.

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ADD WHITE PAINT

We copy and paste the scribble image we prepared earlier, below

Colour in the Layers palette. Resize and position it as desired behind

the dog. Add another new layer below the paint layer, name it Background and

fill it with the same colour as you used on the Colour layer.