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penymeez

Hey There Meezers!
It's that time again to show us your keen design talents!

The Prize:
Your choice of 10,000 Coinz or 50 days of VIP!
We are also going to give you a special secret pincode to give out to your 5 closest pals to give them your shirt for free!

Here's how the contest works:
Step 1. Save the Template
Right click the template and Save As. Save it somewhere on your computer that you can easily find it.
T-Shirt Template

Step 2. Open it in an Art Program.
Some popular free Art Programs:
GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program
Paint.NET - Free Software for Digital Photo Editing
PhotoFiltre
You can use any image editing program you have, like paint, Gimp, or Photoshop. This is a great step to do when you decide what color you want your t-shirt to be. Remember, the templates are gray so if you want a white shirt you have to color the entire shirt, not just the lines.

Make sure you paint over the dotted lines and don't resize or crop it!

Step 3 . Add your design
Have fun, show us what you can do! Use snazzy brushes, have fun with colors, draw an awesome picture!

Step 4. Save your design as a .jpg, .gif, or .png.

---Don't change the file size or resolution!---

Step 5 . Upload your design
Some popular image hosts:
Image hosting, free photo sharing & video sharing at Photobucket
ImageShack® - Image Hosting
TinyPic - Free Image Hosting, Photo Sharing & Video Hosting

Step 6. Post your Design
Make sure you post it in THIS thread by the end of Sunday the 18th , when the contest ends. You only need to post it once and if you don't win this week you can always enter it again next time.
Most image hosts will give you the appropriate IMG code for posting on a BBCode forum.

Remember to keep it PG13, that means no hateful, racist, or excessively gorey stuff!

DO NOT use images that you have found on other sites (like Google)! Your entry will be disqualified if you take other people's artwork. This includes band logos, pictures of celebrities, brand names/logos and any other artwork that you didn't draw yourself.

Tips:
-Think unisex. The shirts will be for girls and boys.
-Small details, like text, won't be too legible. If you want text it should be pretty big.
-Check out the Tutorial Forum for tutorials on making t-shirts and using a variety of art programs!
Gimp Tutorial: Basics And More
Tutorials: T-Shirts in Gimp
How To Design A T-Shirt In Photobucket
-Quite a few times we see shirts and pants that do not color past the dotted lines. This causes white seams on the clothing. The space from the dotted lines to the red lines is not guaranteed to show up on the object. However if it remains white there may be a few bits of space that will be white. The dotted lines are more of an almost exact guesstimate of where the object's seams are. Your entry will not be disqualified, but it may look a bit funny if it wins.

-When placing an object keep in mind that the sides of the template will be the sides of the shirt. This means that if you place a huge image/text on the front or back it is going to stretch to the sides and may not be as visible from a straight on view. A good rule of thumb is to not have text near the dotted lines. These are just rough guesstimates of the curve of the shirt.

Examples:

Don't forget to color over those dotted lines, or they will end up on the shirt like this:

As a courtesy to others in this thread, please do not quote this first post as it is extremely long. Also, please keep quotes pretty small throughout the forum so people can browse through the entries faster
Have fun and if you have any questions please feel free to PM me and I'll try to respond as soon as possible.

Thanks!
~Peny