PNG shirt artwork, a few issues

In our t-shirt design section of Art Life Collective, it says .png is preferred. This is true, however, not all versions of Photoshop handle this file type the same way and older versions of Adobe's flagship are creating some issues ... we think. This is happening from either our artist upload page or our Create-your own-shirt page.

At the newspaper office, we just upgraded all editors, photographers, pagination stations to OS 10.4 and went from QuarkXpress to inDesign and Photoshop CS2. The version of Photoshop CS2 and, probably going back to CS, appears to save in png format differently than the older versions.

My version at home, Photoshop 6 on OS 9, appears to create png files that ALC's server reads as four or five times too big. It's something we are working on. But if you upload a png file and it covers the shirt art postitioning window or looks giant - images should appear proportional on that screen to the way they look once printed - it's possible your version of Photoshop is older and you have come across the same problem.

If this happens, use our contact page and let us know what is going on - we should be able to upload the image for you if you email it to us. Also, you could find someone with a newer version of Photoshop or send it to us in another one of the formats, like jpeg. The only problem with not using the png format is it supports transparencies so well.

Again if you are having any trouble in this regard, use our contact page or post a comment to this blog.
Thanks,
Graham