More tips for Art Life Collective custom shirt designers

Sorry for the hiatus. Holidays have been busy for Art Life Collective with a number of new custom t-shirt designers signing up.

We are now up to around 140 artists with more than 600 designs on the site. It also appears that, at long last, we have most of those bugs worked out with the upload issues.

Still, here are a few hints and tips for getting around the site that are worth mentioning.
First off, we offer customers a bunch of options for the color of the shirt they want. I worked around this issue easily when doing some of the text designs for the ALC shop by creating different contrast outlines around the text and creating text effects that will make it stand out on any color.
This is a little harder for people working with art. I have seen several of our new artists uploading multiple designs, different ones for dark or light shirts. That's a great idea and one that works well.
Of course, if your work is framed with a white boarder -- no transparency -- there is also no problem. But, I realize many designs don't look good that way and transparency is essential. Again, the fix here, unless you want to upload different versions, is to put a light boarder (white works best) around dark designs and a dark (again, black works best in most cases) around light designs.

Also, with regards to uploading t-shirt designs with transparency, I have found Photoshop CS or later works best for this. We think we have most of the issues resolved with older versions of PS, but, if anyone has a problem with their upload, email me a graham@artlifecollective.com, and I will either upload the image for you or help you with whatever problems you are having.

Thanks for everyone who is either contributing to the site or just taking part in the Art Life Collective artist forum. It's great to have you aboard.

Also a quick reminder to everyone to post artist bio information and and artist statement on your page, plus any links to outside sites hosting your work. ALC exists to help artists promote themselves.

Have a safe and happy holidays.
Peace,
The ALC team