We hope to have lots of winners as we need many designs, so open up your favorite graphic editor and bring out the artist in you!

The prize for winning will be fame and fortune as people all over the world will wear your design and drink from your scribbles...

Of course you'll have to hand over all copyrights for your design to the XOOPS Foundation to be able to participate...

There are no deadlines on the 'contest' as we know deadlines are creativity killers, but we would love to see some first designs in January. So work in your own pace, and create the 'WOW' effect with your design :)

 

 

 

 

• PNG - Portable Network Graphics format is a completely loss-less compression. Gradients come out much smoother and do not have the distortions that may appear in a JPG. PNG is our  recommendation for image uploads.
• JPG - JPG's support over 16 million colors, but slightly "distort" the image to compress the file size. For photos, the human eye cannot tell the subtle changes in color, but along straight edges and in pictures with large solid colors, distortion becomes very apparent.

The following formats have long uploading times and are not recommended:

• PSD - PhotoShop Document supports millions of colors. This file format also has exceptional image quality, but it does not compress your file so file sizes will be large and uploading times will be long.
• TIFF - Tag Image File Format is similar to a PSD file but the layers are flattened. Uploading times will be long.
• BMP - MS Windows Bitmap Format - Saves your file pixel for pixel, Supports Millions of colors, the drawback is extremely large file sizes, which translates into extremely long upload times.
• AI- Adobe Illustrator Not Acceptable
• EPS - Encapsulated PostScript - Supports Millions of color and must be saved in Bitmap Form. Vector form is not acceptable.

Whichever format you decide on using, save all files in RGB color mode.

 

About Sizes

• Print the picture yourself on your own printer at the same size you want it to appear on your products. If it looks "chunky" or "dirty" on your printer, it will look "chunky" or "dirty" on your products too.
• If you save using JPG format, try using the lowest compression setting possible. Where this setting is located varies with different image software, but they should all have a 1-100 compression factor that you can set. Lower compression means less distortion. If you have the choice of having no compression at all that would be ideal.
• On colored fabrics be aware that any white in your image will show as the color of the fabric. White ink is not possible in our current dye sublimation process. Also very light colors may be affected by the color of the shirt.
• When creating graphics, try to reduce as much white space around the image as you can. Creating extra white space around the image will prevent the image to print its maximum size.

 

More about formats and sizes  here!

Read about Product Templates here!