How to preserve a t-shirt design, from a t-shirt...

[Puggit]

A friend has a t-shirt made during the First Gulf War which is now old and tattered. She has a good photo of the t-shirt. It features a red desert rat, the t-shirt is grey. Massive sentimental value, the t-shirt designer did not make it back.

Does anyone know of a way of transforming the photo in to an image which can be applied to a new t-shirt?

I'm assuming it's relatively simple, but as I don't know the techniques it's beyond me!

[Pixel Pusher]

Can you or are you happy to post the image here?

[marshalla]

If it's a decent quality photo, it can probably be scanned and edited in Photoshop/GIMP or similar to produce something that be used to print transfers (plenty of T-shirt transfer printing kits available) on an inkjet printer.

[Puggit]

Here you go

[rhinochopig]

Puggit said:

Here you go

As an aside, has she thought of having the t-shirt framed along with the squad / company photo?

[ali_kat]

Pixel Pusher said:

Can you or are you happy to post the image here?

PP to the rescue

[Puggit]

ali_kat said:

PP to the rescue

You might say that the fishing rod was dangled somewhat in his direction

[Puggit]

rhinochopig said:

As an aside, has she thought of having the t-shirt framed along with the squad / company photo?

My friend's dad was an officer out there - she's gone to check what material he has. 'Superb suggestion, thank you'

[Pixel Pusher]

Puggit said:

ali_kat said:

PP to the rescue

You might say that the fishing rod was dangled somewhat in his direction

Just wanted to see the degree of fading.

I'll certainly try, but don't put your mortgage on a result just yet.

[ali_kat]

Pixel Pusher said:

Just wanted to see the degree of fading.

I'll certainly try, but don't put your mortgage on a result just yet.

We all know that you could are more than capable to draw that just by looking at it; let along a high quality image like it is that could be traced to be reproduced

We have faith in you

[Spanna]

Looks very intricate in places to recreate from the image here. Good luck to PP.

If the top could go into a high res scanner to bring a sharp, flat image of the design it would be much easier.

[Pixel Pusher]

Thanks Ali.

Spanna said:

Looks very intricate in places to recreate from the image here. Good luck to PP.

If the top could go into a high res scanner to bring a sharp, flat image of the design it would be much easier.

This ^^^. Another option would be to start with pinning the t shirt flat on a board and taking a high resolution shot of it. Directly overhead of course.

The intricacy is not the primary issue, it's clarity.

From there, it can be overdrawn far more accurately. The image posted here is low resolution and for linework, it makes for a mushy template.

The good news is that given a sharp start point, recreation should be no problem at all.

[Puggit]

Thanks for trying - she's off to look for some local services to help

[Crush]

Would a photocopy make it any clearer? Would then allow a fairly easy trace.

[Pixel Pusher]

Puggit said:

Thanks for trying - she's off to look for some local services to help

As of course she is completely entitled to do. I hope she can find a solution that is designed for this type of issue and it's cheap. For the sake of a high resolution base file though, I would gladly do the image for free.

Do you know the resolution of the image she sent you initially? Thumbsnap I think reduces to 72dpi. An original file at 300dpi and above would be usable, so long as it's focussed correctly.

Maybe talk to your friend and PM me if you need any help.

[ali_kat]

^^

[Puggit]

Pixel Pusher said:

As of course she is completely entitled to do. I hope she can find a solution that is designed for this type of issue and it's cheap. For the sake of a high resolution base file though, I would gladly do the image for free.

Do you know the resolution of the image she sent you initially? Thumbsnap I think reduces to 72dpi. An original file at 300dpi and above would be usable, so long as it's focussed correctly.

Maybe talk to your friend and PM me if you need any help.

Ohhh - true. I hadn't thought of the fact that the image will have been dumbed down.... Hold on...

(thanks again)

[Puggit]

OK, I have the original - it's seems high res to me! 2988 x 5312

[Pixel Pusher]

PM'd you.

Let's take a look and try to be sure.

Fingers crossed.

[Puggit]

Pixel Pusher said:

PM'd you.

Let's take a look and try to be sure.

Fingers crossed.

Which I didn't see before I sent

On it's way, all 6.9MB !