The insanity of the impending holiday shopping season is rapidly budgeted, and once again we detect ourselves asking where the year has gone. With that in mind, now is a perfect fourth dimension to start getting your Redbubble shop looking fancy-schmancy.

In add-on to making sure your tags are upwardly to snuff, a groovy way to go things in shape is to review your existing piece of work. And then allow's run through some common issues we see on three different products.

All of these changes will exist made in the Manage Portfolio section of your store.

T-Shirts

When editing the position of your t-shirt designs, the "center horizontally" button is a great tool for ensuring your design sits correctly. However, depending on the top of your blueprint, the "middle vertically" button may work confronting you by moving the print away from the breast and down to the abdomen, as seen on the left of the instance below.

Of course, this choice is up to yous, but from feedback received we've received into our customer service department, nosotros're seeing our customers tend to adopt a nice, loftier impress around the chest area. So, providing your design doesn't fill up the entire printing area, yous can drag your design to the top of the available infinite and then use the horizontal centring tool to make certain it'southward aligned correctly.

Before (left) and After (right)

Skirts

To assist cutting downwards on the amount of time you spend re-uploading your designs, nosotros've worked difficult to make it easy to enable your existing designs on some of our newer products. In most cases, in your store, all you have to practice is edit the piece of work and click "Enable" to make information technology available on a bunch of products straight abroad.

Make certain the file you upload is 2152×2502 pixels for pencil skirts.

Even so, with  products like leggings and skirts that have a wrap-around print, you lot might need to put in a niggling extra work to make certain they expect equally good equally possible. Below is a design that show some common issues that arise when migrating existing designs to leggings and pencil skirts.

Try to avoid this unsightly white area on the seam

With the skirt shown here, the default image doesn't quite friction match the width requirements, so using a wider image or matching the background to the image's colour would be required to set the issue.

Matching the background color

When uploading a work, there'southward an choice to fill in whatsoever blank space with a chosen color. The default is white merely if you accept the colour code yous wish to use you can get specific with the exact color you want to utilize. Using the eyedropper tool in Photoshop or a like program like Pixlr, y'all can select the colour y'all want to use in your background and  check the selected colour's properties.

In Photoshop, the color code volition be displayed in the color picker.

Using the color code (i.e. #476f6d), you can lucifer the rest of the skirt with the epitome background. This allows for more freedom with product placement.

Once the background color has been selected, it fills in whatever gaps and we're left with a much ameliorate-looking brim. At present nosotros tin can see the entire design, fifty-fifty with a hip-length top.

No annoying gap forth the seam.

Leggings

While the leggings below look slap-up from the front, you'll notice that the blueprint doesn't wrap around the backs of the legs. Here'southward how we fix that.

Make certain the file you upload is4350×4032 pixels for leggings.

All that white on the dorsum is bad news

Tiling

Tiling your pattern is a nifty way to cover the entire product. Or, to get even more specific, you can use our leggings template for designing your piece of work specifically around this production.

Use the tiling part under "Repeat"

While choosing to tile your prototype will cover whatsoever gaps, this may not look right depending on the image you lot're using. If this is the case, use theleggings template to edit your work around how the material is cut. This is a great mode to make certain your work is sitting exactly how you desire and covering all the areas that should be covered.

Click hither to download the leggings template

You can import the template to your image editing software and create an prototype specifically for leggings by using the guides. Then edit and upload the file for only that product.

Use the "replace epitome" button to upload a new file

One time the changes are applied and saved, we  meet we're left with a much meliorate looking, pair of leggings with cipher white gaps.

Now those are some sharp looking leggings

There's more information on designing for products on this blog and in our aid middle.  If you need additional advice from our Artist Support team, open a ticket.

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