Why I Took My Shirt Listings Down (Most of Them, Anyway)

If you've looked at my print-on-demand shops, you may have noticed that most of the shirt options are unavailable. Why is that? Well...most of my designs include my KTCW logo and I had lowered the opacity of this layer to make it more transparent. This was done because I wanted to make it less distracting to the rest of the design, but I didn't consider how that would transfer to a shirt...😬

Cartoon graphic of a bewildered seal's head printed on a black shirt, looking at the viewers with the phrase "You Can't Be Seal-ious" placed around it, colored in a light to dark blue gradient.

Here's how Teepublic printed my "You Can Be Seal-ious" Sad Seal design to a shirt.

(color was altered a bit to reduce glare, will provide a better screen-to-print comparison in the future)

A lot of it looks pretty good. But when you takes a closer at the logo...

It's completely blurry and unreadable. 😭

It's supposed to look a little more like this:

I want to let people know who made these designs but I can't sell any clothing with the logo looking like that! There's no point. I'm going to have to go back to the original files and figure out a better way to place it without messing with the opacity.

In the meantime, all of the Bonfire versions of my designs are available on shirts and other tops! The site has editing tools that allowed for curved text so I could / allows for curved text, so, I was able to add my business name in a more aesthetically pleasing way / in a way that's more aesthetically pleasing.