Sunday, June 14, 2009
How to make T-Shirt Transfers under Ubuntu Linux
The other day, I was wanting to make some custom T-Shirts. A while back my wife bought me T-Shirt transfer inkjet labels as a Christmas Present.
The original T-Shirt I made was on Windows, it was for my oldest daughter, it turned out quite well, but that was a while back before I switched over the Ubuntu.
I was a little disappointed, because I searched and searched but could not found a "T-Shirt" or "Mirror" setting to put my design on the labels.
Well, I quickly found an easy work around, Here's how to do it
1) Create your T-Shirt Design using your favorite OpenOffice product (eg: OpenOffice Writer)
2) Choose the Option to "Export" your work as a "PDF File" (for best results save the PDF with lossless compression
3) Open The GIMP image Editor
4) Open your PDF file in GIMP (Yes, GIMP opens PDF files, I was surprised myself)
5) From The GIMP under Tools..>Transform Tools -> Flip
6) Click on your open image to Flip the Image
..And Viola you have a reversed image you can print on your T-Shirt
Hope you enjoy!
The original T-Shirt I made was on Windows, it was for my oldest daughter, it turned out quite well, but that was a while back before I switched over the Ubuntu.
I was a little disappointed, because I searched and searched but could not found a "T-Shirt" or "Mirror" setting to put my design on the labels.
Well, I quickly found an easy work around, Here's how to do it
1) Create your T-Shirt Design using your favorite OpenOffice product (eg: OpenOffice Writer)
2) Choose the Option to "Export" your work as a "PDF File" (for best results save the PDF with lossless compression
3) Open The GIMP image Editor
4) Open your PDF file in GIMP (Yes, GIMP opens PDF files, I was surprised myself)
5) From The GIMP under Tools..>Transform Tools -> Flip
6) Click on your open image to Flip the Image
..And Viola you have a reversed image you can print on your T-Shirt
Hope you enjoy!
Labels: business, geeky, T-Shirts, ubuntu
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