Industry Advice
Faux embroidery, as it has become known, is the process of digital printing that mimics and appears like real embroidery when printed or pressed onto a garment – Jamie Hood, director of David Sharp
one completed then great. If not, this needs to be created fi rst or requested from your embroidery digitiser as normal.
2) Then you need to save a high-resolution PNG image of this embroidery design fi le, at around 300 to 500dpi. Wilcom Embroidery Studio does a great job of this but there is other embroidery digitising software that will also export a high-resolution print ready image – such as Design Shop 12 from Melco.
If it’s just text, for example, just save one high resolution PNG fi le from the original embroidery design – then add shadows. However, if the design has layers, for example text on top of a base of background Tatami stitches, its best to break the design up into multiple layers and add shadows to each layer separately.
This, crucially, gives internal shadows to objects and letters and not just one shadow around the outside of the fi nished design. To break the fi le up into separate PNG fi les, work from the bottom upwards (so base layer solid objects as PNG one, then details and text as another fi le).
[pic 6] Layer two
Once all layers have had shadows added then everything can be pieced back together to make one fi le ready to print.
[pic 7] Layer three
3) Shadows for the win! This, as it’s a PNG, has no background and technically is print ready but we want to take it a step further to make it more life-like when printed.
Adding drop shadows gives it more depth and increases the impression of a real raised embroidery when pressed onto a garment. To achieve this, we add outer shadows in Photoshop (you can use your preferred graphics software).
The fi nished photos show the fi nal result once the image has been printed as a DTF transfer and then heat pressed to a T shirt. The shadows, even though only 1 to 2mm deep, really lift it off the garment visually.
So, life like it will cause disbelief among those that touch the print and see it is in fact a fl at digital print.
[pic 4] add shadows
So, there you have it, the humble process of DTF printing can now be used to create realistic faux embroidery, adding a whole new level to your client offerings.
www.printwearandpromotion.co.uk September 2024 |43 |
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