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AOP Sweatshirt's design guideline

AOP Sweatshirt's design guideline

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Design guideline is an instruction to help you easily design product's artwork using PrintBase's available product templates. This set of guidelines not only walks you through the design process, but also includes our design samples for you to refer to.

This article will provide you with the guideline for AOP Sweatshirt product.

In this article

A. Product's template

B. Design guideline

C. Sample design file

A. Product's template

Kindly visit this link to download the artwork template for AOP Sweatshirt.

Look at the two photos below to see which parts of the template will correspond to which parts of the actual sweatshirt:

There are 2 ways to design this product's artwork:

Directly design on the product's template when creating a new campaign using our Campaign Editor.
Download the product's template from our Catalog and design using Photoshop.

Please note the following details in the template:

Dimension: 2648 x 2500 px.
Resolution: 150 dpi.
Areas within red lines: Artwork's print area.
Areas within blue lines: Artwork's safe print area.
Horizontal grey dashed lines: These can be used as a guide to center your artwork on the template.

B. Design guideline

Using Campaign Editor

Kindly follow the instructions in this article on how to edit your campaign's design in the Campaign Editor.

Using Photoshop
Add artwork to the template: You can either copy and paste your artwork to the Place your artwork here layer in the template, or click and drag it from your folder to this layer.
Adjust your artwork: This product is made up of different pieces that have been put together. Therefore, you should design them carefully so that these pieces fit each other.
Please adjust your artwork in the most balanced and appropriate way possible by referring to the template's grey dashed lines.
For the sleeve pieces: Here's how the sleeve piece fits into the body piece:

Therefore, if your artwork has horizontal patterns like in the photo below, the details may be bent and not fully line up at the connection between the shoulder and the body (red circle), but the bottom of the sleeves will be unaffected.

The cuffs and waistband will have folds (also referred to as inside on the template). These folds will not be visible in the product mockup.
Save your file in .PNG format: After completing the above steps, hide the Product info and Template groups, keep the Place your artwork here and Background groups in your Photoshop file. Then click Save As or press Ctrl + Shift + S) and save the artwork in .PNG format.

Those are all the steps to design your artwork for AOP Sweatshirt. Then, you can upload this artwork and launch new campaigns by following the instructions in this article.

C. Sample design file

Please visit this link to our sample design and this link to view our demo campaign of this product.

By following the steps outlined in this article, you can also see how your designs will appear on product mockups.

Use the POD Product Mockups Library
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