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Art Department

Our highly creative and experienced art department can reproduce your existing logo or work with you to completely create an original design to perfectly fit your company, school, club or event.

We use CorelDraw and Adobe PhotoShop to create our graphic designs.  We also do beautiful hand illustration.  We can work with your rough sketch or reproduce a full color photograph or painting.

When supplying hard copy artwork please supply a copy of the outline in black and white and a second copy indicating color placement.

When supplying digital artwork, please refer to the requirements listed below.

DIGITAL ARTWORK REQUIREMENTS (Preferred Programs)

CorelDraw – version 9 or lower
Adobe Illustrator – version 7 or lower (saved as AI or EPS)
PhotoShop (saved as PSD) for process, or one color jobs only.

Some Microsoft Word files are acceptable.  We cannot use files from PowerPoint, Word Perfect, QuarkXpress or PageMaker.

CD’s and email attachments must be formatted for PC.

Vector images must be saved as .cdr (CorelDraw), .ai (Adobe Illustrator), or .eps files.  These are designs that are to be spot separated or are one color.

Save vector images with the correct Pantone spot colors.

Send Photoshop files as .psd files at 100% size.  One color, four color process or simulated process designs can be saved as .tif or .psd and the resolution must be at least 300 dpi.  These files should be compressed to send.

Convert all text to curves, outlines or paths.

Half tones for spot color need to be 33-40 line.  10% minimum percentage for a tint of a color.  55 line for four color process.

Please send a color print out or .jpg file for comparison.

Indicate dimensions for final size of design.

Desktop publishing clip art is not suitable for use in screen printing.

IF THESE GUIDELINES ARE NOT FOLLOWED AND HOMESTEAD'S ART STAFF HAS TO RECREATE, ADJUST OR OTHERWISE DEVELOP YOUR DESIGN, AN ART FEE OF $30 PER HOUR WILL BE CHARGED.

Please send art related emails to: art@homesteadtshirts.com

If you have any further questions please give one of the artists a call and they will be happy to help you. 800-334-6746 ext. 22.

Click here for examples of different art work.

1-800-334-6746
229-872-3202 local
229-872-8050 fax
service@homesteadtshirts.com