Chris Wahl

a very big cheers good sir!

You, sir, are a legend.

This shall prove invaluable.

thanks for this. smart, really smart:)

Hey chris, I loved that you’re knowledgeable about this stuff.

I actually work at the place where redbubble prints their shirts.

Due to the processes that we go through here to convert the artwork to be print ready and the type of ink we use, the colors that we recieve from redbubble on any piece of work will dry about 2 shades darker then it appears on a computer screen.

I needed these though, super-convenient.

cheers chris!

I’d be interested to see how it came out on an actual shirt as well!

This is brilliant Chris!

Nice one—thanks, Chris.

thank you!!!!!!!!

wow, thanks.

hang on now walk me through it. please I am designing in cmyk mode. Do I put one of these charts on my window or what????? I wnat to get ti right have been very disappointed with dull colours on shirt.

Don’t forget to download the larger version (follow the link supplied) as the smaller version that appears above might have too many jpeg artifacts to get accurate colours when using the eyedropper.

right I will have a go at changing some of my designs now..thanks

Hi there I hope I understood the directions. that should mean that the modified version
is going to print up as birght as the one I hadup earlier?

so you are saying that what looks more vivid on the monitor is not necessarily what will be the more vivid in the final result. sorry if I am slow to catch on

PS I nearly went blind using the larger version of the swatches!!!!!

Picketty- I think you may have misunderstood my intentions.

When you upload your (brightly coloured) artwork to RedBubble, they convert the colours for the shirt preview to reflect what they may look like when printed on the shirt in real life. This results in your bright original colours being converted to darker duller colours (as real life printed fabric colours can never be as bright as monitor colours). Sometimes the converted colours can be quite different from your originals and hard to predict. My intention with this is to give people an idea of how their colour choices will turn out once converted.

So, basically you colour your art with the bright first palette and once uploaded they will be converted to the corresponding colour on the duller palette.

i hadn’t seen this. hats off to you fine sir!

This is fantastic, thanks so much for putting this together, Chris.

And it’s a testament to the fine coding at RedBubble that I found this in my first search (used the words “t-shirt clour”) – I love a good search function :)

I don’t think that most people realise that even a “really bright fluro shirt” in real life, when compared to a monitor version of the same design will appear duller to than that of the monitor. So don’t worry too much about your designs being a little bit darker in print, they will still look great in real life!

Oh my. I was sure I’d thanked you for this .. maybe it was in the forums?? Thanks!

Thanks Chris for the effort.

Regarding T-shirts on Red Bubble:

I would like to see:

1. A photo of each t-shirt colour in natural light.
Just a plain blank t-shirt to get an idea of what they actually look like, rather than the screen preview.

I don’t normally shout, but …. THANKS A MILLION FOR THIS, CHRIS!!!!

awesome!!! i hearts you

Thank you so much!! very helpfull!

you’re a friggin star! thanks for this ;-)

Goddammit!! you just saved me hours of frustration. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Just one little other technical question – What colour settings or colour profile do I need to have my files in on photoshop to optimise this pallette? Anyone…

carneydaz- This was made with an sRGB colour profile. I’ve also heard that this is what Redbubble uses as well.

nice one :D
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