Why Was My Design Rejected? UPDATED w/ TEMPLATES

5. If you submit multiple color versions of your design, we will approve the most favorable, and reject the others.
If you like, you can represent multiple colors on one entry/mock up.

CollisionTheory, one of our favorite artists, is really great at doing this.
https://www.designbyhumans.com/vote/detail/26235

jimiyo said: 5. If you submit multiple color versions of your design, we will approve the most favorable.

If you like, you can represent multiple colors on one entry/mock up!

CollisionTheory, one of our favorite artists, is really great at doing this.

http://www.designbyhumans.com/vote/detail/26235
http://www.designbyhumans.com/designs/placement/26235.jpg

Jimiyo! Thanks for the mention. =)

Great idea for a topic, and thanks for helping me with my submission issues.

All that does help a lot, didn’t know about the all over print restrictions.

Nice topic idea, this will help out more when making design decisions.

nice touch!

damn so thats why my design didnt get up there. I choose a shirt color you didnt have. I was really proud about that design too, it deffinately would have added something to my DBH portfolio even if it was un-printable. Alot of why some folks are so popular on this site, such as “collisiontheory” is because they have an impressive porfolio which symbolizes their potential and consistency. Now i have one less design that i worked extrordinarily hard at that wont be able to help my building a reputation on this website. I was really stoked about quiksilver too. This was a frustrating rejection i suppose.

i followed all the restrictions and rules, and mine didn’t get picked, it was a fairly nice design considering others.

glittersuperstar said: i followed all the restrictions and rules, and mine didn’t get picked, it was a fairly nice design considering others.

Can we see?

My two latest designs have been rejected and I cant understand why! They do not break any of the rules as far as I’m aware. I got a rejected email about 1 minute after I submitted the design. Could someone have viewed it and rejected it so quickly? Please let us know exactly why a design gets rejected. Its extremely frustrating when you work on a design for a long time only for it to be rejected without a definitive reason. Thanks

I haven’t had one rejected but I do imagine that would be frustrating to not know why. If they give you a reason at least you can maybe fix the problem and resubmit.

If you email art@designbyhumans.com with jpeg attachments of what you submitted, typically we can give you a specific reason why it was rejected.

Thanks Jimiyo. I have sent an email of my rejected designs. Hopefully I will know soon why they were rejected which will, as thestray says, allow me to adjust the designs and resubmit.

Thanks jimiyo :)
but please can you tell me the actual size of the design in pixels?

Updated Rules.

Designs_Maker said: Thanks jimiyo :)
but please can you tell me the actual size of the design in pixels?

200-300DPI is preferable. Typically size for a minimum of 16×20 for standard sized front chest, larger if it is oversized, even larger if it’s to be an allover.

Thanks again :)

thanks jimiyo.. very helpful topic! ;)

does that mean this can’t be printed? because of the detailed shapes?

click here

If approved for print, it could probably be modified slightly to compensate, so it didn’t get rejected. For example, we could print the middle three guns with just an oversized print and still maintain a fairly decent look. The only difference is we wouldnt print on the sleeves.

does that mean this can’t be printed? because of the detailed shapes?

click here

If approved for print, it could probably be modified slightly to compensate, so it didn’t get rejected. For example, we could print the middle three guns with just an oversized print and still maintain a fairly decent look. The only difference is we wouldnt print on the sleeves.

“If approved for print, it could probably be modified slightly to compensate, so it didn’t get rejected. For example, we could print the middle three guns with just an oversized print and still maintain a fairly decent look. The only difference is we wouldnt print on the sleeves.”

ok, great. thanks for replying! im working on a placement for just the middle section of the shirt w/o the sleeves

Perhaps this question is straight out stupid, but here it goes anyway:

Is there a maximum limitation of colours on prints that aren’t all overs?

novus said: Perhaps this question is straight out stupid, but here it goes anyway:

Is there a maximum limitation of colours on prints that aren’t all overs?

Not really. BUT take into consideration, if you design something with 30 colors, with gradients that essentially cause more colors, that design will have to be reduced to 12-16 colors, and so it will lose subtleties. But in general, not really.

Cant you rejection guys at elast tell us why ours was rejected in specific reasoning? I just got rejected, and it gave me this same list. I have to figure out why it got rejected? And i sent it to a friend and he said it would be fine

Email art@designbyhumans.com and I can review it.

jimiyo said: Updated Rules.

Designs_Maker said: Thanks jimiyo :)
but please can you tell me the actual size of the design in pixels?

200-300DPI is preferable. Typically size for a minimum of 16×20 for standard sized front chest, larger if it is oversized, even larger if it’s to be an allover.

when you said 16 × 20 where you referring to inches i guess?

with the resolution what is the best for over all prints? i would like a number to work off, i don’t know how much “lager” it need to be??

marcatalyst said:

jimiyo said: Updated Rules.

Designs_Maker said: Thanks jimiyo :)
but please can you tell me the actual size of the design in pixels?

200-300DPI is preferable. Typically size for a minimum of 16×20 for standard sized front chest, larger if it is oversized, even larger if it’s to be an allover.

when you said 16 × 20 where you referring to inches i guess?

with the resolution what is the best for over all prints? i would like a number to work off, i don’t know how much “lager” it need to be??

RGB 8bit, 300 DPI,

Standard 17.5×19
Oversized 19×25
AllOver 28×35 (includes sleeves) base shape refer to Oversized

thank you :)

thanks jimiyo!

thanks a lot jimiyo, for everything!

Updated Sizes

RGB 8bit, 300 DPI,

Standard 17.5×19
Oversized 19×25
AllOver 28×35 (includes sleeves) base shape refer to Oversized

you still didnt answer whether those were in inches terms. It used to be 900 by 500. Same thing>?

Inches would be the only thing that makes sense.

zebra4 said: you still didnt answer whether those were in inches terms. It used to be 900 by 500. Same thing>?

900 × 500 is the pixel dimensions of one of the submission files. The files you upload with the submission should not be your original files. Web view is low resolution so that the files are small enough to view and download quickly. The files that you create the art in should be in inches at the dimensions that Jimiyo provided. That’s the quality you need to print it. You submit a low-res copy for voting.

It should be obvious, but if there are curse words in the design, it will get rejected

If there is vulgarity, as in someone flipping a bird, biting their thumb at thee, and the like, it will get rejected

If there is nudity in the image, it has a 50-50 chance of being rejected, unless its being done in an artistic manner

If you spam submit several designs at once, the action will typically make you target for a mass rejection.

Thank you so much for all of the info: Jimiyo.

Hello Jimiyo.can you answer me Please…I just downloaded that sample named "White_M_F " it was around 7.9 MB.. But i could find only 1 image from it.. all of the other images in that zip file were not opening…did i miss something? :(
& mapped my design to the Model…but couldnt find the backside for T…

I haven’t investigated the model sheets from the Design Guide as I have made my own set.

You are free to use anything in http://www.jimiyo.com/downloads/

Specific to DBH is

http://www.jimiyo.com/downloads/Male_DBHJimiyo.zip

http://www.jimiyo.com/downloads/Female_DBH.psd

Cheers ;j

Thank you so much Jimiyo, templates of yours are very cool!, models are with tattoos.downloaded all ,Thanks again for sharing your private templates.All are awesome.Now i have back,front,side all views with Tattoo guys.
Just now mapped my 2 designs to a model .

subscribed to the selected mailing lists to the your site too. all of your designs are fantastic.
Specially “Gather Ye rose buds” is my favourite’
Cheers :)

So rule # 6 about the t-shirt template, is it possible to use the image of the t-shirt that is already here?
Is it only in my profile I upload my designs or do I upload them another place?

Unless incredibly handled like never before, grounds for auto rejection:

Lens flares
Thresholded photos
Designs with text that seem to denote they are the manufacturer of the shirt.

So when we create the file for the design, we should be in RGB? I ask because I was wondering if you print in CYMK.

Cause I think it looks different when you switch modes. I’ve had the issue before. So I save my PSD/ai file in CYMK and then save the JPG in RGB.

I’m new to designing prints.

We typically dont print in CMYK. Even if CMYK, it seems to be simulated process.

Please use RGB.

Wow…didn’t really know there were so many restrictions! I do realize lines have to be drawn somewhere but… kids visiting dbh?… well, why not go about it like deviantart and just have a PG-13/R section or something? Last time I checked, kids do have the power to whine, sulk, cry their parents into buying their tshirts…but they don’t have a credit card to buy it themselves…

A lot of these “restrictions” are, I think, kind of common sense. They just wanted to write them all, just in case. Personally, there are very few things that are PG-13 that I would wear.

jimiyo said: Unless incredibly handled like never before, grounds for auto rejection:

Lens flares
Thresholded photos
Designs with text that seem to denote they are the manufacturer of the shirt.

Hahaha, I cracked up at lens flares.

Oops. There are very few things that AREN’T PG-13 that I would wear.
I’m kind of confused as to what PG-13 stands for in the first place. Something about 13 years old.

Oh okay, that makes more sense, haha.

PG-13 means parental guidance for kids under thirteen.

On my next order of shirts can I buy a perfect white blank to take photos for a mockup?

what comes to mind when I think of PG-13/Rated R stuff…stuff that school’s will send a kid home for wearing…but I do understand there needs to be some sort of “line” that needs to be drawn…but just don’t draw that line thinking of “the kids!”…I do like the fact that nudity is okay as long as it’s tasteful…take that! you little thirteen year olds roaming around this site! hahaha! I remember this one shirt that had alot of controversy…it was a shirt that was being sold at Urban Outfitters, fairly simple design…vector work of like a horizon line with the sun and had the slogan:
“New Mexico
Cleaner than old mexico”
I thought that was a funny shirt.

Well, jimiyo said
“If there is nudity in the image, it has a 50-50 chance of being rejected, unless its being done in an artistic manner”
So nudity is still okay.

What dpi does the uploaded file have to be? I saw low-res, but you mean 72/100/200?

ANSWER: Please read the Submission page. Specifically states, "Make sure to create your art at a minimum resolution of 200 dpi and to the approximate size that the design should be printed. "

hi, i just wondered if this one here would really be printable? and if DBH would even consider printing it… is it to complex? thanks for any answers on this…

ANSWER: If you constrain it to 18×25 it will be printable even with a high color count.

Is 16×20 in cm or inches? I’ve tried inches but when I click to see how the image looks like in print-size on my computer it comes off as strangely big.
Also I had some images made in 74 dpi before I realized that the preferable is 200-300, still when I zoom in at the image it doesn’t look pixelated, it still looks sharp. So can I still send in my 74 dpi image?
I have started on another design with 200 dpi but Photoshop doesn’t allow me to use many of the filters tools something that is a big annoyance, is it impossible to use those tools while working on a 200-300 dpi image?

Sorry that I ask so much but I want to avoid any complications with my design.

Wonderful design Kaysetoaster :)

Ive been checking what kinda work the DBH staff prints and i thougth they can probably print anything, but then i read this thread closely and it says that design that have a tight linework are hard to register when they are allover prints, that pretty much covers all of my pieces, jejeje, the question is, can DBH print the kinda stuff im submitting, cause its got a lot of small details, or so i think, anyways, heres an example of one of my submissions,( is not self promotion, really )….thanks..peace..

Pretty much everything is printable, though they may choose to alter it slightly before going to print.

indeed Odetti, they probably would alter it a bit to make it printable, but im thinking, if they could print the swetness of Bold is Beautiful from the multitalented Jeff Finley ( one of my favorites by the way ) i dont think my little piece would be a problem, thanks for the comment…peace..

PHNX said: thanks BenjaminPhantom, hope your rigth….peace…

I accidentally deleted my post here. What I said was that if it made it to the submission level it would probably be printable.

i didn’t realise there was a thread for this already, but yaa, both my T-shirt designs seem to follow all the requirments and have still been rejected :/ idk what I’m doing wrong.

UPDATE:

No more front and back hit designs will be approved for voting unless the designs specifically requires a back and front print conceptually. There will also be a more stringent level of judgment for those designs.

Great examples:

that’s a pity. But I can see why.

MattisGentle said: i didn’t realise there was a thread for this already, but yaa, both my T-shirt designs seem to follow all the requirments and have still been rejected :/ idk what I’m doing wrong.

Post em?

so let me get this straight…
my design was rejected because of the use of a unkown source image?
because that picture is mine, and taken in a kiss concert!
there’s no rule breaking here…
or is it because it is not in the style pack you provide?
because there are tons of accepted submissions that include external images !!!

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2824837&l=7d627a564f&id=735649777

I’m not sure, but I think printing color photos in good quality might be extremely hard.

Jugo- I think it may have to do with the fact that oversize designs can only have 3 colors.

On that note, from the current winner would it be safe to say that gradients are OK in oversize designs? As long as I only have 3 hues, I can use gradients of those 3 colors?

UPDATE:

10. We typically do not deal with public figures. Although there may be an occasion we might print a widely accepted/known persona like Obama or Lincoln, we will reject most portraits of famous figures, celebrities, etc. Reason: Most likely the image is based on a photo, owned by the photographer.

11. Seam to seam prints are considered allover prints. More than 3 colors will result in a declined submission.

12. Designs with text will either have to be very compelling, or mostly artistic in nature to be accepted.

hey jimiyo could you clarify whether gradients are allowed on allover prints? Thanks.

ANSWER: Gradients are acceptable on allovers.

13. Designs with political agendas will typically be declined for voting. We avoid most any controversial design. Religious, blasphemous, vulgar, etc

Hi… just a question about why my submission was rejected.
For the Incubus comp, I designed a typographical shirt with Incubus’ lyrics ‘what are you waiting for, a certain shade of green?’
I presume this was rejected because the lyrics are Incubus’ intellectual property, can you confirm this for me, or was it rejected for another reason.
I remember seeing some of the Lil Wayne shirts with some sort of lyrics in the design, how strict are you with this.
Thanks

discodean said: Hi… just a question about why my submission was rejected.
For the Incubus comp, I designed a typographical shirt with Incubus’ lyrics ‘what are you waiting for, a certain shade of green?’
I presume this was rejected because the lyrics are Incubus’ intellectual property, can you confirm this for me, or was it rejected for another reason.
I remember seeing some of the Lil Wayne shirts with some sort of lyrics in the design, how strict are you with this.
Thanks

Post up a pic and we can probably tell you why.

My opinion…
You’re missing a comma (,) after “for”. Without the comma the sentence is incorrect and the first time I read it I thought “uh??”.
Also, and this one I am not sure of, DBH might not have that shirt color.

“12. Designs with text will either have to be very compelling, or mostly artistic in nature to be accepted.”

They are trying to stay away from designs that are simply text. If you do a design with text it has to be used simple to enhance the rest of the image, not be the image itself. That would be my guess.

Or do text in a way that’s really exceptional. https://www.designbyhumans.com/vote/detail/51503

Ok, thanks guys, wasn’t sure if I should steer clear of lyrics all together, because of a copyright issue. But you seem to have cleard it up.

Thanks for the shout out jimiyo :)

http://www.designbyhumans.com/vote/detail/57841
Can actually be printed with three colors.

Don’t point fingers at other people when you feel like you are being judged. You aren’t being singled out. We are rejecting almost as many as are approving. We don’t want to bombard our submissions with a ton of designs.

Although your design might look good comped at the size you show it at, what happens when it goes on a smaller shirt? Or a XXL. It drastically changes the compositional weight which is quite important when it comes to shirt designs.

Also, you have a good concept with the musical note, but you just duplicated all of them. It might have been better to at least have the musical notes form a unified design by mimicking the style of the rest of the shirt. Currently its clean vectorish musical notes combined with a waterbrushy style with a logo slapped on at the bottom. No great effort was put forth to make the design unified.

Jimiyo’s an ass for making unnecessarily rude comments. I’ve deleted my post. Will sub my work elsewhere from now on.

A7 is (so tired of people’s attitude)

Choose your words more carefully. I also was under the impression you were pointing fingers. Specially because of the sentence right before the URL.

Also, when Jimiyo said “No great effort was put forth to make the design unified.”, he was talking specifically about the uh.. unification process. Not about everything.

I’m gonna have to agree with jimiyo on this one. To me it seems a lil bit just slapped together in a quick 5 mins (not saying that’s how it was made though). The concept is there, just needs a bit more work.

I can see you getting frustrated when you work hard on a design your proud of gets shot down as mine (the one you referenced) was actually rejected at first. I simply wrote an email asking to specify what exactly I needed to fix. Jimiyo was nice enough to reply, I made some revisions and tried again. Take this as a learning experience.

Mine has rejected..It hurts and I don’t know why.. DBH should include the exact details why they rejected my design..

It would be nice if we could critique every design, but the volume of submissions is quite tremendous. And even responding with a critique to just one would be quite time consuming as it typically opens up a fairly lengthy volley of questions and dialogue.

It would be best if artists posted their work for critique by our community of artists here.

It’s better to be rejected and to try again than to just let some design go into voting, and not cause an artist to try harder IMO. Being an artist isnt about being loved all the time. It’s about gettin beat down over and over again, getting back up every time getting better and stronger. I personally would not be as good as I am today, if everyone I showed my art to coddled me and praised me for my mediocre work. Always strive to be better.

why not have four templates for your rejection letters instead on just one that would narrow the wondering and I know I don’t mind getting beat down. I will try again if I have some idea why rejected in the first place.

Why not use http://www.designbyhumans.com/forums?category=critique

did and do.
look all i’m saying is I can submit said design,you can reject with the template letter you use now, I can email you asking why it was rejected, or you could use four templates and cut down on emails. don’t really matter to me . I don’t get as much emails as you. just trying to help.

The four templates thing seems weird. There’s around 14 different reasons why you could get rejected. Wouldn’t that mean 14 different templates?

If you can’t figure out which of the 14 reasons it is, chances are you can’t figure out which of the 4 reasons they sent you it is. Even if they only give you one reason, people might still ask questions.

Why not just post here or in the Critique section? We might be able to tell you why it got rejected.

The point is they send a list with the four types of rejection. Sure you can guess well my design was PG13 so that’s not it but the other three are harder to say. I just posted an idea to cut down on the email. I have people critiquing all my designs after this first went up. So that’s not a problem.

ChefRAZ said: The point is they send a list with the four types of rejection. Sure you can guess well my design was PG13 so that’s not it but the other three are harder to say. I just posted an idea to cut down on the email. I have people critiquing all my designs after this first went up. So that’s not a problem.

Well certain people (e.g. ME) are a little too thick-skulled even to figure that out. It’s all that milk I drank through my eyes as a kid.

I would just like to clarify something about file type. I recently submitted my design in PNG (a previous design of mine a few months ago was accepted in this format) but it got rejected. Does this mean that only jpegs are accepted now? I hope I get enlightened soon. Thanks.

We’re sorry but your design has been rejected and will not post to our submissions gallery for one or more of the following reasons:

1)Your design has already been submitted or published at another location.
2)Your design contains intellectual property of a third party or otherwise infringes on a third party’s intellectual property rights.
3)Your design was not formatted properly for submission.
4)Your design contains material that is deemed overly offensive, vulgar, sexually overt, crude, or inappropriate by the Design By Humans staff.
5)Your design does not meet DBH quality standards

actually 5 reasons after this post I’ll leave it alone and wont bring it up again. this one is sent out to everyone, and all other sites are probablly the same, so I don’t know why DBH would want to be different, but It would cut down on the emails and posts.

Gee, I’m sad….I just got a “design has been rejected” for a new design for Incubus Contest…And I really dont understand why …:( The reasons in e-mail was:

1- Your design has already been submitted or published at another location. → I must say I made this drawn ONLY for incubus contest..I even show it on my site/or for friends

2- Your design contains intellectual property of a third party or otherwise infringes on a third party’s intellectual property rights. →My design contain Lyrics of Quicksand…Its a Incubus song! as anothers designers has made too!!

3- Your design was not formatted properly for submission. → Help!!!

4- Your design contains material that is deemed overly offensive, vulgar, sexually overt, crude, or inappropriate by the Design By Humans staff. → What?? Has a design with girls kissing running on contest!!

5-Your design does not meet DBH quality standards. → I dont think it was that too bad :(..this one really …really let me sad.

I will try show up the design later…But I’m asking fo DBH Staff how I can make the things “right”? because the e-mail was very “generic”, and i really want make cool stuff for Incubus. :)

Show it to us here. We might be able to tell you why.

OmarO said: Show it to us here. We might be able to tell you why.

Quickpost this image to Myspace, Digg, Facebook, and others!

This is the design :(

I think it’s obviously the nudity.

I see breast, I don’t think that’s alowed.number 4 on the list.

jimiyo said: 13. Designs with political agendas will typically be declined for voting. We avoid most any controversial design. Religious, blasphemous, vulgar, etc

ok so no brocc-obama(in the shape of broccoli?)

thestray said: I think it’s obviously the nudity.

So i will cover up the “nudity” and everything will be all right .

ChefRAZ said:

jimiyo said: 13. Designs with political agendas will typically be declined for voting. We avoid most any controversial design. Religious, blasphemous, vulgar, etc

ok so no brocc-obama(in the shape of broccoli?)

There is no broccoli…it’s a cloud!

leticce said:

ChefRAZ said:

jimiyo said: 13. Designs with political agendas will typically be declined for voting. We avoid most any controversial design. Religious, blasphemous, vulgar, etc

ok so no brocc-obama(in the shape of broccoli?)

There is no broccoli…it’s a cloud!

Haha, he wasn’t talking about your submission, he was making a joke.

leticce said:

thestray said: I think it’s obviously the nudity.

So i will cover up the “nudity” and everything will be all right .

Presumably. Good luck.

thestray said:

leticce said:

ChefRAZ said:

jimiyo said: 13. Designs with political agendas will typically be declined for voting. We avoid most any controversial design. Religious, blasphemous, vulgar, etc

ok so no brocc-obama(in the shape of broccoli?)

There is no broccoli…it’s a cloud!

Haha, he wasn’t talking about your submission, he was making a joke.

Hhahaha. I clicked expecting it be broccoli that had Obama’s likeness. Thanks for the laugh.

I got my Incubus sub rejected too. I’d really love to get insights as to why it was. I submitted it as a PNG, is that a factor as well? Can I post it here? How do I do that (sorry for all the questions, I’m still getting the hang of things here). Thanks!

You should submit them as jpegs.
Post it here, just upload the images to imageshack ( http://imageshack.us/ ) and post the links here.

Thanks so much! I’d really appreciate feedback on this. Here it is:

geode said: I got my Incubus sub rejected too. I’d really love to get insights as to why it was. I submitted it as a PNG, is that a factor as well? Can I post it here? How do I do that (sorry for all the questions, I’m still getting the hang of things here). Thanks!

Read Jimiyo’s post again mang. RGB jpegs.

Also, your mockup looks a bit sloppy and lowquality. Read rule number 3. Read all of it so you’ll be less confused in the future.

Thanks for the comments. I must admit I’m really new about this, and self-taught. I only came upon this forum through the rejection email, so I didn’t know about these specs before I submitted. Thanks for the enlightenment. I’ll work on something new soon.

I’ve got two designs rejected.
It’s not up to me to judge, but I think guidelines for submissions are VERY generic in some points:
“Your design has already been submitted or published at another location.”
what is meant by published? it the artwork is also featured in my blog or website that means it’s been “Published”? for me the sentence is quite vague. I think it would be better to ask people to submit ONLY original artworks expressly done for this place and CLEARLY say not to discover the artwork within a given date/event. I say this because the only reason I can think of for the reason of the rejection is that my artwork is featured on my website (obviously, I would say…).

I’ve seen very beautiful artwork on this site but also some real crap. I’m quaite curious to know what’s exactly your idea of “quality standards”.

It should be alot clearer – might be an idea to mention in the design guide that designs are limited to 8 colors. This is the reason i think my design just got rejected. However, looking at other designs for sale, it looks like some of them use more than 8.

By published they mean that it’s not simultaneously up for vote somewhere else or being sold or previously printed. It doesn’t matter if it’s on your site, and it doesn’t have to be somethings you made just for here, it could be some old illustration you thought could work well on a shirt. Or it could be a design that was voted on elsewhere (Threadless or what-have-you) but didn’t get printed and is no longer up for voting.

As for color limitatons, to qoute Jimiyo:

"It’s generally unlimited for standard or jumbo prints without sleeve prints because our separator is a Level 70 Magi.

And, if a design has more colors than we can handle, we will sometime request a slight shift in the color if approved for print worst case scenario."

As for quality standards. It’s up to the art director, so do your best to impress. Instead of saying “I see some crap here, what’s up with that?” Make something that’s too good to reject. I think I’m noticing a trend though with a lot of stuff that is rejected, they’re relying too much on photoshop and it’s filters and effects. There are so many things that can be done with photoshop, but you don’t want it to call attention to itself.

yo stray…is there any full guidelines here that i can check out regarding color limitations or other usefull info besides the one’s that jimiyo already posted?…much oblige stray….

That’s pretty much it I think. As long as you’re not doing an allover print, printing on the shoulders, or going from seam to seam with your design, you don’t have to worry about color limitations, as many as you want.

I just know this stuff from past forum discussions. I think you can find everything you need to know in this thread really.

thestray said: That’s pretty much it I think. As long as you’re not doing an allover print, printing on the shoulders, or going from seam to seam with your design, you don’t have to worry about color limitations, as many as you want.

I just know this stuff from past forum discussions. I think you can find everything you need to know in this thread really.

some people don’t really go to the first page when reading posts, from past expereance.

This post really helps alot!!!Thnks pple!!

This is a good comp!

Three versions on one composition. This will result in more votes IMO because if a person doesn’t like one version, they have two others to look at. Primo presentation!

Nice, will be making use of those templates. Will also be making use of the advice of alternate versions in my comps.

hi!

i would like to ask questions.

Standard 17.5×19
Oversized 19×25

can u print Standard as 19×17.5
and Oversized 25×19 (landscape)?

and can u print one color as All Over 40X33 as a background then print more than 3 colors of Oversized 25×19 over the background?

and i downloaded a dbh DarkChocolate t-shirts template but i can’t extract a DarkChocolate_M_F file because its file name has a valid character for pc. i can open the rest of DarkChocolate but the DarkChocolate_M_F file.
can anyone send me an email for just only the DarkChocolate_M_F file?

gb_enigma@yahoo.co.th

thank u

GB_ENIGMA said: hi!

i would like to ask questions.

Standard 17.5×19
Oversized 19×25

can u print Standard as 19×17.5
and Oversized 25×19 (landscape)?


and can u print one color as All Over 40X33 as a background then print more than 3 colors of Oversized 25×19 over the background?

and i downloaded a dbh DarkChocolate t-shirts template but i can’t extract a DarkChocolate_M_F file because its file name has a valid character for pc. i can open the rest of DarkChocolate but the DarkChocolate_M_F file.
can anyone send me an email for just only the DarkChocolate_M_F file?

gb_enigma@yahoo.co.th


thank u

Those dimensions mean 17.5" wide x 19" tall, and 19" wide x 25" tall. Therefore, no the numbers cant be switched.

My guess is that if any colors run in the All-Over dimensions, then the entire piece would be printed All-Over. So that would one color too many.

And i haven’t had that problem with the image file, but I run on a Mac so that may be why.

Oddeti said: can anyone send me an email for just only the DarkChocolate_M_F file?

gb_enigma@yahoo.co.th


thank u

Those dimensions mean 17.5" wide x 19" tall, and 19" wide x 25" tall. Therefore, no the numbers cant be switched.

My guess is that if any colors run in the All-Over dimensions, then the entire piece would be printed All-Over. So that would one color too many.

And i haven’t had that problem with the image file, but I run on a Mac so that may be why.

could you send me an email for just only the DarkChocolate_M_F file? and please rename it as a simple name to avoid the mac-pc name problem.

thank u

Thanks for good guide.. But It’s difficult for me limitation on many colors.

This was rejected.

What happened?

shadone11 said: Where can these templates be found??

Scroll up.

I knew someone would answer for me. thestray… you are awesome.

DBH needs to hire me as a professional forum lurker.

They should have a forum team to answer everyone’s questions. Even though they kinda do already have an unofficial one of me and you, stray ha.

Oddeti said: They should have a forum team to answer everyone’s questions. Even though they kinda do already have an unofficial one of me and you, stray ha.

word!

Oddeti said: They should have a forum team to answer everyone’s questions. Even though they kinda do already have an unofficial one of me and you, stray ha.

We’re like an awesome tag-team!

Haha I think this would be a lil more accurate though :P

Great Advice ! Now for Creative Designs to Manifest !

Question about this raising the bar and rejecting designs above (and others mentioned within the forums) and even a couple I submitted. Where does this fit in to this? No disrespect to the artist since she deserves her chance too, but why accept this and reject others? Please explain.

http://www.designbyhumans.com/vote/detail/59302

BenjaminPhantom said: Question about this raising the bar and rejecting designs above (and others mentioned within the forums) and even a couple I submitted. Where does this fit in to this? No disrespect to the artist since she deserves her chance too, but why accept this and reject others? Please explain.

http://www.designbyhumans.com/vote/detail/59302

I kinda hafta agree with you on this one benjamin lol.

BenjaminPhantom said: Question about this raising the bar and rejecting designs above (and others mentioned within the forums) and even a couple I submitted. Where does this fit in to this? No disrespect to the artist since she deserves her chance too, but why accept this and reject others? Please explain.

http://www.designbyhumans.com/vote/detail/59302

It entertained me.

I agree with you both. I think it’s a great idea. But the pink outlines aren’t necessary.

jimiyo said:

BenjaminPhantom said: Question about this raising the bar and rejecting designs above (and others mentioned within the forums) and even a couple I submitted. Where does this fit in to this? No disrespect to the artist since she deserves her chance too, but why accept this and reject others? Please explain.

http://www.designbyhumans.com/vote/detail/59302

It entertained me.

Fair enough, you silly guy.

1.couple of questions. if i want to promote on facebook or myspace is that doable?
like hey this is my design come login and give me a vote does that count?

2. can it be my design was too colorful and because of that it was rejected?

3.is it ok to use some random pics thats been modified from google as metaart?

4. how long it takes for me to resubmit the design. so it wont appear as i’m spamming.

5. can DBH make a extra page after submitting so it will appear as if they got it.
like hey thanks for the design we will review it within 72 hours bla blah?

because it just seem to be uploading and then just refreshed the page without any notice
so i resubmitted again , was that the reason why it got rejected?

6. can dbh give a small explanation why it was rejected Rather then throw us into the pool and by any means try not to drown.

i wish i could post a link here to my design by i have no clue how to do this. can someone help please.

1. We encourage self promotion.
2. Only if it’s an allover print. Then colors are limited to 3.
3. Most often a strong No.
4. You can resubmit soon. However we do not want to have 5 subs in a row by the same artist.
5. Once a submissions is accepted we do send an email, and once submitted, there’s a box that says, design submitted. Although this is a good point. It could be more clear.
6. Most likely not. With the volume of submissions, unfortunately we do not have the time. You are free to post in the forums for critiques.

Dammit Jimi you beat me to it lol. I gotta learn to type faster lol.

thanks alot. point number 6 is a good idea… and i think thats why got rejected in the first time.
sometimes the browser times out and it just ignores your request thats what i thought happened.
but yeah a little notice from the website would make this whole thing much clearer.
thanks guys for answering my questions

I’ve seen alot of bleeding heart/heart designs recently, and to be frank, I can’t stand them.

Would you guys think it’s horrible if I put it on the list?

jimiyo said: I’ve seen alot of bleeding heart/heart designs recently, and to be frank, I can’t stand them.

Would you guys think it’s horrible if I put it on the list?

Not even a little. You’re the gatekeeper man, lay down the law. I’ve been seriously considering making a bleeding spleen design to make fun of them.

Does anyone know how to get DBH t-shirt colors out of the layer in photoshop elements 5?? Yes i know its old.

oldsk00l said: Does anyone know how to get DBH t-shirt colors out of the layer in photoshop elements 5?? Yes i know its old.

Best thing I can say is take a screenshot of your layers panel. That way we can see whats on it.

true story: I just got a 10K sub rejected the other day…to be honest I’m relieved it was something I rushed to make the deadline but I had serious issues with the quality…I was going to request that DBH kill it but they beat me to the punch!

FluentSword said:

jimiyo said: I’ve seen alot of bleeding heart/heart designs recently, and to be frank, I can’t stand them.

Would you guys think it’s horrible if I put it on the list?

Not even a little. You’re the gatekeeper man, lay down the law. I’ve been seriously considering making a bleeding spleen design to make fun of them.

why not have a giant boxing glove punching the spleen? lol

WinterArtwork said: true story: I just got a 10K sub rejected the other day…to be honest I’m relieved it was something I rushed to make the deadline but I had serious issues with the quality…I was going to request that DBH kill it but they beat me to the punch!

FluentSword said:

jimiyo said: I’ve seen alot of bleeding heart/heart designs recently, and to be frank, I can’t stand them.

Would you guys think it’s horrible if I put it on the list?

Not even a little. You’re the gatekeeper man, lay down the law. I’ve been seriously considering making a bleeding spleen design to make fun of them.

why not have a giant boxing glove punching the spleen? lol

That one got rejectorated cause of the multiple colors making it an allover print if I remember correctly.

“Rejectorated” haha!

Excuse me, I meant to say “lololololol!”

How do you post a rejected submitle for critique

forgedvisions said: How do you post a rejected submitle for critique

Upload it somewhere (like http://imageshack.us ) then copy and paste the link here. You can put an exclamation mark on both sides of the link and it’ll show as a picture.

As a newbie, this is great information. It is a pity that I stumbled upon it rather than having a link to it from the FAQ or from the Submit Artwork page.

Thanks to qetza for the bump! Are there any other Must Read articles like this before I start submitting?

Awesome info man. Thanks very much for all this. I’ll look out next time, because i really like the over-sized —> allover print designs.

Check the template links at the top! ;)

Oddeti said: Check the template links at the top! ;)

wow.:) MORE TEMPLATES BY ODDETI ! all are awesome

Cheers

starry_eyez said:
wow.:) MORE TEMPLATES BY ODDETI ! all are awesome

Cheers

Nah they’re the same ones……..for now ;).

I’ll try to pimp you out elsewhere Oddeti. Just a mention in here is not a good exchange for your hard work.

:D

jimiyo said: I’ll try to pimp you out elsewhere Oddeti. Just a mention in here is not a good exchange for your hard work.

:D

Lol appreciate it dude. Hopefully I’ll be able to add more to the list soon. ;)

Hey they updated this! There’s a number 10 now. Unless I hadn’t seen it before.

However, Jimiyo, the last sentence ("Typically, although this does not get rejected, but a person’s face as a focal point, do not sell well unless its a famous person, caricature, etc.) is not correct, you need to fix that one.

hey, I forgot what the recommended size for designing something for an allover print in photoshop is

biotwist said: hey, I forgot what the recommended size for designing something for an allover print in photoshop is

is that a question or a comment?

biotwist said: hey, I forgot what the recommended size for designing something for an allover print in photoshop is

28″×35″…if you were asking lol

Oddeti said:

biotwist said: hey, I forgot what the recommended size for designing something for an allover print in photoshop is

28″×35″…if you were asking lol

28″×35″ is 980" sorry couldn’t help it.