Pixeltees... Looking for feedback
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Printed Date: 09 September 2025 at 3:46am
Topic: Pixeltees... Looking for feedback
Posted By: PixelTeeGuy
Subject: Pixeltees... Looking for feedback
Date Posted: 30 November 2006 at 5:02am
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Hello all...
This is my first post, so please be gentle. We recently took over operation of the Pixeltees site (for those not familar, check out http://www.pixeltees.com - www.pixeltees.com ). Right now, we are undergoing a massive update to bring it current and will be bringing out a bunch of new features in Q1 of 07.
I thought it may be worthy to get some feedback from the community to make sure we are on track - Especially those here who have used the site before or even those who haven't. Save for the really technical details, here's a few of the major areas of focus:
Actually, we have about a 25 page spec that has been put together for all of the upcoming changes, but again... I'd love to just hear everyone's thoughts / opinions / ideas / complaints... whether or not you are familiar with the site. Anyway, thanks in advance for your time!
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Tony Novak
http://www.pixeltees.com - www.pixeltees.com
http://www.2advanced.com - www.2advanced.com
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Posted By: Larwick
Date Posted: 30 November 2006 at 2:54pm
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Awesome dude! Good to hear it's gunna be up and running again. Personally i'd like to see only pixel-art stuff on there, or at least not obvious photographs or cgi stuff, as i've seen alot of that around. And perhaps even a way to make the tees have more of a quality requirement or something, as lately i've seen great stuff get drowned by random scribbles. Lol, but that's personal taste i guess.
Good luck with managing Pixeltees! -------------  http://larw-ck.deviantart.com">
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Posted By: Souly
Date Posted: 30 November 2006 at 5:01pm
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One thing I'd like is for transparent gifs to be allowed. I couldn't figure out how to make a transparent image look transparent so only that part was printed on the shirt. ------------- 
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Posted By: Blick
Date Posted: 30 November 2006 at 9:00pm
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I have always hated that the shirts only come in white, but that's pretty much all I remember not liking about it. Souly: All you had to do is use the eraser tool... ------------- http://punaji.com/"> 
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Posted By: PixelTeeGuy
Date Posted: 30 November 2006 at 9:17pm
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Originally posted by Larwick
Personally i'd like to see only pixel-art stuff on there, or at least not obvious photographs or cgi stuff, as i've seen alot of that around. And perhaps even a way to make the tees have more of a quality requirement or something, as lately i've seen great stuff get drowned by random scribbles. Lol, but that's personal taste i guess.
Not at all! I completely agree. We are going to clean up the DB considerably. Most of the CG and Photo stuff will be given a completely different site of its own. Our goal is to keep the Pixel Art pure on Pixeltees.
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Posted By: PixelTeeGuy
Date Posted: 30 November 2006 at 9:25pm
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Originally posted by Souly
One thing I'd like is for transparent gifs to be allowed. I couldn't figure out how to make a transparent image look transparent so only that part was printed on the shirt. Yep, this was definitely a problem in the old Shirt Machine. We are going to include support for transparancy - which will also be important now that we are introducing color shirts into the mix. (otherwise, every image will have this odd white masking on color shirts). Good call on this one though... I will double check to make sure this wasn't missed.
Thank you very much for the reply!
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Posted By: Aleiav
Date Posted: 30 November 2006 at 10:16pm
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I don't like that you can't upload a piece of pixel art that you've already made for a shirt. I guess that's a good thing though.. prevents against copyright infringement. but then again I haven't been on pixeltees in a year or so... maybe it's changed and I look like a dumbass. :P  ------------- |
Posted By: Larwick
Date Posted: 01 December 2006 at 2:21am
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Omg colour shirts! YES! :) I totally forgot about that, which would be great. ------------- http://larw-ck.deviantart.com">
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Posted By: PixelTeeGuy
Date Posted: 01 December 2006 at 5:15am
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Originally posted by Aleiav
I don't like that you can't upload a piece of pixel art that you've already made for a shirt. I guess that's a good thing though.. prevents against copyright infringement. but then again I haven't been on pixeltees in a year or so... maybe it's changed and I look like a dumbass. :P Actually you can do this!
 But it's not very well documented (not to mention it completely messes up in the current Shirt Machine). If you hold down the SHIFT key, while clicking on the Paste tool... it will pop up a warning about NOT copying other's work and then pastes from the system clipboard. We definitely need to let people know it's there though (and fix the bugs). I would imagine that many Pixel Artists would want to use their past work.
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Posted By: PixelTeeGuy
Date Posted: 01 December 2006 at 5:26am
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Originally posted by Larwick
Omg colour shirts! YES! :) I totally forgot about that, which would be great. Color shirts... and new styles! I think we have about 20 types of shirts (i.e. baseball jersey, baby dolls, tank tops, kids shirts, etc). We are also checking out the heavier weight stuff for printing... Like sweatshirts and hoodies. Plus you will have the option of deciding which products you want to make available for your Pixel Art.
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Posted By: Akira
Date Posted: 01 December 2006 at 7:12pm
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ahh wonderful. i was looking to buy some of my own designs the other day but the site was down.
color shirts and pay pal, excellent. those were pretty much the only problems i had with pixel tees. good luck, i certainly hope you do well! |
Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 01 December 2006 at 8:56pm
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Color shirts change everything. Will whites in art be whites regardless of shirt color? ------------- |
Posted By: PixelTeeGuy
Date Posted: 02 December 2006 at 7:47pm
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Originally posted by jalonso
Color shirts change everything. Will whites in art be whites regardless of shirt color? As a matter of fact...Yes! We have totally changed the printing process, so we will have no problems with light colors (or white) on a dark color shirt... We are going to save images in the system with the ability to specify a color (other than white) for transparency.
The old method was to do "heat transfers"... kinda a glorified "iron-on" system.
But, we are switching to a completely new print system that uses new "direct to garment" technology. Much better than silk screening in many ways, the t-shirt basically gets loaded into an oversized inkjet printer loaded with special pigment dye inks. It's extremely precise and can handle an amazing range of color.
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Posted By: veemobil
Date Posted: 08 January 2007 at 6:07am
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Wow. Will you ever do bags?, I hate cafepress/spreadshirt bags. Will you keep your old database or will everyone have to sign up again? |