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Artwork creation for screen printing graphics can be a time-consuming process, and it requires requiring precision and attention to detail. Thankfully, there are ways you can significantly speed up the process while maintaining the quality of the designs. With the powerful duo of the GraphicsFlow art library and Stock Art Customizer, you can build a professional, production-ready design without additional screen printing design software.

Here’s a quick overview of how you can use GraphicsFlow’s tools to build a T-shirt design in under three minutes:

Selecting the Artwork for Screen Printing Graphics

GraphicsFlow provides a vast library of pre-designed templates tailored to popular decoration methods like screen printing. These designs are a great starting point, allowing you to change elements like colors and fonts to meet your customer’s needs. You can also search the catalog by subcategories to find precisely what you need.

For example, in the video above, we’re using the term  “automotive” to find the right style of graphics in the library. 

Customizing the Text and Clip Art 

With the Stock Art Customizer, you can refine the design you’ve picked for your customer with a few simple changes. That includes:

Text Editing
Change out the text to whatever fits your customer’s business. Whether that’s the year they started the company, the name of their shop, the city they are based in, or any other important details they want to be featured in the design, you can swap out the placeholder text with those details.

Clip Art
Swap out art elements in any pre-made designs with other clip art in the library so you can custom-tailor the design to your customer’s needs. So, if a design features a pair of wrenches and your client’s business needs welding torches in the graphic instead, you can easily swap those out based on what’s available in the clip art collection. 

Consolidate colors

Unify the color scheme in the design literally with the click of a button. You can change colors in a design and apply that across the entire graphic so it’s consistent.

Color separations for screen printing

Want more tips on creating artwork for screen printing with GraphicsFlow? Check out this video with tips on color separations: 

Not a GraphicsFlow customer yet? Contact a Client Advisor today for a tour and learn how to use tools like the Stock Art Customizer in your shop.