T shirt design

Ok So I have this image in illustrator which I quite like.
I want to make a t shirt design from it but the t shirt design only allows for 3 colours (4 inclusing the background of the T shirt).
I want to preserve how these colours interact.
I hope you undetand what I mean, I could just put each effect at 100% opacity and change every colour to one of 3 but then I would loose a lot of the grungy look of the shapes interacting with eachother that I like.
So I am looking for something bit like this (rushed in photoshop still to many colours)
Or this
I think I might have to use dithering patterns/half tonning any help on this would also be greatly appreicated.
Thanks in advance,
Simon

Are you talking about plain filled path objects?
Do you mean as a resut. I guess so yes.
I was thinking 4 layers. A background layer the colour of the shirt and 3 other layers each containing plain filled single coulour paths.
However at the moment I have;
A path with apperience settings applied to it (I guess I could expand apperance then I'd have a load of paths). There is a semi transparent gradient underneath. Undereath that some paths that draw part of a mountain. And a grunge texture at the bottom (I guess this will have to go as it is a jpg)
Also, which version of Illustrator are you using?
CS6

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I am new here. So a big hello to all of you.
Well, I am writing here because I urgently need an expert opinion on the matter mentioned below. And I would be glad if I could receieve some professional advice on this forum.
I have to create an online T shirt Designer (a Visual Configurator), i.e.a web based application where the user will be able to select the various elements of a T shirt such as color, text, graphics etc and visualize the same in real time and then place the order for the product. Here the cost will be automatically added at diferent stages i.e. when a text/graphic is selected while the shipping cost is added at the stage of check out . Finally as per the total cost, the final payment is made through the payment gateway.
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3. This configurator application would involve mathematical calculation i.e. adding costs at different stages. So business rules will have to be applied and a payment gateway has to be integrated with the application.
Mostly the online T shirt designer softwares I have seen are based on Flash. But I am not sure if this is the best product for my requirement.
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Go to CustomInk.com. Their T-shirt Design App is not Flash based which is refreshing. Instead, they're using a sophisticated combination of CSS, JavaScript and PHP/MySql.
Digging a little deeper into the source code, it looks like the company that developed their T-shirt Design App is located in India and called No-Fresh.com
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http://www.no-refresh.com/online-t-shirt-design-tool.php
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I'm working on a fairly simple T Shirt design (family reunion). I have the full Adobe Suite in CS5. I'm assuming I need a transparent background (rather that white), so I'm working in Illustrator. I also assume vector will help with scaling for small kids and womens shirts. I'm having a hard time getting a black and white tree converted over to a transparent background in Illustrator. I don't really want to do a manual live trace since there is so much detail, and I'm assuming I should be able to do the black and white image to transparent background with one of the auto features.
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https://db.tt/Nu4xNNpp
Next, here is the AI file without the tree. (I'm going to make the small names in the circle transparent, but I haven't got to that yet. I did research how to do it.)
https://db.tt/BlamaL5S
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https://db.tt/GXP3XIJw
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https://db.tt/6WBXWVgB
Can someone please save me 8 more hours and tell me the easy way to add the stupid tree with transparent background? Thanks for the help. Getting very frustrated...

r,
Have you tried the setting Ignore White?
Have you expanded the Live Trace to be able to work with the paths?
Presuming the (interior) white areas form separate paths, what about Select>Same>Fill Color, then change to None?

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Are you condoning the use of copyrighted material by sourcing any images online? This seems really weird thing to tell people to do. Images created by others are copyrighted by them. And those free vector packs some have restrictions that they can't be used commercially.
And none of that went into any detail on how to prepare artwork for t-shirt printing? All that video showed was how to rip-off other people's artwork and move an item below a layer.
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I am designing a T Shirt for my ski club.
I have taken an image from a banner (made in illustrator, full colour image attached) and I want to devide into a 3 colour image for the t shirt (I am only allowed 3 colours for printing).
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I achived this by inverting your source image, shifting hue 180 degrees, saving for web as png8, changing number of colors to 4, and changinf one of the colrs to white, then changing
another color two black. you then have a 4 color png that can be seperated cleanly back in photoshop.
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hi all. i thought i'd be as detailed as possible to give you an idea of what my questions are:
i have some hand-drawn art/design for a t-shirt. so i took some pictures, and my daughter opened them up in photoshop elements 6. she was able to easily trace over my pencil lines, BUT the lines were not smooth at all. say i drew a circle. it is not so much that it is not a perfect circle, especially if free-handed, but that the edges of the line of that circle are not smooth.
turns out elements can't do that, after i called adobe. they suggested illustrator, which i am currently demo'ing. when i had my daughter (she's 17, been playing with elements rather well) try to do it illustrator, it wasn't as intuitive as both of us thought. it's gotten her stumped.
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Jack,
When you start from scratch in this kind of program, you just have to read the instructions. Otherwise, you'll be floundering about forever being confused. Vector drawing programs like Illustrator are not immediately intuitive to someone who is accustomed only to working in raster image programs (i.e.; Photoshop, etc.).
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Go to the help files, start at the beginning, read through it like a book, perform the operations described. You'll then get the conceptual principles down and start using the thing with much less frustration. It will take time. This isn't the kind of graphics program you just dive into blind, have someone tell you a few command sequences, and start doing productive work in. You have to read the instructions.
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Using CS6...
I'm also using the t-shirt template.
On my screen is a t-shirt with a small rectangle inside of it. And another large rectangle beside it. I plan on making my image inside of the large rectangle (which is also the guide).
Right now it is white but I would like to change it to different colors and I would need for this color to be part of the image once completed. I tried clicking on stuff (everything is highlighted) but the background color within the guide never changes.
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Wdautrion, Christ-Guard, others,
I originally skipped this thread because I assumed it was about the specifics of certain T-Shirt templates, based on the related #1 thread.
However, its seemingly going on and on made me finally read it, and ponder. I believe a few things are worth adding, even if it may seem too long already.
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There are other ways, but I should prefer this to others that may require more explanation (such as a few involving releasing of the Guide).
Other aspects of the thread are ways of learning, and of efforts/attitudes, including using the manual/helpfile.
It is worth mentioning that the link in post #11 refers to only three out of four learning styles (VAK instead of VARK), the fourth being reading & writing. This is (just) one of many models, as it appears from this Wikipedia article (which also leaves the forurth one out):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_styles#Neil_Fleming.27s_VAK.2FVARK_model
A fuller VARK explanation may be seen here:
http://psychology.about.com/od/educationalpsychology/a/vark-learning-styles.htm
I mention this because there is a crucial difference between visual and reading & writing, which I believe is important for this thread.
Whichever faith anyone may have in such models, I believe there are significant differences in how different people learn.
I also believe that no learning style should be frowned upon.
I am convinced that some of the difficulties in mutual understanding, and in writing/reading posts, arise from such differences.
With regard to efforts/attitudes, it is important to work smarter, not harder,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_consulting
but what that means rather depends on learning and working style(s). What is best and most efficient for one may appear as laziness, or as hard work, or as silliness, for another.
Also, it may be argued that, depending on the actual task, the use of some features/procedures, maybe especially some of the easy ones in later versions, may be considered either efficiency or laziness/sloppiness.
With regard to using the manual/helpfile, RTFM is a small effort for some, a greater or even forbidding one for others. Probably most would agree that it is much easier to use when you get used to to it and/or have known Illy for a while and know your way round.
I only remember one instance, in another forum, with a poster actually declaring himself that he was lazy; and he was gently and friendly but clearly told to work on his attitude, which he agreed upon.
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