I'm so frustrated and I've talked to about 10 Coreldraw Techs and not one person can help me!! I have Coreldraw x8 and create my Art designs in CMYK.....then I export them to PNG...& put them on T-Shirts in my Online Web Store.
I export them as a PNG (so I won't have a big white box background around my designs)...but the colors when printed on the T-Shirts become"Dull" and "Washed Out"!! :0((
Other people who have stores where I do...have T-Shirts that look great and they have bright colors. I don't know what I'm doing wrong?? Any help or suggestions would be deeply appreciated!!
Thank you...Kerry
First PNG does not support CMYK so when you convert to PNG you get a conversion and you need to embed a profile to the PNG file.
When someone imports your PNG file they have either honor the embedded or use your embedded profile to convert to a color space of their choice.
I would use the RGB color model to create your art because the direct to garment devices of the day usually do a fine RGB to their media profile.
Thank you for responding! Sorry....not new to art but new to putting products on the web & PNG. So you are saying I should design my designs in...RGB then Export them in PNG...like I was doing? I have a bull elk design that was created in Photo Paint and when I convert it to PNG ...it looks really dull and muted also?
Are you embedding a PROFILE in the PNG? Is the design CMYK or RGB?
So sorry...I'm not sure. I'm really new to this. It's a JPG..and it shows it's...RGB PROFILE... sRGB and
Primary Color Mode...CMYK
if it's for print, don't use PNG. You should use PDF instead. Or, if you need to send it as a bitmap with transparent background, use TIF CMYK.
Ariel...thank you so much for your helpful information. The designs I'm having issue with are my designs on T-Shirts. I have 2 Online Stores... and have to use a Print On Demand Company to Print my Designs on an array of products. They told me they accept.. JPEG, PNG & PDF. My main Issue is putting my Designs on T-Shirts because they use Sublimation Printing. I design in CMYK and Export to PNG to have a transparent background (I don't want a white square behind my design on the shirts)....like the company requests. When I do that my PNG file colors are very dull and when they put them on my shirts with sublimation they are extremely dull and washed out. They didn't mention that they accept TIF?? Thank you!