FINISH THE ART

ADD THE FINAL COLOUR AND PREPARE FOR PRINTING.

Now we can bring in the third and final colour; the white paint that will fill in the middle section of the dog. With the addition of the green background the artwork will be complete. The final effect would make a great print, and would also work very well as a T-shirt design. The final steps will show you how to edit and save the artwork in order to create a clever effect when printed onto products.

ADD WHITE PAINT

01 We copy and paste the scribble image we prepared earlier, below Colour in the Layers palette. Resize and position it as desired behind the dog. Add another new layer below the paint layer, name it Background and fill it with the same colour as you used on the Colour layer.

BEGIN PRINTING PREP

02 The artwork is now finished. However, if you want to print it onto a T-shirt this will require some further prep work. Hold Cmd/Ctrl and click the Colour layer’s thumbnail in the Layers palette to select its contents. Press Shift-Cmd/Ctrl-I to invert the selection.

USE A LAYER MASK

03 Go to the white paint layer and add a layer mask. Hide the Colour layer and the Background layer so that only the black and white is visible. Save the file as a .png so that the background remains transparent.

UPLOAD FOR PRINTING

04 Now, when you upload the .png file to a printing and selling site such as RedBubble ( redbubble.com) and apply it to a T-shirt, you’ll find that the colour of the T-shirt becomes the background colour for your artwork.