Transparent background with white font in Photoshop. HELP.?

Question

I am designing t-shirts in photoshop and I am using a transparent background with white font.

Right now, I am not merging layers and saying it as a gif. When I go to upload it to customink to see what it will look like, the white does not show up.

HELP!

Answer 1

I am guessing you mean when you open up the file with a certain photo-editor, you just see white?



Some photo editing software don't handle transparencies as well as others. Good ones would set transparency as some grid-patterns where as others just show a white background.



If you are simply showing your customer as a sample, consider putting white font over a black background. Otherwise, the customer needs to adjust their image viewing application to adjust the default transparency color.



Good luck!



[addition]

Wow, people are pretty liberal with the thumbs down...Well, if you haven't solved the problem yet, let's keep digging at the problem.



How exactly does the GIF look appear? All transparent?

What editor are you using?

What do you mean 'upload to customink'?



I'll check back momentarily.

Answer 2

A .gif does not preserve the transparency from the Photoshop .psd. When you save a .gif, it discards the layer information and flattens the image. Any transparency in the image will not translate and it will default to white. So it makes the transparent background white, which makes the white text invisible. If you want to print this t-shirt you need to save it as a Photoshop .eps file. That will preserve your layer information and keep the background transparent.

Answer 3

When you type in Photoshop the text should be on its own layer. Hide the layer under the text and save it as a gif or png. If, for some reason the text is on a colored layer select the background color, make sure the Contiguous checkbox in the top menu is unchecked, and press the backspace button to delete the selected area,

Answer 4

It doesn't show up because your background color is white and your text color is white. If you want to see what it looks like, just highlight it and you should be able to see it since the color will change once highlighted.