On a black T-shirt you print with light ink, so the dots stand for the light areas — black parts of the image get no ink and the shirt shows through. You get a PNG with a transparent background at 300 DPI, with the size in centimetres stored in the file. Your image isn’t uploaded anywhere — everything runs in your browser.
1. Image
PNG or JPG. A photo or graphic with clear light and shadow works best.
2. Print size
Proportions follow the image — change one and the other updates. Resolution: 300 DPI.
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Presets
DTF fine screen: colours as in the image, dots only where it fades to black, lighter areas in solid colour.
3. Screen
Rows of dots per inch. Screen printing on T-shirts is usually 35–65; lower = bigger, bolder dots.
For one colour, typically 22.5° or 45°.
Smaller dots are dropped — they wouldn’t hold on the screen anyway.
Larger dots become solid ink.
4. Tones
Like Levels in Photoshop: everything lighter than this goes solid ink, dots stay only in the darker tones.
5. Colours
Colours close to the shirt get no ink (knockout) — the fabric shows through the dots. Higher = also removes similar shades.
In one-colour mode the shirt colour is only for the preview.
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On the shirt — to scale
Shirt front ~52 cm (size L). Click the preview to see that spot magnified.