Quality Matters More Than You Think

Over the summer, I picked up a new passion. I hope to one day succeed with my new clothing brand. For context, I was shopping around to update my wardrobe as I pondered about something. Why were the clothes so expensive? Anything I looked at that looked halfway decent always came at a price. As I thought about it more, I knew one thing for sure. To put it short, we are getting scammed. Clothing costs way less to make than we may think it does. All the while, these big-name companies mark up these products to sell for outrageous prices. I decided to do something about it. I started printing onto shirts with my own brand name and design. You can bet your bottom dollar it will be affordable and high quality. 

On the topic of quality, images are very important in printing. The image type, quality, and origin all matter. It was not until I actually did IS101's first homework section that I started to realize something. I had to focus on vector images rather than raster images for my printing business! Apart from my brand, I have to make money somehow to fund it. I decided I would take special requests from friends and family to create custom t-shirts. In this process, sometimes I would be asked to replicate an identical design. I would simply save the image from the web and erase the background until I was satisfied with the final product. This process was tedious and time-consuming. This is because the raster images take every individual pixel and quality gets sacrificed. In the end, this means more pixels I would have to erase to make the design look decent. In the end I took the advice on the 1.1.12 section in particular, and I'm glad I did. What would have taken me hours initially turned into mere seconds. This is because the vector image was created by me in the highest quality using the original font source. I am glad to have learned this skill from this section, and I cannot wait to see what else I learn!