Any t-shirt printing services that do distressed logos?

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    I'm looking for a service like Cafepress that prints distressed t-shirt logos...if you don't know what 'distressed' is, it's a printing style where the logo looks worn from years of use, like these:

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    Does anyone know of any services that do this?
     
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    one9host Well-Known Member

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    You could do it in Photoshop and then have it printed any old place. I'm sure that's what most people do.
     
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    Nice, thanks for the recommendation.

    As for this effect, do you think it's the actual logo that looks this way (for example, distressing the design in photoshop) or the printing process?
     
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    All you have to do is design the logo like that and the printers simply print said file. There is no rocket science here.


    Nigel
     
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    You should give this a try http://www.tshirtstudio.com/ coz you can design your own logo or use the premade picture.
     
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    I'm sure it was provided to the printer looking like that. Printers don't mess with that kind of thing, it's too subjective. Can you imagine how much of a pain it would be if the customers didn't quite like the way the effect came out?

    You should be able to find an image online that you could use as a mask to create that effect in a matter of seconds with Photoshop. Or print it out and distress it by hand on the paper (drag razor blade across laser-printed ink, crinkle it up then iron it, copy and re-copy on old photocopier, whatever) and scan it back in.
     
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