# Good prog to make text images for funny t-shirts (for Cafe Press)?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 19, 2004, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-prog-to-make-text-images-for-funny-t-shirts-for-cafe-press/229950 "2004-02-19T04:32:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2004, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-prog-to-make-text-images-for-funny-t-shirts-for-cafe-press/229950/1 "2004-02-19T04:32:21Z")

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What’s a good program to make an image of text for t-shirts, like for uploading to Cafe Press?

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**Author:** ![Freiheit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e8c25b/32.png) [@Freiheit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freiheit)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2004, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-prog-to-make-text-images-for-funny-t-shirts-for-cafe-press/229950/2 "2004-02-19T05:11:35Z")

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> [@Revtim](#):
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> What’s a good program to make an image of text for t-shirts, like for uploading to Cafe Press?

I don’t quite understand. A program that will put text on a picture of a t-shirt? A program that will make type look presentable?

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**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2004, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-prog-to-make-text-images-for-funny-t-shirts-for-cafe-press/229950/3 "2004-02-19T13:55:00Z")

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Sorry, let me elaborate.

I mean a program that lets me easily make an image with large, clear text, and lets me save it to a file, (such as .jpg .bmp .gif etc).

Cafe Press allows one to upload an image and then sells products with the image on it. I would like to make products with original funny sayings on them

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**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2004, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-prog-to-make-text-images-for-funny-t-shirts-for-cafe-press/229950/4 "2004-02-19T16:02:55Z")

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Adobe Illustrator is the gold standard. You can create the text you want, then convert to outlines and save as an .eps (or other format).

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**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2004, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-prog-to-make-text-images-for-funny-t-shirts-for-cafe-press/229950/5 "2004-02-19T18:05:54Z")

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Thanks **Homebrew** , I’ll look into that!