they ruined my design with ai :[
i had spent months on a cool tshirt design because school makes me take so long to finish personal projects, so when i was finally finished, i rushed to print it. i found what was in hindsight a pretty shady brand but i was pretty fixated on a shirt colour they offered that i overlooked a few instances of ai use. fast forward to when im excitedly ripping open my package when my eyes arre suddenly bombarded with the view of that horrid scracthy ai font, you know the one that currently took over the social media of small brands.
so im horrified, and upon further inspection, i kept finding awful traces of ai. his arm half disappeared, his eyes are now a black void, my very particular cell shading when i spent so long trying to perfect was now all muddy and "rendered" when i was spefically going for really hard edges and a limited colour palate, and the worst offence was the dozen or so lilies i had spent so long hand drawing were all now just ugly blobs of white. now i can go on because i ahd poured my heart and soul into every pixel of that design so i recignise all imperfections, but that would get quite boring.
anyways, the only thing going through my head right now 'my boy. they massacred my boy.' while despairing over the fact that they probably won't allow me to return a custom printed tshirt. so i show my family and they all seem to think it's not that bad but by god i don't want to wear that mangled ai abomination on my back because it feels like i'd be spitting in the face of all the hours i spent making my design. my beautiful, beautiful design π-π.
and when i contacted the brand asking for a possible refund and questioning how the hell my design got slopified, they ignored the message about the refund and just told me that they use an ai upscaler for blurry images, but goddamnit i did not spent all my computer's ram on a 600dpi canvas to be told that. i also sent them the design via google drive to try and minimise commpression, granted it made it go slightly pixalated but it wasn't that bad. and the front design was also ass, despite them not using ai for it and my sending a transparent png, it had weird unexplained grey areas.
just wanted to get this off my chest. currently looking at another company to print with, one without the colour i wanted (which didn't even match the picture mind you), and looking for a way to recycle that ai abomination.
if anyone has any tips on removing dtf printing from tshirts with at home remedies, feel free to share (~_~メ)