Joseph_G"Hey! Why's that look so small?" is a question we'll often hear when somebody gets their proof after submitting a tall design. The answer is pretty simple -- and it comes down to empty space.
After all, if you focus on your artwork's height, you'll often get a very narrow design.
Why, you ask?
When we receive your artwork, we'll usually try to fill up as much design space as possible with your image. Depending on a design's proportions, this can look a bit funny. For example, an image might have the size brought up to 13" inches vertically but it's only going to scale to 8" wide because those are the design's proportions. What you wind up getting is a design that occupies a lot of real estate running up-and-down, but with HUGE amounts of empty space on the sides.
So, something might look pretty great as normal artwork, but it looks extremely weird on a shirt.
See what I mean?
Unlike some design hiccups, there's usually no easy fix for the artwork -- you're better off finding something else. However, if you know to look for wider images, the next design you find might look great. Especially because a wide artwork will take up more prime real estate on a shirt.
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