Reid Walley, Author at Designparc

Printful – Artwork Sizes for Men, Women & Youth T-shirt Sizes

Michael Hulse compiled a super-helpful Printful Guideline Cheat Sheet for what size artwork goes on what size Printful t-shirt (Men, Women & Youth T-Shirts). Artwork sizes for Printful t-shirts Artwork size: 12” x 16” Pixels: 3600px x 4800px DPI: 300 Men / Unisex: Small and larger Women: X-Large and larger Youth: Medium, Large, X-Large Artwork…

Talent Spotlight – Film Director David Howe – Lessons Learned

Film director David Howe shares the biggest change he’s made since his early days of film making. Visit David Howe’s website

[Solved] Printful Sync Error – HTTP Error 414 Request-URI Too Long

Problem: Printful.com shop is displaying the following syncing error message: Something went wrong with sync. Received error: HTTP Error 414 Request-URI Too Long. Try to refresh data. Solution: Adjusted a setting in the WordPress iThemes Security plugin: WordPress admin > Security > Settings > System Tweaks > un-tick the “Filter Long URL Strings” setting

Convert PSD/PNG File to Vector File

Converting a PSD/PNG file to Vector Have old Photoshop (PSD) and PNG files that need to be converted to vector so I can manipulate them in Affinity Designer. Commenter recommend Convertio. The following process gave me a vector file that’s really close to final. Upload Photoshop PSD/PNG file to Convertio In the “to” dropdown, choose:…

22 Awesome T-Shirt Templates and Mockups – Shopify

Great t-shirt mockup resource from Shopify Visit Shopify. And since I’m specifically using Printful to print my shirts: Printful T-shirt Mockups (click on the “Mockups” tab)

Affinity Photo – Keep Reduced Images Sharp

Reducing a PNG logo from 1211px X 366px @ 150dpi to 300px X 91px @ 72 dpi. I found that Affinity Photo’s default setting of Resample + Bilinear is crap for reduced image sizes. Using Resample + Bicubic is still kinda crappy. But Resample + Lanczos 3 options gave a sharper result: Lanczos 3 (separable) =…

Slider Revolution / Rev Slider – YouTube Video and Broken Keyboard Scroll

Problem: Clicking pause on a YouTube video (in Slider Revolution / Rev Slider slide) breaks the ability to use keyboard arrow-keys to scroll up or down the page. Solution: YouTube arguments (parameters) to the rescue! disablekb=1 Go to your Slider Revolution slide: Click on the Layer Selector Menu (hamburger icon; my Layer is titled “youtube:youtube”)…

WordPress All-in-One WP Migration

Really diggin’ ServMask’s All-in-One WP Migration WordPress plugin to move site from stage to live. And easy to Export/Import serialized data. I usually move from a Stage site to a Live site.The following instructions are super-helpful. Instructions c/o: WP Shout Open All-in-One WP Migration. Click the “Find <text> Replace with <another-text> in the database” accordion tab.…

Joomla – FIX Missing Admin Components Menu Items

Problem: Updated Joomla 3.7.0 to 3.7.2 – and lost Joomla’s core Admin Components menu items (Banners, Contact, Joomla Update, Messaging, News Feeds, Redirects, Search, Smart Search). Solution: Ended up running SQL in MySQL database. Note: Change #__menu to yourprefix_menu + change the 2-space “__” to a 1-space “_” (i.e.: prefix__menu to prefix_menu). URL: Upgraded to…

Joomla – Force Public Menu Item To Go Through Login Page

A. Create a HIDDEN MENU item called Reports: Reports (Alias: reports. In the Note section, add: “This is in a HIDDEN menu, so that the Alias menu can be Access Public, but only Super Users can log in.”) Articles » Single Article MUST create a User > Access level to attached to the HIDDEN Menu Item…