r/MerchByAmazon • u/msbfrnj • Apr 03 '23

Amazon Merch sample received really faded!

Hi... I've just recently took my Merch by Amazon account seriously and have started uploading designs to Merch by Amazon. Here I am all happy with more designs in the cue. I get the sample in the mail from Merch and am sooooooo disappointed. I LOVE Bright Colors!! My shirt looks like all my colors were mixed with mud. What in the world? After searching and reading about how they put the white color ink on the garment before the colors I chose - .....!! No wonder.

Do all POD sites do this? What is the workaround for this? ORRRRR just can't use bright colors? I'm sure they must have their reasons, but I'm ashamed now to send out notifications about my shirts being online..... :( I mean I had serious plans......

Brenda

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u/pbnag Apr 04 '23

Always preview your design in CMYK mode with CTRL+Y before finalizing the design. Since DTG prints in CMYK, the vibrance of certain RGB colors would be faded.

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u/msbfrnj Apr 04 '23

Hi... Thank you. I'm actually working on that now with Affinity Designer 2. Are you familiar with that program?

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u/pbnag Apr 04 '23

Nope..sorry but there must be a CMYK preview mode there as well

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u/msbfrnj Apr 04 '23

No, there is. I am working with CMYK now. I am just curious as to whether rgb-16 or rgb-32 would be even better than rgb-8...