Just just received our first SURGE in traffic over at photoshop.kingtutz.com We had over 3,000 visitors from 125 countries stop by to check out what's going on. Pretty exciting! We are really proud of the tutorials we have been coming out with and hope to get some sweet tutorials written by even more industry professionals! Stay tuned. You really should check it out. At least subscribe to the rss feed (which is free) because we might be releasing some tools and tutorials that will help you build your own clothing line! Exciting!

We've just launched a new website called KingTutz.com. We wanted to share with the world the things that interest us as well as help you learn for free! We offer photoshop tutorials, entrepreneur tutorials, and more. We'll be slowly building this network as we go and we'll definitely keep you update. The photoshop tutorial website is already live and contains a lot of free posts so far. We have just released an advanced photoshop tutorial that takes you through the steps we took to create a poster for our parent company (Newfire Creations). You can sign up for $12 per month Royal Membership and receive access to bonus tutorials written by industry professionals, get .psd source files, and other bonus content. All of this for less than the cost of a magazine subscription! Enjoy!

Having just been commissioned for the designing and printing of the Boise State University Chemistry Club we thought we'd share a design with you. Here is a design we came up with for use in the club. This custom screen printed design will be printed and given to kids interested in chemistry at local events.

We were contacted by a student organization at Boise State known as the Vietnamese Student Association. A link to their facebook group can be found here. Here is a proof of the shirt they plan on having printed. It should be some fun because we plan on adding specialty ink distressing to the design. The custom - silk screening will also be positioned on the side of the shirt. If you want a quick quote on custom printing or want to meet us (we're located in Boise, Idaho) click here.

Just updated NewfireCreations.com to reflect new projects we've done here at Fastshion.com... Newfire Creations is the parent company to Fastshion. We offer a lot more than JUST screen printing and embroidery for t-shirts, hoodies, etc. We also offer custom graphic design, custom web development and much more. Head over and check out some of the sweet projects we've worked on. We are constantly trying to innovate and bring new services that we think might add value for our customers. Enjoy!

We will be launching a new website called Vector Sector (www.vectorsector.us) It's still in development but we're hoping to sell our professional vectors to people that want to design their own t-shirts. We do a lot of custom projects for people and re-use elements a lot of times to save time and money. We'd like to pass on some of these tools to graphic artists all over the world to help them increase the quality of their fashion designs. Stay tuned!

Here is an awesome video we ran across dealing with large format sublimation printing. It's something we hope to add to the shop soon. We need to first find out what type of drum based heating press is being used to transfer the image to the t-shirt. This process is known as sublimation printing and can only be done on shirts with a high polyester content. The lowest polyester content that should be used with sublimation printing is a 60/40 blend, so the majority should be polyester. The advantages of sublimation is the one-at-a-time type of process it involves. Also, it can have a very soft "hand," meaning the print isn't bulky. In fact, you can barely feel a sublimation print. Depending on the shirt type, sublimation inks, heating consistency, etc. you will come out with a vibrant or not so vibrant image. Cool video though!

We get our supplies from all over the U.S. from different suppliers and vendors. However, there is one supplier we refuse to use... Pocono Screens. We recently ordered some jumbo screens and it took them 4 months to get here! 4 MONTHS! So, if you happen to stumble across this blog and you are looking for screen printing supplies, don't go to Pocono Screens, they take forever and are very unresponsive to e-mails.

So we just implemented a new system for Newfire Creations (the parent company to Fastshion) that will allow clients and customers to track and view progress of orders, make comments, check screenprinting milestones and much more! This is an exciting piece of software and allows customers to login using any web browser. Using this new system, we should be able to offer better custom silk screen printing services to those in Boise as well as all over the nation! We're really excited if you can't tell. As our efficiency increases, we all save costs and turn-around times for your printed garments improve! We also hope to continually update this news with different upgrades to our facilities and production capacities. We are currently in need of an additional screen printing press so keep your eyes pealed for us.

As a professional custom screen printers we must constantly look for inspiration and technological advances that help us create. One of the programs that helps us do this is Adobe Photoshop. We just found out today that Adobe has launched their own iPhone app that allows you to edit your own photos. This app is great! However, it is free and you do usually end up getting what you pay for. We have found that Photogene is actually one of the better photo editing apps for the iPhone. However, we thought we'd share a little bit of this news with you.

The application will feature an opportunity to edit the pictures made by the smart phone and the ones, downloaded to Photoshop.com web photo hosting and sharing resource. Moreover, this application will allow users to easily download the pictures made with iPhone to this media library.
Free Photoshop version, created specially for Apple iPhones, unlike a full PC version, has only basic options and functionality, allowing users to rotate and crop the image, change the colors or apply several simple filters to the pictures. All the changes can be undone.

A good thing about this new Photoshop version is that it’s free of charge. The online photo hosting service at Photoshop.com is also free, as long as the users need no more than 2 GB for storing their images. In order to place more information they will have to pay the annual membership fee.
Free Photoshop Downloads (Free Photoshop version for Apple iPhones) here.