Let me introduce myself: My name is Matt Flansburg. I am the Director of Product Development here at InkSoft. My role is simple: Continuously improve InkSoft.
We have a very exciting and ambitious 2015 product development agenda.
One of my initiates this year is to more actively work with our users to leverage feedback and ideas. After all, it’s your ideas that have made InkSoft the product it is today.
I’ve created a new and special program called ‘InkSoft Advisor’. This group of “˜power users’ will work directly with me on a regular basis to review the details of new development initiatives. The goal is to get your feedback in the early stages of the development process.
If you like what we’ve done in 2014, get ready for a truly amazing 2015!
Have ideas on how to improve InkSoft? Email me to share your feedback and ideas.
Hello Matt,
I would really like to see on the next update of Inksoft a “Remove White Background” button when a customer uploads their own image. As it is now, it is a multi-step process in order to remove a white background and using an eyedropper to click on multiple small areas of jpg white background inside small vector areas on a design is not practical or user-friendly. A multi-step process to accomplish this for Inksoft developers may seem intuitive to them, but for customers who are not computer savvy, they need a button that they automatically see (not hunt for it) that allows them to get rid of ALL the white jpg background with one simple click. Keep all the other options of reducing colors, converting to black and white and removing specific colors for the more-advanced customers, but that one button “Remove White Background” that would come up right after a customer uploads an image would bring the Inksoft process in line with other custom shirt designs sites like CustomInk, OOShirts, VersaPrint and other websites that have this feature.
There are some challenges with this when it comes to thresholds and blending of the edges. In addition, if the logo itself has white as a design element it may automatically remove that as well. I have created a ticket for this and filed it under an enhancement to our Image Uploader.
For our internal reference: /c/NBLhNjgW/491-image-uploader-have-a-remove-white-button-when-uploading-logo
I am considering this to be a good, valid enhancement, but at this time I am not scheduling it until we tackle some immediate issues.
We do a lot of one color designs and it would be nice to have a “cut out” color. A color that when chosen will create an area where not ink would be used.
Tony, I don’t think I quite understand the question, can you elaborate?
I see what Tony’s saying. Take, for example, a ribbon banner in a design or a typical school name with the ‘swish’ underneath; where you want to put the mascot name. To model the design in inksoft, you need to place a separate text layer above the banner or ‘swish’ in an ink color close to the garment color. From a printer’s perspective, we’re not going to print a solid banner/swish and then print the mascot over the top of that layer of ink. In Illustrator, we’ll take that design and merge the two layers with the pathfinder tool and then delete the text part. That way, the mascot name then becomes the shirt color with the swish/banner ink surrounding it. From a business perspective, I’m competing with the guy down the street who’s quoting this design as a 1 color but if he gets a quote from me online, he’s currently going to be getting a two color price. If there was a way to have an option “make this the garment color”-ink color or “carve this into the pieces below it”.