Video Tutorials
The Negative Space T-Shirt Effect: Using Photoshop's Custom Shape Tool as a Mask
There’s a specific kind of design you’ve seen a hundred times on t-shirts and gig posters. A bold graphic, but instead of sitting on a clean background, it looks like someone painted wildly around it. The shape itself is defined by what’s missing — the negative space. The paint exists everywhere except where the graphic is. It’s a technique that reads as handmade and energetic, and the first time I saw it I assumed it required some elaborate workflow involving stock textures and a lot of swearing.