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T-Shirt Design Software for Mac

Make Your Own Custom T-Shirts and Other Iron On Transfer Crafts

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You can use almost any graphics or creative printing program to design iron on transfer artwork. Ideally the program will have an option to flip or reverse the image for transfer printing or you can manually flip the image in the document. However, there are some t-shirt design software programs specifically for creating personalized t-shirt designs and similar iron on transfer craft projects. These programs are for the Mac platform.

Avery DesignPro

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The label people have some design software for Mac that does labels, yes, but also iron-on transfers for t-shirts, greeting cards, business cards, and more. Import personal photos from iPhoto. It's for Mac OS X Tiger or Leopard.  Oh, and it's also a FREE download.

Available as of 2011: Avery DesignPro for Mac

Broderbund: The Print Shop

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The newest version of The Print Shop for the Mac has better layout tools, more graphics and photos (19,500+), more special effects and includes thousands more projects (9500+) such as multi-page booklets. Like version 1 it integrates with your Mac apps such as iPhoto, iDVD, and iCal. Use its layout tools and graphics to design images for t-shirts and other items to print onto iron-on transfer paper.

Available as of 2010: The Print Shop Mac

 

Avanquest/Nova Development: Print Explosion

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PowerPC and Intel-based Mac users can create scrapbooks, greeting cards, posters, labels, calendars, and yes, iron-on transfers for t-shirts, mousepads, and other crafts with the graphics, fonts, and ready-made templates in this print creativity software. It also integrates with iTunes, iPhoto and Mac OS X Address Book.

Available as of 2010: Print Explosion Deluxe 3.0 for Mac

 

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