# Making shirt designs, what size should my canvas be?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-shirt-designs-what-size-should-my-canvas-be/302044>\
**Category:** design\
**Created:** [December 20, 2009, 9:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-shirt-designs-what-size-should-my-canvas-be/302044 "2009-12-20T21:59:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dominerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Dominerd](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Dominerd)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2009, 9:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-shirt-designs-what-size-should-my-canvas-be/302044/1 "2009-12-20T21:59:36Z")

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I’m drawing and editing shirt designs with vector art in flash and photoshop, but I don’t know what format I should save my PS files in so that they remain transparent, or what size is a full shirt design canvas. Can anyone help me with file type to keep the design transparent, and image/canvas size?