: Trying to make a shirt design with 4000 max anchor points, but "Simplify" option is disabled I'm new here, so excuse me for the noob questions. I'm trying to make a shirt design like this

@Samaraweera207

The way your image is at the moment, with that "distressed" look (all of the voids and hollows) in each letter, Will be nearly impossible for a plotter. If you did an image trace in illustrator, converting the artwork from raster to vector, there would be no possible way you would have less than 2000 anchor points per color.

I went ahead and did the separations for you in Photoshop. View them in your channels panel. In my opinion, any screen printer that cannot produce transparencies for the screens from a separated Photoshop image, probably is not worth dealing with. If you were to bring this attached file to any local screen printer, these separations should be all you would need.

Shirt_Rosan_flat SEPS

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@Sarah814

Your design seems to be a bitmap. No need to convert it to SVG, a PNG bitmap is enough. The SVG file is a must, if you created your work as line-art and want it printed by the plotter.

Imported bitmap has no curves and their anchors in Illustrator. That's why no simplify is selectable.

Your image size is 11in x 10in and the resolution is 300dpi. If that's ok, merge the layers in PSD and save as PNG. Check afterwards that you really have the transparency intact and not replaced with a solid color.

Check the details for bitmap images: help.spreadshirt.com/hc/en-us/articles/207945305-Optimizing-pixel-graphics-for-print

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