So there's been a lot of talk lately about Ai and the things that it can do and you've seen some of
these things on social media. They can do a lot of cool stuff and a lot of people are thinking
about what does it mean for the future of print on demand. In this video I wanted to show one of
the AI apps. This one is in canva, text to image and it does some pretty amazing things but can I
make t-shirt designs. In this video I'm going to put it to the test and find out. Let's go!!
Thank you. Thanks for joining me on this video it's Juna with Detour Shirts. In this video I
wanted to show you the app in Canva. The AI app text to image. It's pretty cool you type in a
prompt and it will display an image. It's going to use Ai and try and figure out what you typed
and then create an image if you haven't seen it before I'm going to show you where to find it on
canva and then we're going to test out to see if it can actually make t-shirt designs can someone
go in there use it as a tool and create t-shirt designs with it without doing anything else I'm
going to do something really broad first like make a funny t-shirt design then something a
little more specific like make me a St Patrick's design and then I'm going to do something even
more specific like make make a design that says a hundred days of school and see if that works
so we're going to try all three from very broad to very specific and see what kinds of results we
get with the AI is it something that we should be worried about with print on demand is it something
that that someone can use for print on demand to make a lot of design just by typing in some stuff
so let's get into canva right now and I'll show you where it is alright so here we are on canva
I'm on the pro account I believe you may need a protocol I'm not sure but this is in their apps
so let's go create a design and let's do custom size and just start like we're making a design
here so when we come in here on here you'll see I already have it here text to image but if you
don't have it on this dashboard kind of thing on the side you go to apps and scroll down and you'll
see it right there create something new text to image and you can click on it so it's going to
show you like some ideas to get you started and you can type on you can press on one of these and
we can see how it does it so if you can't think of one the nice thing about this is if you can't
think of one or if you want something like super unique I think it's good for that because you can
see here what it's displaying is a panda riding a bike through a city with depth of field so we're
kind of mashing up different concepts and we can see what this does I'll click on it but you can
also choose your style first one is surprise me it does all the different styles these are the styles
that it does it does photo style drawing style 3D style painting style pattern style and just
concept art so I like to do the like surprise me to get all of it in there but if you want to pick
a certain one you can so let's see how it works I'm just going to click on this and it'll it'll
kind of bring it up so let's do that you see it and put it in here if you want to change it and
you say instead of Panda so you kind of trick it let's say a dog right dog riding a bike through
a city with depth of field alright so let's see that generate it and it's going to take a while
to generate so I may fast forward this video but you can see it's going to do one here and two and
three and four so it's going to give you four ideas and I'll come back when all four are done
all right so I'm back pretty amazing what it does so we can click on these and it'll put it
on the artboard so here's the first one a dog riding a bike with depth of field you can see
stuff in the back and the city right this is not a full dog on a bike so I don't know and you can
kind of see it's kind of wonky like the tire came off here uh this one is a dog kind of a bike but
we don't see him riding the bike but it is in the city and there's depth of field so it gets a few
of them right this one's probably the best one it is a dog on a bike in the city and the background
so that one's pretty cool and this one maybe this one's the best one actually you can see the dog
in the front on the bike so kind of cool so you can see it does stuff like that photo realistic
stuff and for t-shirts maybe you know it would have to be in a square or whatever but I don't
know if anybody's actually looking for a dog on a bike maybe for a poster might be cool so let's
try something really specific or broad first and then we'll will get too specific so let's start
again and then let's just say make me a funny t-shirt design so um let's see a funny t-shirt
design for moms let's do that let's see what it does I'm not exactly sure what it's going to do
I'm gonna do surprise me too because I don't think we need a drawing or 3D or painting or pattern so
um yeah let's just do surprise me and see what it does so again it's going to click through
and think about it I'll come back to show you so you don't have to wait and see what what's going
to happen but I'll come back and show you what it does okay I'm back and text the image canva
did it again so let's show you what the results are so clicking on here you can see it is a mom
t-shirt but it's I don't know if that's funny but it is on a t-shirt I I don't really know
what this is probably a woman dress not sure if that's a bowling ball or some kind of fruit or
something let's click on this one so this one's kind of cool but it's a full t-shirt it's not
a t-shirt design but it's a mom on a t-shirt so it's kind of taking those words and and putting
it together this one says Mo mom and then has some designs here I don't know what happened
to the legs or what this is here I guess it's kind of funny They're laughing that's funny looking and
then this one right here it says two MERS and it has a mom with something and it is a design
on a t-shirt but in order to take that you you'd have to like um do this right and you can whoops
you can crop it like this right and see if that works but again those words I don't even know
what it means to myrrh or whatever so I think we could do a better job just by using the graphics
on canva so first test a very broad a funny t-shirt design for Mom I don't think I don't think
it did that well so let's do something a little more specific let's start again and let's do a
um St Patrick's Day t-shirt right that's coming up
design so let's do that a St Patrick's Day t-shirt design let's see what canva text the
image does I'm going to hit generate image again and see by putting it in just a little bit more
specific now let's say you want to do a ton of St Patrick's Day t-shirt can you use this to
generate hundreds and thousands of St Patrick's Day t-shirts let's see what comes up I'll come
back to show you once this is loaded so we're back and let's take a look at this I think photo is the
way to go because some of these aren't right but take a look at this it's kind of a neat design but
it doesn't say anything and I'm not sure this Shamrock kind of looks weird let me zoom in
yeah I'm not really sure what these things are it almost looks Egyptian or something like that
instead of St Patrick's Day uh let's do this one this one's kind of cool but he looks really scary
uh this St Patrick's Day and no words and kind of a weird t-shirt design and then these two are
very like pixelated and stuff so very stylized we can hardly see the T-shirt so I'm not sure what
that is so again I'm not very worried about at least canva text to image to create St Patrick's
Day design for someone to come in here and say I want a hundred St Patrick's Day designs you
can see none of these at least these four I'm not worried about I don't think they would get
sales when put on Amazon or Redbubble or anything like that so let's try even more specific let's
give it some words now so let's start again uh a t-shirt design that says 100 days of school
okay for the hundred days of school and let's see I think photos the way to go just so we
make sure that it's photorealistic instead of the drawing all right
um let's see what happens so we're gonna let it go and again more specifically in this case you
would have to know what the shirt would say if it works to get these results so let's see what kinds
of results happen and I'll come back and show you so we're back and I think it's doing a little bit
better except that it doesn't get text right for some reason this is a cool design if it actually
said a hundred days of school but you can see it's taking the letters from there and there's one zero
zero and the a uh it's kind of mixing it together there's school and some of the letters for for
school but kind of a weird thing and I'm not sure what that background is so kind of interesting I
don't think anybody would buy this t-shirt for 100 days of school uh there's this 100 a as cool as
soon not sure what's happening there but it is a t-shirt design and you could easily do this um in
canva without the text to image so I think this is a bus too let's see here it's got rectangles
so maybe for a design idea but I think we can get better design ideas somewhere else but this one is
showing a t-shirt design and rectangles but again can't read it and this one it says de dos shows
those it's funny it doesn't make any sense but um it is a t-shirt design so as far as text to
image for t-shirt designs I don't think they're there yet it may uh happen it may get better as
because this is pretty new but it may get better in the future but right now I don't think there's
anything to worry about for text to image for someone to come in here and make hundreds of
thousands of designs that will sell on print on demand what's better for this if you are on canva
I would suggest going to elements and then type in here a t-shirt design so if we did St Patrick's
day t-shirt design instead of that now let's look at this you can see some designs here designs here
and if we go to design here with template and type it in uh Saint Patrick's Day t-shirt again look at
that now that is a lot better you can use these for t-shirt designs this is definitely more of a
t-shirt design you can take out this background and it's edible one one thing that's nice about
this is it's totally editable and you can do take away the background whereas the text to canva you
can't take away the background very easy it's one big photo kind of thing so if you want to use some
of these things it's really cool you can see this born lucky would be good and so on replace current
image yeah look at all these icons this is a cool t-shirt design so if you want to use canva for
t-shirt designs and want to type in something and then find something use design right here
templates so if you want to do the T-shirt design using canva I would not use the AI tool yet that
may work better in the future the AI tool for me is better for mashup and concept and ideas and
maybe posters and things that you cannot find on canva where canva has a tons of stuff anyway but
if you're looking for like mixing up a a dog and a on a boat in in the river or on the mountain
you know those kinds of things then it's great for that kind of stuff but as far as t-shirt
designs you can see here uh really cool let's see if they actually have 100 days of school let's see
hundred days of school t-shirt uh no it does not have that at least I don't see one but of course
you could make one really easy with canva and type in 100 under elements let's see 100 days
graphic yeah so look at that 100 days of school here and so on you just have to move some stuff
around so just to recap canva is great for doing t-shirt designs but text to image on canva not so
good for doing t-shirt designs it's great for doing other stuff for doing posters for doing
mashups or doing art styles and things like that it's amazing to do those kinds of things if you
want to do a poster that nobody else has you may want to do that it's kind of small I think you
can scale it up but I haven't used it for posters yet but as far as t-shirt designs not that canva
go to the design part of canva and you can see the templates that they have already there or
just use some of the graphics and stuff and make your own t-shirts on canva if you know of another
AI thing that I should be testing for t-shirt designs let me know that in the comments I'd
love to test some other AI stuff I know there's lens I know there's some other stuff out there if
there is one that you think would make a t-shirt design by just typing in the text I want to know
about it I want to test it I want to show it to people to see if it works if you want to see
other designs on canva and how to use can canvas over that click on this video right here I'll go
over a t-shirt design that I made on canva and you can follow along for a tutorial thanks again
for watching and as always keep creating and keep learning I'll see you on the next one bye