I'm going to show you how to use mid-journey for your print on demand business hi guys my name is
RJ Martinez and I've been doing print on demand for over six years now full time I'm a big fan
of hiring artists on my team and their thoughts on AI generated art they don't like it too much
but I see it as a way for us to grow my print on demand business even more than what it is as
a team so I've been using it for inspiration and I've tested a few different niches out I want to
show you how you can use it for your business if you're just barely starting out and it's a crazy
way it's awesome that you can do this to help you grow your business online and let me break it down
in step by step process and what we're going to go through in this video first is research research
is one of the most important things before you do anything next I'm going to show you how to come
up with different prompt ideas I give you tips and prompt ideas and how you should be talking
to Mid Journey show you software tools how to remove the backgrounds print on demand sites
that you can use these illustration graphic design ideas whatever you want to call if you want to use
a third party print provider we're going to go through a few of them in this video too when it
comes to doing research online my favorite tool to use is Merch Informer and the category that I
like to use is movers and shakers we're going to have new ideas pretty much every day here gives
me some really good awesome t-shirt ideas look at it stay cool you know obviously for Independence
Day popsicle ice cream admit it life would be boring without me and I like this right here
for an idea for mid-journey then these are ideas that you should be jotting down as you're looking
at this because you're brainstorming right now okay you're redoing research you're coming here
open-minded to figure out okay what's standing out to me and what can I create from these design
ideas that are selling right now we have a cat skull shirt this would be something interesting
that mid during like especially with these single Standalone type Graphics okay that can be working
really well happy Fourth of July little tiny t-rex with the American hat sunglasses and a firework in
his hat and I can go on and on and on we're going to pop open happy Fourth of July and then we're
going to go ahead and open up di Los mortes and if you don't know what that means we can go ahead and
search that in Day of the Dead Wednesday November 1st and then to November 2nd so it's coming up
right but literally you can come up with different ideas by looking at these keywords for inspiration
and then if you come over here happy Fourth of July T-rex dinosaur baby toddler boys okay so
we're working with these two ideas I will have Merch Informer Down Below in the description but
we're gonna go over to Mid journey and I'll have mid Journey Down Below in the description too as
well if you don't know what mid journey is it's basically an AI image generator I have the one
that I'm signed up for 30 a month it's a really awesome software and I've been using it for a few
months now I came in here and put this prompt in cute baby T-Rex holding a Fourth of July bottle
rocket or an American hat sunglasses sticker with white background you can see how I'm just talking
to the AI for it to generate something for me and if we look at it you can see what's populating
bottle rocket they really didn't get it down too much to that part but these are some really good
you know Graphics right here let's switch it over to Fourth of July firework wearing and
then this is what happened this is what popped up which is really cool which is good the baby
T-Rex it's okay I guess like some of these they look like a baby T-Rex I guess but this is this
goes to AI right you have to understand like certain things it can do and certain things
it just cannot do yet and one of the things I see it harder than a hard time with is the
fireworks the the T-Rex you can on some of these images they're pretty good this foreign reference
right you can see that this graphic is showing its teeth more so maybe I would come in here and
edit you know baby T-Rex dinosaur we're gonna hit the dash and then we're gonna hit imagine
okay and now we're gonna type in baby T-Rex sorry I'm gonna put dinosaur holding a firework
now I'm gonna put t-shirt design this time you can put whatever color background the white background
you can put black background you can put green background whatever type of
background that you want you can do you can even put like white outline around you know
the image just put white outline so we're just going to hit enter for that example
because let's see what happens and see what this generates but we're going to come over
here to okay The Day of the Dead right let's just take this these keywords right and then
we're gonna put that Dash and then put imagine okay skull I'm gonna do sticker
with one of the white background okay and put oh we can put this foot detailed
um and then white background and we're gonna hit enter it's going to have go ahead and
generate a different one for us once you get the understanding of when you know
we're talking like you look at we're looking at these images that's a pretty good one to the left
you know you can even up size any of these so it goes one two three so let's see if we wanted the
third one up size or just a different version of other number three so we're going to go ahead and
upsize to get a better higher quality image for us so I'm going to hit up size okay and it's going
to go ahead and upsize that one image for us and let's say in like another one like say like say
number four up size number four okay we're gonna go ahead and upsize another one so it has given
some actually really good uh you know Day of the Dead like skeletons right and I like this one and
I said we want to use all of them you know in a uh a design so we'll go ahead and you know upsize
that one that one that one that one and that may take a few minutes to do you can see that
it's working in here but it's it's getting done pretty fast right so you can see how that's done
you can also make variations of different ones so if you like variation like one ill four different
variations of that one or four even variations of that one that one that one that one if you don't
like them you're looking at them you're like ah just not I'm not liking it so you can kind of get
the idea and then maybe you know if you have an artist on your team or if you know somebody that
can recreate it but get that concept or get that idea it can be done that way too as well all right
so I went ahead and saved images onto my computer from what we have done already with mid-journey so
we're going to do is right click and you're going to hit save and then save and save as you can see
the four images that I saved right here just save them to your computer then next we're going to go
into how we're going to take the images like the the background out of these right here so you
can put them and upload them to a design of your choice or whatever you want to do with them if you
want to put some text I'm logged into my canva account I have the pro version okay so that's
going to cost you but the reason why it's going to cost you let me show you how fast you can remove a
background from an image all right I'm in the home section over here I'm going here to create design
custom size I'm gonna use the 45 by 54 pixel okay that is the Amazon merch template size I'm going
to go over here and then I already have these one two three let me go ahead and upload uno mas One
More Design I'm gonna hit this image okay let's say I just want to take out the background from
that one right here on the left hand corner so I hit the edit image right there then hit the
edit image and come over here to BG remover okay this is basically gonna remove the background and
ta-da just one click you've seen how that was done right let's try one more let's do
the dinosaur okay edit image and for the most part it does a really good job at this and that
it may not get a few you know a few things uh on the actual image but for the most part it's like
this one it did really good yeah this one did a really good job so I did a good job at that and
then in here like you know if you want to add some of the text or however you want to do it
um it's pretty easy to do simple because you just come over here to the left hand side and say you
know you want to add any of this text inside of here it has different layouts into different fonts
there's a ton of different fonts in here let's say fourth of July right and you can move this
around however you want right if you want to make it look good and you can see how it's uh you know
over here with uh right and we have it it'll kind of see the little box right there that's donated
Kava and if I want to even make it bigger right you know or if I even don't even like that text I
can even just switch the text and there's so many different texts on the left hand side that you can
see and I can switch that so this is just one way that you can remove the background let me show you
another way all right so the next one is going to be uh photo P okay photo p is a web-based site so
it's very similar to like all the other photo editing softwares out there design software's
out there so if I come over here to new project the left hand side you can go ahead and image
okay I'm gonna go ahead do 4500 by 54 100 and then 300 DPI okay I'm gonna put the background black
hit OK and then I'm gonna go ahead and hit create and boom it's gonna bring us here I am going to
grab the image always use this image for example I'm gonna go up here to the left hand or the top
of the little bar up here file edit image layer select I'm going to hit magic cut you can test out
remove BG remove background right but magic cut seems to work really good okay so hit magic cut
give it a few seconds to let alone loaded right now you can see it's pretty much did it for us
right and this is really cool because it took out that white outline you know for that sticker so
if you want to take that out you can do that or if you want to add it you can see like you know
the colors you can just add if you want to add uh sorry so background you can see background you're
hovering over on the top left erase and then uh foreground so everything in the green is going
to obviously you know take out everything around that right so if we add more around here if we get
closer to the white outline it'll add it in there but for this example I'm not going to touch it now
I'll be on the right hand side either the borders and you can clear it too if you want whatever you
want to do but it's pretty much did it all for us which is really freaking cool like we don't
have to worry about nothing else we're gonna make sure we hit new layer and we're going to hit okay
now when we do that okay the background let's sell let's take out the background it's did it for us
see that so now we can you can come in here for using [ __ ] to create designs or whatever you're
using it for and you can add text and inside of [ __ ] 2 so if you want to any add any type of
text in there you can they have several different fonts in here you can even load your own fonts
inside of photo P which is really awesome but you can see everything that we did in here is
completed with this design right and you can save it however you want you can come over here file
export as PNG okay and boom it's done alright so there's a few print on demand websites that we'll
be talking about so after you create these designs where are you going to sell them at right so as
of right now a lot of the AI generated are as long as it's within the rules and within the guidelines
and you're not taking any of the designs from anyone else you're not ripping off some you
know like creating designs for Nike or anything like that and as long as you have the rights for
these designs and you're not infringing on anyone else okay let me put it that way you are in the
clear as of right now to create AI generated art for these print on demand platforms first
one is Amazon merch on demand but this platform right here here is what God it's all started for
me personally and I have sold tons and tons of products on here over a hundred thousand products
with this website so I've made over three hundred thousand dollars with this website so this is my
go-to website of course it is right next one is going to be T public this is an awesome website to
do research on or you can come up with different ideas because you can see what's trending at the
moment and this is an awesome place to get your artwork design work up onto the platform next
one is going to be Redbubble a lot of people get started on Redbubble and then they make their way
over to other print-on-demand websites for the most part everything that I'm talking about in
this video they'll just be uploading the design to the platform and these businesses will print
and ship the product to the customer and you do not deal with customer service for any of that
stuff or even returns you don't have to worry about that right next one is Society6 this is
another one to and keep in mind these front pages are going to tell you a story okay so if they're
promoting it on the front page of their website it's a big thing next one is going to be Zazzle
you can see that Father's Day is coming up by looking at this website right so it gives you
an idea of what is trending at this point in time so research is everywhere folks just to give you
an idea spreadshirt too this is a pretty cool one I have sold a ton of products over here myself
which is really awesome really awesome platform to be on and by looking at this you can see what
they're talking about at this time and point you get a vibe from every single platform now Etsy
you'll be connecting like your third party print provider like printful printified gelato there's
a few others out there print providers that you can connect to Etsy and you'll see exactly
what's going on on the platform over here too and get inspiration of what's going on over here so
this is a little bit more Hands-On takes a little bit more work there's nothing wrong with that if
it takes more work right I've always said that if it takes more work there's less competition
all right next one Teespring Teespring is now spring okay you can see that right there but
this is another website too okay these are these these guys been in the game for a while too as
well either you know they do a lot of connecting to like uh YouTube and stuff like that you can
integrate it with over there which is cool Cafe Press this has been around a long time too as
well so it's like one of the one of the first ones from my understanding caution dad jokes ahead Fine
Art of America this is going to be another one this is going to be another website where you
can obviously upload your designs okay and um sell them to customers all right here are some
of the print providers printful okay you can sell you can put these designs on the products and you
can sound like on your website you can go on you can integrate it with Etsy there's a few
different places that you can on amazon.com okay so if there's a certain product or or some type of
product that you want to start your own clothing brand this is a good way to start it right here
um the order comes in keep this in mind the order comes into whatever website that you're selling
out so if you're selling on Etsy or Amazon order comes in you have to make sure that order goes
through printful or any of these print providers that I'm sharing with you which would be printify
and gelato and then you have to make sure that order goes in and gets shipped out to the customer
okay in a timely manner so it's a little bit more Hands-On but this is one way to get your custom
products out there okay so save any of these none of these print on the brand websites I shared with
you do not have the product that you want you want to just you know drive your own traffic to your
site which I recommend because it's a really good way to get traffic to your website I'm
already traffic to your brand and you know build your own brand up which would be really awesome
is by connecting like a printful okay so there's a ton of products over here and then printified
two as well same exact thing so if you're selling overseas or selling in the UK they have certain
print providers that they link with and you can have your product shipped directly from
that print provider to that customer if they have your product right so if you want a certain type
of shirt any of these print-on-demand websites I've shared with you don't have those you can come
over here and get your custom high quality t-shirt and print your own design on it okay and also with
gelato too as well um this is a really awesome place to as far as you know getting products
printing canvases stuff like that there's so many different products that each of these print
providers can print for you right and return can help you make a profit with your business right
which is amazing and if you want to learn how I made over three hundred thousand dollars with
Amazon merch on demand watch this video right here I'll teach you everything that you need to know