In this video I want to show you how to create words in a shape
so that your designs can stand out and hopefully get you some sales. Let's go!!
Thanks for joining me on this video. My Name Is Juna with Detour Shirts. I've been designing and
selling T-shirts online since 2005 and in this video I wanted to teach you how to do words in
an object. I've been seeing this trend lately on Kittl, where there's words distorted on an
object inside of a shape and I think this would be really good especially on stickers and places like
Redbubble where people are looking for something really different this makes your design stand out
and I think this could really help with sales as well so I'm going to show you how to do it
there's a couple of ways that you can distort text to make it fit into an object I have a video right
here where I use procreate but I think Kittl is a great way to do it too you can see examples of
other people doing it I'm going to show you how I do it they have a great distort feature for their
text and so we're going to use that now you can just use the shape or you can make and the shape
would make a great sticker by itself but I think if you use the shape and then put text around it
it can also make a great t-shirt so I'm going to show you both ways in Kittl. It's going to to be
really easy step-by-step instructions and then you can go and make your own there's lots of shapes
that you can use and put text into it think of the different holidays the different occupations the
different hobbies that people like you know you could put it inside of a football you can put it
inside of a state you could put it inside lots of different Silhouettes you got outdoor Silhouettes
like deers and bears and all of this so the you can use these ideas and make your own and just
go crazy with it I think it will do really well so let's get into Kittl right now and I'll show
you step by step on how to do it easily on Kittl. So here we are on Kittl you can see right here
Kittl.com and what I'm gonna do is I'm just going to start a new project so you can click right here
a new project and it's going to ask you well it's not going to ask you what size but you're going to
need to change the size if you want to do it for Merch by Amazon or Amazon merch on Demand right
now by default it is 1200 by 1200 which is it's a nice size but I'm going to do 4 500 by 5400
and I'm going to confirm that boom so there we go 4500 5400 now I'm going to want to put my designer
here the first thing we're going to look for is a silhouette so I'm going to do elements and I'm
going to type in here uh silhouette uh maybe animal that's just there's lots of Silhouettes
so animal let's see what we got so not all the Silhouettes are on here and you can make some of
these silhouettes by just changing them all the same color let's see like you got bear here cat
let's see I was thinking of doing a different one you can see some of those I want something like
big that takes the space so you want you want to look for Silhouettes that have a lot of space in
between like this one would be cool you can fit text in here right but you wouldn't want this one
right that would be hard to write in right so look for look for Silhouettes that have
a big space I really wanted to do like a crab or something so let me do let's just do crab
there's that crab is that crab I believe there's a silhouette of a crab this one
maybe that one let me just do crab by itself
yeah there's this one so you can see there's a bunch of
different ones there's that one there's that one
um let's do this one I like the I like the look of this one right here with
the eyes this one's kind of hard to tell it I mean it is a crab but
let's do that okay so the next thing is to fill the space here like that so now that you have this
um whatever silhouette you pick you don't have to pick the crab but in this case we're going
to put some text in here and so let's do some text you can go to text right here or
you can just type in t or hold down T you can see right there and I'm gonna do let's
and let's do that bigger
look for the diagonal arrow and then just grow up like that whoops you may want to lock this
down but um you can I'm not going to do that right now it's behind here so you could knock
it down and then let's pick a text so let's find one I don't want Roboto maybe this Adventure 3
and let's do that
so one way you can do it well let's color it first
there we go and then we're going to use this distort feature right here so
then I'm going to zoom in so to zoom in we can do this
click that plus button down there and then we can just lift it up like that
whoops I'm going to lock this down so let's back up I'm also holding down option and scrolling you
can do that for Zoom I'm going to move my face away so I can show you how to lock this down so
we'll have the crab here let's go to layers and you can see that illustration you might want to
like name it to crab and then you can press the lock button right there object locked right so
now when I click on it it's not gonna pick the crab it's going to pick this I can't actually
pick the crab anymore right all right now that we got that out of the way I'll put myself back in
all right so you can see really easy with the distort feature let me Zoom back in here
if I want to edit the transform you hit edit transform here and you can move things around
like this so you can easily distort and you can do this letter by letter if you
just want to type in one letter at a time you can do that too but you can do it as a whole
thing right and then move this move this around kinda play around with the text if you want to
move this here all right and then let's do let's get cracking I'm gonna see if I can put um whoops
I'm gonna type in another text T here and let's do uh get
and maybe the same font here
to White
and I'm going to hold down option and drag I'm going to try crack in here
I'll make this bigger
and let's see if we can fit this with the distort see all we're going to do is
drag the line so easy just drag the points and make it fit boom now you also want to
make it readable so that's important so if you can you know it doesn't have to be totally
there and it can come out of it too if you want I kind of get right to the edge
and move this to the center
right
and let me Zoom back out and you can see I've I'm fitting it in here I'm gonna
look how easy that was let's get cracking Isn't that cool now this itself could be a
nice sticker maybe we want to change the color to Red let me now that I have it in there I'm gonna
go back to layers and unlock it so that we can color it
turn that off and then if I want to color this maybe it's not blue maybe it's red right maybe
like a for crabs right all right so but let's say we want to make a t-shirt out of it Let's
do let's do some ticks above it so let's move this down and let's do um let's do T again
and let's do change it to that adventurer
and let's do uh I'm just here you can do whatever you want for
I'm gonna say I'm just here for the crabs or something like that and then
just make sure it fits and then one nice thing about kiddo is that you can curve this text so
let's do a curve as well let's do the circle you can see that kind of fits in a shape
um and then to make that bigger you just grab on it and then just make it bigger if you want
and it goes edge to edge it kind of works really well with this crab right and then
we can make that the same color as the red um undo the crabs let's see
um one thing I notice is I wanted to play with this fun font here and let's do this I typed in
t right here but there's a fun font that has all the kind of the text here and I'll show you why
you can see it says sale and then stuff like that the way to see what what to do here is
go on here and the glyphs right here glyphs and you can see all of these
so I'm gonna do the like this the right here and then get rid of those other ones
just just so it gives it some like fancy text right unfortunately there's not crabs
there but we can we can use some other font here for crabs let's see
um let's find one that's good maybe some
maybe something fun like that
kind of fit it in that space or we could just use
the same one that we had before let's try Adventure
maybe it's like this
could do something like that and then let's do something on the bottom whoops holding
down option and dragging I'll do like official crab eating shirt or something
see how easy it is to make a t-shirt like this now you may want to fill in the space so maybe
do that and that that's cool and it looked like this white space here you might want to
fill it in so let's let's do some like bigger and smaller just so we have some variety here
and then I'm gonna look for like stars and Bubbles and things like that so let's do here
um elements and the new stars
see what we got we got this one this is cool look that fits right there
see that so easy and then you can change the same color if we're going
to make it like the same color oh let's let's change the colors for these two
it's going to be a one color shirt all right just kind of has that vintage look when you just do the
one color and then you can flip it to uh right click flip horizontal boom see how that matches
uh let's look for some bubbles or something
since the ocean oh this is cool let's try this one now you can see this one has
color but the nice thing about kiddo is let's just take out the color and put red and there
there you go you can kind of have that bubbling up like this or maybe I'm gonna try and fit the
that's kind of cool like that all right and then we'll just rotate it on this side flip horizontal
get the idea yeah oh and we need to change these to Red whoops
and maybe one more like the I'll underline for the let's just look for a line
I mean I think underline I work
no maybe line yep uh let's see
thinking something like curves they have so many oh this one will work
uh maybe that way see how easy it is to do this and then
boom so now we took this sticker which you could use this crab as a sticker but now we made it
into a t-shirt too so you know you can have fun with that maybe move this to the front um
boom and then I'll show you to kind of put some vintage uh texture on it so let's do that
see there got some nice vintage texture or you can knock it out so let's do
Alpha mask and then clip it you can see it has that nice vintage let's let's scroll
in here look at that it just knocks it out and gives it that nice vintage look right
so there you go I'm just here for the crabs um and we distorted this now you can go back in
here and try it out with all the different Silhouettes um just use that this distort
feature we'll go in here and just go to elements and like I said silhouette now I
did you see that there was a turkey one too this might be really good for Thanksgiving so turkey
silhouette let's see so I just did turkey instead of turkey silhouette
I think it's trying to look for both turkey and silhouette but here's turkey
and if we scroll down here look at these Silhouettes this could make some funny if
you have some good funny texts distorted inside of the turkey I think that would be great for
Thanksgiving and things like that but of course you got so many other ones so have fun with this
idea where you distort get some ideas on KIRO itself I'm gonna put this one on kiddo so that
you can use it as a template but there's going to be so many others maybe I'll play around with some
other ones too so you can see what I'm talking about but if you look on Kittle and scroll down
we're gonna see a bunch of other ones right on here so I'll show you that as well but have fun
with this I think this will do really good for Redbubble stickers again just the silhouette
with some kind of words in it look for something that can fit a lot of things you could even put
words in here right inside the claw and put I think that would be great to like smaller words
uh in here have fun with that too I just showed you real simple in the big one but you can do it
whatever way you want be creative have fun with it I think it will do really well so that is it
for this video hopefully this these techniques really help you get some sales I think it will
make your design stand out on something totally original or you can make yours original right
by changing things around and making different words and I think they'll make great stickers as
well as T-shirts if you put some things around it and do that tall rectangle if this video is
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