In this video I'm going to teach you how to do a text effect to make your design
stand out. You can make one that looks like this and this is going to be all
in Affinity Designer and I'm going to take you step by step on how to do it. Let's go!!
Thanks for joining me on this video. My name is Juna with Detour Shirts. In this video I'm
going to teach you how to do some text effects so you don't have to worry about graphics. This
is just updating your text so instead of having just boring text that doesn't do anything I'm
going to show you how to amp it up, how to make it just a little bit better so it stands out.
I got this idea from Walmart when I went there i saw this t-shirt right here and you can see it has
that same diagonal text effect i'm going to show you how to do that in affinity designer so you can
do it i'm going to do it just a little bit different i'm going to move things around
so it's going to be real simple i'm going to take you step by step so you can do it
yourself with any text you want so this can be used for different holidays different
different hobbies different kinds of t-shirts so let's get into the tutorial in affinity designer
right now so here we are in affinity designer i made my artboard to 4500 by 5400 and we're just
gonna start with some text so the first thing you need to do is have some text in here i'm gonna go
to the text tool right here and click on here and type we're going to just do best dad ever
you can use whatever text you want i would say make sure that the font is something big and
bold and the words are you know about the same size that really helps you don't want a very
long word with very short words right so best dad ever four letters three letters and four letters
pretty close so i'm going to use a thick font and the font i'm going to use is impact you probably
use this before there you go nice thick bold font and i'm just going to do best
and then hold down option and shift and drag to copy and then undo dad and then i'm gonna do ever
most people just stop right here and don't continue so yours is gonna stand out even
better so we can do it just like this or we could do it the same size i'm gonna do drag
this and make it the same size here right there best dad ever okay next thing we want to do
is to make an outline version of this so we already have this one best dad ever let's
copy all of these so i'm gonna hit command j you can see they copied all of them and then
this ever on the top i'm gonna make a stroke in fact we're gonna give all of them a stroke
let's do all of them with a black stroke and let's do something thicker so that we can see about
seven in this case there we go you can see a lot thicker i'm gonna move these guys down this ever
okay
good so you can't see the other ones real well but we have this ever and this ever
let's do the background ever with no fill so if we do that you can see if i turn this one off
it looks like that right same thing with this we got dad in the front dad in the back
do no fill best in the front best in the back no fill right so you can see
like that so the next thing we want to do is make our shape kind of cross through so
let's make this come down here you can make any shape i'm just going to
cross it here and then maybe cross it here the the way you want to do it is you want to
cross a couple letters on the different levels right so this one's crossing that b and that e
let's just complete it right here so you can make it whatever you want whoops
there see how it kind of crosses maybe i want to cross that a too like that
okay maybe that s there too something like that whatever you want okay so
we're gonna fill this with a color just so we can see the difference
all right so the next thing we're gonna do is we have these words
and we're gonna um erase this from that so i'll show you what i mean so if we have this
ever which is on the top this is the dark one let's multiply these so i'm gonna do command j
like that i don't think i'll need that many i'll probably only need
four okay so we do this ever and this curve we'll put them together let's group them
so now you can see they're both together and if i use this as erase
there it's going to erase the top part so if i turn all of these off
you see that the outline is showing through isn't that cool so let's do the same thing with dad
so we'll go we'll turn these on again
so dad and this one just command g group and in that group do erase
as you guessed it we're gonna do the same with best and this in group i only really
needed three i don't know why i hit it so many times but um let's do this and erase
good so now we can get rid of these i believe we need those and look at that so cool right
so that's a cool effect but if we want to do and move things around
we'll do the opposite for the other one so let's take this line here
right
and make sure that we have that that line here let's just do make sure we got that
boom we'll fill that with red and then we'll do one on the bottom as well
so i'm going to need two of these and two of these just because
this intersects the best and dad and this intersects that and ever so let me copy this one
and this one command j on both you can see they're right there and so i'm gonna need
the outline version of ever which is this one and this one and we're going to group those together
and do erase so we're going to do the same thing for best
so the best one down here the outline version of best and this will group those together and erase
i know it's getting really complicated now right the outline version of dad here and then these two
group those together and these two should actually be grouped together too
inside a dad so that this can be erased and now what we can do is we can move these things so
let's click on some of these things to move them so this one is dad look how it
moves right there you can give that kind of neat thing ever can be moved like that
this dad can move like that and so on so you can kind of have that feel of it's disjointed right
so that's how you can make it stand out and if you want it on a black t-shirt just reverse everything
just go black t-shirt let's make it a lighter t-shirt so we can see
and we can change the color of these so everything white
that and you may want to label these so this can be outline dad
and so on so i'm going to color these white and i'll show you what it looks like
cool so that you can still add a line in there like i saw in walmart so let's do this
and let's make this line the same stroke size 7 that we had boom oh and white
look at that not cool
right and then this line here
may have to move that that dad one i kind of move that that one a lot so it
crosses over but the thing i like about this style is that you could color these so the
outlined ones if you don't want them outlined you could come in here and do instead of outline
why not color them yellow you know or or red maybe they're your dad's favorite
color is um white and red or something like that you could still do that so
have fun with this i i personally like the outline version so let's undo that
yeah so that's cool so now this stands out you could put some other things over here but again
this is just text we're not using any drawing or anything we're just updating text so hopefully
this is really easy for you we're just erasing uh the background and we're showing the other side
so we got two of these half of this is showing and half isn't on each side so that's what the
eraser is doing and then if you label these you can easily figure it out right and look how cool
that is if you want to move these things you can maybe you want to move ever just a little bit
more and you can do that like that so have fun you can do this with any text so this could be
best mom ever this could be something about gamers this could be anything so use your creativity come
up with something cool use different lines i went this way you could have you know you could go
horizontally you could do more than three colors this could each be a different color you could do
red white and blue the possibilities are endless so be creative with this this is just one way to
do it of course there's tons of different ways that you could do this and you could do it with
text as well as with objects so if you use this technique like on a flag or on a shamrock or on
on something like that so have fun with this this is a cool way to make your design stand out and
it's not too difficult once you know how to use the erase feature and how to kind of blend two
things all we're doing is we're taking two things that are very similar but then hiding one part
of it and then showing it and then hiding the other part and showing it and so that i think
that's really cool so use this technique and make lots of designs and hopefully get lots of sales
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the day is this how was your january 2022 let me know in the comments was it better than january
2021 did you just start print on demand how are things going love to hear how you're doing with
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