In this video I'm going to do another level up t-shirt design. I'm going to take this design
right here on Redbubble and I'm going to show you how I would change it using some design
techniques that I'm going to use in Canva as well as Photopea. These are going to be really simple.
You can follow along and hopefully these will help you level up your designs too. Let's go!
Hey everyone it's Juna with Detour Shirts. In this video I'm going to do another level up design. I'm
going to take a design that I found on RedBubble (I got the permission from this person) and I'm
going to show you how I would take this and change it a little bit to hopefully give you a better
chance of making some sales. So I'm gonna do all of this in Canva. I'm going to show you some of
the techniques as well as some of the reasons why I'm changing these things and hopefully kind of
get your brain thinking in this way not to say this is going to guarantee sales but this may
help you kind of more align with what people may be looking for for these types of designs
now this that design is going to be a Fourth of July a grilling design so this is really perfect
for the summer time my hope is that this is really helpful and these are techniques that you can use
if you have Canva or if you have kiddo if you have whatever design app that you're using I think you
can still use some of these techniques so let's get into RedBubble first I'm going to show you
the design and then kind of talk through what I'm going to do and then go into Canva so here we are
on RedBubble here's the design in question now this design does fill the space um some of the
things that uh I think I would change on here is there's just a lot of lot going on right you have
born to grill here you got July 4th you have on the 4th of July over here and you have fireworks
and you have a grill and you have all these colors so it's just a lot going on and it's also harder
to read on the black T-shirt because you have some of these dark colors the next thing is
you have to remember the audience so this usually Grill t-shirts are for men older men like dads and
um or grandfathers right and so they may not want to have a t-shirt that has all these colors and
these kinds of fonts and these kinds of things they mainly like simple stuff so one way to check
um kind of the audience or what the kind of style to do for this audience
to kind of check the best seller so here I'm going to check on RedBubble just to see what
kinds of things sell for grilling t-shirts so I'm going to go in here I'm going to do
barbecue t-shirts and best selling and you can see like not a lot of color some of them have
red white and blue of course because of Fourth of July but for the most part you can see kind
of a vintage color white on black white on black here you know vintage again white on black so very
simple designs right and if we go to Amazon if you have the research tab in Amazon pretty merch
Pro you can see some of these as well these are the top merch sellers or Amazon merch on demand
sellers you can see vintage vintage color just white on black very simple designs not a lot of
color right and you can see kind of those now if you don't have pretty merch Pro you can always
just go into Amazon and type in Grill t-shirt and kind of see on here that's kind of the top sellers
that Amazon is showing you can see one color again Fourth of July colors but more not the
whole thing is kind of inside of a word you got gray on Gray right white on black white on black
and so on so you get the idea of very simple design so we're going to simplify this design
um this one right here maybe just say born to grill take out Fourth of July and on the fourth
and it's good to take out dates anyway because if you're just doing a Fourth of July shirt that
actually says 4th of July the person may not want to get that because they can only wear it on the
4th of July so born to grill you can Grill all summer anytime actually so that's going to be
okay so think about the words that you put on the T-shirt think about who the audience is who
you're designing for and then what kind of style you're gonna go for so let's get into Canva right
now I'm going to show you some of the techniques uh some of the things that you can look for some
big bold fonts some big pictures and then put them all together all right so here we are on
Canva canva.com I'm going to show you how to start a new one let's go from the very beginning you're
going to want to create a design come here do custom size right here and type in 4500 by 5400
or whatever size you use for a RedBubble this is the size for Amazon it'll still work for RedBubble
4500 by 5400 type that in I had mine preset so you can see this is 4500 by 4500 now we saw a
lot of these on the dark background on black right so that's one thing I'm going to change
is I'm just going to do a dark background first so just black right there and then the next thing
I'm going to look for is a grill so I'm just going to go to elements here and type in Grill
boom and then see all Graphics now I'm looking for something that's a nice big graphic that men would
wear dads and grandfathers now I just want one color I don't want this one where it's all kinds
of different colors remember it's just one color either gray or um white right on black so let's
start with this one sometimes it comes in Black you can come in here and just change it to White
right now we also want to look for a font that's really thick um and I'll show you one that I like
here I'm going to type in T and then come in here and a couple ones that I like I like using
a slab serif that just really um makes it look bold so I'm gonna type in slab right here and
look there's a ton of them the one I like here is chunk five and let's make sure this is white here
turn that white make it bigger now I like having it all cap so I'm going to double
click on here and just do this uppercase right and I'm going to just type in Born two just like that
do that and I'm going to hold down option and drag it and I can do grill right here so already
we're really close right but we want to make ours stand out a little bit so let's look for
some other Graphics that could help us stand out here so I'm gonna go see all under magic
recommendations which is from this one and you can see some of these are really cool it already
has some space where we can type in something so that's going to help you stand out so if you
want to do something like like let's take this away you know maybe put this in here instead
so this will help you stand out because you can put Grill in here or something in here right
um let's do something else here this one
right you can put something here so I'll look for things where you can add to it and just make your
make your design stand out so I've done a few already I'm going to show you some of mine so
you can see here I have this born to grill I just turned it by using the effects here
right the curve I added this this part is one thing and then this this one's another thing
right so I'm adding on top of it right
here's another one that I did I've added the flame so we're always trying to look for
ways to add stuff to it the one that I really like was this rounded one so that I found um
right here so I found this one and I just curved my text in here with the effects right incurred
my text with the effects here and this one's a different condensed font I think it's AlQuds
Condensed just to make it different right so having some interest here you got all these
little Graphics to give you more interest right so you can do any one of those things that we saw try
out different things and the next thing that we saw on there was we saw a lot of distressed stuff
so I'm going to show you how to do it outside of Canva I'm going to pull this into Photopea and
add a distress texture that I can find online for free I'm going to show you how to do that so once
you get your design make sure it fills that space make sure it's bold make sure it has some interest
something different than that's already on here on Canva you're going to add to it either add
graphics or add distressed textures which we're going to do later or make sure that it has lots
of Graphics so this is good we have two different kinds of fonts we have the roundness I think this
will be really good now you can do this isn't the only way to do it you can find some other things
here that just kind of gives you interest but once we do that we're going to export it and put into
this stress texture so here's how you export it I'm going to hit share I'm going to hit download
make sure you have that transparent background and PNG and 4500 by 5400 and you can download so I'm
going to download this right now and then we're going to use page 4 and drag in that page four
with the transparent background into Photopea and I'll show you how to do the distressed textures
just to give it that little extra roughness that this stress roughness to make it more
like it's a grill thing more like it's a dad thing alright so here we are on Photopea totally free
to use Photopea just go to photopea.com I have a different extension here but it's just photop.com
and I'm going to drag in the number for PNG and just drag it in right here you can see number
four and it's going to automatically make this 4500 by 5400 so we don't have to do anything
you can see it's knocked out you can tell that it's a transparent background because there's no
background if you did it wrong you would see the black and you'll have to do it again remember to
download it check that box as transparent so what we want to do is put in that distress texture so
I'm going to add another layer here I'm going to remove myself here so you can see how I do that so
this other layer right here I'm going to put the background which is the artwork and I'm going to
move it above so my background layer is right here I'm going to fill this with black so that we can
see it click on here move this to Black it could be that black as well and then I'm going to use
the Paint Bucket to fill it in we're going to come over here to the gradient tool click on that Arrow
so you can see under the gradient tool right there is the gradient so you can press G as a shortcut
paint bucket tool and I'm going to fill it with this black so make sure that's on the front and
just boom fill it so now we can see there's no distressed textures right on it I'm going to open
up a new tab and search for distressed textures so we can just do here a free distress texture like
that hit it and we're going to go to this shutter stock run right here 50 free distressed textures
for designers and we can just download this one right here so download free textures it's going to
go to your downloads folder it's going to give you 50 of them and we're going to drag one of those
into Photopea so I'm back here on Photopea I'm going to open up that 50 free textures
this is what it looks like here you can see all 50. now you can pick any one you want
I'm gonna pick something light I don't know let's try number 21. bring it in
and it has to be above the background so let's oh I have to kind of size it first
and let's move it above the background all right so you can see right here the
distressed texture I'm going to try and make it bigger so I'm going to double click on it
or hit this Arrow here and then kind of make it so it fills the whole thing so there may
be a black one we want to make sure that we can still read it but it has a texture so
it's okay if the animals get covered with black yeah there you go so that's not the
end of it that's just a placement so if we go to the back go to the layer
and I turn this off you can see it's just black there so what we want to do is when we go here
to the distress textures right click on it and go select pixels so that's going to select everything
that's at black and go back to my background and then I'm going to just hit backspace or delete
that and hit command d and we can close this distress textures now and
turn on the layer and you can see it's totally knocked out right so there's that distress
texture for free we just did a very simple now I'm gonna take away the layer one or hide the
layer one and we're going to export this whole thing so let's come here file export as PNG
and 4500 by 5400 that's great and we're going to hit save and it's going to save it so now we're
going to use this to upload to Redbubble and I'll show you what that looks like all
right last step here we are in Redbubble add new work I just click there I'm gonna
dragon that four it's going to take a little bit a While We're Not Gonna I'm not going to
show you the title and tags I'm just going to show you how it looks like on a t-shirt now so
it's white so we're going to need to pick a black color so I like doing this right here
you can see it's already there but we're gonna have to click on this one and show you on black
now you can size it down it doesn't need to be that big I'll go middle of the chest
something like that now you can still add color to these I would have done it in a
Photopea or make sure to pick the colors in canva now this is just a basic black
and white version but you can see it turned out pretty good it has the distressed texture
it's right on there we're gonna do it on this one too just so you can see kind of size it
and this is something a dad could wear anytime when he's born to grill it's nice and funny
because it says born to grill Backyard Barbecue champ so he'll feel like he's a champ when he's
barbecuing and it's something that he can wear anytime he grills something right so let's put
these two T-shirts together uh they'll before and after I'll have it right here and you can
see the difference ones um it's designed it has nice design but is not made for the Right
audience where this one we're trying to design it for the Right audience with the distressed
texture and the the sayings and the big fonts for the big bold fonts and all of that of course this
will work for women as well if they want to buy one of these and they they love to grow
I think it's still work it doesn't say Dad on it but it is kind of barbecue related kind of
that roughness with the distressed texture and I think this circle design also makes a great
designed for some of these other products right now if you wanted to go in there
and change up uh the design in photo p now let's say we wanted to do this um
we could fill this with black and make that a sticker so if you wanted to come in here and
just change the whole thing to Black we could do the same thing background select pixels use that
Paint Bucket right and kind of fill it or use your use your brush
and kind of make the brush really big and kind of brush it on now you could brush on
different colors too so if you wanted to come in here and um you know do some red
white and blue I think that would be great let's do that just just for fun
red
I'll do white
and then we'll do blue
right what does that look like on a black shirt and that cool red white and blue so you could do
something like that so there's lots of different ways you could do this and have fun with this
um I think this this would also be a really great uh t-shirt design so there you go hopefully some
of those techniques were really helpful for you now if you have Kittl already they already have
distressed texture so you don't have to do the Photopea thing but I think it was a nice
to learn how to do it in different styles so if you only have Canva you have to do the distress
texture in Photopea but some other places you can like Affinity designer illustrator you can
drag in those things and do it there as well so lots of different ways to do this hopefully
this helps you with your summer designs I have other level up designs in fact I have a whole
playlist of level up design so I'll put that playlist right here so you can learn some of
the other techniques for your designs hopefully this will help you get some sales thanks again for
watching and as always guys keep creating and keep learning I'll see you on the next one bye foreign