In this video I'm gonna show you how to use a tie dye pattern in your designs so that you can make
a t-shirt that looks like this. We're gonna get the tie-dye pattern off the internet from Canva
and I'm gonna show you how to put it all together in Affinity Designer. 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 want to talk about tie dye patterns.
Now when you think tie-dye patterns you think of the whole shirt being tie-dyed something
like these right here this is really popular or has been really popular in the 70s and that 70s
retro designs are coming back now you're seeing it in patterns on t-shirts i have a few videos
about some of those i have one right here with the wavy designs those are kind of 70s patterns right
so this one is also kind of taking that 70s design element the tie dye and putting it in
your designs and it's become really popular if you look on merch by amazon here are some
ideas for merch by amazon and as well as red bubble if you look up tie dye you can
see tie dye is very popular right now because of that 70s retro designs that are coming back
i'm going to show you where you can get those tie-dye patterns from the internet there's lots
of different places in this video we're going to look at canva but i'm going to show you some
other places that you can find tie-dye designs and then i'm going to show you how to put that design
into your text or whatever object that you have in affinity designer so we're going to go step
by step it's really easy to do you're going to be surprised how easy it is to do once you find
the tie-dye pattern basically that's the hardest part to find a good tie-dye pattern that works so
let's get into the internet right now and i'll show you where to find tie-dye patterns
all right so here we are on the internet i i pulled up a couple of different places so first
creative market you may be familiar with that you can go to creativemarket.com lots
of different things you can find here including fonts and graphics so i just typed in tie dye
like this and you can see lots of different ideas for tie dye different colors and things like that
they actually have mock-ups and different pastel tie dyes and so on they got pages and pages of
them so if you want to go here if you're more comfortable here with creative market they do
cost they're not free but you can use these for commercial purposes right if you buy those those
rights the next one is creative fabrica they also have some cool stuff and they have stuff
where it's already done so they got tie dye and a bear tie dye in in text and different shapes you
can see here mom life with tie dye already there i'm going to teach you kind of how to do this
in affinity designer by putting the tie dye in the text but if you don't want to do that yourself you
can see for two dollars or or whatever the cost is on some of these they have it already done so
uh in flowers and things like that right and in vecteezy if you go to vectesia as well i'll put
all these links in the description but there's some fun ones here with the colors and these are
photos but there's also vector tie dyes right and they say free but if you click on here and
you'll have to do attribution which is kind of weird for t-shirts so i would i wouldn't do the
free just go pay for it if you if you really like it right because that's kind of hard to
put attribution in your t-shirt designs so lots of cool colors i really like the selection here
because this is kind of what we're looking for is these kind of tie dyes right
now i'm gonna use canva for this uh tutorial so i'm gonna go here in elements i'm already in canva
i got my artboard here you can see i've looked for some already i'll show you how to do it tie dye
and i'm on the pro version so you can see there's a ton of them for pro so if
you're on pro just go to graphics photo not graphics well there's some graphics
but mainly photo is what we want you can see right here either one would work the the thing about
photos is there's a lot more designs for the photos and there are some free ones
but you're really limited so i'll show you what the free ones are by clicking free here
apply filters and you basically got these two the other ones are are kind of i mean i guess that's
no that's not really tie-dye so we're gonna pick just for those that only have the free version
i'm going to show you how you can do it with the free version so you got this one right here
again not the best tie dye it's not even filling the space but you get the idea i'm going to put it
top so we have the whole thing right here and this is my 4 500 by 5400 art board right here what i'm
going to do is i'm going to hit share and i'm going to go download and you can do transparent
background for free so i'm just gonna do what the free person would do is png i think you can still
do pdf standards so let's try that pdf standard for free download and it's gonna download to
my desktop i'm going to pull that into affinity designer and i'll show you how to put this inside
of some text so here we are in affinity designer i got my artboard the 4500x5400 and then i brought
in that picture right so you can see right there the tie dye now we just need some text so i'm just
going to type in i'm going to the artist text tool right here and type here and i'm going to do love
and i'll make this bigger i'm just using this font right here nexa rust sands you want a
thick font and if you can find a retro font even better this one's not very retro uh we do have
some retro ones in here but find your favorite retro font mainly kind of like wavy or kind of
big and round and and things like this this one's not very round but you'll get the idea on how how
to do it i'm just going to do this because it's easy i'm going to do love peace and joy so peace
very easy
i'm copying holding down option and copying these so i'm just typing in joy and and and you can come
in here and tighten it up so if you do option hold down option and then left arrow you can see i'm
moving the e closer moving the v closer moving the o closer you kind of want to tighten it up
especially when you have uh those retro texts kind of push it together as close as you can and that's
mainly so that you can see the this pattern behind it a lot easier right so let me because it's it
makes it look more like one piece so we saw that um bear that had the tie dye in the back of it
or any kind of silhouette silhouettes work really well because it's one big piece so you can see the
tie dye a little better so i'm just going to come in here and tighten these up and then move these
kind of out so that they're one and you don't have to do this but i like making it so it's that
rectangle the tall rectangle right so we'll just bring this out
right there very easy so we got this whole thing now we want to fill the space kind of that um tall
rectangle space you can see it's doing pretty well there and kind of butt these up against almost
right up against each other so and that's going to help with the design being in there all right
so next thing we're going to do is we're going to convert these to curves so just hit convert curves
right here and then ungroup them and click this convert curves and ungroup them convert to curves
ungroup and last one here convert to curves and ungroup now you should have all of these
together as separate objects and you're going to put them all together right here you can see
this in the layers i'm going to show you we're going to add these all together and
now they're just one thing right here you see it so this will be the text
i'm going to type in text and now i'm going to bring in this image over the text like this and
make sure that it covers all of the text so we want that like that and the last thing to do
and it's real simple is grab it right here in the layers palette bring it down and inside the text
so you see what i did there and you'll see that it does it right here on preview and let go and
there you go it's right in there now if you want a dark background you can change this white to black
just to kind of see what it would look like on a black t-shirt and if you're not happy with this
uh where it's at you can click on this right here and just move it around so now it's moving around
the tech so you can see maybe you want it a little lower maybe you want uh the yellow to stand out
over there maybe you want to burst over the oh and you can make it bigger too so if you want it
just a lot bigger and take up the space you can as well or smaller if you want it
just right up to the edge is what we did so we're going to do right up to the edge here and you can
see it's cutting off it's it's not filling that so make sure that it fills every letter right
there now you could also put a white background around it just so it stands out a little more and
you just click on the text and click here and do a white background or any color you want and then
make the text make sure the stroke right here is a little bigger so you can see right here i'm just
making the text bigger now you may want to put this on the outside so right here align stroke to
outside and you can see boom it does it very very simple to do now you could do this on an object
as well so if you want to make your own peace sign for example let me show you how to do that
let's move this artboard over here i'm going to do another artboard i'm just going to copy option
click drag let's get rid of these text here and let's just do a circle so hold down shift
to make a perfect circle you can take this width up big like that make it in the center
right there so that's going to start our piece sign right and just take our tool here our pen
tool hold down shift to make it straight and then a piece sign has straight here these
two lines so just take this pen tool again kind of come right up up to the middle here
and just so that we get that angle the same on the other side you can hold down option and drag
it here and then flip it right there okay now to make this an object whoops to make this an object
let's select all of these now these are paths so we want to convert these paths so go to layer
and expand the stroke now it's one big thing and make sure to hit this ad again so i had
to take this out of here the tie dye pattern so now that you have the tie dye pattern here
we're gonna put it over the peace sign that you just made
and then we're going to drag it into it like that now this piece sign has the tie dye in it and you
can make it whatever you want you could also put this let's say this is a white background instead
you could do an opposite and put a black border on it so
like that so that can be a cool sticker or whatever you want you can do it with
any object we saw it on the bears we saw it on different silhouettes hand signs peace signs
hang loose signs whatever it is you can do that on here and you can change this too so if you want to
come in here and play around with some of these look at some of these things that it does if you
want to do like a lighter one this is hard light this is vivid light if you want to scroll down to
negation or some of these other ones work kind of cool
this one is average so it's kind of lighter so you can play around with some of these filters as well
so styles right so play around with that that's how you do it um try it out with different fonts
with different objects uh create your own objects and things like that and i think
it would do really well for print-on-demand for t-shirts as well as stickers on redbubble and t
public in any place that sells stickers so have fun with these create your own things don't copy
anybody but you know try different colors try different tie-dye patterns that you find on the
internet with different colors and things so very versatile very fun to do make some that are your
own and hopefully get lots of sales so that is it for this video hopefully this video is really
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to design t-shirts and other products for print on demand the question of the day for this video is
have you done a tie-dye pattern before any pattern in text let me know that in the comments if you
like learning how to do different patterns let me know what kind of patterns you would like to see
thanks again for watching this video and if you want to see more tutorials click on these videos
right here and as always guys keep creating and keep learning i'll see you on the next one bye