In this video I wanted to talk about Kittl's new feature which is the mask
feature. You can use this to mask out different things I want to show you why
this is so important and give you five ways to use this new feature in Kittl. Let's go!!
Hey guys this is Juna with Detour Shirts. In this video I'm going to talk about the new mask feature
in Kittl now the mask feature is very important because now it adds a way for you to mask out
something previous to this this mask feature you would have to block out the graphic design with
a like a black box or whatever the background color of it is and then when you try to export
it you would still get that black box so in this way with this new feature you're going to be able
to mask everything out and you don't have to put like different things to block out the graphics
you can cut the graphics or crop the graphics in a way so that it shows up on the shirt and has a
transparent background so this is very important to Kittl this is a great step for T-shirt design
in Kittl I'm going to show you five different ways that you can use this so it's always great
to get new features in an app and I wanted to show you how to use these new features instead of you
just putting it on the side and not touching it so I'm going to give you five ways that you can
use it there's lots of different ways that you can use these masks but hopefully these weights
will help you in your T-shirt design or whatever you're designing and to use this mask feature as
part of your design so let's get into Kittl right now let's not waste any time and let's go into
the five different ways that I can show you to use the maps feature so here we are on KIttl kittl.com
right here and I love coming on Kittl every time I come on here there's like new stuff and look
at these templates wow these are so cool I want to I want to make t-shirts like these these are
cool anime t-shirts and of course there's other stuff I I got some of my stuff on here but let's
get to the task on hand and that is to use the new feature mask so I'm going to start a new project
I like doing um you know you can do your standard but I like doing 4500 by 5400 even
though we're not going to make a t-shirt design this is good practice for you to
um do a t-shirt design on this one right here and then of course the orientation is this way uh 72
DPI is fine you can do 300 DPI to make it super crisp but you can leave it at that okay so I'm
going to hit create and here's this right here so the new mask feature is right here under elements
and you go to shapes and you can see it's number three right here this is all shapes of basic
shapes and masks that just added this um maybe a week ago or less I want to show you how this
works so the first one I'm going to show you how to do is called what I'm calling the simple crop
just a very simple crop um I'm gonna do a um grab this one well let's show all the masks first so
there's 62 of them right here and if you want to see all of them let's do this look at that
all those I'm hoping in the future they're going to add letters to this too but right
now there's a ton of shapes and these are shapes that we already have on Kittle but now these are
mask shaped so pretty cool um let me close this and let's just do like a simple crop so I'm just
going to use this guy right here the rectangle and I'm going to show you how I would use this
so let's say I had a rectangle let's go back to shapes and let's say I had a rectangle like this
right and I I made a design in here um let's say it was a let's do something fun here um about a
border right here um maybe my color of my t-shirt is red whatever right and my background is Maybe
well let's leave it black it doesn't matter all right so now that this mask
I have this mask here watch what I can do I'm gonna make this mask about the same size
right there and then let's look for a silhouette of a city so I think I just type in city in
elements and there's a bunch of cityscapes right here so let's say we wanted to use this city
right I wanted to put my city here you know like a poster or part of it and the only way
we could have done it before let me do it in white let's say I only wanted this part of the city the
only way we could do it before is to take like a square like we had before and go in here and then
kind of mask it out this way and make make this um red right and then that kind of masks it out
and look I have a mask City but when you download this this is still here it's not
a transparent background you get rid of this red background but you'll still have
this red square so how do we do it with mass so we can do this so let's put the mask here
um same size and we'll drag this into the mask you see how I do it and then let's get rid of this
right here and then double click on it and you're going to be able to size this down so we'll move
this and then just size it down to the size we want so and I could make this smaller but I just
want to I don't want to move my window but you could have moved your window okay so let's see
see now I'm masking it out of here and there's nothing in the background and then I can move this
like if I want this the same color background or I could do a transparent background so let's do this
transparent and then I bring this back whoop
I'll move this down and I bring this back up here like this and then it's Mass so now when
I do the transparent background it's just this we don't have the red square so you can do this
with anything anything that's longer than you want it to be so if you had like a forest that
you could do it with anything right so let me let me go back here um let's say Beach
and let's say Let's do let's take this guy out oh I think you can just drop it
in so we got the mask on top let's say we want this beach instead boom double click
you know you don't want that Jagged Edge you just want it straight
boom it's cropped inside of it right cool and then because it's transparent you can
make this the blue background or whatever it is right and it's cropped inside of it
and you can make it bigger or smaller let's say you want it cropped like that
totally easy so simple crop in a shape you can use any of the shapes too I just use the the
rectangle but this is the simple crop great for things that you want to cut off the edges for
or the bottom or whatever it is so so masking example number two I'm going to show you how
to crop something in half so we're going to use the same one let's go back to this and I'm going
to do the tall rectangle you can use anything but tall rectangle it will work in this case
so let's do this and let's say we want to crop something in half like this half of the page
right like that so let's do that um and then let's do sunflower so we've seen these before
we'll take a sunflower put it here and maybe we only want half of it so double click on it move
it to where it's half of it boom and then of course um get rid of the background boom now
you have half of this sunflower you don't have to put a white square over here now you can actually
crop it and then put your text here you all seen this and then you can put a face here you can do
half of a world half of a whatever so this is very popular on t-shirt designs you've probably
seen this everywhere I'll put some examples here but uh yeah just put your text here and
Away you go you got some really cool design for a T-shirt and very simple we just cut
it in half with the mask and away we go so the next idea I want to show you is how to crop it
with like a distressed shape so there's a bunch of them here which is really cool I'm going to
pull it up again the mask let's just do this one it's the first one so you can see it's kind of
cool right here like it has some Jagged edges right so let's do this let's um find anime so
right here a lot of cool anime stuff just added to um to Kittle so you can do some colored ones
you can do some black and white ones look at all that cool stuff so maybe we just want part of
it so I'm gonna grab one of these and let me see let's just draw that in there look how cool that
is and you can change the color of the background remember um this background can be transparent
but it can also be like a blue or whatever see that so you can say something about anime here
you've seen you've all seen these t-shirts I love anime or anime this no it doesn't just have to be
anime I used anime as an example but it can be a beachscape it can be whatever it is can be a city
whatever photo you want and in fact they have photos on here so I mean we could do it with
photos too right so we could come in here and say maybe I want uh I don't know maybe this ski
photo check that out Isn't that cool and it has the distressed edges and everything like that so
um use it with photos use it with bigger Graphics I like to use these with like
um bigger pictures that I want to crop but have the nice cool Edge and this technique will give
your design some interest and make people want to stop in and look at it so I think this is a great
idea again there's a there's a bunch of masks here so there's this distressed one and if we go down
we will see this one right here you know we got this one right here so a bunch of ways that you
can do this you don't have to just use that first one but again I love having that distressed Edge
and it will help you give some interest to your T-shirt design so in this next one I'm calling it
cropping it down now this will be really good for cropping something that's um although we already
showed how to crop it halfway vertically I'm going to show you how to crop it halfway horizontally
and this is great for the Vintage Sunset stuff that we have on here on Kittle so let me do do
a vintage sunset first I'll type it in here and kiddo is great it has a ton of them you can see
all these different ones right here but typically on t-shirt designs we don't use the whole thing we
use like an arc of it so maybe these two are cut off again before this masking feature we would
probably put like a white square over this so that you only see part of it but with mass now you can
actually mask it out so let me show you how to do that I'm going to come here to mask again and
pick one it doesn't matter which one but you want a straight edge on the bottom if you want to cut
that straight edge so let's do this let's just do this one right here and we're going to have
to make it bigger than the part that we want like that okay and let's put this in the back
and now we're going to move this in here so now it's in the mask but we're going to double click
it and make it bigger or not make it bigger we're going to move the mask around so double click and
then we're going to move this down like this and maybe actually make it smaller like that
great so now we're only showing this part of the Vintage Sunset again we can come in here take this
off and now we have this shape which is used a lot in t-shirt design if you go back and look
at all the t-shirt designs with vintage sunsets it's usually like this with a bottom Edge that's
cropped that's straight and that's because you can put text under here and make it work well right
um we got the we can do this in Kittle we got the rounded text up here or straight text and
then something in on the bottom and then maybe a silhouette or something like that so this right
here this is key for a lot of the Vintage Sunset designs that you may do on print on demand and
again you can use all these vintage sunsets right so you can use any of these colors and the nice
thing about Kittle is you can change these colors so these right here if you don't like
that color of blue and maybe you want like more of a teal blue or whatever you can do that right
make it darker like that so this is great for kiddo not only do you have the um the right
shape now and it's all masked out you can actually change the color so this one is one of my favorite
uh things to do with the masking Kittle I can see lots of possibilities with this and not just this
one but you can do it with any any round shape you can cut off the bottom and just have this Arc so
great for any other Circle shapes or any shapes that you need the bottom cut off the last one
I want to show you number five is cropping in a heart shape now this one's going to be really good
for Valentine's Day and and anything that people want to say I love this for t-shirts so let me
show you what I mean so I'm going to go back and then go to mask again and pick a heart there's
a bunch of different Hearts I think there's three or four different ones I'm just going to pick the
one on the top here you can see there's that heart now what can we do with the heart well
we can do a ton of things um and let's do like let's say sports first so let's say basketball
so we got a lot of basketball stuff in here let's just use this one
I'll do it in here now I'm going to double click and make it bigger
and there oh we got some pixelating going on I'm gonna refresh here
there you go so if you ever get pixelated on your design you can hit um refresh here but
look at this Isn't that cool a heart basketball so what else can you do with the heart so let's do
um elements here let's do flag
right so instead of that let's say we love France boom or the UK boom check how easy this is I can
just switch out let's say this one right like super simple I can make hard shapes for any of
these countries I can say I love Spain I love um whatever um Germany right boom so quick and then
I can scale this here and you know maybe give it like that and say I love Germany or whatever it is
um do Sports anything that people love really put it in a heart and you'll have a really cool
design so I can see using this a lot especially with flags with sports and other things patterns
would be great too so hopefully uh it'll add up to more patterns but check it out
check this pattern out boom right I can do it with patterns I can do it with people photos
right maybe there's something that you love in one of these photos I love coffee or whatever look at
that it already says love so this is great for Valentine's Day great for any uh t-shirt
design that you're gonna make that people love a certain hobby or certain sport a certain country
a certain like there's lots of things people love and people love to buy T-shirts that say I love
whatever right on there so have fun with this I may show a tutorial if you want to see a tutorial
on how to use this in a T-shirt design let me know that in the comments and I'll do a t-shirt design
with it but you can see there's like 62 different shapes for mass and so lots and lots of different
ways to use it hopefully these are really helpful get you started with mask and I think it's really
powerful especially for T-shirts because we want that transparent background for us so those are
the five examples that I had for masking again there can be lots of different examples on on
masking if you're new to kiddo I need to learn what kilo does or how to use keto I have this
video right here which is like a full tutorial on Kittle you can watch that and kind of get you
started if you haven't tried keto again or as a refresher you can watch this video video thanks
again for watching and as always keep creating and keep learning I'll see you on the next one bye