So just recently you guys left in the comments that you wanted to see a video on how to create
T-shirt designs using canva com. So in this video we're going to get into that step-by-step. Hi everyone
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So in this video we're going to get into how to create
T-shirt designs using canva calm now to give you a little bit of backstory. I always recommend using one of two smartphone apps
That's Type O Rama if you are on an iPhone and word swag if you are on an Android device
Now where this gets a little bit hairy is tybo
Rama is completely
Commercially usable so you can make designs on there and then you can put them straight on t-shirts and you can profit from the sales
Of those t-shirts now as far as word swag goes for Android users
It's partially commercially usable some of the fonts are commercial usable
Some of them are not but you can't tell which ones are which so with that said there's kind of a gray area
Until the app goes fully commercially usable. So it's almost used at your own risk for Android users now, that's not ideal
so that's why I recommend using
canva com canva comm is a completely free to use graphic design tool that you can use on a
computer this way you can do it whether you have a Mac or you have a PC anyone can use this but with that being
Said it can be a little bit tricky
So in this video, I'm gonna go through everything from start to finish so you can start making t-shirt designs on canva
All right, without further ado. Let's hop in the computer and go to canva.com and that's where we'll start
All right. So this is canva com. I've just logged into my account
You can just set up a free account
And this is what it will look like once you're logged in so a couple things we need to know right off the bat here
is typically people will go in and they will choose one of these preset templates to go off of
Now creating t-shirt designs. We need it to be a big file size
So when it's printed on a t-shirt, which is actually a pretty big print it's going to maintain its quality and not get blurry
so as you hover over some of these things you can see it's
940 by 788 pixels and these really aren't that big a thousand by a thousand
so what we need to do is we neither click right here or what I like to do is just create a design and
Then go to custom dimensions and then here we'll go as big as they allow us to go, which is 5,000 pixels by
5,000 pixels and we'll create a new design now we have a completely blank template that we can start with on canvas here
That's 5,000 pixels by 5,000. So when we put this on a shirt, it'll be plenty big
So where I like to start is actually over on the text
So here you can find a bunch of different
layouts and fonts that you can use for text on a shirt so you can scroll through any of these and find one that you
Want to go with and I'll just go with one of the first ones here right here
This is a perfect example. So you just click this once and
As you can see how big our background is. This is perfect
Since this is text we can make this as big as we want and it'll maintain its quality
so I'm going to drag this all the way out here until
It basically fills the space and then we can start to change this
so the first thing we need to do is as you can see all of these designs have
Multiple different types of font on them. So that's because they're grouped together and it's different types of fonts in one template
so the very first button we hit is ungroup and
Then when we click off of it anywhere off of the template here
We can see that when we hover over it has the different elements separately. So we only need this main one here
So I'm just gonna click on this once and hit the delete button on my keyboard or the backspace. That'll do it, too
And now this is what we're dealing with. This is going to be perfect
So now once you get your inspiration, there's other videos that I have on this channel and where to find ideas for shirts
But let's just say that we're going to make one around the yoga niche
Which I typically use I'm just gonna fill this in kind of ad-lib as we go here. So I'm gonna fill this in yoga and
Then it looks like a longer word right here. So let's go with sunshine and
This is just for example sake this might not even make sense when I put this together, you know
Go sunshine and a shorter word here
Y-yo, go sunshine and wine. Okay, that might actually make a pretty cool shirt
I haven't done any research on this but this is what I'm gonna use for this example
So then as you can see here, the sunshine actually went off of the template so it will cut it off
so there's two things we can do if you run into this you can triple click and
It'll select everything here or you can just click and drag to select all of this and we can change it to let's say 900
And that'll make it fit right there. Now the second thing that we can do
I'm just going to go back to where we just work. The second thing we can do is just drag in these corners here
So just drag that in a little bit then I'll fit just like that
And what I like to do is put this towards the top of the design
So when we put it on the shirt
It is at chest level and we shouldn't have to do much altering
Once we upload it to one of the print-on-demand sites that we're using whether that's teespring
Or merch by Amazon RedBubble any of the others?
so with that being said just make sure that it's not too close to any other sides where it's going to get cut off and
Make sure that it's more towards the top than the bottom and just one more thing before we move on
This is going to be left-justified. So as you can see the words are coming from the left and they're not centered typically ago
It's centered but on some of these it looks kind of cool just to put it left justified
So I'm going to leave that as is so this design is ready to go
So now all we have to do is download it
So we hit this little download button right here
and
One of the things with canva is I would love to be able to just hit this button right here and it would export it
With a transparent background and we could go straight on to a t-shirt, but that is a premium feature
So if you try to turn this on you have to do 30 days of a free trial and then you have to start paying
For that I really prefer not to add on extra bills, so I don't want to pay for this
So I'm going to show you the workaround after this
so with that being said
All we have to do now is just select PNG make sure that's set we can either go with PNG or jpg
PNG is a little bit higher quality when we're exporting from canva
So make sure we select
PNG and then just download and it only takes a second here and then it'll be downloaded right onto your computer and
As you can see now we have this design right on our computer and it has a white background
So as I was just saying
There's one more step we need to do here and that's to remove the background
Whenever you're uploading a design to print-on-demand or a t-shirt in general
You don't want to have a colored background
unless that's part of the design that you're going with it will show that background color when it's printed and on the mock-ups that you
Get on these print-on-demand sites
it's not going to look right because you'll have a slightly different color white on a white shirt and
Long story short is just make sure you take the background out before you upload at any of these sites
So if you are using a Mac, you are definitely in luck. I use a Mac. It's an Apple computer
So with that being said, all we have to do is really one step here. So I'm just gonna make this a little smaller
All we have to do is hit this little pencil icon right here
Which is the Edit and then we come to the instant alpha tool right here and all we have to do is click that
turn that on and then anywhere that it's white in the background, all you have to do is click and
drag and
It will select everything that is connected and that color so as you can see the white inside of the dots is not connected
So we'll have to do that next but it selects everything that is white and connected
So all you do is just drag it and then let go and all of that will be selected
Now something I do want to show you is that if I click off of this and do that again?
The further you drag the more detail that gets so as you can see if you go too far
It'll select all the black as well. So we want to go just until it's just
Behind the black so that means we are as close to the text as we possibly can be while deleting all the white
so since that's all selected now, all we have to do is hit the Delete or backspace button and
it deletes the whole background right there now just make sure you don't miss all of the little white dots that are inside of the
shapes
So we'll click those drag them and delete
And now we have a design that's our text with no background so this is ready to go on to tea spring
This is ready to go on to red bubble
now if you were to upload this on to merch by Amazon
You have to do one more step now
If you are familiar with merch by Amazon, it's another huge print on demand
but the only different requirement is they have a specific pixel ratio for the designs that you upload which is
4,500 pixels by
5,400 pixels when we made this design. It was 5000 pixels by 5000 pixels
Now there's two things we can do here when we make all of our designs in the future
We could make them four thousand five hundred pixels by five thousand four hundred pixels right off the bat and that would solve the problem
Now if you are designing on type arama, or if you did five thousand by five thousand here
There's just one other step you have to take here and it's very simple. It's this website right here called bulk resize photos calm and
Extremely simple to use and completely free
All you have to do is choose the image right here
And then once we've selected that image just change a couple things so change 50 to 100 and then we'll go to exact dimensions
4500 by
5,400 and
then switch it to expert mode which is completely free to do and we'll just switch it to a PNG which will have a
Transparent background make sure that the padding is turned on you want that to be checked?
That's so it's not going to stretch or squash your image. It won't distort your text. And then all you do is start resizing
It only takes literally a second here and now safe to our computer
We have both the first one that we made and we have the second one that is now formatted for merge by Amazon
So it's kind of cool about that is teespring and bread bubble and all the other print-on-demand websites
They don't have a specific size that you have to upload
so technically you can design them all in four thousand five hundred by five thousand four hundred and be able to upload them to
every print-on-demand website
So now when you're uploading your design to these websites
They are plenty big so you can zoom in and when they're printed you won't lose any clarity because they're huge designs
So just make sure that when you're uploading on merch by Amazon
You're selecting the second version of it that we just made on this bulk resize photos. So it's formatted properly
So the last thing kind of goes without saying and that's that if you're on a Mac
It's going to be extremely easy to take the background, but if you are on a PC
It's going to be a little bit more difficult
Either you're going to need Photoshop or go to Google and find a website. That'll allow you to do it on their website
I know
Pixlr editor will allow you to do it and you can do that on any computer
Online photo scissors will allow you to do it
But at the end you can only export in low quality
So it's iffy if you're going to upload that to a shirt if you want to export in their high quality
You have to pay so with that being said if you are on a PC, there's a million different ways to do this
But you may have to do a little bit extra homework to find out how to remove the background or the other thing is you
can just use the free 30 day trial on canva and get as many designs through there with the
Transparent background as you can and just try to stockpile them within your 30 days before you would have to pay
So I hope this video has helped you guys if you have any questions about how to make t-shirt designs on canva leave them down
In the comments and I'll get an answer back to you
And also if you have any specific video topics that you want to see leave them in the comments as well and I'll add them
To the video list and make them for you. Alright guys. I hope you enjoyed this one and I'll see you in the next one
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