what's up guys thank you for joining me
for a new video this one is going to be
a design tutorial i'm going to show you
how i made
the all over print pattern that i used
last week on my amazon merch review of
the two new product types
the throw pillows and the tote bags so
if you missed that video i'll put a link
to it right here
in case you want to see me review those
uh brand new amazon merch
products but the design that i used in
them was original
it was basically where i took photos of
some micro chihuahuas and then i cut
them out and then i
created this kind of funny to me it
looks like kind of like a meme like an
internet meme
if you've ever seen the ones where
there's like faces kind of floating
through outer space
that was kind of the vibe that i got
from this pattern that i created
and essentially i'm going to show you
guys how i created that pattern because
i asked you to comment below last time
if you were interested and there was
some interest so if you're ready let's
get started
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all right so the process i used to
create
this design or this pattern i don't know
what to call it let's just call it an
all-over design pattern and by the way
when i say all over design i don't mean
that it
tiles seamlessly you know how sometimes
the designs do that
i'm nowhere near that level of
sophistication or skill
as far as my graphic design abilities go
so what i essentially did was
made a pattern that can kind of repeat
and
looks fine you know what i mean or if
you don't repeat it like i'm pretty sure
when i uploaded to amazon merch i don't
think i repeated the pattern anyways
first thing you got to do is have
something to take a photo of or i guess
you can use digital artwork it doesn't
have to start with a photo
but i'm going to talk through how i did
it and it all starts with your
you know your phone your camera whatever
it is you want to use to take pictures
snap a picture load it up to your
computer so typically i'll take a photo
from my phone upload it to google drive
download it from google drive
and pull it into photoshop and then the
next thing i do is i use the um this is
just my personal preference by the way
the graphic designers out there if you
have a better way of doing this let me
know i'm very receptive
i'm sure there has to be a better way at
times but this is how i do it so i use
the polygonal lasso tool
and also the first thing i do is behind
me on the layer panel
i'll probably select and then copy paste
it and then turn off the background by
doing that then i can cut out the
pieces like this and it shows through
the background of photoshop and doesn't
just show through the background of
the photo itself i think if you turn if
you don't duplicate the background layer
it'll show whatever color you have set
as the the background in photoshop
so anyways that's a quick tip but then
after that all i really do is
this is partially how i do like youtube
thumbnails when you know in youtube
thumbnails how people are cut out
i just do something like this where i'll
just kind of you know you don't have to
spend all day on it either you can just
kind of click pretty quickly
and go along the edge and
there's some little tricks to it like
you can if you if you ever played like
fantasy football for instance or fantasy
basketball and you click in and you see
the player
uh profile pictures and stuff like that
like i'm pretty sure they
have professional graphic designers zoom
in to like really high resolution photos
and that's how they cut out the players
for the profile pictures but i'm not
doing anything close to that level of
granularity
i'm just doing kind of like a quick
whatever feels like it works best
style cutout and so something like that
should work just fine and
the next thing i'd do is i'd probably go
to file new and make square dimensions
maybe make it like
well i guess i should have looked up
whatever the dimensions are for the
amazon merch pillows i don't have it
memorized i typically write it down
because
if it's not 4500 by 5400 then i just use
merch resize
which is this website i talked about it
in the pillows and tote bags but
videos but essentially with merch resize
it's a free tool you can drag and drop
your designs
and convert it with like two clicks into
whatever it needs to be
so anyways i'll just do 1000 by 1000
and i'll take the picture of onyx and
cut it
and paste it straight into here maybe
make it a little bit smaller
and this i'm not going to rebuild the
whole design because i don't want to
take all that time i think you guys get
the gist so
use the polygonal lasso tool cut out
whatever you need
um here i can show you you know the
assets i used
for this um the ult ultimately what was
the design that i used on the
amazon merch pattern so
essentially you've got like some photos
like the one i just showed you and when
you cut it out
you don't have to save your png asset
your cutout asset with that outer glow
i did in this case but i didn't do it in
every single case like you can see pablo
here
i used this photo and
you can see i cut out his head but i
didn't put the outer glow there and same
with piggy
here oh no i did i put the outer glow on
her here
so if i pull this into photoshop you can
see
if i put a background layer behind her
and fill it in so you can see there i
added a uh
a stroke of about two pixels maybe four
pixels i guess it all depends on what
size the actual image is
and then i put like a white outer glow
so if i pull these in
to uh my demo template here my demo
canvas
what i would do with onyx is i would
right click the layer behind me on the
right hand side
go to blending options um i if i recall
like i don't think
i needed a stroke on him but i mean i
can just show you if i was going to do
it i'd probably go to center so go to
stroke
and then on the right hand side where it
says position i'd probably do center
and i'd probably change the color to
black or you know maybe use the
eyedropper and select like onyx color
black
to match his fur right and then
maybe reduce the size down to like four
or three something where it's not too
noticeable even two
and then i'd also go ahead and select an
outer glow
and i would change the color to that
same color black
and the blend mode may need to change
from screen to
normal and after that i should just be
able to play with the size
so there we go i think that looks pretty
good
i mean keep in mind like we're kind of
having fun with it it's not meant to
look super
realistic otherwise you could just use
the photo that we started with
so i probably do something like this
maybe i mean the stroke to me is too
bold so if i was being picky i'd
probably
change this to like a lighter color less
noticeable
something like a grayish you know like
that that looks a little bit better to
me
all right and that would be the onyx
head and then what i do is um
bring over pablo
and piggy
all right so we got the three chihuahuas
that we
um though i don't want to say adopted
because that would not be accurate we
paid
a premium for the three micro chihuahuas
and i don't know if anybody actually
cares but we ended up like giving
piggy to my parents because it was not a
good fit for marielle and i and then we
got pablo but it's been a
my parents love her to death so it's
actually worked out great and those of
you guys that have been subscribed to
the channel
uh you may have seen booboo and murphy
in previous videos they're no longer
with us just due to
old age unfortunately um so anyways
back to the design tutorial as you can
see here with pablo
i am going to also apply an outer glow
uh it
automatically applied those settings
from the onyx cutout so i'm just going
to change the color
to a brown that i think matches or looks
good
on him uh for some reason some of these
are coming in like
really is it because it's at 80 opacity
maybe all right i'll turn up the opacity
and choose a little bit of a lighter
brown that's a little bit more fun
kind of an orangish brown alright there
we go and then the
cutout that i used for piggy already has
the white
the white uh glow so no need to do
anything there
and then this is really all i did guys
so you see how we have our three
um layers here i'm gonna just ctrl
t so i've selected all three layers and
i control tied and then i made them
about the same size roughly relative to
each other
and then this is really all i did and
again you might have a better way if you
do let me know in the comments below but
all i did was i select all three of
these layers
and i actually might uh move piggy in a
little bit more central
like that all right so then what i'm
going to do is i'll probably just make a
new layer
combine all of these into one layer and
then select
all and just kind of pa copy paste copy
paste copy paste
a whole bunch of times
like that and kind of you can just tweak
it you can rotate
you can make it big you can make it
small so
this is essentially what i would do and
essentially how i created it initially
it does kind of put a load on your
computer it asks a lot of the computing
resources
so that's something to be mindful of as
you do it
but this was basically
how i made the design so i'm just
literally copy paste copy paste copy
paste
make some big make some small have fun
with it
you can also go into like edit transform
flip horizontal so now you've got some
looking to the left some looking to the
right
after i do the actual the left or the
reverse facing one you know what i might
do
is i might copy that layer and now put a
bunch that are facing the opposite
direction
like that and now i'm just trying to
kind of fill in the gaps too that i see
there
that i see left in the the design
you know
and once the gaps are filled then you
can kind of make it work on like
differentiating
so now the whole background is kind of
full i can
paste new layers resize rotate et cetera
to kind of make it more asymmetric
less predictable etc so that's basically
all i did right there
i think you can kind of just freehand it
to fill up the background
and then once the whole space is filled
um all the layers that you paste you
know i'm just hitting ctrl
t on my keyboard and when i hit ctrl t
you will be able i guess i can show you
a quick demo of ctrl t
if you guys haven't seen that i'm just
gonna make a new layer so then i paste
the image
and you can either hit ctrl t on your
keyboard it's the
shortcut for the equivalent of going to
edit in photoshop
and then going to free transform which
is right above transform
and then you get that outline and you
can just click next to the corner
and you can spin also you can drag any
of these boxes
in and out and it will resize
everything and in the new versions of
photoshop it automatically keeps them to
scale in the old version of photoshop
you have to hold shift
so in the new now it's reversed so now
which actually makes sense but now if
you want to like skew it you hold shift
and it lets you kind of
manipulate without it automatically
keeping the dimensions
the same so that's basically it i hope
that's um
a good enough tutorial i there's a
reason why i started a youtube channel
dedicated to
like making money through e-commerce and
not a photoshop tutorial
youtube channel because i know there's
people out there that are better at
photoshop than i am
i like i said this is how i did it if
there's a better way
um let me know share it with me when you
find it but otherwise like this is
pretty much it you know
had some fun making it everybody that's
seen the
finished product that knows piggy
onyx and pablo uh they love it so
yeah let me if you want to compare the
two that's essentially whoops not there
here essentially that's how i uh built
this
design so this is the original
and this is the recreation that we just
did on this video
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enjoyed the tutorial just wanted to let
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