Hey everyone. Its Greg,
and today's video is going to be for anyone
using Merch by Amazon to sell print-on-demand T-shirts.
In this video, I'm going to show you an app
that you can use to do all of your designing.
You'll no longer need Photoshop. You won't need to outsource on Fiverr.
You can do it all right on your phone on a smartphone app.
So, there are two versions of this app.
There's a free version and there's also a $5 paid version.
I absolutely recommend a $5 paid version,
simply because it does not leave a watermark in the bottom corner.
So, you don't have to do any additional cropping or anything.
It's just very easy to use it.
So, what is this app? So, it's right here.
It's called Typorama.
As we can see it right over here. Just the 'T' right here.
So, we'll click that, and we'll open it up,
and what we want to do here is hit 'transparent.'
Let's come over here and hit 'transparent,'
and it gives us a transparent background to work with.
We're just gonna do original size,
and then, we'll hit 'next' up top.
And now, it's gonna bring us to all of the different designs
that we can use here.
I'm trying to get this focus to come in here, and there we go.
Now, you can start typing up top here,
and then, you can come down over here,
and you can choose from any of these designs,
and as you keep hitting them, it starts doing more random designs.
What I'm gonna do is just type in up top here.
Double tap that, and now, you can start editing it,
and you can type in whatever you want
if you really don't have any idea what to write.
Then you can come down here, and you can get a random quote,
and I'll start customizing things.
I wouldn't recommend using these exactly,
but you can use them for sources of inspiration.
Alll we have to do here is, there's either manual line breaks on or off.
If you want it to be exactly formatted like this,
then you can turn manual line breaks on.
Now, if you want it to just completely spin it
and put these words on different lines, then turn it off.
I recommend you turn it off and just let it work its magic,
and then, just hit done,
and that looks pretty basic.
But as we start hitting these things here,
it's gonna start giving us different designs.
And then, as you go over to different ones, a bunch of different designs.
If you pass one that you really liked,
all you got to do is hit 'history' right over here,
and it will bring you your last 15 right here.
So, you can choose from the last 15 go back to it.
That's a really nice thing that they just added,
but if we go back to 'styles,' and we keep coming through.
I don't just say we really like this one.
So, what do we have to do now?
We can change the color of it if we want to,
we can go over to color.
Oops! I just hit another one. So, we'll hit 'history,'
go back, pull over to color, and now, we can change the color of it
if we want to, and then, all we got to do is, just expand it.
So, it takes up a little bit more size, and then, just center it,
and the reason that I expand it is so that it's a little bit higher quality
when we go to export it or use it anywhere else,
you just get a little bit bigger of an image.
So, center it as close as you can there
and then, all we have to do here is, okay to share and save it,
and I'll save that right into your camera roll.
And now, all you have to do is send that to your computer,
so you can text that to yourself.
You can email that to yourself. You can make a bunch of these,
and then, email them all to yourself
and open it up on your computer, and then, save those files,
and then, what you have to do from here is,
because these will be in different pixel ratios,
depending on what the sizes, or what kind of design you made,
and as you know, on Merch, it's very specific,
SP 4500 pixels by 5,400 pixels and that's for the basic t-shirt.
As you tear up on Merch, those pixel ratios start to change a little bit,
so keep that in mind.
What I'm gonna do here is, I'm going to go into my computer,
and I'm going to show you what you can do to change the file sizes.
So, all you got to do is, come to bulkresizephotos.com.
This amazing website is free to use you can do 150 photos at once,
and it does that in under 60 seconds.
There's nothing to download.
I'm not affiliated with these guys at all,
but it's an awesome website to use.
All you got to do is, you can drag and drop your images in,
or you can just choose images and just pick.
These are all from Typorama.
So, you can select as many of these as you want at once,
and it'll resize them all into a zip file at the end,
just super easy, or you can just choose one.
I'm just gonna choose one for this example.
We'll do open, and there's a couple of things we have to change here.
So, scale. We're gonna do 100, and then,
we'll come right down to exact size.
We're gonna put in whatever Merch is asking for,
that's it, and then, a couple of more steps,
we're gonna switch from basic to pro, and it remains free.
So, there's no extra cost here,
and then, make sure that you keep proportions using padding.
So, it's not going to stretch your design out at all.
It'll just add more transparent background space if it needs to.
We're going to switch JPEG over to PNG.
So, we have that transparent background,
and then, we'll just hit 'start resizing.'
Watch how fast this is. It's already done.
So, just open that up and show you,
Now, the same design is formatted in 4500 pixels by 5400.
Now, save that in another folder,
then, you're ready to upload straight to Merch,
and everything is sized and ready to go.
So, hopefully that helps you guys.
If you have any questions, let me know.
I have my full Merch course that's hosted on Udemy,
down in the description if you want to use that.
It's got a YouTube discount built into the link.
So, let me know if you have any questions,
or if there's any specific videos you want me to make.
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Otherwise, I'll see you guys in the next one.