In this video I'm doing another level up video. I'm gonna level up this t-shirt right here
but the only catch is I can only use Canva free. Challenge accepted! 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'm going to help someone level
up their t-shirt. so i heard from a subscriber recently and he wanted me to look at his shop
and i took a look and a lot of his designs could need some help um working on graphic
design and kind of just leveling it up just a little bit so i'm gonna take one of his designs
and level it up it's this tennis t-shirt design and the catch is i only can use canva free
because that's all he is using is canva free so of course he built this
in canva free so i'm gonna show uh you and him how to do this in canva free now there's lots of ways
you can level up this tennis t-shirt i'm going to show you my way that i would do of course there's
lots of different font choices and stuff but i'm going to show you why i chose what i did
and how you can do some of these simple techniques to level up your designs if you're using canva
free and just follow some of these guidelines and examples of course you don't want to copy the same
design that i do but look at some of the techniques that i'm using
and do some of those for your designs if you're needing a level up on your designs too so let's
get into canva free and i'll show you what i'm gonna do so here i am on canva canva.com right
here anyone can use this this is online free for everyone i'm using the free version of course
if you want to use the paid version you'll have a lot more choices you can do a lot more things with
the paid version but i'm going to show you what you can do for free slightly less things you can
hit create design right here i just recently found this custom size i've been using canva for so long
this will get you there quicker so just hit custom size and i've already done one
and once you do one it's already there i like this better because create design has all of these
things and then you have to do custom size where custom size is just one less click or less noise
so you can see right there i do 4 500 by 5400 the merged by amazon size so i'm going to click there
and here we are my our art board right the first thing i'm gonna do is that t-shirt that we saw was
white i'm gonna make the background black because uh black t-shirts sell better so here
we go make sure it's like really black let's go into here and click on yep it's full black
okay and then i'm gonna type in some text let's do text first his said tennis eat sleep i'm gonna do
eat sleep tennis so the first thing we're gonna do is just type t or click t on the keyboard
t right there and that brings up your text that's a really good shortcut for canva
i'm gonna type in eat and i want a really thick font uh bold font kind of condensed so we can
um play around with it so i'm going to look for a condensed font right here and you just type in i
clicked on here for to bring up the different font choices and then i'm going to type in condensed
just like that and then we can look around and find one that we like i'm just going to
scroll down until find one something bold and thick like this one cyra condensed bold
i'm going to do all caps so i can click on this to do all uppercase and just stretch it out
and let's move it here and we're just going to copy it but i'm going to make a bigger
eat maybe like that and then holding down option and shift i'm going to click on this
option shift and drag down just so it's the same size i'm gonna do it twice so eat sleep
make sure to drag this out here and we want this instead of centered let's do left align so
alignment left align i should have done this first minus left align whoops don't click it too many
times and this one left the line so you can see they're all left aligned and each sleep tennis
and if we select all of these we can use some of our positioning things right here hit position and
do everything left like that and then we can tidy it up too so let's do vertically space even boom
you can see right there that's pretty good already right so now we're gonna have to fill in the space
here so let's look for some graphics so i'm just going to do elements and type in tennis
boom uh well we got a tennis ball right here let's click on that nice
let's see rackets uh i just want a single racket so let's see we could do that but that's pro again
you got a lot more choices with pro that's pro that could be a cool one too oh let's
just do graphics now i could put any one of these that are free like this one is free and i could
color him white like that that would be cool i could even flip him that's kind of neat let's
see what else we have graphics whoops i did that too fast let's do tennis again
graphics all right let's look for there's a colorful racket i think i mean that that
could be cool let's do that and then see what else we got oh let's do yeah we got graphics
so i could color this on white as well oops
yeah like that so i think i'll just do the white one let's get rid of these now
again lots of different ways you could do it but i'm going to fill in the space because
this looks like that would fit perfectly right here
right you can see how what we want to do what i'm trying to do is do a tall rectangle you can
see kind of filling the space the other one just had too much white space in between i'm trying to
fill that space here i'm going to put this ball in the front so we can come in here ball in the front
you know maybe make the ball a little
yeah that's looking good already um the next thing i want to do
is that shirt that he had was using a cursive font so i think he wanted to use some of that cursive
font so let's do that let's change tennis here to a cursive font so let's do maybe handwriting
there we go and let's look oh i know i i love this one i wonder if it's under here
um i've talked about this before and it is lemon lemonade no let's just type lemon hold on
lemon tuesday that's what it is let's see lemon tuesday there it is really cool font but this one
i want upper lowercase just to kind of give it a different feel so let's take that off
but i want this to be tall t you notice there's a space right here between that t and the e here's
one thing that you can do that i like doing let's just copy both of these like this and let's do one
of them is going to be the t so i'm going to take everything but the t out and then this one will be
just the ns part so let's do that and that way i have more control i can make this bigger and
move it over and kind of fill that space so let's do yellow since a lot of the tennis balls
are yellow so i'm going to go in here and pick a yellow maybe that one and let's do that one again
and kind of do that now we're just filling that space here t as you can see how i can
push that together let's do sleep a little bigger as well kind of move that down
yeah kind of crossing it i think that that's cool that means the eat can be bigger as well
and we could do the same thing with the eat you know move that if you want to move that t
closer let's do the same thing do one with the t one without the t
uh if you were in affinity designer you have some other tricks that you could do
but there you go move that tee in closer make this ball yellow so it matches that so you can change
the colors here you know not brighter like that and let's do this racket we can move this around
kind of fill that space now again we could have done this uh lots of different ways i could have
put the silhouette of the person in there or whatever one more thing that i want to do i want
to put some out underlines here and so maybe i'll do like a brush stroke so we can type in here thin
brush stroke let's do that um see what we come up with oh i got a spell stroke right
uh stroke there we go all right a lot of these are paid again pro version again if you if you
want to do the pro version you got lots to choose from here but we're going to stick to the rules
and do a free version so again uh canva is asking me you want to try it for free it's
free for 30 days so if you want to do that you can definitely try and make a lot of designs in
your first 30 days try it out i have a link in the description for pro if you want to
do pro but we're going to stick to the rules here try and look for something free
here's a free one no nothing here so let's do that and then let's color this
yellow as well looking out today with the free stuff and whoops let's move that down
oh that's tennis grab this sometimes it's tough to grab the let's move that to the back all right
make this a little bigger kind of matching luckily it matches this font really well
let's do i wonder if it what it would look like upside down since the
that's kind of neat i don't know i kind of like it the other way
maybe not as big
yeah that's cool so there we go eat sleep tennis kind of have the handwritten font uh this cursive
font we got some graphics here that match you can play around with this you can do some other things
but there you go it fills the space right it conveys the message of tennis and we kind of have
each sleep in one font and tennis in another font to kind of highlight what we're talking about it's
tennis now you could do this with other sports as well eat sleep uh you know football or baseball or
whatever it is i think it would be good but just make sure to fit that space so we're gonna take
all of this right here and put it on a t-shirt and i'll i'll show you the before and after of what it
looks like so hopefully you can see what it looks like before where there's a lot of white space
and after now i kind of filled the space put it on black did some of these changes so use some
of these techniques in your canva designs we talked about moving the fonts closer together
kind of finding two different fonts to play with each other the colors we took you know we got our
yellow here and the yellow below to kind of match again so hopefully this tutorial is really helpful
for you you can see this is a really simple design it's nothing too fancy but i think sometimes
simple helps especially if you got the right shape and using some of these simple techniques
so that is it for this video very quick video in canva canva free now you saw in that video
that there's lots of stuff that you could use for canva pro now if you want a gopro try it
for 30 days do as many t-shirts as you can in those 30 days and if you decide that you like it
uh i would go i i'm thinking to give it a go for canva pro 2. i just didn't want to do camera pro
on this one because uh you know the person that's doing this does not have camera pro so you can do
a lot without canva pro and do it for free as well but you could try it out if you do
want to try out i have a link in the description to canva pro as well i'll use that link it is
an affiliate link but i think it will help if you don't want to go that way so thanks again
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click on these and as always guys keep creating and keep learning i'll see you on the next one bye