in this video i'm going to show you the five most common mistakes people make when designing
for t-shirts by avoiding these mistakes you'll be able to create a great design and stands out
from your competition let's get started mistake number one the sizing okay the sizing of a design
on a t-shirt can make all the difference now for example if you're selling online let's say you're
selling on amazon right you have a t-shirt and the thumbnail okay you have the thumbnail there
you want the size of the design to stand out to where they're able to read it from when they're
scrolling down so they search something right they search something on amazon and then they
start to scroll down you want to make sure that they can read it from that point right there
okay so if they can read it from there it makes them smile makes them happy they think it's an
awesome design they're gonna click okay so the goal is when to click and you have to make sure
that the customer can see the design from that main part right there okay then once they click
they go on to the actual listing and then they make a purchase right so the size of the design
it does matter because you want the customer to be able to read the actual saying on the
shirt or even see the illustration okay so if i would come over here and search on amazon and
look at these mock-ups the thumbnails over here i'm talking about these right here you can see
that how they have the design on the shirt it's taking up pretty much all of the space and then
when you scroll down you're going to see like this one right here compare it to something
like best tuesday ever compared to you know you know the ultimate taco tuesday right you
see that you see this you can see the design and literally i would have to click to see you know
what's going on with the design you can see it if you know you obviously if you look at it but
these designs are going to get more clicks compared to something like this
in my opinion you want to make sure they see it click you know what i mean and then they purchase
because if it's too small they can't see you they're not going to click so mistake number two
is going to be the placement okay the placement of your design is very important okay i have made
this mistake where you know i i created a design and then i upload it to an online selling platform
let's say merch by amazon or redbubble or etsy the placement of the design is like on the stomach
area and you want it more up on the chest right now when it comes to this like we can try as best
as possible to place the design on the right spot on the t-shirt because some of the platforms that
we upload to we cannot adjust the size and on on the platform we actually have to do it like on
photoshop or [ __ ] or whatever platform or out of whatever design software that you're using
and you can get it as best as possible on there right i know there's some people that says you
know use the two finger from this part right here on down and then you get the best placement for
your actual design okay but the placement if you have a design you want to take as much space as
possible for example on merch by amazon what i mean by it gives you a design template right the
canvas part of it you want to take as much space as possible up on that because it will basically
help your design stand out and get the customer to click on your listing to make a purchase
whoa that's a genuinely shocking fact now you do not want if you create like a design you do not
want it to be the placement to be at the bottom around your belly area right you do not want that
to be there because then the design just doesn't look right when the person wears it in public
okay and i'm like what why is the design so low on your shirt dude is it like a pregnant shirt
you know what i mean so it can make all the difference to you know have a top selling
t-shirt or a product on these selling platforms now if you're designing for like a pregnancy shirt
something like that right you want to place that design more like on the stomach area okay there's
a lot of top sellers on these platforms uh like on amazon or etsy that are making a ton of sales okay
by designing like pregnancy shirts okay so let's be like of course you want the design to be a
little bit lower so the number two mistake is the placement of the design this this is not okay the
number three mistake is typography and fonts the typography is the sole of your design you do not
want to have a different font okay that doesn't work really well with the graphic element okay
and this can make all the difference because you can see it just doesn't okay it will mess up the
design okay you have to understand you know like the font and the graphic element and how they go
hand in hand because it can make all the difference in the world when it comes to
having a really awesome design and it can be a top selling design learning this right here
can just help your design stand out you know be different from the rest of your competition
mistake number four is going to be the image quality now this is very very important because
when you have a low resolution image on a t-shirt like a graphic element on a t-shirt it can look
blurry and pixelated okay a lot of people i see not not a lot of people but i see of some designs
on platforms where one it's not a high resolution image so it looks very pixelated and it doesn't
look good at all it's blurry um you can barely see the image on the t-shirt so when it prints it's
going to look bad to the customer and they're going to return it and that's not good okay
obviously the platform doesn't want that or even if you're have your own website right if you're
selling let's say you have your shopify store and you have your own website going and you have this
issue the customer is going to be mad they're going to want to return the product because of
the quality of the print it's horrible they don't want that they don't want something blurry on
their shirt come on like they don't want something like that so you have to make sure that you you're
saving your designs in a high resolution okay make sure it's a high quality i recommend um you know
when i'm selling on merch by amazon selling on amazon in general i do know like 300 dpi that's
what they recommend now there's people that are actually stealing designs on these platforms right
and this is a big issue in the community uh people that are actually still in these designs they're
pixelated designs right because they're not high resolution file that you saved on your computer
and then you uploaded it they just ripped it right so it's pixelated it's blurry and it's not good so
make sure that you're not doing this making sure that you're not stretching the image
as big as possible and it doesn't get pixelated because you do not want your customer wearing that
i wouldn't want my customers wearing that you wouldn't want to wear a t-shirt like that so why
are you creating something like that mistake number five is going to be the contrast okay
now let's say you have a a black shirt right and then you put like a black graphic element on there
when it prints it's gonna you can barely see it okay this is not saying that people do not
want those shirts there's a very small group of people that would probably want something like
that because they don't want it to stand out they just want something you know real simple and maybe
they just want to read their shirt they're happy with what their shirt because i've seen people
do this it's weird but now when it comes to top selling designs okay top selling products if it's
a black shirt like white text works really well on a black shirt or a white graphic works really well
on a black shirt okay like so the black t-shirt with the black element on it is gonna blend in
you're not gonna be able to see it okay why would a customer wanna click on that and buy that
if they can't see it okay so you think about it that way you have to make sure that your contrast
it looks good on the shirt i've done this a few times where i put a certain type of colored font
on a shirt and it doesn't look really good it looks like it's hard to read if it's hard for
you to read it's obviously going to be hard for the customer to read a lot of white in my
designs all white text designs just all white design they work really well on black shirts
they stand out they just they're very eye-catching and it customers click and they purchase okay
that's what i mean by this mistake right here a lot of people do this they upload you know like
the wrong design to the wrong colored shirt and the customer can't even click on it if you have
red text on a red shirt it's not gonna look good it's just not you can't even see the font like
what's what's what's what's it saying stuff like that there's no one's gonna buy it now
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