hey guys ryan here thank you for joining
me for a new video today i want to do a
full tutorial on photopia.com now i've
heard some people call it photop.com
because it is spelled p-e-a
now i have no clue how you're supposed
to pronounce it so i'm gonna keep
calling it photopia but i did think it
was funny that people call it photop
because it does make sense now photopia
is graphic design software that you can
use
completely for free no free trial no
credit card required it's completely
free and it's built directly into your
web browser so it's extremely
easy to get started easy to use and if
you've ever used photoshop before
you're going to be very familiar with
the the app design the layout of the app
because they basically cloned photoshop
so it's extremely easy to use i'm
excited to show it to you also i'm gonna
follow up on
yesterday's giveaway for the flying
upload year
licenses so i'm gonna go jump on my
computer and we can get started
thanks again for joining me for this
tutorial guys really quickly before we
get into it i need to follow up on
yesterday's video now in less than 24
hours we had almost
500 comments on the video entering this
giveaway i have
three year-long licenses to the flying
upload which is a print on demand upload
automation app
now to win all you had to do was drop a
comment that said flying upload and in
order to pick a winner
i use the free tool where i provide the
youtube url i click
get winner and it picks comments at
random now
those three comments that were picked
ended up being
danny ruby vegesable i don't know how to
pronounce that but okay i hope that was
close
and nancy l so if you three would email
me you can get my email address by just
going to my youtube channel click the
about tab and then click
uh there should be a button that says
like contact via email something like
that
if you want to do that i will send you
your license but thank you to everybody
who participated
that was a lot of fun hopefully we can
follow up again and do it again next
week
all right and then if you guys aren't
subscribed to my channel just want to
let you know what videos you can look
forward to this week i'm dropping a
video i think tomorrow
with a viral tick tock star he gained
over 1 million followers in
3 months and then he started his own
shopify printful store
using my videos as guidance so that's
going to be a really good video tomorrow
or the day after maybe
i'm doing merch by amazon best practices
this is basically all related to
graphic design which also relates to
what we're going to show in the tutorial
today for photopia that's going to be a
great video
and then also let me introduce myself
for the new viewers i'm ryan hogue i've
sold over 1.7 million
on amazon to date if you want to follow
links in the description i've got a free
eight day print on demand mini course
delivered via email
i have a print on demand facebook
community i'd love to see you there i
publish income reports if you want to
follow my journey as a print-on-demand
seller or fba seller or
kdp seller etc i try to be transparent
about everything all you have to do is
subscribe to my channel you'll be
notified when i drop my income reports
last but not least i have a massive
print on demand full course almost 70
lectures constantly
continuing to scale it out build it up
link in the description if you're
interested
all right let's get started with
photopia so
this looks like photoshop you probably
did a double take
this is actually what photopia looks
like and it is built into your web
browser so i recommend using google
chrome
i was a web developer prior to quitting
my job google chrome is the best fastest
et cetera browser
uh that i've used to date and i would
recommend it because when you use an app
like this that demands a lot of
resources from your computer it's best
to use
you know the software you know the when
i say software i mean web browser
that's best equipped to handle it so you
can go to uh
photopia.com i'll put a link in the
description also before we dive into the
full demo i'm gonna do like a live demo
in this video but i just wanted to let
you know that automate pod
now supports photopia for scaling out
the
creation of print on demand designs and
photopia is
free so before this you had to use canva
canva did cost money in order to
download transparent pngs
photopia is completely free i'm going to
show you how to use it
and the chrome extension that i built
with a buddy of mine called automate pod
now works with photopia so you can just
hit a button and walk away and it can
create
you know hundreds of designs for you
within minutes i mean this thing works
fast so
really good stuff check it out all right
now i'm gonna dive into the photopia
demo
alright guys so this is photopia i know
it looks a lot like photoshop but this
is actually built into my web browser
at photopia.com and yes clearly they
were not feeling very creative they
decided to just go with what works and
rip off photoshop so i clicked new
project now width i'm going to set to 4
500 pixels
height i'm going to set to 5400 this is
the standard dimensions for amazon merch
which is what i always design at then
i'm going to hit create
all right now you can hit control plus
to zoom in control minus to zoom out if
you're on mac
i do not know mac shortcuts so i
apologize also just letting you know
uh you can hit f11 to go full screen if
you like and utilize
more of your screen this is by the way i
just want to mention this is the second
time i'm recording this tutorial now the
first one i did was way more in depth
and i was basically doing something that
you would expect someone who works for
photopia to do trying to explain every
little detail and then i realized you
know what
if you're using photopia and
you are going to utilize the full
suite of tools available at your
fingertips you should probably
just be using photoshop if you're using
photopia
you should probably be keeping it simple
and that's what i
love to do personally i mean i don't i
do not over complicate things in my
print on demand business because
if you subscribe to my channel you know
i'm busy with other things including
running this channel right
so i can't over complicate things i just
don't have the time so i'm going to show
you
a couple ways that i make designs in
photopia that are not time consuming
and i'm going to show you the basics the
most common things you'd probably want
to know
and i'm not going to get into a full
tutorial a full how-to i'm just going to
keep it
relatively simple so the first thing i
like to do is over here above
me on the background well i messed up
that point but right here on the layers
side
for the background i always like to
design at
well i design optimize for dark shirts
so what i'm going to do is
over here on the left hand side in the
toolbar open the color picker for the
foreground
select black then i'm going to grab the
paint bucket tool
which looks like a paint bucket and i'm
going to click into the background layer
to change it to black now behind me you
can't see it but there's
at the bottom a new layer button it
looks like a little paper with a
corner folded i'm going to click that so
that any designs we do will be on a new
layer now
actually i didn't need to do that if i
was going to actually just use text if i
just wanted to make a text only design
which is the most basic print on demand
design you can make
which by the way does sell you can check
out an interview i did about a month ago
with somebody who's sold 300 thousand
dollars through amazon merch and it's he
was doing text designs on his phone
okay so you can do text designs on photo
pia as well all you have to do is click
the t
on the sidebar to open the text tool or
hit t
on your keyboard that will also work and
then draw a box
on the canvas and it's
a black background so it's tough to see
because the box itself is black but you
should be able to start
typing so i'm going to type hello world
now i'm going to select the text and
change the color so that we can actually
see it
so now the text is white but it's also
extremely small it's 24 pixels by
default
relative to the canvas which is 50 4500
by 5400
still very hard to see so let's make it
700
pixels there we go hello world we got it
all right and apparently when you select
it it turns black as well which is not
very helpful
um if you are an engineer that works at
photopia that is not helping so if i
turn off the black background you can
see what i mean when you select the text
it turns black
um but anyways what i want to do is
maybe change the font just show you guys
that if you select the text go in the
top left corner
currently i'm using deja vu sans but
there's a massive
selection of fonts available
this luckiest guy one looks pretty cool
it's like a big bold
font that i think may sell well on
t-shirts
so hello world is like slang for when
you learn to program if you're a
programmer that's like the first thing
that you'll output
in any programming language typically is
hello world so actually i don't think i
even need to select it here i can hit
ctrl
t and i should be able to it's tough
with the black background but
if i select this text layer hit ctrl t
now it's letting me dynamically resize
the text so guys big
bold designs tend to get clicked more in
search results so let's use
as much of this canvas space as we can i
don't like to get it directly up against
the edge just in case it doesn't print
well
but that looks pretty close all right so
i turn on the background now
hello world so i could upload this to
amazon merch or redbubble and say it's
the hello world
beginner programming uh beginner
programmer t-shirt or programming
student
introductory to programming t-shirt so
this
i could export as a text only design
again
file save as or export as and then png
and when you do that before you do that
you'd want to turn off the black
background layers so that you have your
transparent png
ready to go for upload to websites like
amazon merch redbubble
you know t public teespring wherever
you're you're pushing your products to
printful etsy etc
all right now another way we could get
cute and
you know make this shirt a little bit
better is i could go visit my buddies at
all sunsets which is
a product not really a product actually
it's really just a design
service for twenty dollars you get a
year
of access to it they're constantly
building out new
vintage retro sunsets these things that
sell extremely well pretty much on every
print-on-demand website
and rather than doing it myself i'm just
going to pay the dollar and change per
month
to all sunsets.com and use the pre-made
graphics although if you'd like to learn
how to do it yourself
in the tutorial where i introduced you
to all sunsets i also
showed you how you can build them out
yourself but by the way if you're
interested you want to support the
channel have a link in the description
but maybe i'll just grab like a fun you
know tropical
um you know sunset here drag drop
boom could not be easier if you want to
you can slide it behind
the text layer that way it's not too
intrusive
have something going kind of like that
maybe i resize the text layer again
like i did prior i have to turn off the
background layer though to do it
because i can never find the corner
all right this is looking
pretty good to me so
turn the background layer back on and as
you can see hello world it's not you
know the best design i've ever created
um but you know that took not very long
at all to create maybe i'll move this
sunset down just a little bit and
move the hello part up above and then
the world part down below
or maybe i'll even split it out into a
separate text layer
so that it uh
can be placed appropriately boom hello
world
and we have a little tropical sunset
which i don't think relates at all to
being a programmer
but hey still a pretty nice looking
design
and the cool thing is if you leave the
palm trees
as uh silhouettes instead of filling
them in
then whatever color the background ends
up being
will always show through which gives you
some versatility
as far as you know offering it on
different colored t-shirts
goes you can sell on purple on light
blue on black on whatever you like
but i always design with black in mind
or optimized for black since i think
that sells the best if i had to guess
i'm pretty sure i don't know i don't
know if anybody actually publishes that
statistically but i'm pretty sure black
t-shirts do sell better than
every other color so again file export
as
png boom done um other tools that you
might want to
be familiar with in photopia you can
well first and foremost get familiar
with the layers panel um
knowing when it's correct to separate
things out into separate layers is very
useful
so if i wanted to just combine all of
these into one
layer which i just did by selecting all
of them i clicked one then i held shift
and
clicked the last one and i right clicked
and hit merge layers
you can go to your toolbar on the left
hand side there is a magic
wand if i want to now wand out the
background so that i can make this into
a transparent png
so let's pretend i accidentally merged
it and i can't undo it how do i get rid
of this black background well
come over here to the magic wand click
it will do a selection for me and then
all i have to do is cut it out
and you'll notice it missed the inside
of the o's and the r's and the d
but watch this if i undo this and rather
than using the magic
wand what if i went to select
and then went to color range
and then i clicked the black so now it's
going to automatically select everything
that's the color black for me
including inside the letters and when i
cut
it's all gone so now just like that
we've reverted it back
ready to go as a transparent design
perfect for uploading to
you know t-shirts and whatnot other
quick things that may be useful
if i add a new layer and recreate the
background make it easier to see for
everybody
there's things like for instance the
magic wand tool that's also
able to you know select like a single
color out of the
background of this uh sunset
and if you hold shift after making the
first selection you can make additional
selections so if i just wanted to split
out the
yellow portion that i just selected into
its own layer
then i can do that like that and then if
i wanted to you know i could also
just using the paint bucket tool into
this layer i could make it
let's see i have like the light blue
selected but what if i want to make it
green
oh whoops just clicked out of it what if
i want to make it green just select the
color green
paint bucket tool and just like that
flipped it from yellow to green
nothing too crazy there uh there's also
you know like the
polygonal or magnetic lasso select which
is
pretty useful uh for doing certain cuts
like
if you wanted to create your own sort of
cut out of this uh
out of the sunset you know it's already
it's clearly already got the palm trees
in there but if you wanted to maybe cut
out like a star
then i'm just going to use the polygonal
select tool and draw a star
into it and when i
complete it all i have to do is cut and
now we've got a nice big star
right out of the middle of the sunset
i'm trying to think of like other use
cases honestly i usually keep my t-shirt
designs pretty simple
when i was in tier 10 with amazon merch
just getting started
i put a higher precedence on learning
graphic design
and spent a lot more time than i
probably needed to because the reality
is like
you know some people that's their
strength they're artists they want to
spend an hour or two
on a design or more uh and that's you
know and they hope that they just
advertise the design and increase
visibility that way
i tend to just kind of make a lot of
nice looking designs maybe they're not
the best in the niche but they're
up there they're definitely buyable and
just you know make it quick and easy to
get a bunch created so photopia
definitely lets me do that
if you are looking to really step up
your game as a designer you probably
want to invest in photoshop i'm just
being honest or illustrator i mean i say
photoshop photoshop and illustrator to
me are interchangeable if you're a
professional designer you are probably
in illustrator
or some comparable high-end program
photoshop
i think is considered high-end but at
least you have to pay for it monthly as
if it's high-end but
it's a little bit more user friendly at
least in my experience and i've been
using it for like 18 years so
creature of habit but anyways i mean
unless i can i can't really think of
anything else to show you
uh there's an eraser tool i mean at the
point where i'm talking about the eraser
tool
uh it's probably okay for me to wrap up
the video
although the eraser tool oh it's because
i have a selection all right if i
unselect the star
and start using the eraser tool that
also works
for creating cuts out of that background
uh
sunset and if you want to you can do it
through the text as well
but that's it guys so again to export
all you do is go to file
export as png upload it to your print on
demand site of
choice and you're good to go you can now
start creating designs also if you want
to
scale out your designs automatically
using automation check out
automatepod.com
which now supports photopia but thank
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