Hey guys. What's going on?
It's Greg, and I'm back with another Teespring video.
You guys have been asking for more Teespring videos,
and I'm here to deliver.
If you've noticed, I haven't been posting every single day,
but I've been posting at least once a week.
And the reason for that is because I don't want to dilute the content
that's on this channel,
I want it to only be really good, high value content,
and nothing that's just fluffy, just to get a video out.
I hope you guys appreciate that.
I'm just trying to be respectful of your time.
I don't want to give you any fluff.
So, with that being said, here's another Teespring video.
and this one is going to be kind of a thumbs up or a thumbs down,
talking about Teespring leggings.
They're like yoga pants for women, and I guess men could wear them as well,
but that would be interesting.
But the whole special thing here is,
Teespring is one of the few print-on-demands
that I know of at least that prints on leggings.
So, that in itself, is a big advantage
that you can offer these to your audience.
But what I want to break down in this video
relates to the designing process.
So, I want to jump in the computer and kind of show you guys
what I'm talking about here.
So, I'm just on the Teespring example account
that I've made for these videos
and something that I thought was really funny is,
I mentioned it in the other one, but this account is getting sales.
I haven't done anything,
and I've, literally, made a couple of shirts here,
and it's still getting sales
That goes to show that if you set them up right,
they basically sell themselves.
So, that brings me to the next good point.
When you come over to 'start designing,'
you'll notice that as you start making more sales,
and your trust score is up on Teespring,
they allow you to print on more products.
So, they're releasing new products almost every day.
It seems like at least every week, they're coming out with new products.
So, as you sell more, you'll be able to print on more items.
So, right now, this account only has, I think, one sale on it.
So, it's still limited items.
So, this should be what anyone can print on.
Even if you just have one sale, or probably no sales,
you'll have all of these options.
But something like this,
this is one of my other accounts on Teespring.
You can print on more items.
So, they have sleeve printing, they have all over,
so, you can print.
It's like sublimation, front and back, the whole shirt,
and then, you'll see there's more products down here
that you can print on as well.
So, just know that, as you sell more and your trust score stays up,
you're not infringing on copyright, they will release more products
that you can print on.
So, that's really good for your business.
As you grow, it kind of snowball effect it,
because you can print on different items.
So keep that in mind.
But with that being said, everyone should be able to print on leggings.
So, let's just jump right into, start designing on the leggings.
And this is the first kind of glitch that I've run into.
So, this is chrome that I'm using right now,
and it's good.
You can go to design, you can see the templates, and it actually works.
But I don't typically use Chrome, I usually use Safari.
So, if I jump over to Safari, you'll notice that when I go to design,
the templates are kind of all squeezed at the bottom here,
and you can't actually do it, so, it doesn't work properly.
So, it's still a glitch here on safari.
I don't know if that's something that has to do with my computer,
but I would venture to say that other people might have the same issue.
So, if you are designing leggings,
the first thing is, you have to be using Chrome.
I know you can't use Safari or at least the version of Safari
that I'm using,
so, that's number one. So, number two is,
if you guys have been following this channel,
you know I always talk about using Typorama
or Word Swag to do your designing for the designs.
Well, with leggings, it really doesn't work.
So, if you import a design from Typorama like this,
then, you'll see that the design is right here,
and it's a pretty cool design on a T-shirt,
but it really doesn't work on leggings.
Now, this isn't Teespring fault at all,
but I just wanted to show that these designs really don't work here,
even if you put it sideways like this, and then, you preview it
and look at it from the side,
it doesn't really work on leggings.
So, you have to be conscious about your designs,
and you have to kind of change your approach
on creating designs for leggings.
So, it's not as easy as plug and play, put it through the app,
and then, upload it and put it on shirts and hoodies,
it's not that easy for leggings.
So, you might have to make custom designs for leggings.
What I have found out is that text designs work the best.
Now, the further that is keeping text designs on one line.
So, what I mean by that is, let me take this out of here
and just add text, and we'll just create one line of text.
Don't drop it down to make two lines,
because it starts to get hard to read.
But if you just put one line of text here, so, 'work out.'
I'm just going to say, work out, for this example,
and then, turn it sideways, so, it goes up the leg,
you'll be able to see that this is kind of the best look
that you can make on leggings.
So, let's just make this small enough to fit within the print zone here.
The dotted lines are where you want to stay within
in case someone orders an extra small size.
You don't want that to not work and be too big.
If you put it like way out here,
it'll only work if someone's ordering a bigger size.
So, make sure that you stay within the grey dotted lines,
and then, try to line up to that centre line,
to make sure that it's not angled when it's on someone's leggings.
And then, we're just going to turn that centre up to that line,
and then, we'll preview that.
And that's kind of the look that we get here.
Now, personally, I think that would be too big.
So, I would go back and I would make it even smaller,
and maybe, put it down on the calf down here.
So, to show you what I would actually do is make this small like this,
and then, put it kind of below the knee and preview that.
And this is a more common look that you'll see.
And then, I would just play around with the font
until I found one that looks cool,
and that would kind of be it.
But there is one other place that I really do like to do designing,
and that's up in these waistband areas here.
So, if you add another text,
and I'm just gonna leave it as text for this example,
and make it smaller.
You can put it in the waistband, which is pretty awesome here,
and that's not very common.
So, take advantage of this while you can,
and we'll just put something like that, preview it.
And then, when you look from the front,
you can see that there's text up here.
So, that's a pretty cool place to put text
or put a symbol or put a logo or something right there,
and then, text down the side of the leg.
But those are the only two places
that I would really do designing here,
it's below the knee, down the leg, and then, some text up here or a logo.
That's it.
So, with that being said,
the third thing that I found about leggings, which is pretty cool,
is that you can do all-over prints on these leggings.
So, for these all-over prints,
what I like to do is come over to a website called canva.com,
and by doing this, you don't need any Photoshop
or photo editing programmes to do this.
So, all you have to do is come into Canva, make a free account,
and then, instead of hitting 'create a design,'
where you normally would.
You actually come over to 'use custom dimensions,'
Now, this is very important,
and this makes the image that you export very large,
So, we're going to make it the largest that Canva can possibly make it,
and the reason for this is because
the print area on leggings is much bigger than a T-shirt.
Think about it. On a T-shirt,
it's only, maybe, a foot by a foot print area,
but on leggings, it's the whole length of your leg, and then, around that.
So, the design that we make has to be much bigger.
Now, if you have Photoshop,
you can just export it in like 7000 by 7000 pixels,
but on Canva here, our max is actually 5000 by 5000 pixels,
but what I like to do is actually switch it to inches,
and then, it maxes out at 52 inches by 52 inches.
And then, once you do that, make sure you're set on inches,
not pixels here, and then, just hit design,
and this gives you a workspace right here.
That's 52 inches by 52 inches, this is perfect.
So, a couple of steps we need to do here is just go over to elements,
and we're going to hit shapes,
and then, we're going to select just the first square here,
which is just going to be a black square,
and we're going to cover the whole width here,
so, it covers the whole background.
This way, we can change the colour of the background.
So, if we click off that, and we click on,
you can change whatever colour you want,
and this will be the base of the leggings, that colour.
So, if you want that to be something like an orange,
you just click this.
Now, the base of the leggings will be orange,
and now, we can put our pattern over top of it.
So, then, I closed shapes, and I go to icons,
and you can scroll through icons to find things
that you want to make a pattern out of.
So, you can put multiple light bulbs and have a light bulb pattern.
You can scroll through all of these,
or what I like to do is just type in what you're looking for.
So, for example, pineapple is what I was just designing before,
and you can pick, there's free pineapples here,
and they're vectors.
So, you can make these as big as you want,
and you don't have to worry about quality.
Now, most of these are free,
but if there's one that you really want like this one,
you might have to pay like $1 for it or have a premium Canva membership,
but not to worry, because a lot of these are free,
so, you shouldn't have to pay for any,
all you got to do is just click the one you want to use,
and it'll put it in here.
And since this is so big, 52 inches by 52 inches,
it's gonna make it really small,
but like I said, it's a vector.
So, you can actually make it as big as you want.
And all we're going to do is just start repeating this.
So, you can either put it in the middle,
and it will lock in place, and then, just copy it
and put them on both sides.
And all we really want to do here is
fill up this whole square with these designs.
Now, I'm just going to click this one.
Hold SHIFT and click the other ones,
and then, I'm going to group them and copy it.
Then, I'll copy all three, and we can snap it right in place.
And then, I'll copy it again,
and I'll put it down here,
and you just, basically, want to fill up the square.
So, once this is set, just like this,
we just hit download, and then, PNG, so, you get a couple options here.
JPEG is just a standard image.
PNG is like a higher quality standard image,
and then, PDF.
Both of these will be the highest quality,
but it's actually a document, it's not an image.
So, you can't upload that to Teespring.
So, we need to use PNG here.
Then, we just hit download,
and it takes about a couple of seconds here,
but it downloads it right to your computer.
Now, as you can see, this is downloaded right to the computer.
So, all we have to do is go back to Teespring,
and we can upload that file.
Now on Teespring here, all we have to do is add an image,
and we select the one that we just saved.
and it will upload this big artwork right on here.
And as you can see, this is now the size,
and we really need it to be a little bit bigger to cover all of this.
See, it just barely doesn't cover all of it,
but if you start to make it bigger,
it actually makes the quality too low, so, then, you can't use it.
So, what I'm going to do is just go right back to the size
that it came out,
I'm actually going to delete it, so, I can start afresh.
This is a good practice,
so, that we're gonna have to make two of these.
So, I'm going to add the image twice,
and I'm not going to change the size of them,
because I want those pineapples to stay the same size.
I know that sounds a little bit confusing, but let me show you.
So, I just added it once.
I'm gonna wait for this to load up top.
Okay, and now, I'm going to add the same thing again.
And once this loads here, now, I have two of these,
so, I don't have to change the size,
but I can move two of them around.
Now, we can fill the space fully here by putting one over here,
and then, one over here,
and you just play with the settings on this,
maybe, I'm going to add just one more in here.
So, now, I have a third one that I can put down at the bottom here.
And as you can see, it covers all of the space here,
and just play with this to make sure that it's not overlapping
and cutting off one of the shapes.
So, I'm just going to put it down here.
That'll cover all of it.
And as you can see,
we have a straight line right here, which we shouldn't.
So, that means one of them's overlapping.
So, I'll just put it back over here,
and now, we have our design.
So, if we hit preview,
you can see that we officially just made an all-over print.
So, we missed this little area right here.
So, we just go back to design.
We'll find out where that gap was, and we just fill it just like that.
Come back to preview.
See now, it's fixed.
So, you just play around with this design.
Make sure you check all the angles,
and make sure it looks good from every angle.
And now, just like that,
we made some awesome pineapple all-over print leggings.
So, that's the trick that I would recommend to use
if you don't have Photoshop or anything,
but Canva is an excellent option,
and you can make some really awesome all-over print leggings,
just like that.
So, that's my take of the Teespring leggings.
As of right now, I hope, at least,
one of those three points has helped you guys with Teespring.
And as always, I'm always here to answer Teespring questions
that you might have
The best place to reach me is in the comments.
I'm always checking those and getting back to you guys.
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