I just got Canva pro, the trial version for 30 days.
I'm gonna do another level up design with this one right here. I'm gonna try and make it better,
make it fit the space and make it more of a vintage style. 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 I often get DMs in instagram asking me for help on looking at
people's shops and their designs and wondering what they can do to improve their t-shirts so in
this video i'm taking one from my dms recently they've been doing a lot of t-shirt designs on
redbubble and i'm gonna update this design right here i'm gonna still use the same phrase but i'm
gonna show you what i would do with that phrase and why i make the decisions that i'm doing and
how to do it all and i'm gonna do it all in canva i'm gonna use canva pro but a lot of the things
i'm gonna be using are for canva free but you'll see some of the different things that i i like
about canva pro in it too so let's get into canva right now so here i am on canva canva.com and you
can see i have pro now it doesn't say free um but i'm gonna just use a lot of the free stuff anyway
the first thing i'm gonna do is custom size and i'm gonna do 4500 by 5400 it saved that for me
the first thing we're gonna do is just type the text so we have it here i'm gonna go to
text and i'll just use headline you can also type in t right here and the phrase that we're looking
for is i have so i'm gonna do this in chunks so i have so mushroom there's the pun in my heart
for you
so that's the phrase that that shirt had um you know we're gonna do a lot better than just this
right here so the first thing i'm going to do is look for mushroom so when i look for mushrooms i
when i think of mushrooms i'm thinking of vintage mushrooms and let's just look here
in elements i'm going to type in mushroom
boom and then graphics boom and one thing for i don't know why they don't do this in the free
version but you can do free right here uh i wish they did this in the free version that you can
click on free but only in the pro version where you see pro and free which is weird because in
free version i actually want the free stuff and then i want it static i don't want to animate it
and let's do that so what i'm looking for is a vintage mushroom but i also want other things in
there besides the mushroom so i'm going to look for like something with a flower or some other
things in there some other elements so i can kind of put them all together because i don't want just
the mushroom i want to do other things with it so let's scroll down here and see what i can find and
it's going to be trial and error so if i like a mushroom let's see i'll try this one and then
magic recommendations are there flowers i can use in here you know probably not so i'm going to take
this mushroom out and go back here and then keep looking so it may take me a little while
i'm going to scroll down and see i'm looking for something like super 70s vintage
this one right here got it looks very 70s and then you can see there's a flower right here and
other stuff so i'm gonna click on this and let's try that flower and then maybe the sun and this
let's see i want that sun maybe not this flower i don't know we could try it and then some leaves
and oh and these two things there there all right so we got a bunch of graphics and a bunch of this
and i'm going to close this so the first thing i'm going to do is play around with
the graphics i'm going to duplicate this page down here i'll take out the
words it's still going to be on my top one right there so let's play around with the
graphics here let's move this the mushroom's the most important thing um so let's make sure that's
big nice and big all right um let's leave all this here i'm going to go up and move these guys
all right so i want it vintage i got the vintage graphics let's look for some vintage text so
let's go here and do vintage
see what do we got oh this art nouveau i've used it before
looks really cool but i think i can type in art nouveau
there's a bunch of different ones yeah so that was the letterpress one
i'm just going to use it without the letterpress okay
and we want it all the way to the edge here
and maybe this one the same thing so the art nouveau right
yeah so i typed in retro to look for some script font and i found this one right here
it's called gente gente so i think that matches we got we got some nice vintage script here
kind of feels like the same era so i'm gonna do the same thing here uh gentee turn this off
go back gentee all right i have so mushroom in my heart for you
that should work let's see let's bring the mushrooms and this in here put it here
cool that kind of fits let's move these up
move this here so we're just trying to fill that space now
all right so i came up with this this i'm also gonna color this right here so let's color these
let's put a black background behind it
and of course we're gonna have to change the color of the text to white or a light color
put this in the back so we can get this one
move this back to the front good and i think this mushroom can be a different color
let's do one of these lighter colors there it's kind of nice all right i think this looks good
on a black t-shirt but i want to play around with the colors that canva has so let's duplicate this
you can see it right there so i have this one and this one we can get rid of this one now so we have
the two now one with the black background and this one we're gonna play with so let's go to page two
and then let's play with these colors these styles so you notice uh canva recently used
these different color palettes now it looks a little different than it used to it kind of has
the all the colors in a square with triangles i'm gonna see all here and i'm gonna try try out some
of these colors let's just play around with it oh they're they're really funky oh that's a cool one
that's a really cool one uh let's duplicate let's try different colors so i'm just gonna
save the ones that i like and just try out different colors that one's funky
uh whoa that's a pretty psychedelic yeah that one all right so now that you've played with a
bunch of colors you look and see do you like that one or that one or that one or that one it's just
a real quick way to get some ideas out i like that one and i think this one is really cool
so whichever one you want and you can once you have those colors you can
still play around you know maybe you want that a little darker so you want it
you know like that
just so you can see the face or whatever so yeah so let's use this one
and i'll show you what it looks like on a t-shirt oh one of the cool things about doing canva pro
now is i can knock out the background so let's do that i'm gonna share i'm gonna download
i'm gonna um do png but transparent background ta-da and then you can go in here and select
which one you want page four let's do page four uh we're gonna have to do
yeah i think transparent background will work so let's do done and download so i also changed the
colors on this one and i'm gonna download this one with a transparent background same thing download
i'm going to unselect all and just the first one and transparent background and download
so you can see both of them have transparent backgrounds now super simple with canva pro
i'm going to put this into redbubble and let's see what it looks like on a t-shirt so you can
see the one i did on the light background turned out all right on like cream and it on white it'll
look okay and maybe even this light gray might be okay but when i start doing it on the dark colors
the the text kind of gets lost right so if i wanted to do cream and those that would be great
the other one that i did on a black t-shirt looks good on darker t-shirts so this darker
gray and the black and that and i kind of like it on this one which is the dark red so a lot a lot
of these will work army green and green that one's kind of cool too so i probably will pick this one
just because it works better on dark t-shirts and i'll show you the final product on a model
so here's a side-by-side comparison from before and after you can see in this one the image is
too small it's not really relating to mushrooms you can't really see that that's a mushroom that
they're holding it's more of a pizza i have the same words i have so mushroom in my heart for you
i have so mushroom in my heart for you this one is filling the space it kind of has all the all that
of it works together at least i think so uh it's more of a vintage design we have vintage fonts
and vintage drawings right mushrooms big vintage mushrooms are in right now so i kind of use that
and i'm filling this whole space right here and then i'm working with the color so here
they forgot to knock out the white you can see that the white is here but in uh canva of canva
pro you can knock out that background really easily so here's the before and after so before
this is what we had we had a pizza for some reason we forgot i think this is supposed
to be a mushroom but you can hardly tell that that's a mushroom and the pan is mushroom so we
want to make sure that mushroom is the main thing here i made it bigger you can see it's the same
model here i use the black background instead of a white background you could use a white one
as well but this one just stands out the colors stand out better and we're using that full size
that tall rectangle right here and we're trying to fill in all the space and using more than just the
mushroom we're using lots of different things for interest and color to kind of give it a pop i used
uh the same color here mushroom some of the colors here because that's the pun mushroom so mushroom
here so i think it works really well of course you could do it in lots of different ways
but basically use these tips you know if you're gonna do vintage that make everything vintage
if you're gonna do um a certain style then try to make that whole style it needs to all look
like it's the same thing right that's kind of the idea this whole composition is one thing so
keep that in mind when you're doing it make sure to try all the different colors as well
some of those other colors looked good on white but you could keep playing with it until the
background is dark and then do that as well so have fun with this hopefully these tips in canva
pro are helping you out so that is it for this video thanks so much for watching hopefully this
video is really helpful for you and can show you some other things now that i'm using canva pro
if you want to use canva pro i have a link in the description for canva pro try it out for
30 days that's what i'm doing seeing all the different features that may be helpful for you
that knock out the background feature is really nice because if i had to go in there and kind of
knock it out on all those different designs that i had in there it would have took a long time so
that was a really nice feature and you can see you didn't have to have the background uh knocked out
you can leave the background a certain color and it just knocks it out for you so that's
really nice so if this video is really helpful make sure to give it a thumbs up and if you're
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for this video is this have you used mushrooms in your designs before mushrooms are really
popular right now for vintage designs and cottage core and all those kinds of things
let me know if you've used mushrooms there's so many mushrooms on canva and i just was looking
at the free stuff there's so many more with pro as well if you have pro so let me know in
that in the comments and if you want to see more canva tutorials i have a bunch of them right here
and as always guys keep creating and keep learning i'll see you on the next one bye