hey how's it going guys today we're
going to do a design tutorial
i'm going to use photoshop that's my
design application of choice however i'm
pretty confident you can
execute a similar design in most if not
all graphic design
applications i'm going to show you how
to do this like
vertically oriented american flag
style design i saw a lot of these
selling pretty well
in flying research which is the research
tool that i use when i'm doing my top
five niches of the week video
plus another thing i really like about
it is that there's potential to do
what i call like scaled out designs
which is a big part of how i fill my um
upload slots into your 200 000 of merch
by amazon so
i love when i can make like one kind of
design template and then
fill in a bunch of variable driven uh
text
into the design and see validation when
i'm researching amazon that these
designs are actually
selling and that customers like them
enough to buy them so anyways why don't
we get started
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alright so this is what inspired me to
do this video i was looking at flying
research
now typically i don't um they have they
have one that's like best sellers they
have a section for best sellers then
they have a section
for like recent big gainers
which can sometimes be indicative of
like a new trend that's gaining steam so
i was looking at that the other day
and i noticed a couple of these like
american flag style designs with text
were selling really well and obviously i
saw the potential to
scale these designs out which i already
explained that i like
and i said you know what why don't we do
a video tutorial
on how to create these style of designs
as you can see here they took one that
said like best dad ever they made it
to uh into best dog dad ever and added a
little puppy paw
and this stuff should be pretty easy to
execute so i'm going to show you how i
would go about
creating a similar style design so as
far as creating the american flag
graphic
i don't usually like to create my own
graphics because i don't know if i'm
that strong of a graphic designer
i like to leave it to the professionals
so i use all american graphics in this
case because i know they're gonna have
quite a few options
for similar graphics to what i'm gonna
need i will of course put a link in the
description if you end up
subscribing to them i think an annual
subscription is like 30 bucks
it also supports the channel so i
appreciate that and so here i am i
navigate over to all american graphics
and i did a search for i think i typed
in like
vertical flag or flag vertical yeah flag
vertical you can see there
and there's quite a few options i
scrolled down i saw this one right here
that looked pretty similar to what i
need
so i went ahead and downloaded actually
no i downloaded both of these
so i wanted to show you guys just a
additional part of the tutorial
i grabbed both of these graphics and the
first one i'm going to do is use the
horizontal one
and i'm going to show you how you can
rotate this
in photoshop in case you guys weren't
aware there's actually a couple ways to
rotate it but here's the easiest way
so you go to edit then go to transform
and then click
rotate 90 degrees clockwise and it will
rotate our flag
just how we need it or if you want it
flipped over the other way you can also
go to um
is it transform and then you can just
hit flip horizontal
so you see how when we rotated it it
looks if you want the
stars in the top right perfect if you
want them flipped
you just go to edit transform and then
flip horizontal at the bottom there
all right so just wanted to show you how
to rotate now let's get to the real
tutorial
and this is how i would go about
recreating this design so you can
actually use this graphic right here the
white grunge american flag
line missing for vertical text they had
exactly what i needed perfect
so i just download that boom it's set up
it's got the stars in the
top left fine no problem i place it here
now what i ended up doing was actually
enlarging the graphic a little bit you
know you can um well when you first drag
and drop a graphic into photoshop it
automatically is in like
free transform mode so you can just
click the corners of the box of the
guides and
you can make it big you can make it
small you can rotate it etc you can skew
it
change the dimensions so what i did
there is i made it um you know from what
it looked like when i first dragged and
dropped it i just made it bigger because
i like to make my designs big bold
easy to read etc and then i added some
text
so i just used the text tool you can use
the hotkey and just hit t and then click
into the um
into the canvas uh and you can see there
i added some text by default adobe just
puts in
lorem ipsum which is just like latin
placeholder text
now here is the first method of creating
this style design you can actually just
have your text there and then you can
find this button in the top left corner
of photoshop next to where you
set your font family and you can click
the little t button with the arrow down
and the arrow to the right underneath it
all right
if you click that how about that it
starts your letting your it switches how
your text is
oriented instead of being horizontal it
is now
vertical the only problem with doing it
this way is that you don't have a lot of
room to type out a lot of words
because when the letters are completely
vertical like that
and vertically oriented you're going to
run out of space very quickly as you see
here but this does work and if you only
want to put in like a short
you know amount of letters this is a
good option
now if you're wondering what font family
did i use i'm using edmond texture you
can grab this on
creative fabrica it says 18 i don't know
that i would actually pay 18
for because i've seen it on sale for a
lot cheaper but
i don't know maybe if you click the link
i'll put a link in the description if
you click it maybe it'll be cheaper for
you i don't know
uh anyways method number two and that's
by the way this is only if you're
interested in like
you're like oh ryan what font is that
you're using because you like it so much
well i'll put a link in the description
in case you want to check that out
but if i mean there's plenty of other
fonts so don't feel compelled to
spend 18 on a font i just wanted to put
it out there in case anybody was
wondering
all right method number two this is
probably the method i would use
uh myself if i really wanted to recreate
or
create something very similar to this
design style
so we're still using the same graphic
that did not change
from all american graphics i've got my
text there and then what i ended up
doing is with the text layer selected i
go to
free transform alright or you can just
select that layer and hit ctrl
t when you do that you get the same
guides that you're used to seeing when
you first place a graphic into photoshop
and then you can kind of mouse over the
corners and you can see like the curved
arrows
and that indicates that if you left
click and hold and then move your mouse
it will kind of follow your mouse so
that's how i rotated the text so it went
from horizontal
here i'm in the middle of rotating it so
it's kind of at an angle
and then when i stopped rotating it uh
it is perfectly vertical
within the empty stripe of the graphic
that i downloaded from all american
graphics
guys i mean how simple was that right it
doesn't have to be hard
if you guys want to go and make your own
american flags you can absolutely do
that but what i would recommend if you
do go that route
is remember this is going to be printed
on a t-shirt so you don't want to have
like some basic american flag graphic
that looks like it's optimized for the
internet this is a big thing that i see
when i am critiquing designs uh often
is graphics that are good if they're
used on a website
are then being used in t-shirts and it's
like this graphic that you see right
here behind me
i think is well optimized for print on a
print on demand product
t-shirt specifically if i was to go like
grab
a basic american flag image off of like
google images it would not probably be
optimized for t-shirts it'll be
optimized for like just the web you know
what i mean
so be careful with your graphics if you
do go other routes just make sure you
get one that
makes sense to be printed on a t-shirt
you can even just make an american flag
graphic and then distress it um that's
not that hard to do
so here we go we got the text vertically
oriented and then boom i just ended up
changing the color of the text so that
it stands out
i think our initial designs that
inspired this tutorial
also had the text a different color and
i do think it looks pretty good
and when you do something like that too
it stands out
when you're looking at the design itself
on a t-shirt
in search results anything you can do to
draw the attention
and guide people's eyes where you want
it to be
i think is a good thing because keep in
mind like people are going to have a lot
of options as far as like american flag
themed designs with text
what makes r special well maybe nothing
but you don't have to have a special
design
you just need somebody to see your
design so again
if you've got like the white american
flag graphic
that isn't really competing for
somebody's attention but then you've got
like the bold red color on the text
and the text is just so happened to be
like the niche that we're actually
selling
like in this case um whether it's gonna
say like best dog dad or something else
if that's the part you make red imagine
the customer with
40 options on page one that they're
scrolling through oh they slow down
because they see this design that looks
good enough you know it's optimized for
t-shirt print it's not
a graphic optimized for the web and
their eyes immediately go to the
different color text that's big and bold
and easy to read and a different color
that contrasts well
against both the t-shirt and the
foreground graphic
okay i know there's a lot of words but
like think about it like the background
is the black t-shirt
the foreground is the white graphic and
then the color of the text we used
contrasts well against both of them in
this case i just picked a random red
but you can use any color you want just
make sure it you know it contrasts well
so anyways that's really what i was
trying to illustrate in this tutorial
it's not just about
making a half-decent graphic you know we
also got to play the game remember we
need to
stand out in search results and get seen
you know
so i think anything we can do to pop is
something we should consider
and i like what we came up with here in
this
graphic tutorial all right that's it for
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i'll see you guys tomorrow
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