hey guys so you've probably heard of
kittle by now it is a really cool
graphic design application built into a
web browser so it's very accessible
especially for people that you know when
you're watching these print-on-demand
videos uh or graphic design videos and
you're thinking i just don't know if
this is for me there looks like there's
too much going on uh is this application
one that i'm gonna have to spend an hour
or hours learning to use well
fortunately generally speaking if
something like kittle is built into a
web browser it tends to be pretty easy
to use in this video i'm going to show
you how i'm using kittle to make print
on demand designs that sell and i'm even
going to show you other ways that you
can monetize
using kittle all right so i'm excited to
get started let's get right to it
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down in the description you'll find a
link so you can go and join kittle and
get started using it for free you can
follow along with this video if you
would like to also down in the
description i've got a link to my 8 day
print on demand mini course which helps
you get started with the etsy
integration so that you can actually
take these designs and make money off of
them selling print on demand products
completely free and i've got a great
print on demand facebook group you'll
find a link to that in the description
all right guys once you've logged into
kittle you'll see something like this
they have a dashboard where they just
show you trending designs but you can
actually filter by
logos
and actually you know what why not just
jump the gun i was just gonna throw this
out there at the end of the video but
guys like they have a logo maker that's
very easy to use very easy to customize
really nice looking logos so why not
jump on over to fiverr and make yourself
a fiverr gig charging whatever amount of
money you think is fair to create a logo
for people in the vintage style i see
nothing wrong with doing that you know
me i'm always thinking how can i
monetize these things this is an easy
low hanging fruit
labels here
t-shirts
posters
cards
and social media templates all right so
there's a ton you can do with kittle uh
you can also go to craigslist by the way
and you can advertise and market that
you are able to you know do graphic
design and do custom work like this
and you can charge whatever you think is
fair so i just wanted to throw that out
there because there's really like guys
you can join fiverr right now create
that gig for free you can go to
craigslist right now create that gig for
free so there's no excuse now i know
that's not why most you guys are even
subscribed to my channel it's probably
because you like to sell print on demand
products so what i'm going to show you
how i what i was working on earlier
how i make t-shirt designs so one thing
that you might want to do would make
sense is to probably filter by t-shirts
but here's the thing you don't actually
have to do this
earlier when i logged in and i was like
okay time to make a kittle video and
show you guys how i've been using it
lately
uh it actually just hit me with a pop-up
right when i logged in with a couple
really nice looking designs that i think
were just recently created and i ended
up clicking one of them because i really
liked it i liked the niche i'm going to
show you it in a second but just wanted
to throw it out there you don't have to
use the t-shirt templates or t-shirt
designs
i don't even know if calling it a
template's the right thing because what
i'm saying is you can
use any of these and still work with
them on a t-shirt if you like the way
it's designed it doesn't have to be
tagged as a t-shirt and kittle for you
to use it as such
so
here's um by the way you can go to news
feed and you can actually follow
creators on kittle so i just wanted to
show you guys this also since this is
the first kittle video i've done on the
channel you can kind of keep up with uh
people that you want to follow for
instance
our friend juno here at detour shirts
had published this one here this beach
bum design uh also kittle the uh
official kittle account is constantly
publishing stuff as well so you can go
ahead and follow people you can find
creators over here on the sidebar as
well just wanted to throw that out there
it's a pretty cool way of collaborating
and building a real community vibe here
on kittle
now this is the design that i had seen
when i initially logged in and i was
like damn i really like this it's
nothing too crazy
but i feel like this could translate
well into a t-shirt also i just
i don't know for some reason i'm like
okay we could put this on maybe a black
t-shirt or a dark brown t-shirt uh maybe
even like a dark heather gray i think it
would look really good also i don't know
about you guys but when i think of like
transitioning out of summer into fall
pumpkin spice lattes not that not that i
go and drink a lot of uh starbucks or
anything like that by the way i'm not
hating on starbucks or anything um but
like man it takes so long to get a cup
of coffee when you factor in like
driving standing in line waiting for it
driving i don't know it's a long time
but hey maybe you live above a starbucks
or something like that and i would not
fault you for drinking a lot of them
anyways pumpkin spice lattes i'd be
lying if i hadn't already told you we've
list me and marielle we split our new
etsy shop we've already listed some
coffee designs some latte designs as we
prepare for fall so when i saw this i
was like this is perfect just given the
time of year let's do a coffee design
and by the way those you guys that
already subscribed to my channel and
you've been watching these videos for a
while you know i like to keep things
simple because you don't get paid extra
money for spending extra time
ultimately it's it's the end result of
our efforts right
regardless of if it took us five minutes
or five hours to create a design now
this one in its current state took me
about five seconds not even five minutes
but i was going to show you kind of my
thought press process on how i went
about creating just one design but i can
also just kind of talk you through how
i'd translate this into more than one
design so i went over to pretty merch
research tab and i searched for the word
coffee now i could niche this down even
further if i wanted to go into
specifically like pumpkin spice lattes
or something like that
but i just you know i like to start kind
of high level and then if i need to not
broaden what's the opposite of broad and
like just niche down a little bit uh
refine my searches then i would enter
more like long tail keywords but i ended
up seeing this coffee teach repeat
design here
and while i'm not actually trying to
like recreate the design i'm just saying
okay i like that it has you know it's a
nice coffee design it's got a great bsr
a hundred two thousand recent bsr change
18 000 drop so that's actually a great
trend um recently uploaded so i love
that as well so
hey this sounds like it could be a
winner and it basically fits the design
template that we're working with here in
kittle that's already basically pre-made
for us so it says coffee teach repeat
now i'm going to take a couple things
from that design for one i'm going to
switch the text up
by the way i'm kind of hiding uh
i guess i could try like moving myself
over to the other corner we'll do i'll
be on the left side of the video for now
uh you didn't know i could do that did
you
um here we go so the first thing i'm
gonna do is this top layer i'm going to
click the eyeball and hide it okay
otherwise when you try to click into the
design you're going to end up just
clicking that top grungy layer and that
grungy layer is not really serving me
any
use anyways because i want to export
this for use on a t-shirt now i think it
makes this design look really good
really grungy
but if i were to act like if i were to
export this design as is and put it on a
t-shirt it's going to be like a square
right it's going to have the background
color it's going to have the grungy
effect and i just don't think i don't
think floating
square designs look good on t-shirts 99
of the time unless they're like photos
or something
or unless you're like a graphic designer
with a very high degree of skill which
i'm not going to pretend to have so
over there on the layers panel behind
where i normally am in these videos
i'm going to turn off
a lot of these elements i'm going to
turn off for instance the the death the
coffin because i don't think that fits
how i want to use this design so i'm
going to turn that off turn the coffin
off uh the next one is the coffee guy
i'm going to turn him back on later okay
now when i click i get the actual text
all right so now i'm gonna go back over
here and
what i'm thinking we'll do is we'll make
it say coffee teach repeat all right
this is nothing crazy this can honestly
be accomplished very quickly and like i
said whether it takes you five minutes
or five hours to make a good design a
good design is a good design and a sale
is a sale so coffee
is the first word
then the next one's gonna say teach and
we'll revisit teach i think
and then repeat
all right so there we go we've got
coffee teach repeat i might actually
move the word coffee a little bit and uh
eventually we will re
we'll turn on this layer of the coffee
animated guy but i wanted to you know
just based on what i see here from the
one of the best selling like coffee plus
teacher you know cross niche designs
here uh they have the word teach
kind of in a different font a different
color now we don't have to copy it
exactly we're not even really copying it
but i'm just saying let's take a hint
right like it's one thing to see this
through the lens of oh man this is what
this original artwork did and we need to
do it exactly like they did it that's
one way of saying it but another is hey
like customers had a lot of options with
what to buy right they had a lot of
options probably hundreds
and this is the one that many of them
are opting to purchase perhaps this is
the customer's indirect way of telling
us when they like a certain design style
so i'm not saying we copy anything i'm
just saying hey maybe we make the word
teach just a little different all right
so maybe we'll switch up the font family
here
earlier i was looking and i told myself
i wasn't going to forget the name of the
font but i have in fact done that it's
one that i've used before i think it's
called me wave
yeah knee wave i like this font i've
used it in previous designs honestly
um whoops
by the way you can hit ctrl z and roll
things back the same way you would in
windows i don't know what what you would
do in mac probably something similar
all right let's use the new wave font by
the way it's easy to like move these
things around you can add like font
effects like borders change the color
all that stuff really easily in kittle
i don't know if i want to make this
video super long but i was planning on
doing a second video and i'm thinking
while i prep for that video i may also
do like a sample order and just show how
some of these more vintage style designs
as many of the designs on kittle are
kind of vintagey
how they actually show on a t-shirt when
they're printed on the final product so
i'm thinking i'm gonna do something like
that for the future if i do another
video which i'm leaning towards doing so
it says coffee teach repeat
if i wanted to spend more time kind of
changing things up switching the text
around i could do that or you know since
i love just doing things quickly just
enable this graphic it looks like i'm
gonna have to make a couple changes
because the graphic is
you know hanging over top of the repeat
so i could move him over here to the
left a little bit if i wanted to
um you know it's we definitely have some
flexibility some freedom here with how
we want to make this look i could make
this word teach just kind of lined up a
little bit further over
um whatever we think looks best i guess
what do you think maybe move the word
repeat over
a little bit
there we go
i think that looks okay
maybe move the word coffee back a little
bit coffee teach repeat i think it looks
good guys so now we need to download it
so that we can then sell it uh what i
would recommend doing is for one there's
some elements in the background here
that i would turn off like there's more
grungy elements and like i said i don't
want like a random square
that's very obviously a square on the
t-shirt that we're selling ultimately
right so i'm gonna turn off some of
these extra layers
all right if you're not sure what they
do you can just kind of toggle them on
and off and see what disappears so i've
got the paint splotches i actually like
how those look so i'm going to keep
those
the background you can either turn off
here or when you download just click the
download button up in the top right okay
click the download button and i think
the default size was like a thousand
pixel
width by a thousand pixel height which
is not exactly going to work for how i
want to use this for download purposes
so i switched it to 4 500 and then you
can see it changed the height
automatically well i can show you so if
i do 1000 here it automatically changed
the height there
but i'll do 4500
you can play around with changing the
dpi also if you would like to do that
i'm just going to leave it as is and uh
i have the remove background enabled but
by default that was not selected so you
may need to go ahead and manually um i
would just suggest just like always turn
that on if you're about to export this
so you can sell it on a t-shirt
alternatively like i said you can just
turn off the background layer down there
under layers then go ahead and click
under for digital use png so go ahead
and click that now what i have already
done preemptively is i've uploaded this
well i've already downloaded it and
uploaded it to
merch by amazon so you can see right
here that um the cool thing is you guys
remember how merch by amazon used to be
we'd have to
render everything in the 4 500 by 5400
size now we don't need to do that so
it's not going to be an issue that this
kittle template we were using is square
uh merch just lets us drag and drop the
square designs now the default that this
had here i'm zoomed in quite a bit let
me zoom out also i'm going to move
myself on the video back to the other
side there we go
um
so by default it had the design down
here in the middle and if you guys watch
like a lot of my redbubble shop review
videos that's one thing i'm always
dinging people on
for some reason a lot of redbubble
people are putting their designs just
kind of floating awkwardly in the middle
of the chest vertically speaking i
prefer to move that up towards the top
of the shirt that's what we're more used
to seeing
i went ahead i selected black i think
it's going to look great maybe asphalt
actually asphalt's looking really good
there too by the way if you want to
stand out like oh it's a coffee shirt
right or a coffee slash teacher niche
shirt these are huge niches sometimes
it's okay to say hey i'm only going to
select one color how many shirts out
there in search results are going to be
asphalt because if most people are
selecting asphalt they're also selecting
black and you already know if you make
black available amazon merch is going to
default it to black so why not just do
asphalt in this case i think it looks
great you know got my price points down
here go down publish it and see what
happens guys so i also just wanted to
show you before i wrap this video up but
that's how i would publish a design
straight out of kittle to merch by
amazon in minutes
i made a second design here from scratch
and i know it's not as impressive as
pretty much anything else you'll find on
kittle but i was just
just trying to show you guys that like i
did this from absolute scratch so i was
like okay we have a lot of vintagey look
and feel to the stuff in um in kittle a
lot of the graphic assets let me make my
own version in in about 60 seconds i got
some gears i got a ribbon
and i was easily able to add that kind
of climbing effect to the text when you
click the text layer you can actually
see behind me here the transformations
are already available so i clicked rise
and when you click rise guys you can
actually play around with
how the text whoops how the text is
actually going to look in terms of like
how it's going to be laid out
it's crazy they were able to build this
into a web browser um it's very
impressive i mean i'm
it's kind of like warped to my brain i
don't know from a web developer
perspective how they ended up actually
doing this some sort of um
like a browser plug-in maybe i don't
know i know nobody cares yeah okay so
using html5 canvas that's really cool
whoever built this man well done
tip of the hat to you developers all
right i think i made this video about as
long as i intended to make it guys but
please check out kittle you're not going
to regret it i'm also working on
launching a like fun design challenge
with them so you'll hear more about that
from me uh in the future i'll also
update the links in the description with
more information about that because
there will be prizes involved so that'll
get you introduced to kittle you can
have some fun with the theme of the
challenge which um i you know i picked
the theme so you already know i'm gonna
like it hopefully you will as well and
that's it guys check them out the link
is at the top of the description also
please like and subscribe if you haven't
already and i will see you tomorrow with
a new video
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