One of my businesses is a site called Wohello.
We're a clothing shop where we do custom clothing.
I'm wearing one right now actually.
I call this the Basquiat.
It's embroidered, looks nice and I got this question from @polsfiction on Instagram.
"Hey Alex, your Fangirl here. I need your
expert knowledge about the fashion thing. How is the process of your t-shirt
production (from the idea to the drawing to the finished product )
So today I want to talk about
How do you turn an image into a vector?
Because that is a key part of this entire process and to do that
I have an entire pile of drawings here.
Drawings! So what I want to do is, pick one of these and we're gonna turn it and
do a t-shirt. Let's do it.
Step 1 - Pick a drawing.
Step 2 - Pop it on the table. Like so.
Step 3 - Grab the phone and take a picture.
What I'll do here is air drop it to me like that very simple.
and that will move this drawing in hi-def to the computer.
Then it's going to be in downloads. This one's actually based on Robin Williams.
Believe it or not. So I'll call it red hair.
So let's turn this into a vector so that we can use it for apparel and all of that sort of thing.
I'll cover the second half of the process in a review of Printful, which is
what we use to fulfill the orders in a couple weeks.
So make sure you subscribe if you want to check that one out.
A Vector, if you don't know, is a digital
image which instead of being drawn at a certain resolution, which means if you
zoom in it'll get pixelated like I'll show you right now.
If I zoomed it on this, it's kind of blurry, it's kind of pixelated here.
If you printed this on a shirt, you would see these pixels
and it would really make the shirt seem low-quality.
So what we're gonna do by turning this into a vector is make this digital.
It allow us to clean it up a little bit too
You see how there's some straps here
and I'll remove this part and then it'll be much easier to put it on a shirt.
So let's do that. This is my favorite Autotracer and so let's try it out.
Red hair. Popping at Autotracer and
it's very easy here, no reduction in colors, turn it into an SVG which is a vector
and so here's Redhair.svg then we'll open this in Adobe Illustrator.
So as you can see the image is a vector now. It looks pretty similar to how it did
before but it is a vector and actually consuming and you see that each part now
is a drawing and I can actually delete little parts of this.
Which is cool. Now let's flip it so it looks normal
Basically what I'm doing is just going through and deleting every part of this
that isn't black or red so I'll get back to you in a few minutes after I've
cleaned this entire thing up and then we'll see the image as a vector.
So I went through and I deleted a lot of the off-white space and what we're left with is this vector.
I could go through and clean it up a little bit more like
delete some of these spots in here.
This is basically what I was doing.
It took a few minutes, maybe 10 - 20 minutes to do this. That's it.
Image is a vector. So we'll show you zoom in test here and it doesn't matter how
far we zoom in, you're not gonna get pixelation because it's a vector we did it.
If you liked this video, I'd love if you would share it with a friend
you think would also get value.
If you want to grab this shirt
I'll link down in the description and Part 2 we'll talk about how I actually
turn this into a t-shirt using Printful.
Like the video if you liked it.
Comment if you want to see anything else or if you have a better way.
I'm Alex Berman.
Thanks for watching.