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hey guys Ryan here thanks for joining me
for another video today in this one I
want to show you how you can recreate
this design right here now as you can
see it's a fun alien conspiracy theory
design right up my alley I love a good
alien conspiracy theory but I'm probably
gonna blow you away with how easy this
was for me to create it probably took me
one minute if that so I'm gonna show you
step by step exactly how I did it by the
way if you want to buy this go ahead
check it out it's on Amazon for sale I
don't actually expect anybody to buy it
it's it's for sale for thirteen dollars
and seven cents which is mid price
because whenever I upload something to
Amazon merch I always want to get that
first sale so that's locked into the
catalog forever so I list things at min
price then I up the price later so
that's a quick little tip there but I
know you guys are here to see me design
this so I'm going to show you two ways
to do it actually I'm going to show you
the quick and easy way and then I'm
going to show you the step-by-step
Photoshop tutorial way of doing it so
let me go jump on my computer and we'll
get started thanks again for joining me
guys real quick let me introduce myself
I'm Ryan hook I've sold over 1.7 million
dollars on Amazon including a quarter
million through Amazon merch if you want
to follow links in the description I've
got a free eight day print-on-demand
mini course I have a print-on-demand
Facebook community very lively lots of
discussion taking place every day I
publish passive income reports on the
first or second day of each month if
you'd like to follow along with my
progress as a print-on-demand seller or
FBA KDP youtube revenue i show
everything and last but not least i do
have a full print-on-demand course
almost 70 lectures constantly adding to
it seeing great results if you want to
check that out link in the description
it did get you started on like amazon
Etsy eBay and some more tier 3
marketplaces alright so this is the
design that I'm gonna show you I pulled
the quick screenshot off of the Amazon
merch listing you can go find it on
Amazon right now if you want to go
purchase it at mid price like I
mentioned earlier so I'm not making any
money alright so this is really two
things it's a graphic and it's text I
mean that's pretty straightforward
pretty simple and I want to demystify
like the end result is what we're seeing
here there's a couple ways
to get to the end result I mean
seriously you can go hire a designer you
can go pay for graphics or you can make
the graphic yourself so there's at least
three ways of doing it right now the
first way I want to recommend is how I
made that design right there
so this exact design I'm going to show
you exactly how I did it I went to all
sunsets which is a startup print on
demand graphics company all they do is
design these vintage retro extremely
popular sunsets that you see all over
the place dominating their niches I mean
this one was a no-brainer um what do
they say about 25 percent of the top 100
shirts selling on Amazon have some sort
of retro vintage sunset in the design so
if you aren't using them you should be I
wholeheartedly agree I mean the data
speaks for itself go to Amazon merch go
to my search merch tool just click
search don't type in any keywords and
count how many times you see this
vintage retro sunset design so it only
costs $19.99 for one year access to use
all sunsets here's the thing before you
go sign up I'm also going to show you
how to create this yourself so if you
want to save time I want you to know
that this is out there that is how I
created the design in the thumbnail and
I'm gonna walk you through the other
steps I took in one second but I just
want to be upfront you don't have to go
join another service if you don't want
to I'm also gonna show you exactly how
to build these yourselves but there's no
harm done in saving time when time is
money all right so did they have a wide
selection of these sunset you know
variable designs they're constantly
expanding it and if you want to use my
link in the description you'd support
the channel a little bit alright so I
went and I grabbed the green UFO alien
head sunset this was just one of many in
their library so I have the annual
subscription for 20 bucks downloaded it
went to photo shop loaded it up in
Photoshop I went to image adjustments
hue/saturation the reason I'm showing
you this I just want to be fully
transparent as you can see here it's a
green design I wanted to make it about
Project Blue Beam which is a conspiracy
theory if you guys want go look that one
up it's pretty good and in 2020 and I
don't think anything's off the table so
who knows what's coming by the end of
the year but uh hopefully not hopefully
not Project Blue Beam but any
I went there I went to image adjustments
hue/saturation and I dragged the hue
slider a little bit towards the blue so
I I transformed the green aspects of the
color in the color scheme to be blue I
thought it fit the Project Blue Beam
theme a little bit better and that's it
then I just pulled it into Photoshop
added some text done I mean it could not
be simpler that's why I said it only
took me about a minute to make this
design so um and then probably another
like two minutes to upload it to Amazon
merge so I'm happy with the quality of
this if you guys thought that you had to
spend a lot of time and effort to I mean
for what it's worth I didn't do any
niche research here like I said I was
just having some fun with this one but
if you have if you add a niche research
into the mix it's gonna start taking a
little bit longer but the whole thing is
like streamline your processes get
comfortable the more you do things the
faster and easier they should become so
alright now I want to begin a Photoshop
tutorial this is my graphic design
software of choice I've been using it
for like 15 plus years so I'm used to
Photoshop and I'm going to show you how
to make these vintage retro sunsets in
Photoshop alright first thing I always
start with a baseline Photoshop PSD file
that's already set to the Amazon merge
standard dimensions which is 4500 pixels
wide 50 400 pixels tall so and I also
have a black and white background layer
here that you see above me that way if
I'm designing and optimizing for various
light backgrounds dark backgrounds etc I
just toggle the layers alright next I'm
making a circle this is gonna be the
sunset so I go and I use deselect and by
the way I'm just gonna give an upfront
disclaimer there's a reason why I talked
about how to make passive income like
I'm not an expert at Adobe Photoshop
however I'm probably better than like
the average person's I have been using
it for 15 years at least one of you guys
is gonna show up in the comments and
tell me there's a better way of doing
this and I see your comments and I do
appreciate the feedback so if there's a
better way let me know don't hold back
but this is how I created it so I used
the selection tool and I changed it to
the it might be called ellipses really I
just wanted to make it a circle so I
think it's an ellipses by default but
when you make this circle that you see
here if you hold shift it should keep it
at equal dimensions so I went I did that
I created a circle
then I made a new layer all right that's
an important part of the steps so over
here behind me I can't really show you
but behind me there's like the new layer
button I click that and then I always do
the hotkey for this one shift f5 which
should launch the fill option I think
it's under edit and then fill if you
don't want the shortcut but I always
like keyboard shortcuts speed things up
so shift f5 or go to edit fill and I
just fill it in with the foreground
color which I have set to white so then
I have my circle boom or you can you
know you can always just go grab a PNG
of a circle off of Google Images
whatever floats your boat anyways now
we've got our circle layer next thing
I'm gonna add guides to my to my design
so that I can cut out equal lines for
the sunset so I go to view then I go to
new guide layout from here I set to
custom I change columns which is the
default two rows and then I decided to
do six rows now depending on how many
colors you want you can add more rows
you can add less rows whatever you see
fit and I change the gutter to 50 pixels
and again you can play around with this
as you change those values you'll see it
previewing in the background as you go
so very easy to do with those gutters
then all I did is I used the selection
tool and I highlighted each of those
gutters and then all I did was I deleted
them boom so now we've got our circle
chopped up into various different
sections after that you know what I did
I was smart I did a save as and I called
it sunsets dot PSD because with this you
can save it as a template and then any
time you want to make a new sunset you
can come in here and just change the
colors and change the theme whatever you
want to do so I thought this was a good
time to just save a PSD file before we
move on any forward any further also
actually I should just show you what
design I'm going to show you to make
because I'm not gonna show you how to
recreate the alien since we already did
that so real quick while I'm thinking
about it I'm gonna show you guys how to
make this one right here this tropical
palm tree like red white blue green
design since we already did aliens and
they leans a little bit more advanced
anyways so this one's pretty easy to do
pretty straightforward even though they
I if I was making either one I would
follow the same approach that I'm
showing you alright so now we've saved a
Photoshop file all
I deleted the bottom layer the bottom
cut out of the Sun because a lot of
these vintage sunset designs they have
the flat bottom and then they put the
text there because it looks pretty good
after that all I did is I grabbed the
colors from the design we're recreating
and I just did a color overlay basically
or you can use the paint bucket tool too
you can separate them into separate
layers do color overlays or you know
what I actually did here is I grabbed
the paint bucket tool from the left
sidebar selected the color and then just
clicked in the layer that I wanted to
change colors so it's already looking
pretty good right there next up I went
to my friends at vessels this is a very
popular print-on-demand site as well for
graphics again you don't have to be a
great graphic designer or even if you
are again you can hit the fast-forward
button on the whole process by just
going and grabbing pre-made graphics so
I grabbed some palm trees from vexos
nothing too crazy here they're just
silhouettes pulled them into my design
now just so you know what we've got here
is we've got a black layer of palm tree
silhouettes on top of a multicolored
sunset layer and then we've got the
background layer so we need to fix that
what I ended up doing is I went to in
Photoshop select and then color range
actually you know what I think I did
before that is I think I went right here
above me and I merged the silhouette of
the palm trees with the sunset
multicolor so you can just hold shift
click both of those layers and then
merge layers when you do that now
they're one layer so now you can do this
go to Photoshop select color range this
isn't this is one of these like little
tips and tricks that comes in super
handy if you've never seen it before and
you've seen it on my videos before
actually but then all you have to do is
click the color that you want to select
and it'll select every instance of it on
the layer that you have selected so in
this case I selected the black color
which is the color of the palm trees
next up all you have to do is you can
cut it out you can delete it so on your
keyboard you can hit control X you can
hit the Delete key whatever floats your
boat yeah guys that was really the last
step then all you have to do is pick a
background color add your text
you're good to go so I mean hopefully
that was as simple as I was hoping it
would come across as being if not if if
I did a bad job explaining I guess just
give me some feedback in the comments I
definitely appreciate it and if you'd
like to see me do more of these also let
me know I mean I don't mind doing like
one design video a week if there's if
they're gonna be well-received but yeah
I mean these just so you know like these
sunset designs man they really do sell
well like it when you're doing your
niche research I'm assuming that you're
seeing as many of them as I do you can
really attack any niche like you can do
Father's Day designs you can do you know
lots of Big Dawg designs people just put
dogs silhouettes in there like keep in
mind like if we freeze the before we did
the palm tree cut out all we have to do
is go to a website like vexos grab
graphics pop them in here cut them out
using the method I just showed you and
then I mean there's other methods to cut
it out too like you can magic wand the
the silhouette and then just swap layers
and cut it out of the back layer to like
it whatever whatever method you prefer
but you can create a ton of different
designs that will look great against all
different background color t-shirts like
some of you might be wondering like well
if the backgrounds black and the
silhouettes black why cut it out but
when you cut it out that means that we
can now sell this design on purple
shirts brown shirts green shirts red
shirts etc so that's why we cut it out
lots of color variations just increases
the broad appeal to customers but
anyways guys that's all that's all you
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