hey guys happy friday thank you for
joining me for a new video in this one
i want to give you a step-by-step
tutorial of exactly how
i take a single graphic loaded up into
the free graphic design software
photopia
and scale it out using automation to not
just create
one good design but create a handful i'm
gonna probably create i think
20 or so designs and it only takes me
about
five minutes honestly to do this i'm
gonna show you the whole process i'm
gonna show you the tools that i use
if it's something that you're interested
in i'll drop links below so that you can
do it yourself
i'm going to jump on my computer because
it's raining literally right as i step
outside
and we can get started
thank you again for joining me guys
today we're going to be using photopia
along with
some pre-made graphics of course you can
choose whether or not to make your own
graphics
and i'm going to be using the tool
automate pod to automate the design
process
and create bulk designs at one click at
the click of a button honestly
real quick before we get started let me
introduce myself in case this is your
first time
at my channel my name is ryan hogue i've
sold over 1.7 million
on amazon to date if you would like to
follow the links in the description i've
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probably after i get off this
or finish this video so yeah check that
out if you were if you're interested
all right and again just to recap the
tools i'm going to be using in this
video
photopia it's completely free it's like
a web browser based version of photoshop
and i know people get scared when you
hear photoshop like ah it's scary it's a
lot to learn
guys the only way to learn anything in
life is just to dive in there and get
comfortable right and photopia i mean
it's free you got nothing to lose but
it's packed with functionality and you
don't have to install anything you don't
need to make an account
you literally just go to the website and
use it and i'll put links to every tool
in the description
all right i'm going to use automate pod
this is the chrome extension
where you can automate text variables
inside of your designs this is
especially useful for people like me who
are in amazon merch tier
100 thousand but even if you're just on
redbubble or
t public or t t teespring uh what was
the other one spreadshirt even though
spreadshirt just changed their upload
uh maximum to 20 but you know the way i
hit my 50 uploaded day limit on
redbubble every day for instance is with
the assistance of automate pod it's one
of these tools that if you actually use
it then when the fourth quarter rolls
around you will be rewarded for your
efforts throughout the year
and last but not least i am not the best
graphic designer so
our friends at all sunsets they've
launched a new site called
all-american graphics with the election
year and uh you know some craziness
definitely in the near future for those
of us that live in america
they thought that they should say hey
you know what we're going to launch a
new website called
all american graphics and i'm going to
be using some graphics from their
website
in this example so real quick now we're
getting into the
step-by-step actionable tutorials if you
want to follow along this is exactly
what i'm doing
uh so i'm going to all sunsets this is
where you would pause if you don't want
to use pre-made graphics and you would
make your own graphic
but i you know for time's sake i don't
like to do that so
i found this trump graphic that i like i
feel like you know again election
politically charged
people want to wear their uh feelings on
shirts so there's a lot of pro-trump
shirts a lot of anti-trump shirts
and um you know a lot of potential for
making designs
so yeah let's do it all right so i load
that up into photopia again if this
looks like photoshop
it is not it is a strange coincidence
though
you know strikingly similar in
appearance and i again i'm being
sarcastic i don't think it's coincidence
i think photopia
the team there knew exactly what they
were doing when they designed their
software to look this way but
whatever i don't really care how it
looks uh it's gonna work for what we
needed to do
next up uh oh we're in excel i know
people are not
always you know that that friendly
with their excel capabilities and again
it's like one of those things where
it really only gets easier but you have
to just get in there and be brave what's
cool about this though
for this example is we don't actually
need to be good with excel we're just
using this to
hold our list we really just need excel
so that we can save it as
a dot csv file we don't need it for any
excel functionality
although that is what makes excel
awesome is that it's very easy to use
like string variables
and build your your spreadsheets if
you're using things like uploaders or
in this case design automation but we
don't even need that it's not a it's not
a necessary thing
all right so i'm going to jump on over
to my search merge tool which is going
to show me just amazon merch
results on amazon it's going to filter
out the non-amazon merch products
and i'm going to search for trump trump
2020
and i'm going to scroll through the
results i'm going to build my list my
spreadsheet there with
text ideas and i'm going to search
anti-trump 2020 because why not you know
we can play both sides
more results i'm going to add it to my
list
also when i was looking through this i
just wanted to compliment whoever did
this design because
i mentioned the 8645 niche weeks ago
in my top five niches of the week video
which by the way if you're not
subscribed to my channel subscribe every
sunday i give you top print on demand
niches
but i told you about this niche a while
ago probably over a month ago and i just
thought man this is clever because
there's probably tens of thousands of
people that have uploaded this
simple design 8645 but whoever made this
one really was thinking outside the box
and they are being rewarded handsomely
by making a lot of money through this
amazon merch listing
all right here we are we've got our
spreadsheet populated you can actually
go
to as many rows of data as you want i've
gone as high as 1000
in a single spreadsheet but this time i
just said hey you know what we've got
21 lines here that when we run
the automate pod chrome extension it's
going to swap in that text for us and
automatically download the designs
and we'll have 21 fresh trump designs to
play both sides ready to be uploaded
so i ended up switching the background i
liked the white background not that it
really matters because when we export
we're going to do transparent pngs but
this is good for framing how we think
the end product is going to look
and i had initially had the black
background that's almost like out of
habit
but i realized that if we optimize the
design for lighter colored
t-shirts and products you know this
could be a white coffee mug that we
upload to as well
um white pop socket lots of potential
there
uh but if we optimize for light i think
it looks better so i used the red text
got the same graphic there swapped the
background to white just for mock-up's
sake
and uh you know just that people didn't
think i was only making fun of
one side i'm not trying to make fun of
anybody there if you actually read the
mock-up text
i'm always worried that they're going to
get some politically charged comments uh
it's not not the purpose of my youtube
channel here so i got one that's
anti-trump
i got one that's pro-trump and now i'm
ready to jump on over to photopia
and give you an actual demo of how
quickly
this chrome extension works for the
design automation
all right so here we are at photopia
this is what it looks like when you just
get started i usually just go to new
project
then i set the width to 4500 the height
to 5400 and then i hit create
now in this case i've already queued up
the uh pre-made graphic
from all american graphics with some
text
as you can see here and what i'm going
to do before we run the
automate pod chrome extension is i'm
going to
change the text to say var1
because our spreadsheet is going to look
for where it says var1
and that's where it knows to replace the
text all right
so we've got that good to go and i'm
going to that's pretty much it oh yeah
wait before i forget you got to turn off
the background so
disable disable all right now i want
them exported as transparent png so i
need to disable the backgrounds
now we are good to go so i'm going to go
up here click the gear now it says
automation
i'm going to click choose file i'm going
to double click trump.csv
and load it in file type i'm going to
set to png for the downloads folder i'm
just going to put
trump shirts you can call it whatever
you want this is just a folder that's
going to be created with all the designs
that get saved and then i'm just going
to hit go
and then hands up i don't have to touch
anything it just
works its magic it starts downloading
the files and what's really cool about
using photopia as opposed to canva is
that number one it's free
number two it's got more functionality
built in but number three this thing
rifles through the downloads so much
quicker in photopia
my guess is this is only going to take
about one minute to finish up all right
and just like that we are done as you
can see here
we've got our folder full of the designs
how about that not too shabby
considering i literally probably spent
five minutes
between building the spreadsheet picking
a graphic loading it into photopia
and hitting run i mean it took me way
longer to make this video than it would
have actually taken me just to
make these designs and get them uploaded
guys
and here i am on amazon merch i uploaded
the design to
various products just for proof of
concept to show you how it looks the end
result and
you know we've got 20 more of these
designs to upload as well
a good niche good looking big bold
design
didn't take too long to get created i
mean
in my mind i think this would sell but
you know only time will tell i think
sales valid you know truly validate a
niche and truly validate the approach
but the cool thing about being in tier
100 000
or if you're selling on like red bubble
you get 50 uploads a day
is that you don't have to think too hard
about how you fill up those slots
but you know that if you fill them up
you're giving yourself the best chance
of making sales
so that's it for this video guys i
really appreciate your time by the way
if you're interested
in replicating this workflow and using
it for yourself i'm giving away
10 codes to automate pod for 50 off i'll
put them in the description
if you try to use them and they don't
work that means that they ran out but
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