how have your tote bag sales on merch by
amazon bin lately
if you answered not as good as you'd
like them to be
this video is going to hopefully change
that for you because michelle b has put
together a new tutorial
she's going to show us how to create
those really cool looking tote bag
designs that you see on the other side
of the screen from me
and there's a lot of different ways you
can play this by the way so you can
actually change the foreground
and the background layer and then as you
can see you can add some text over top
and really niche down and do a lot with
one base
design template so she's gonna show us
not only how to create these start to
finish
using either photoshop or photopia for
some portions but then also how to pull
them into canva
but uh towards the end she even shares
some graphic resources with you so guys
you're not going to want to miss this
let's get into it
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and a link to my amazon merch facebook
group where you will find that michelle
is very active and you can thank her for
this tutorial
as well as find the resources that she
is going to share with us
today i want to talk about the tote bag
specifically
a merch by amazon tote bag and some
ideas that may inspire you to elevate
your tote game
totes are often overlooked but that's
the best reason to make sure you include
them
because the way i look at it there's
less competition
i'm going to be creating a design with a
peekaboo zipper feature
and you can change that out for yourself
or change it up to suit yourself
this does require a little bit of
photoshop skill or
one of the similar programs however if
you stay to the end i will tell you how
to get
these design templates for free i'm
designing in canva
and i'm creating a wooden plank look
like this one here with these little
peekaboo dogs
i'm going to be creating a leather look
and i'm going to be creating
a color block look
now if you're interested in knowing more
about photoshop
and how to use the clipping mask and
magic one tools that i'll be using today
ryan has already created a tutorial
called the leprechaun tutorial
that he will link in this video and
he goes quite extensively into um
how to use these tools i will show you a
little bit of it today but i'm not going
to go
too intently into it because i've got a
lot to cover
so if you want to know more pop over and
see that tutorial
let's get started you need a canvas size
of
2925 pixels by 2925 pixels
then you need to find a picture
of a zipper so i went over to
photos the photo library put in zipper
and as you will see there is a lot of
zippers
to choose from you can choose any that
you like
this one for example would make a good
design
um there's a lot um
i ended up with this one i thought this
would be really easy to work with
but to make this work you need to change
out or cut out this
white section here so i've taken this
saved it and taken it over to photoshop
and i'll show you how i've done that in
photoshop
so in the photo in photoshop i've
brought it in
and i've gone over here to the magic
wand tool
and clicked in the white space and you
can see that it selected
some of the white space but if you hold
your shift key down
which you'll see has if you can see has
the plus symbol
you can start adding more and more of
the white
in i won't do it all today but you
really are going to want to zoom in
and make sure you get every last bit of
it all between the teeth
and then once you've you're happy that
you've got all of the white
edit and clear so now as you can see
there's nothing there
now to make a double up design
i just simply copied it
and twisted it around
and now i've got two of them one on top
of the other
and with the zip open and
saved it and sent it back to canva
so now it's back in my canva space
i've doubled it up so that's the image
that i've been left with
and now i'm deciding what i'm going to
put in the bag
in behind the little peekaboo and i
thought tennis would be a good subject
so i found an image of tennis balls but
actually when i look closely at these
tennis balls they're actually
look like bath bombs not tennis balls
but don't tell anyone
so i've put some tennis balls behind
i've gone to my uploads
let me do it here so you can see
that i've gone to my uploads found my
design
and voila stretch it to fit
and there we go we've got oh by the way
that happens all the time if that
happens and you can't see
what's behind it just go to the back
button and for some reason
it fixes the glitch i don't know why but
there you have
the tennis balls peeking through the
zippers
then you can add some text if you wish
which you should know how to do
put anything you like in there and
that's
that's a design already done i've done
another one here
for golf grandma um
put a let me show you what's behind
there
two images of golf balls and a bit of
grass
put the image over the top of the
zippers and then you've got a little
peekaboo of a golf ball
and some grass for the golfing grandma
in your life
now here's a little uh trick that canva
has
canva doesn't really allow you to do
shadows in this instance it does have a
shadow feature but
you can't really do it in this instance
but there is a little work around or a
hack
so what you do is you go to photos and
you put the word
shadow in
sorry 1d and
up will come these you probably can't
see them on camera but there's these
shadow images like this one
you might be able to see the shadow so
you can pop
that anywhere you like on this image to
make it give it that little bit of
shadowing around the edges which i've
done
and if you wanted a little bit lighter
you go to the transparency tool here and
you make it a little bit lighter or a
little bit darker
so you create that little bit of a 3d
effect
now we'll move on to the leather look
and i'll show you how to create that 3d
effect in photoshop if you have those
photoshop skills
simply go over to photos again and type
in leather
and you will get a range of beautiful
leathers that you can pick from i've
chosen this one because i like the way
it's sort of darker around the edges and
lighter in the center gives it a little
bit of
3d look i've taken it over to
photoshop and let me show you how i've
done that i've taken it over to
photoshop
here open that one
there it is there brought it into
photoshop and put it up
on top of the zipper image
and then turned it off gone down to the
zipper image
used my wand tool to select
the yellow at the top turn
the lever back on again for that little
section
select oh there it is select inverse so
i'm selecting
i'm de-selecting the yellow area and
selecting everything i don't want make
sure you've got the leather layer
selected
edit and clear there you go so now
i've got the leather in that patch and
if i want the leather in the next patch
i go to where
that's the blue section is select that
select inverse
make sure i've got the right layer
selected edit
and clear and then the last
patch down the bottom make sure i
select the right section
select inverse
make sure i've got the right patch
selected edit clear
so now i have a leather look in the zip
area one of the things you can do
is while you've still got it in
photoshop you can add a little bit of
shading to make it look a little bit
more realistic and the way i did that is
create a new layer
and use the brush tool
and just shade it in a little bit
into there and shade it in a little bit
into there
and then went up to here to the opacity
tool and you can make it darker
or you can make it lighter so
you can make it anything you uh like it
to be
and then you've got your finished image
save it and send it back over to canva
i've sent it back over to canva here
here it is with the shading
decide what you want to have
peek-a-booing out of the background
in this instance i've got ryan ryan's
head there
go to my uploads find my leather look
again
and pop it into place there
and if that happens and it always
happens it's a glitch just
go to the back tool and it fixes itself
so there's ryan in the background with
that little bit of shading
i've done another one here where i put
wine corks
and put a little some words on here
mama's wine
or this one i did for book club
with some books in the background and
some wine corks
or you could do a mobile office so
office supplies in there
you could do a computer whatever you
like in the background you can see
there's a lot of different things and
all sorts of lettering
options that you can put on there
now i did the exactly the same thing
that i did with the leather with the
wooden planks
so i went over here to photoshop and i
looked for wood
and there's basically i took the first
one at the top
did the exact same procedure i did for
the leather took it over to photoshop
brought it back in here and the leather
look i decided yes i'd like some little
puppies peeking through so i went over
and found in elements
i put in puppies
and found some puppies o'clock there's
so many but i thought this one was quite
cute and colorful
to pop some puppies in there then
well let me do it for you i went to the
uploads
found the wooden crate
and popped it in over the top of the
puppies
like so once again
and then included some lettering dogma
another example is teachers
sort of supplies in the background
like a teacher's tote um
and that's that's the end or is it
i think i've got enough time to include
one more a bonus
one of the things i've been having a lot
of luck lately is a thing called
kawaii which is japanese for cute and
i'm not saying i'm an
expert in the art of kawaii i know it's
a whole thing
but i've been doing uh quite a few sales
in the area of kauai
and so i thought i'll include one of the
designs in here
i had a look through i wrote into
the elements button the word kawaii
which means cute as i said and
they have a lot of kawaii images here
and i found this little wallpaper so
i've put this wallpaper in
and then i also saw
a beautiful uh background
paper and i've taken that over to
photoshop
created the zippers on it
and there you go
some kawaii is going through to the
background
now here's a hot tip if you want to do
something
um if you want to add some wording but
you want it to be in a different
language let's say
cute sorry cute
and you don't know how to do that here's
a little tip go over to
google translate type in the words cute
up will come the japanese copy it
bring it back over to canva
and paste it over the top
and now you have the word cute in
japanese
you can create an effect on that
so let's just say black a big black
background
and let's just
make another copy of that
a copy of that and take the background
off that and change the color to
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pink and put that over the top and now
you've got a beautiful
kawaii look bag
now how you can get these designs for
free i realized that for some people
this will be quite difficult so what i'm
doing
is i'm going to put these files
these these front on files let me show
you go back to the top again
i'm going to show this file
this file and this file without the
backgrounds just the
letter look the color block and the box
i'm going to put those files in ryan's
facebook page
and you'll be able to download those and
just use them
in any way you'd like to create your
version of the tote bag and
i hope you let me know how that goes for
you
or if you would like to if i've missed
anything
or if you've got some good ideas of your
own come and chat with me
in either down in the comments or come
over to the facebook page and have a
chat
i'm always over there and i look forward
to seeing the results