In this video I'm going to show you how to make a t-shirt design with wavy text
like this one right here, using the app Kittl online. This is a really good app to do this.
Real easy to do. I'll show you how to do it step by step. Let's go!!
Thanks for joining me on this video. My name is Juna with Detour Shirts. I've been designing and
selling t-shirts online since 2005 and I've been seeing a lot of different trends for this wavy
text. So there's some... here's some examples that i found online one of these is from target
i saw this at target the other day that one on the left and this one is wavy text as well
all of these can be done and if if you look online and just go google wavy text you'll
see a lot more examples as well just scroll through there you can see it's being used a
lot it's a really cool way to do your text but it's kind of difficult to do in some of the
applications in affinity designer it's a little difficult to do you can do it but
it's not as easy to do as it is in Kittl so i'm going to show you how to do it in kiddo
you'll be surprised how easy it is i'm also going to show you how i complete that design
you may not just want text you may want to put other graphics on it i'll show you how to do
that as well so let's get into Kittl and i'll show you exactly step by step on how to do it.
so here i am on Kittl you can see kittl.com it's in beta right now but it's it's really
good there's lots of good things i went here to t-shirts you default at all but i just wanted
to show you all the different t-shirts that are already on here you can use any of these as a base
we're gonna do one from scratch but you can use any of these as a base make sure you change the
color change the text don't just take this and put it on print on demand shops these are here
to kind of guide you so you you know know where to put the text to have a good design but you're
going to have to switch out some graphics switch out the color don't make it exactly the same here
so but again a great starting point this is almost like pinterest but pinterest that you can actually
come in here and do stuff with and i have a few of my own you can see detour shirts on this one
i think i have one at the top here detour shirts and i'm going to make more and more i'm going to
add this one to my list as well that you can do but um just start here if you don't know
how to make one you know start here maybe change some words change some text change some colors
and just it's a great place to start anyway Kittl i have a few videos on my channel for it it's it's
really cool but we're to start with a new project i'm going to show you how to do this from scratch
not copying anybody else's one not that that's wrong you can
start with somebody else's one but i want to show you how to do this
new project and it starts by the way if you come in here by default it's 1200 by 1200 and that's
fine for practice but if you want to do something bigger for t-shirts i would say 4500 by 5400
like that and pixels right and there you go that's what i would start at
and then start making your stuff so first thing we want to do is text now you can go here
and click text and add a headline and things like that or you can just hit the quick key
t boom and it will do text by default it's going to use this black driver but you can change the
font to whatever you want there's a bunch of cool fonts right here i'm just going to do
this one here it's called spicy rice and let's make it bigger and let's just make any word
it doesn't matter since we're doing wavy stuff i'm thinking beach so let's do surf i'm gonna
use all caps and let's do that and let's do three words um maybe summer surf club how about that
you could do surf surf whatever you want i like to make sure that they're about the same length
uh if you can find words with about the same letter spacing this one has six this is four
you may want like five five five but four is not too bad and club is another four so
um just to just so they're all kind of the same size i think those work out better so
i'm just gonna do club like this surf about the same size like this and then summer
like that and we can move them around so first you want to lay it out like this kind of in the middle
and then next click on it and you can do all these kinds of transmit um transformation you
got rise here you could do rise and do do this this is one way to do it
but this just does top and bottom the same so you want to do if you want to do even more than that
you can hit distort and what distort does is it lets you do the top and bottom different so
you can see that's different than that right so you can do a lot more things on here so let's do
let's make it up here like this and come around here like that you can see i'm just
totally changing the way that it is take these handles turn it like that you can move these
as well so if you want to move this here and here you can maybe you want it popping up more here and
there and this one more here you can just drag the handles you can see how how cool that is already
and then for the next one you would hit distort as well and try and match the bottom one so and
move it up like this and down and since this is down you can grab this like that right
that kind of matches this and then
you know make it different on the bottom one here so maybe this one is over there like that
and you got stuff like that so real easy to do let's do this club distort again put this here
that there like that maybe make this a wave isn't that fun right and then you can grab the whole
thing and then make it bigger so let's say you wanna figure like that and have fun with this
you i mean this is just one of many ways you could do it and if you don't like it you can
always edit it so come here edit and let's say you want to move this out maybe you want this higher
move it up like that you know just have fun and it can be any font so once you do this like let's say
you don't like this one as this font you want to change it up in the middle so let's do uh
sign master basic see or i like to use like a thick font like maybe
that anton there's just so many fonts that you can try out just and it still keeps the distortion so
no matter what um one you pick oh that's a fun one you know it still just keeps it
so let's try let's try that or something more thick like that that's a fun font the modak
let's try another one ranchers right and then when you get a new font
and you want to edit it just hit edit transformation and you can you know if
the the new font doesn't match you can still move things around again so this is really powerful
guys you can have fun like that let's say you want to move this so let's say the b on this one maybe
i want to bring it out more hit edit transform and you can pull that dot out like this right
just have fun with that cool okay so now whatever shape you got let's add some graphics so this is
serve so i'm going to look for surf i'm just going to come in here an element and then type in surf
and i can use this guy right here i'll just drag him in
and you can make him as big as you want these are like vectors so you know
where he fits best maybe he fits right here somewhere surf club uh maybe i want the sun
boom um let's see there's so many different sounds that you can choose from i'll just choose this one
boom right here and if you want it in the back because you want the letters
right click on it and do move to back boom um and then if you want to use some fun text
i found this one let's do t again i'll move that here
and there's this fun text here that i found i think it's at the bottom i'm going to scroll
down to the bottom there this one and there's lots of words here so let's uh
each letter is a word on this one so i'm gonna double click here i'm gonna go to the glyphs
and then just pick the right here and delete the rest of these and then i can make this bigger so
so now you got this kind of the summer surf club isn't that cool and then to feel this
space right here i want to put some birds so what you can do is i'm going to open another tab
and do kiddo again and i'll show you why so in this other tab i'm opening up kiddo here
and i noticed there were some birds that i liked here you can see this one right here and this one
right here has some birds if you see something like an element on another one you can just do
this watch this click on it use this design and then click on the birds right there hit command c
copy come back to the original and click on here and hit command v and there's your birds
right there isn't that cool and then each one of those is individual so if you double clicked
on them you can move them around so if they didn't work isn't that cool so now that you
have all of this uh that's let's kind of center it on your shirt right there you go and if you
want a color in the background you can let's uh instead of white you can use the eyedropper
and pick this color right here but let's make it lighter so let's you know go like that and
that's cool now if you want to um color your text very easy to do come in here text color you know
make that red or something like that maybe maybe a darker red and you can use some of the colors that
are already in this picture or change the color of the picture let's say you don't want this green
on here you want it more of a blue color you can you can just change it more of a blue color
really easy um change this guy to the same red here just pick that red and that cool
um let's see what if you want do that blue right there same blue as this blue
so kind of using the same colors right this you can use the same color as this right here
make sure these are the same color too which i think is black let's see
no it's a light like a different color and then let's say
you want to change you know you can even change the color
skin let's see yeah well that's too light uh
you know kind of cool like that if you want
just to match and if you want to add some texture you can come over here add some texture on it
boom some vintage texture let's let's try some different ones you know you
can try all these kinds of vintage textures oh that's too dark but we could pull it back
or use a different one i think that one just doesn't work sounds nice
oh that has some that has some cool effects right here with the surf
so have fun with this one this is a cool thing to do now you can try it out and then when you want
to export it you come in here and it can export without the background so you know take out that
background and then you can put it on a t-shirt so there's your fun t-shirt design wavy text
really easy to do i showed you some different fonts some graphics and how to take graphics from
other designs and kind of use it in yours you can just copy and paste and make yours original right
and move things around that's what i love about this you can just move move stuff around
color it different if if you want this to be in a different wave you can just come in
you can still come in here and distort it or try different angles and flags and things like that so
have fun with this try out all these transformations the flag is um probably really
easy something that you would want to do anyway see there there's that flag kind of thing but
if you don't like it you can always hit command z and it'll bring it back so real easy have fun with
this this is your tutorial for uh the wave try it out on yours and i'll save this to my file so that
you can just come in here and change some text and change the graphics and play around with it
so that is it for this video guys thanks so much for watching hopefully this video is really
helpful for you and it helped you learn about Kittl and all the different things that it does
this is a really powerful program if you haven't used it before i have a link in my description
that you can try it out for three months try the pro version try all the different things
and if you haven't seen my videos before click on those i'll put it at the end so that you can
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right there and the question of the day for this video is will you use the wavy text design
in your one of your designs in the future let me know that if this is actually a video that
will really help you and you're going to use it i would love to hear it if this is something you're
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right here and as always guys keep creating and keep learning i'll see you on the next one bye