yo what's up guys so in this video we're going to teach you guys how to design
t-shirts using canva all right welcome back to my channel my name is rj martinez
um in this video i'm going to give you guys a breakdown on how to use canva to design shirts
for platforms like merch by amazon red redbubble teespring upload designs to print printful or
shirtley etsy wherever you're uploading your designs to right spreadshirt you name it right so
um if you guys don't know who i am um i have uh sold over 150k in royalties all
time on merch my amazon um i know a lot about print on demand right um i have my fair share
um i sell on redbubble and of course any other big print on demand site i sell designs on okay
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so let's get into the computer all right guys yo what's up so we're right here in the computer
and first things first okay um doesn't matter what software you're using or what or whatever
platform you're trying to use web-based platform um if they have illustrations or any graphics or
anything like that you want to make sure it's okay for commercial use and obviously all free
media on canva can be used for free used for free for commercial and non-commercial use all right
so that right there is like when you go on to any platform okay if you're uploading designs
and you're selling and making a royalty off that you want to make sure it's okay for commercial use
and read the terms and service on any platform that you're selling on so very important that
you guys understand that that's like step number one right because you don't want to do nothing
then end up getting in trouble or having to pay someone back because you made a boo-boo mistake
right um very important so always research and see which um if it's good for commercial use okay
and then step number two making making designs the process is um you want to research okay if
you're going into a new niche okay you guys want to make sure you're researching to make
sure there's a demand for this design um in that niche if their sales people are buying
and spending money so if you're if you're in if you're designing for merch by amazon right
um designing for revival you're designing for etsy designing for spreadshirt if you see that
if you're leveraging these platforms and seeing that there's they're actually making sales if you
can go on amazon and check and see if there's a bsr um you can see that they're making consistent
sales in this niche very important and okay if you can use tools out there like helium 10
to see if there's a search volume on amazon for this and this and you look on the front page and
pretty much almost every single design on that front page has a bsr that means that's a sign
right it's telling you hey these there's a demand in this nation it's making sales before you start
designing um yeah so the first things first that we can see that it's we're good we're in the clear
right here so far right um next thing okay um you can mess around on camera for free but then
they have a 30-day trial right it says it's 9.95 but when you come over here it turns into 12.95
that's for the year if you buy it up front for the annual pat the annual subscription whatever
it is but if you do it for the month it'll be 12.95 all right um and it's a 30-day trial so
all right so it'll tell you when before you check out it's like this is going to cancel um it's
going we're going to remind you before we bill you in 30 days that you have your free trial is going
to end so this is a challenge within itself right so if you're doing this like i recommend you start
getting to work start doing your keyword research and diving into niches that you have like it's
giving yourself a good chance to make money in right so if you understand this you have 30 days
right when you sign up you have 30 days so you need to get to work after like soon as you sign up
get to work it's time to get to work get your butt in gear so first things first i would do keyword
research right do you want you guys to do keyword research and then start designing and making sure
of course check for your trademarks and all that stuff make sure there's you're not designing for
anything that's a trademark or anything like that you want to get in trouble you want to get no
rejections or any of that fun stuff like i said make sure there's a demand trademark check then
design okay important understand that okay um and then the next cool thing right so
after you sign up for that one of the coolest things that i've seen on this platform this is
have different templates right this is really awesome okay um youtube thumbnail you can see
that it has a template already there for you so you're not searching all over google
uh but i would recommend you so if you're design let's say we're designing for merch by amazon
we'll use it for this example or you're designing for redbubble um or even just
your designing for etsy spreadsheet whatever the heck platform we'll just use merch by amazon so
you can see that it's giving you like the like the dimensions here right boom boom boom boom
awesome now like you kind of like you come in when you come in here you want to see
let's click on t-shirts right and the cool thing this is not the correct size but for the dimension
that we're looking for the the correct dimension i'll do it right over here next but this is really
awesome how it's kind of giving you inspiration right this is really cool okay it's kind of
giving you ideas and that these right here that kind of like the templates and you can just see
what is going on here right
home is where my dog is that's dope all right okay this is cool pop culture t-shirt and
it's giving you ideas and i love this a lot i love that so much right and also too
no affiliate no none of that stuff it just just want to kind of bring this to your guys's
attention it's a web base right so you don't need to take up a lot of space on your computer and all
that stuff right it's web-based so it's kind of it's beginner friendly basically and this is cool
even if you this is another way to just to do even research right to see what's going on and see what
see what canvas doing over here to kind of give you some inspiration this is cool so yeah so this
is cool i kind of wanted to bring that to your guys attention if you guys run out of ideas or
whatever the heck it is you can come over here and see okay what's going on a little pocket
design it says pride okay little pocket design that's cool it's really awesome so uh said for
example let's do uh um this is an example guys so this so we're gonna come over here to create
design i come over here right hand corner create design custom dimension i'm gonna do 4500 by
and then we come over here to amazon if you guys aren't aware
the sizing okay over here with amazon 45 uh 4500 by 5400 right and that's what i did over here
and kava see 4500 by 5400 right come over here to elements right and another thing too is you
can you can actually upload your own illustrations stuff like that right that's really really awesome
okay so if you want to use your own illustrations which i recommend you do it's really cool but you
can see when i clicked on elements it's giving me a lot of a lot of ideas hand-drawn animals this is
really cool now with the paid version right which i signed up for um with the paid version you can
you can do a lot it gives you a lot of good stuff a lot of different elements
different illustrations and stuff like that let's type in dog paw boom okay
this is awesome dude really cool all right let's let's do dog dad all right
let's come over here to tex come over here to the cool also to see background okay this is
black and this is real cool because you guys can like i can resize this too by the way
all right and also to the backgrounds kind of let's let's turn it to red so i can see where
my and you can see you can see where the little purple lines kind of center it for me
boom all right now remember like like well the way i like to design shirts i
like to put them like on the chest right so kind of let's see where the middle is boom
okay right there let's do that okay let's get some let's get a font so let's just mess around with
this a little bit um we're going gonna come over here let's get a fun let's go and it's giving us a
lot of cool stuff too and i love this we're gonna do uh dog dad okay so dog spit we're in space dad
all right and then we're gonna make a little bigger bigger we gotta turn that paul a different
color i just i just this is i'm not feeling this right here this font for some reason i'm
not filling that font real simple to change to look at that boom easy i'm not feeling that fun
maybe turn the paw a little bit to the side but i'm not feeling this font right here so
i'm trying guys i'm trying a few moments later dog dad and it just just feels a
little off to me i don't know what the heck it is but i'm just doing this for
an example right it feels a little off this is definitely by any means
uh not good at all i know it i feel it but this is just an example okay um boom boom
boom just not filming that at all don't like it but okay we're done we're done with this right
here so we're going to put the white background right and then we're going to come over here
say we're done so we're done with our design and everything and all that cool stuff we're going to
come over here to download right and then we're gonna want to be a transparent background png
right and then we're gonna go ahead and just press download okay and it's gonna be preparing the
design prep prepping up the design for us right and then we're gonna come over here to amazon
and we're gonna see what it looks like on the shirt and boom right of course now this is a
really important thing too as well you guys can see how this thumbnail is you guys want this to
be a little bigger okay so if you come back over here to canva because we just downloaded it right
we want this to be a little bigger because and this is a perfect example too as well by the way
because this is really small right and you wanted to take up the whole space on the shirt
to where let me click let me edit this okay you can see this right we want this to be a little
bigger okay and uh excuse my horrible crappy design but we want this to be a little bit bigger
because when the customer is scrolling up and down on their phone this is going to be a little small
right and we want it to be really big so when the customer is scrolling on their phone they
see the design they notice the design and they stop right so very important that you guys
understand that and this is a perfect example by looking at this thumbnail that this design is a
little too small and i want to make this a little bit bigger so what i would do is go over here
to canva and basically make sure let's take up the font a little bit bigger right
but we're not going to do that in this video because this is an example but we want it
to be bigger right and then look at simple change too let's change it back over here to
whatever and i mean by bigger like because remember we can just grab let me see let me
move this so i can grab that bring that down and this is what i mean like we want it to be
really big okay we want it to be big and that right there guys is gonna help you it's gonna help
might as well just do it right and i'm not trying to make it like the same size almost
right and we're gonna we're trying to make it as big as possible
okay and then boom a little better and then we're
gonna do the same thing we'll come over to download transparent download download
and then we're gonna come back over here to amazon.com okay look that thing download it's
almost done okay downloaded it we're gonna click on here and then we're gonna upload it again
and this is exactly what i mean look at this one okay look at this design
look at the difference you can see how big it is and how much space it takes and then this is
cool because this is a perfect example of how the design should be right you don't want it
to be really small because the customer's not going to be able to look at it and not be able
to see it on that thumbnail so very important really good tip right there guys um if you guys
have any questions at all please comment down below and check out my other videos right here