hey what's up guys so earlier today I
had a call with somebody who's just
getting started with print on demand and
I like to recommend keeping it simple as
you get started because obviously we can
layer on a lot of complexity as we move
forward one of the tips I passed along
to this person was I think you should
start with text based designs when
you're getting started because those
empty upload slots we know they don't
make you any sales but if we can fill
that upload slot with a design and maybe
again like we keep it simple things tend
to get easier with time so if you start
with just making really quality
text-based designs that's a great
Foundation to build on in the future so
today I want to show you how I'm making
some really nice looking text-based
designs even though I'm a novice when it
comes to graphic design using the Kittle
app Kittle is great when it comes to
print on demand designs and they can do
of course more than that but I love them
for print on demand so that's what I'm
going to show showing you in this video
so let's get right to it
[Music]
really quickly I've got some free
resources for you all Linked In the
description I've got my weekly print on
demand giveaway the winners are randomly
selected and announced on Sunday I've
got my eight day print on demand mini
course one lesson a day's emailed to you
and I've got my print on demand Facebook
group that I hope you will join if
you're not already a member all right
also I've done some previous videos with
Kittle so if you're not familiar with uh
what Kittle is maybe start by checking
out those videos I'll link to them in
the description and I'll put a link to
where you can sign up for free right now
alright so first before we jump over to
Kittle I just wanted to kind of scroll
through some of the top trending shirts
on Amazon merch right now so that we can
kind of get a feel for just how much of
an important role text plays when it
comes to in this case a lot of t-shirt
designs obviously a lot of these designs
are heavy on the text and if they're not
heavy on the text most of these designs
have a text element included and Kittle
is great they have some beautiful text
designs and templates that we're going
to take a look at in just a second so I
went over to Kittle and I picked out six
different design templates there's tons
of templates that you can utilize for
your designs that'll make your life a
whole lot easier if you don't want to
start from scratch that is my typical
approach when I'm using Kittle but I
picked out a bunch that are text based
they don't have to be text only they can
be text only like anytime you're using
these templates you can typically uh
just delete these other elements from
the design as you saw me just do or if
you like how they work you know you can
typically just change them up like in
this case the microphone over the uh
word music you know if we want to make
this a text only design that had nothing
to do with music like maybe you wanted
to say magic
um you could just go ahead and edit the
design the way you're watching me do
right now you know I just change a
couple letters around now it says magic
and you may even be able to find
something that complements that
over here in the sidebar as well okay so
I'm just doing some quick drag and
dropping
uh most of these elements too are very
customizable in Kittle as well so you
can see in the object color if we want
to kind of match it to
um the background there we could do
something like that you can play around
with this guys but it just shows how
easily you can customize these templates
in Kittle and I didn't even plan that by
the way that was completely just on the
on the go here while I'm recording
um you can delete the text at the bottom
there and boom we've got a nice looking
text based Design This by the way like
even without the graphic element in the
middle
this sort of approach to design
um I don't know how to describe it
honestly in my lecture on print on
demand design I have a lecture dedicated
to just text based design styles that we
should be able to not replicate but you
know what I mean like we should be able
to utilize
um the various elements of it that
probably resonate with the customer and
use them to get into different niches
like in this case we just turned music
to Magic to whatever else guys so that's
just one template by the way I'll link
to all these templates in the
description as well so that after you
sign up for Kittle you can go ahead and
use them yourself now here's another
pre-built template from Kittle it's
definitely inspired by uh what was
trending during like back to school I
mean this trend has probably been here
all year but it's that 60s 70s kind of
wavy text vintage retro style uh over
here on my side monitor I've got uh
pretty much Pro pluses uh research tool
here and you can see that there are
quite a few of the
um wavy text style designs so a why
struggle to make it ourselves when we
can just use the Kittle template and
keep it simple obviously you can just
click in and edit the text like I just
did I just typed the word edit and it
distorts and Contours the text just uh
automatically for me so very very easy
to utilize here is another template here
I really like the color scheme like you
know how I those you guys that watch my
videos regularly you know I love to what
do I say borrow color schemes from
really nice looking designs so typically
what that means is I'll just use the
little um Color Picker tool and save the
hex codes kind of in order and reference
them later you know and maybe put some
descriptive text there I really like
this color scheme I may be borrowing it
for the future but here you can see it
says choose happy and it's got the like
vinyl record player now if we wanted to
we could
you know easily swap out the text if we
want to remove the record player element
we could just click and delete that
right so we can utilize this really to
whatever we want and again I might not
even know what Niche I'm getting into I
mean typically I'll know the niche ahead
of time but if I just like the template
and I want to make some designs in this
template I can go back to
um pretty merch Pro Plus here and I can
just type like 60 70s uh retro in the
search bar scroll down to the results
and kind of see what pops up right and
when I put 60 70s retro it's just the
first boards that popped into my mind
when I looked at this design template so
something like love peace okay so how
about that you could just switch to text
love
peace right and then you can go ahead
and decide what keywords to use to
describe this design
um obviously you'd want to include the
text that we actually just put in it but
any additional keywords there and you
could obviously probably edit in like a
peace sign or something as well
you know what I mean
put the word peace
all right and you could edit in any of
these things as you see fit uh in terms
of the
order
okay maybe not send to the complete back
but you can edit the order of these
elements as well so I keep hitting send
to back that's my mistake
um you can
uh if there's a hotkey I need to learn
what that hotkey is but I'm just
continuously
um there we go so all right I put the
heart behind the text and it kind of
blocks the fact that it is a heart but
this is the thing you can spend a little
bit more than 30 seconds on the design
I'm trying to keep it moving for the
sake of this video but hopefully you see
there how we were able to add a
complementary element to the design in
10 seconds change the text and you can
just keep going back to your Niche
research whether it's on Amazon
Etsy whether it's using a research tool
like I just did or just you know going
and doing a keyword search there's a
million ways to get text that you can
then work into the designs and Export
and the templates are pre-built so it's
about as easy as it gets here's one says
love who you want so um if we wanted to
again customize this come over to pretty
much Pro Plus and probably just type in
like gay pride
scroll down and look at the various
results and you could just work in the
various text which represent sub niches
in this primary Niche into the pre-built
design template here you could also edit
the color schemes when you click it may
select the whole group itself but if you
double click it selects the element so
in this case um if I just want to change
like this pink to something else you
know I can completely customize it again
I click in selects everything but then I
double click and it's like okay red let
me go white then I'm gonna go Blue just
for this you know the sake of this demo
show you that we can pretty much
completely customize everything that we
see here uh in these Kittle templates
and you know we can add elements remove
elements Etc kind of what I've been
saying as we went
another one here and I like this
approach I was actually just doing a
batch of um scaled out designs recently
with this not in this specific template
but this design approach where we're
just doing repetition of a word multiple
times stacked vertically do I know why
this is why this is a trend why it
resonates with buyers I mean I could
speculate but one thing I do know is
I've seen this used across many niches
and it is tried and true you don't even
need to switch up the colors but in this
case it's the pre-built template here
and you can see that they've kind of
made a gradient from yellow to Orange to
a more orangish red I mean just to show
you guys like kind of what I was talking
about my design approach I'm going to
delete the additional elements and just
kind of show you
this is more the style that I was
talking about here without the
additional graphics and when you remove
the graphics too then you can just
honestly click in change the text and do
this as many times as you want anybody
that's like thinking that I have some
secret that allows me to be you know a
more successful t-shirt seller I'm being
honest with you like this is a design
template that I would use that I have
used recently
um or at least a design approach right
just replicating text so it currently
says summer but we can make it say
whatever we want we can make it say
winter right and if we're gonna go
summer to Winter you may want to
um change the color scheme but it's
completely up to you as you guys can see
here I am just manually clicking in and
changing the text right
maybe it took 15 seconds but boom now
we've got a whole nother uh Niche if you
will so we went from Summer to Winter
and one more uh design template so right
here I was thinking we'd most likely
just delete the small text
um potentially use this text over top I
know I've seen some cool designs on Etsy
kind of laid out in a similar style
where they may have um
the thin lighter or darker I guess in
this case text kind of hanging out on
top of the text in the background you
would definitely want to go do some
Niche research in this case like the
default template says Jazz but we can
switch that up as well so you can just
click into the big letters and make it
say
um I don't even know what's a love I
guess Love's a good one right so just
l-o
V
e all right love
thinking of you how about that just on
the Fly we just came up with that or if
you don't like the text on top too guys
feel free to delete it
I mean this is another design style that
you don't need to overthink this is
tried and true this works uh you can
obviously also you know if as you see
fit you can
add another one of these boxed elements
and
you know add a letter on top and you can
expand this out to additional letters as
well you know just change the color up
as you would expect and um yeah simple
enough guys right so I hope you see that
these templates are super powerful all
right and that's just another reason why
Kittle is a great option for print on
demand Sellers and you can utilize them
for more than just print on demand of
course uh but you know me I love print
on demand I love t-shirts specifically
my best-selling product type and this
would translate extremely well into
t-shirt designs and just before we go if
you want to create a new project in
Kittle just to show you how quickly and
easily you can create your own
text-based designs if you don't need the
inspiration from a pre-built template
you want to do it all yourself go over
to the sidebar hover over click Text
and you get a bunch of options
right away um I think headline may be
selected by default I was playing around
in here earlier before I started
recording
um I know I clicked at least something
so my bad if you don't see the exact
same thing that I see right now when you
click text but there are yeah this is
what you'd probably see when you um go
by default so you can see they have like
vintage um I want to call them like font
Stacks like complementary looking fonts
those are pretty you know busy when I do
my t-shirt design I'm not saying that
that isn't good I just like to keep my
stuff simpler generally speaking so I
might do something more like uh where it
says like ginger bird here I'll click
that
and
gotta switch the color to uh White so
let's do that there we go
uh scale it up yes of course bigger is
better in my mind when it comes to
t-shirt design so that'd probably just
delete some of the additional extra text
and while Ginger bird has no real
significance to me it is just the
default text here we can obviously um
edit it and have it say whatever we want
it to say
Ryan is cool is what we'll have it say
and if we wanted to put small text back
we could say a great YouTuber as well
right and if you agree why don't you hit
the like button that'd be great
um so anyways like this is just to show
you that you can really customize it any
way you want there was actually a more
fun font family I was using um prior
that I want to show you under the
decorated fonts that's where you'll
probably find like the coolest looking
fonts in my mind
um so one that really stuck out to me
was the circus font here
so you could make a circus themed shirt
uh really just that quickly in Kittle
just drag and drop you can go in and
customize it as well
um or you know you can duplicate it and
say like Ryan's circus I don't know
maybe if you're on Etsy too make it say
like custom circus shirts whoops okay
sometimes you gotta click out then you
can copy paste
Ryan's
Ryan circus you know what I mean easy to
do quick
um people may see this from the outside
looking in and be like how did you get
that cool 3d effect on the text how did
you get the gradient designer you know
and it's just like oh I just used Kittle
I just dragged and dropped and then
customized the text layer and then
exported so remember when you export two
guys just click the download button in
the top right corner and then you
typically want to click the remove
background option as well as you know
depends on where you're uploading to the
size and the width as a rule of thumb I
typically use 4 500 pixels by 5400
pixels but that's you know at this point
since Amazon merch kind of opened up
where you don't have to be at those
Dimensions I think pretty much every
platform is flexible now so anyways guys
that's pretty much what I wanted to show
you for this video if you are if you
don't have like at least 100 plus
designs available for sale and you're
thinking Ryan how do I get to 100
designs well hopefully this inspired you
that I know you can do it um with
text-based designs especially when
you're just getting started you don't
need to overthink them sometimes like a
word just pops into my mind and I just
make a text-based design and the the
approach that I take is based on what
kind of text-based design approach that
I've seen from studying bestsellers I
think most suits that Niche so a lot of
great options in Kittle between the
templates and just the built-in text as
well that's just available
and I'll link to all the templates in
the description guys so that's it guys
thank you for watching please go check
out Kittle if you haven't tried it
already you can sign up for free right
now hit the like button subscribe if you
haven't already and I'll see you
tomorrow with a new video
foreign
[Music]