hey what's up guys so today i didn't
really know what to do a video on and
then it hit me why don't i do a video on
something i was working on earlier for
my print-on-demand business
so when i was working on creating some
new designs that i was then going to
scale out and eventually upload to merch
by amazon etsy redbubble
you know if they sell well i'll put them
on seller central i'll put them on ebay
after i kind of feel like they're
verified but i kind of want to show you
the approach that i took to creating
these designs and it's something that
we're all going to benefit from it's
something that is a really low hanging
fruit idea that some of you guys
probably already implement but for those
of you that don't it's going to be
really valuable lesson i'm basically
basically going to show you how we can
utilize graphics
to make them better to improve on them
make them appeal to a wider audience
which of course then is going to
increase our sales so i think it's going
to be a valuable video today why don't
we get started
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all right so today we're talking about
kind of graphic design for print on
demand and there's a couple ways to go
about this you can definitely just start
with a blank canvas and go about it you
know any way of that you choose if
you're the artistic type and you're
efficient because if it takes you too
long to create graphics
your time is money and you're going to
make the most money by
always looking to improve your
efficiency right so i know this if i sit
there and stare long enough at a blank
canvas eventually i'll make a pretty
good design but that's after years of
practice by the way but you know today
i'm happy to just admit that i'll come
to a website like creative fabrica type
in whatever keywords that are popping
into my mind and there's always just so
many options so in this case from top
five niches of the week a recent episode
you know i was thinking it's summertime
what are some summer activities you've
got your healthy ones your hiking you
know anything related to being outdoors
hey you've also got day drinking for
those of us that like to be outside but
also you know sit with some friends and
sip a beer or two right or three right
anyways so
as far as
the niche goes we're gonna do day
drinking i went to creative fabrica i
typed in day drinking there were lots of
options i went and i picked two designs
that i want to work with okay so i've
got this one right here behind me and
i've got this other one right here by
the way a nice easy way of adding
additional streams of income is you can
design your own designs
and then sell them on the creative
fabrica like creative market website by
the way i'm just throwing it out there
i've done a video with uh anne from
graphic design how to on youtube that's
her channel and she had mentioned she's
got like 27 income streams because she
does a lot of this stuff with her
graphic design ability you know she's an
artist she's definitely better than i am
and she lists a lot of designs for sale
on various websites similar to creative
fabric i don't remember if this was one
of them that she mentioned uh by name
but either way so i'm just throwing it
out there you can make money selling
these as well
but i'm going to utilize these in my
designs today all right so instead of
having the blank canvas oh what do i
type etc well they've already created
the design they've done the niche
research for us
and that's the end of the video just
kidding of course it's not the end of
the video i'm going to improve upon
these designs that way i'm
differentiating myself
from the masses that may have come and
downloaded these designs and then just
uploaded them as is to t-shirts
we're not going to do that we're going
to edit these and make them better i'm
going to show you how i'll go about
doing that in a second but for those of
you guys that are new to creative
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they've got graphics they've got fonts
they've got tools like the word cloud
generator they have a lot of stuff guys
in this video though we're just using
them for pre-made designs but now i'm
going to jump on over to photoshop and
show you how we're going to improve on
those graphics to increase our sales by
making them uh just have broader appeal
alright so i'm over here in photoshop i
went ahead i downloaded those designs
which is just one click you download it
you extract it
you don't have to really do anything
from there you can actually use the
files as is but i like to go ahead make
them my own put my own stamp on them now
of course we can add to them we can add
graphics we can add text
depending on what file types are
included if it was a psd we could edit
the layers as well but i just want to
show you like literally what i was doing
earlier and this is
the lowest hanging fruit that there is
well actually we're going to make a
special edit to this one because uh 20
this has 20 20 in it so the first thing
we would want to do is
edit this 2020 right here
out of the design because it doesn't
really make too much sense for that to
be in there uh so why don't we
put in like 2022
and we can use any font that we want the
point of me making this video wasn't
really to
go through a bunch of like font
selections and whatnot so
i will just do a quick edit on this
i'm not gonna really worry about finding
the perfect font to match i will just i
think that looks pretty good actually uh
that was quick and easy right there if
anybody wants to know what font that was
that was called olimpica and yes you
guessed it guess what website it's
available on
creative fabrica so another reason to
get a subscription it's like a little
distressed um kind of like marker style
anyways here's what i wanted to show you
guys i've referenced this in previous
videos but i like to
save color schemes and here i have like
six different color schemes that i just
keep in notepad i also keep it in google
keep in google keep i can you know it's
what it's cloud-based notes so i can
access them on any device i can do a
little search find it very easily
um anyways so let me just show you how
if we wanted to just
and by the way i'm looking at hex codes
here so i don't necessarily have it
memorized visually what these are going
to look like but i only save ones that i
like so why don't i
um just grab this one because it says
white background okay so let's just see
what this looks like so i'm gonna go
over to photoshop
grab the color scheme by the way if you
don't have any color schemes saved
go look at like amazon look at etsy look
at redbubble go looking go on the hunt
for really nice complimentary colors in
high ranking designs right don't go to
page 19 of search results because you're
not going to get the best sellers go to
the best sellers
look at the color schemes that customers
are actually buying and then take a
screenshot pull it into photoshop or
whatever you use use the eyedropper tool
save that color scheme for your future
use okay now you guessed it i'm going to
go to the
paint bucket tool
and next i'm just going to
go ahead and just click the layers
and kind of cycle through all the colors
it makes my life easy when i don't have
to click multiple times thank you for
being cursive
and so i'm just clicking
as i go each letter here because they
are not linked
next color in the color scheme
okay now i'm going to go down to the
next row
and
for the text i will just select the text
and make it that color
alright and then one more color here to
the scheme
oops got to go back to the paint bucket
tool
all right not bad and if anybody wants
to see what the last color was let's see
right here
it's another like whitish color so
that's like a little too white but
anyways i mean check that out we just
pretty dramatically improved upon what
that design looked like when it was all
black like let me just show you if i go
to blending options and show you what it
looked like okay um well i guess we
don't have the text blend merged with
that layer if i merge it really quickly
okay so
we literally went from this okay all
black
bland basic to this
not bad and how long did it take
somebody should have timed me took like
45 seconds and that was with me moving
kind of slow for the tutorial uh so in
45 seconds we've differentiated
ourselves we've made this unique we made
it our own we used a color scheme that
we borrowed from best-selling designs i
don't even remember when i grabbed this
color scheme from or where i grabbed it
from it doesn't necessarily mean it was
from another like t-shirt either
sometimes i'll just be on websites and
i'm like i really like this color scheme
uh so that's one example now i had a
separate one prepared right here another
just text only basic design that
creative fabric has got up there and
just to show you like we could even do i
have one labeled miami vice like we
could just alternate two colors honestly
if we wanted to just
um
go through like this and just alternate
like blue and pink
i'm assuming the second color is pink
for that miami vice look
i mean this is
simple simple simple just add the hex
code to your color picker
and then click into each row
um
click into each letter i mean there's
more efficient ways of doing this as
well since it is all on one layer
i could also have just used the
selection tool
and i could just you know cut this part
and make it its own layer
and then do something like right click
blending options
and
you know if i wanted to just do a color
overlay that's another way of doing this
as well
okay
um but guys
that's really all i wanted to illustrate
i i hope this wasn't like a bad video
because i mean this is what i was doing
earlier and i mean these designs it's
not that you know when it's just when
it's just black when it's monotone right
we can do better especially when it
takes us 45 seconds to 60 seconds
um again you know nice complimentary
color schemes uh i can go ahead if you
want me to and i'm willing to at least
share with you the two that i used in
this video i'll give you the miami vice
and i'll give you the first one that we
used here i will give you both of those
i'll put them in the description all you
gotta do go copy paste them make sure
you remember where you saved them come
up with a workflow like a process like a
formal process so that the next time you
want to use these color schemes you
don't have to find this video again
right
put them in google keep put them in
apple notes put them in notepad plus
plus whatever it is find something that
works for you though and that's it guys
thank you for watching this video shout
out to creative fabrica check them out
if you need some pre-built graphics that
you can just go in and manipulate
because there are like a lot of graphics
on creative fabrica that i like that are
just monotone they're just black or
they're just white right they're just
base one base color uh so this is a nice
way of taking them and leveraging them
and if you make a couple sales on a few
of them your whole subscription's paid
for for the month so that's what
everybody's goal should be guys thank
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