Hi everyone, and welcome back to another video.
In today's video, this is specifically
for print-on-demand sellers.
I'm going to be comparing
placeit.net for doing your designs
compared to canva.com.
Now, these are two very popular platforms
for creating designs and they both work extremely well
for creating t-shirt designs.
I have a ton of experience with both of them
and that's why I wanted to put this video together
to go over the pros and the cons of both of these
and see how they stack up compared to each other.
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The few quick things we have to cover are,
first, if there's any detailed videos
that I refer to throughout this video
that would be linked down in the description,
along with discount codes and coupons for these websites.
Additionally, I'm going to break this down
into a table of contents,
you'll see that down in the description
and you'll be able to jump around this video
to different parts and different comparison features
should you need to.
Without further ado, let's go ahead
and start the comparison
between placeit.net and canva.com.
So first things first, I'm going to break this down
into the important categories,
so you guys have all the information you need
to make an educated-decision on which one's right for you.
So starting out with the first category,
that's probably most important for most people is the price.
So what is the price of placeit.net
and how does it compare to canva.com?
So starting with placeit.net,
placeit.net offers a monthly subscription
or an annual subscription.
Unfortunately, they don't have a free-plan you can use.
With that being said, if you choose to pay monthly,
it's about $15 per month.
If you choose to pay annually, it's about $100 per year.
Now, before you go sign up on one of those,
I do have a coupon code,
a discount link down in the description,
which brings it down 15% off.
So it's about $12 per month or $80 per year.
Now, coming over to canva.com,
Canva has two options.
They have a free-forever plan,
so obviously you don't have to pay for anything,
it's completely free to use.
Now that is very attractive, however, some of the features
that we really do need like a transparent background,
which I'll talk about later in this video,
you have to pay for their premium plan,
which is $9 and 99 cents per month.
Now, Canva doesn't do discount codes or coupons,
so it is $10 per month.
So now that we have price out of the way,
I'm going to reference back to it
a few more times throughout this video.
However, I'd like to move into the second biggest
comparison factor that I think is important,
and a lot of people overlook.
This comparison factor is in regards
to commercial usage rights.
Essentially what commercial usage rights are when you create
a design and you download it from the design tool,
can you actually profit from that design?
Can you sell it on demand and make a profit legally?
On some design tools,
you do not have commercial usage rights,
so whatever you create on there, is only for personal use
which does not work for us in print-on-demand.
So with that being said, starting with placeit.net,
anything and everything you create on there
has full commercial usage rights.
Additionally, one step further,
they even give you re-selling rights.
So if you create a design,
you can resell that design to a company.
For example, if someone wants you to create a logo
or create a t-shirt designed for them,
you can create it on there and sell it to them directly.
But with that being said, the important thing to us
is anything you create on placeit.net
comes with full commercial usage rights,
so you can profit from those designs
with print-on-demand.
Now, switching over to canva.com,
both on their free plan and their premium plan,
they both come with commercial usage rights.
A lot of people have been skeptical about this
because they haven't been able to find it,
however, it's right in their terms,
and it says that you can use it commercially.
Now, moving on to the third category here.
And that is, what are the selection
of t-shirt design templates?
At the end of the day, the most important thing
that we are using these design tools for
is creating our t-shirt designs.
So how has the selection on both of these websites?
Can you get good templates to create good designs?
So the short answer here is,
placeit.net has one of the largest libraries
of t-shirt designs and they're always adding new ones.
So you're always going to find fresh templates
that you can design with.
Now, that being said before, we switch over to Canva.
One other thing that I really like about placeit.net
in regards to t-shirt designing,
is that they have a logo design tool,
which I personally use for t-shirt designs.
It's not meant for t-shirt designs,
however, it works really well because it allows you
to create intricate designs that typically are not offered
in t-shirt design templates on any website.
Now, this is going to be the first reference
to a video down in the description.
I made a video on the channel
showing how to use this logo tool for t-shirt designs.
So I'll link that up down in the description,
if you wanna watch that for more detail.
Now, switching over to canva.com,
both on their free and on their premium plan,
they do have a good selection of t-shirt designs.
The only issue you're going to run into here is
on the free plan, you have very limited access
to what icons and illustrations you can use.
All of the funds will be included
just like the premium plan,
however, it's the illustrations, the photos,
the other items that you wanna put into your design,
that they may require you to upgrade to their premium plan,
to get access to them.
Now, before we move on to the next comparison,
there's one more important thing that we need to discuss
in regards to t-shirt designed templates.
What this is, is transparent backgrounds.
When you're creating a t-shirt design,
you need to be able to save it
with a transparent background,
so when you upload that design
onto a print-on-demand website,
it only shows your design and not a white background.
Now, over on placeit.net,
this is a selection that you can just click
and export, it's very easy.
Over on Canva, it differs between the two plans.
So if you're on the free plan, you are not able to use
the transparent background feature.
It shows it to you, but you can't click it
unless you upgrade to their premium plan.
With that being said, if you do upgrade to the premium plan,
you can just click it and export
where there's transparent background.
So that is something that's very important to know,
and hopefully that saves you some time
and some hassle of trying to figure that out over on Canva.
So moving right along to the next way that these two compare
and that is in regards to mockups.
Mockups are a very important part of the overall strategy
of getting sales with print-on-demand.
I've made other videos on this channel,
talking about how you use mockups on Instagram
to drive free traffic over to your storefronts to get sales.
However, with that being said,
essentially, what a mockup is, if you're not familiar,
is you create your design on whichever design tool
you're using and you choose a model image,
and essentially you upload your t-shirt design
and it goes onto the model shirt.
This is a really cool feature
and it only takes a couple of seconds,
but then it gives you images
of what your print-on-demand designs
would look like on models.
Trust me, when you're in this business,
this is something that's very important
because it doesn't make sense realistically,
and from a business standpoint
to go buy all of your inventory,
hire models and hire a professional photographer
to get these types of photos.
So with that being said, placeit.net offers mockups
and they're actually known for their mockups
over their t-shirt designs.
So to put it in perspective of how many mockups
and how good their mockups are,
that's what Placeit is known for.
Additionally, before I was even using Placeit
for a t-shirt designing,
I was using Placeit for their mockups alone.
So Placeit got their mockups covered.
Moving over to canva.com, both on their free
and on their premium plan,
they do not offer mockups at all.
As we're going through this video,
you're going to notice that this is the biggest
divide between the two.
When you're paying for something like Placeit,
it's about $12 per month, as opposed to using Canva,
whether that's free or about $10 per month,
the biggest difference is that you're going
to get unlimited mockups, if you're using placeit.net.
Now, I think you guys know where I stand on placeit.net
and why I use it but there is a lot to be said
about their mockup photos,
they even have mockup videos and a bunch of extra features
for a couple dollars extra per month compared to Canva.
However, this is not the end of the comparison.
There are a few other important factors to bring in
between placeit.net and canva.com.
The next way that these compare is actually very quick,
and that is in regards to social media templates.
So when you're creating posts on social media,
you may need just a quick template
to fill in the information
and have all of the hard work done for you.
Both placeit.net and both versions of Canva,
the free and the premium,
they all have social media templates.
So if you don't have a budget for any design tool
and you need social media templates,
the free version of Canva is definitely going
to be the clear win it for you.
Now, there are two more important things
that I think you need to know
when you're comparing placeit.net and canva.com,
starting with the design graphics.
When we look at placeit.net,
if you have a subscription with them,
you basically have unlimited graphics.
And there are graphics that I have not seen
on any other design website.
You essentially type in anything that you were looking for
and they give you all the different graphics
that you can use,
you don't have to pay an up-charge to use any of them,
and they are all completely commercially usable.
Additionally, one of the reasons that I prefer
to use Placeit is that,
when you go over to their logo section
for creating t-shirt designs,
again, I put a video on this down in the description,
but over there you're able to click a graphic
and it actually integrates it into the design.
Now, this is something that I've never seen
in a design tool before, but it essentially reworks
the text and re-configures the design
to integrate that graphic.
When you're using something else like Canva, for example,
when you click to add a graphic,
it just adds it to your Canvas.
Now, once it's on your Canvas,
you have to decide where it goes.
You can put it in the background,
you can put it to the side, anywhere you want,
however, it's not going to be fully integrated
in just one click into your design.
As you've likely heard me talk about it before
in print-on-demand, it's all about efficiency.
If you're spending hours on a single design,
just make it perfect, you're not gonna be able
to create enough designs to really have a lot of success
in print-on-demand.
Now, when you have a tool that you just click the graphic
and it fully integrates it into the design for you,
that saves you a lot of time.
Now, I certainly hope this doesn't sound
like a broken record, but you're starting
to see why I really prefer using Placeit.
Now, staying on the topic of graphics,
when you come over to canva.com, if you're on the free plan,
you will have a selection of graphics.
They're not going to be worked into the design for you,
but you will be able to use
completely free graphics commercially.
Now, as you start scrolling through them,
you're going to see that a lot of them are locked.
So you'd have to upgrade to the premium plan on Canva
to get access to those locked graphics.
Now, again, even with those locked graphics,
they won't be worked into the design for you.
So with all that being said,
there's just one more important thing
that I think you should know if you're considering
placeit.net or canva.com for creating t-shirt designs.
Now, what this topic is, is sizing the actual designs.
When you're uploading to Teespring,
Redbubble and Merch by Amazon,
which are the three that I highly recommend,
you'll see that Teespring and Redbubble
do not have size requirements.
So you can download your design straight
from placeit.net or canva.com,
really anywhere that you're making the design
and upload it straight to these websites without any issues.
You can create one design and you can actually legally
upload that same design to all three of these websites
because they're non-exclusive.
However, when you come into the third one,
which is Merch by Amazon,
they have specific size requirements for your designs.
For the most part, the design size
is 4,500 pixels by 5,400 pixels for most of their items.
If you wanna upload that same design
to all three of them very quickly,
you have to make sure that that design
is formatted for Merch by Amazon.
The other two websites do not have a specific format.
So you can upload the same size that you uploaded
to Merch by Amazon, to the others as well.
With that said, the most efficient way
to do this speaking from me experience
is to create your designs pre-formatted for Merch by Amazon,
and just use that same file for the other two as well.
So this brings in the question of,
can you create designs in 4,500 pixels by 5,400 pixels
on placeit.net and on canva.com?
The short answer is yes, on both of these, you can.
On placeit.net, you can create your design,
go into downloads and simply click resize
and save that design at any design size that you would like.
That's a very simple way to do it.
Moving over to canva.com,
yes, you will technically be able to do this
on the free version and the premium version,
however, remember, if you're doing it on the free version,
you will not be able to save that design
with a transparent background.
So, although you'll have it in the right size,
you will still have to go to another tool
to remove that background
and make sure it stays in the same size.
So you have to upgrade to the Canva premium,
then you can save the design in the proper size
with a transparent background.
So guys, I know that was a lot of information
and very quickly, if you need to refer back
to any of these sections,
remember there's a table of contents
down in the description.
Additionally, the 15% off coupon for placeit.net
is down in the description along with more
detailed videos on how to use
different features on placeit.net and canva.com.
I hope this video has saved you a lot time in researching
and trying these out for yourself.
If you have any questions between the two of these,
just let me know down in the comments
and I can answer them and help you out,
and hopefully save you even more time.
With that being said, if you enjoyed this video,
feel free to leave a thumbs up, I certainly appreciate that.
And I will be seeing you guys all in the next video.