Hey friends, Dave here with Transfer Express and today we are talking all about how you
could easily apply and edit patterns in the free easy view online designer at transfer express
now you don't have to be a photoshop whiz to create retail quality designs in easy view with a
simple interface thousands of customizable layouts and powerful tools right at your fingertips you
could say goodbye to all of those expensive subscriptions so are you ready let's dive
in if you are new to transfer express we are the world's largest supplier of custom screen printed
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videos like this one every single week it's super simple to design t-shirt graphics in easy view
online designer i should mention that i come from a graphic design background with adobe illustrator
being my main weapon of choice for designing t-shirt graphics however the vast majority of
t-shirts i get asked to do these days are actually quite simple with maybe just some curved text and
then an image or a piece of clip art tossed in the middle now that's pretty quick to whip up
in illustrator maybe 20 minutes after finding the right font and setting the paths to align the text
to but an easy view online designer i could browse through some layouts in just a couple minutes
and find one that i could easily edit by just double clicking on it saving me time and in any
business time is money now even for more complex ideas and graphics not having to build everything
from the ground up saves a whole bunch of work and utilizing the easy prints idea book from transfer
express in the marketing kit you could actually narrow down some design ideas with your customer
to make designing their artwork even easier all of the layouts in the ideabook are coded for
easy access to the layouts in the online designer itself leaving you just a couple clicks to change
the information you need to easy view is 100 browser-based so it works on any computer if
you're creating the artwork in illustrator or any other design program you could totally upload your
artwork too vector art imports into the designer with many of those same native controls and
editability as illustrator or coreldraw gives you with that being said i want to show you how you
could customize your artwork using the patterns available in easy view online designer so let's
head on over to transferexpress.com and click over to order transfers to get into the designer
this designer is free however you will need a transfer express account to access it
that's free to register too and you won't need a credit card tax id or business license to get
started now that we're here in ezv online designer our getting started menu allows you to add clipart
your layouts or like i mentioned upload your own art so let's go ahead and just start uh with one
of our layouts so here let's just search local now you need a layout selected before you start doing
any patterns on it but here this layout imports with a distressing feature on it
but like anything in easy view you could edit it so here uh in our edit menu on the
left hand side we could just click clear and it's going to clear our distressing the same
that customization that i mentioned earlier let's just click on this state shape this is michigan
and we could click replace clip art here with another clipart so let's say we want this to be
texas we could type in texas and pull up our state shape and it drops it right into where it needs
to be so let's move these out of the way here you can see how editable all of these layouts are now
if you want to add a pattern here simple as this we'll just select the object that we want to apply
the pattern to and make sure it's ungrouped if you have grouping of several images together you're
not going to be able to add a pattern to them unless they are individual pieces so not groups so
here you always check that by going up to object and group or ungroup if they are not highlighted
at all then you are a-okay to add a pattern so right here we'll go ahead and click on it and then
we could click pattern fill now here you could see all of these different patterns that are available
for the current print method that we have selected so here you can see that our print
method is screen print and our goof proof so that is our screen printed spot color transfers
so these are more of the simple patterns that you're able to recolor and recreate with those
screen printed inks now say if we wanted to let's just choose one here and i'll show you exactly how
it actually applies to the shape so just like that even here in this awareness paisley pattern
for the ribbons you could pull that on up and it imports now you'll notice that up here at the top
in your color swatches when you have it selected are going to give you options to be able to edit
the colors that you have printing so you could add or delete say if you wanted that light pink
to drop out to the color of the shirt because it's printing on a say pink shirt all you have
to do is click on no ink and it drops it out of that pattern so then if we change our apparel
color and let's say we'll make it a well we'll just make it this purple so you can see you can
see that those elements drop out and are going to be the color of the shirt so here with this one
since it's just printing this raspberry and black inks we are still priced at just a two color print
but you have all of this nice detail that fills the shape in pretty cool right now one thing that
we can do is let me just change this back to a gray color here is get some extra patterns as well
like i mentioned the print method if we just switch over from screen print to full color
we'll click on full color and you can see that we have even more pattern options now and a lot
of these are kind of photo realistic or have patterns that won't work with screen printing
like this awesome outer space one pretty cool and all of those textures and gradients in there are
not going to work with screen printed transfers and so you have to have a full color print method
selected same here with this awesome 90s pattern brings in all of these elements and if you were to
print this that's a 7 8 color screen print that's going to get very cost prohibitive to still be
able to make a profit so one thing too even if we wanted to change this back to say um like a foil
print or even something one of these screen prints the pearl prints or glitter or some some of these
special effects of our screen printed transfers that only allow one color you're still able to
apply patterns to it as well so just as easy as it is to add a pattern you could clear the pattern
by clicking on pattern here and then just clicking this blue button at the bottom and
it's going to clear the pattern and put us back to just this color shape so let's click back over to
patterns and say we want to bring in um this aztec pattern looks great now what you could do in here
is just the way that we changed those colors before is we'll just change everything over to
let's say glow in the dark because we're going to be doing these glow-in-the-dark printed shirts
on a black shirt we can in fact make all of the colors in this pattern glow in the dark and you'll
see as we just click through all of these and change them over everything is going to change
over to that glow-in-the-dark ink this works the same process if you're doing foil glitter or pearl
transfers now just when we click off we can change that black ink over to glow in the dark and now we
have everything here when i was mentioning how easy everything is to edit here all we have to
do is double click and we can change this text so i'm just going to change this over to hey y'all
and we're all set if you want to change these or skew these or shrink these back in
rotate them at all of course you have all of those commands as well even if you don't like how this
is overlapping and you want the hay to be on top you could click the arrange commands and send this
all the way to the back so things sit on top of each other there's tons more that you could learn
about easy view online designer right here on our youtube channel now we'll just grab all of this
and size it into our boundary for our standard sheet size and we can add some more art here
to the bottom of this page and we're going to be all set another thing that you could do here say
if you have a pattern like this you could always add an outline to contain the shape and give it
a little bit more visual weight as well so all i did here was click on outline click on
touching outline which added this touching outline adjust the color here and then you can even adjust
the weight or thickness of this stroke on the outline as well so if we just want to make this
a little bit thinner so it becomes just a small border that's a little too thin for my liking
there we go perfect and you have an awesome shape with that pattern fill of course if you wanted to
remove it for any reason you always could by clicking that clear pattern button you can see
there's just tons of patterns in here that you're going to be able to use everything from this
basket weave pattern to digital camos soccer balls plaids and argyle camouflage some stitches and a
whole bunch of dot patterns horseshoes hearts all of these all in here that you could use for any
artwork here in the easyview online designer that's it that's how easy it is to create artwork
using patterns in the easyview online designer it wouldn't be easy we didn't call it easyview right
regardless of what print method or transfer type you're using adding and editing those patterns
could add that little something extra that makes your artwork truly unique if you're interested in
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business ideas new apparel trends and so much more but until next time i'm dave happy pressing