In this video we're going to talk about simple design tips for non-designers. Let's go!!
Thanks for joining me on this video my name is Juna with Detour Shirts the channel all about
helping you design and sell t-shirts online. If that's something you like to do don't forget to
hit that subscribe button. So in this video i'm going to talk about some simple design
tips that you can do even if you're a non-designer and these design tips are things that you can do
on most design applications i'm going to be using affinity designer but i hope that the design
application that you're using can do some of these tips i haven't used all of them but i'm
guessing simple ones like canva and procreate and of course illustrator would be able to do these as
well so there's super simple if you own affinity designer but you're not a designer these are the
tips for you you may have just started you bought it and are following the tutorials but don't know
exactly how to draw or how to use it these are going to be some very simple and easy design tips
for you to use to make your t-shirt design stand out from the rest of the t-shirts out there so
you're going to want to stay to the end to see all the different tips as well as the examples
that i'm going to give uh on before and after of what the these will do for your t-shirts as
well as another edition of trend credits so a lot to see in this video let's get started
so here we are in affinity designer and i wanted to start off with this so usually when people are
starting off maybe they're new designers maybe they are non-designers they just got affinity
designer and want to make a lot of t-shirts the first thing that most people do or beginners do
is they just type out the phrase right so here i am i'm using times new roman here
nothing wrong with this font but you can see it's not very thick it's something that almost
everybody has so they use it and you can see you know this is the phrase awake but not woke and
that's something everybody can do so it doesn't stand out so this is what happens when you see it
together with all the other t-shirts right so here's the design that we're talking about right
here did that stand out first i think maybe this one stands out maybe this one stands out
but this definitely just gets lost in the sea of uh different designs right so
that is the problem and that's the problem i'm gonna help you solve is to make your design stand
out and make it different so that people when they come by and they look at all of these designs here
they'll see yours stand out instead of just swiping through yours or scrolling through
yours and not even giving yours a second chance because honestly if you just did this even if you
did this a hundred times right it's not gonna make a difference so you have to make sure when you're
designing for t-shirts to do something that will catch people's eye something that people want to
wear and something that's going to stand out when they're scrolling through here
remember it's a competition that's why i say on the trend credits here's your competition
it's because if you're here and nobody else is even giving you a second look and they just whiz
by it you're not going to get any sales so you need something you need to do something a little
different to stand out and that's what this video is for so let's start off here i'm going to do
everything in affinity designer but you can do it in your app the first thing i'm going to do
is talk about font choices so the first thing that you saw on there was times new roman you can see
doesn't stand out here doesn't stand out against all of these and look at some of
these they're using some really thick fonts right bold fonts and that's what you need to do
i'm not saying to always use this font but this font is a big thick font right so this will stand
out more than the other font another thing you could do is to use a thick script font so right
here i'm using thirsty soft i'm using the nexus rust sands at the top and then i broke it up with
another font a script font you can see right away this already is better this is still just
text right i'm just using fonts that match fonts that stand out fonts that will catch your eye so
number one font choices make sure you use fonts that help your design stand out even
if it's just text this is one way that you can already you can already see that this is better
than what we had before so font choices number two i'm going to scroll over here
now just play with size you have if you have a graphic design tool you can make this bigger
smaller right so i'm playing with size here so the thing that you might want to think about is to
think of the words that you want to stand out to make those bigger so woke in in this case i think
woke is the thing that catches people's eye so i made woke bigger and i made but not smaller so i'm
playing with the size here you can see it's not all the same size and this already is making it
stand out right this is making it different than having it all the same size playing with size
really can make your design stand out so that's number two real easy to do just grab the edges
and make it bigger make it smaller make it bigger right so that's something i think everybody can
do just play with size of the fonts real easy for non-designers and designers i like number two is
play with size number three is to use a rectangle and reverse text now anybody can do this all you
need to do is draw a rectangle you can see this is just a rectangle with the rectangle tool i'm just
drawing it like that right just click and drag and then my text is inside the rectangle this
is just black text here one thing you may need to do if you want to knock it out so let's say
this is not black now it's gray so you can see that it's not really knocked out yet
it's just a black text so the way you knock things out in affinity designer is you're going
to convert these to curves so it's not text so now it's all curves you're going to ungroup them
like this and then you're going to select both the rectangle and the text and hit this is subtract
and now you can see that it is knocked out you can see that if i change the background color of this
it's going to show through right so that's how you knock it out really simple convert the text
to curves and knock it out of the rectangle and i say rectangle here because that's a real
easy shape to do but you can do any of these shapes rounded rectangle oval whatever you
want right so that's how you do it create some shapes create some interest by doing a reverse
text with your other text and again you can see here we're doing the this is a little smaller than
that right this is a little bigger so on so we're playing with size as well as the reverse text
so that's number three reverse text with a shape in this case a rectangle number four is
pretty easy this is just i'm calling them burst lines but all it is is drawing a line
with the pen tool now anybody can do this all you do is click on the pen tool click and click
and there's your line and all you have to do is move them around right so um let me draw them here
i'll just draw them right now you can see how easy it is so i take the pen tool i click here and i
click here right it doesn't have to be straight but if you want it straight hold down shift
and it's straight and then do the next one click and click so i'm clicking command here to get
the white arrow again to click outside so i can start again click and click and that's it and so
you can see here the burst lines really just make this stand out as well so i'm using the rectangle
but i'm also using this burst lines to give it an even extra oomph extra weight for people to
see it right so this will make it stand out so that's the idea with the burst lines and all
these things is to make your stand out from the rest of the group right so you can see here i'm
putting my burst lines on the word that i want to be emphasized again in this case woke so you
can see the burst lines is woke like that right so when people see it that's how they read it
so that really helps and that's really simple to do so that's number four burst lines so number
five is arch text so arch text is really easy to do it may look really difficult but it's not that
hard to do so you can see here i just have text on a shape you can see the shape right here is
the oval and this is shape text on a shape here it's just on the bottom of the oval and this is
just an oval in the middle here with my text so let me show you how to do text on a shape so the
first thing you want to do is make a shape so let's just make a shape here this oval and then
we're going to click on the artistic text tool so this is just the text tool click on that
and you're going to see it change from an a to a t so when it's at t just click on it
and start typing uh awake right oh it has to be with black letters so you can see it awake
ake let's move these around all right and this one there
um let's see and then you can play around with this reverse text path right
if it's not doing it the right way you can play with that and then you're going to want to center
it so i'm putting these two triangles here and top and bottom and then hitting center here
and there you go that's how easy it is and if you want one on the bottom
you can just move these to the bottom let me show you how we did
awake is at the top right and then let's move these text tools to the bottom
oops and then we're going to reverse it right here reverse text path now it's on the top and
if you wanted the top line to be the bottom this is the baseline so you're gonna move the baseline
down until it hits the bottom like this and type and woke right there so that's how easy it is to
do that awake but not woke so you can see this right here this element is also making it stand
out we didn't see that on some of the other designs so if you put this on a t-shirt you're
bound to make it stand out and you don't have to do a an arc on the top and the bottom just
one at the top or one at the bottom would work too just to give that little extra so i'm just
showing that you can do both but you don't have to so number six here is lines and sunset so what i'm
saying is that you can make a little sunset design here the kind of this retro sunset and all
these are our boxes right these just this is just shapes like this so let me show you how you do it
i'm using white but we could do it in black right you're just taking that hold down option and shift
drag it and make this just a little shorter option and shift just a little shorter again
option and shift just a little shorter and you can see it gives that illusion
of a sunset right so that's what i did here and this is just lines again so you can do
a combination of lines and shapes i could have done just a little
rectangle here too you know i could have put this here instead of that line and colored this white
and that would have been been just as fine right so that's just giving in some interest fill in
the shapes put in uh different designs here and i'm just using rectangles use rectangles
as shapes to make your sunset and to make your lines right so let's move that here
awake but not woke you can see here now this is starting to look way different than the
other ones and this will make it stand out and still in a nice shape of people would like to
wear on their shirt right so very simple to do just using rectangle shapes if you have
the ability to do rectangle shapes on your design app you're using affinity designer you can do this
awake but not woke very simple so the last thing i'm going to share with you today that's super
simple to do to make your stand out is color so let's take a look at some of the ones that
we already did now by adding color you can see that now that's even standing out more
than just the reverse box by adding color here now that's standing out even more than just the
vintage sunset right so let's take a look at how these now stand out against the competition so
let's go back to our original now when we scroll down and look at everything what stands out well
this may not stand out the most i mean it but it does stand out against these because you know
these are just text now and this i think stands out more than these so you're giving yourself
a better chance by doing something like this than doing something that we showed in the
beginning with just text right how about here now which one stands out more well i took up a lot
more space on this one right and so now this takes up and it has more color than everything else so
this one i think stands out way more and it still looks nice that something what people would want
to wear okay so take that into consideration not only does it have to stand out but it has to be
something that people would love to wear so there you go very simple i'm just using text and shape
nothing too hard i'm not drawing any pictures or anything you can do that to make your design
stand out so hopefully all these tips you don't have to use them all in every single design but
pick and choose which ones you want to use and make them stand out you can see i i didn't use
the different fonts in here i didn't use some of the other things we we talked about but i
used some of them and that's enough to make it stand out right so let me know in the comments
if this video is really helpful for you especially if you're a non-designer
will these help you with your t-shirt designs i really hope so i hope that it makes it stand out
so that you have a better chance of making some sales uh in the future on amazon on redbubble
or wherever you're selling your print on demand products thanks so much for watching and your
reward for watching all the way till the end is another edition of trend credits and hopefully
you can use some of these tips that we learned in this video to do your trend for this trend credit
Thanks for joining me on this trend credit. Here is your trend, "Working like crazy to
support the lazy". Take a look at these BSRs super low BSRs you know you got some here
as well um there's some that haven't sold but you can see you know super low bsr as well here
and if we check Merch Informer, working like crazy to support the lazy, it is getting an A so you
know it's good. If you don't have Merch Informer I have a link in the description to Merch Informer
where you can check the competition as well as some other things here. They got some great tools
but here is your trend let's scroll up again working like crazy to support the lazy only 514
results so kind of low competition not super low as i want it to be but still pretty low not in the
thousands so good there so you might want to jump on this one and use some of the tips that i showed
you you can see this is mostly uh text design not a lot of graphics so this is a great one to
use some of the tips that i showed in this video and this is your trend for this video working like
crazy to support the lazy so thanks so much for joining me on this video if you like this video
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