hey what's up guys in today's video
we're gonna do a design tutorial kind of
a design tutorial i don't know i'm just
gonna show you how i would go about
recreating some of the trending db
cooper designs from the most recent
episode of top five niches of the week
told you guys to comment below if you
were interested in seeing me do kind of
my take on these designs because i
thought it would be you know a little
bit fun to just show you how i go about
doing it and enough you guys wanted to
see it that here we are we're gonna make
that happen today so let's get right
into it
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all right so from top five niches of the
week i mentioned that a couple days ago
when we did the episode there were some
trending uh random niches at least i
thought it was random until you guys let
me know that there was apparently a
netflix documentary that was recently uh
put out on db cooper so i was actually
pretty familiar with the the mystery
surrounding it um so i gotta check out
the netflix thing though and see if
there's any any progress made what the
prevailing theories might be about where
he went but essentially i guess if it's
been a while since i looked into the
story but isn't it just a guy who
we don't even know his actual name or
identity i don't think his name is db
cooper it's just what the the media
calls him basically hijacked a plane
uh jumped out like hijacked a plane in
the sense of like he robbed the plane
then jumped out the back with some crazy
sum of cash i think maybe
he had like a motorcycle station
somewhere in the woods and took that i
don't know maybe i'm just thinking of a
movie now either way pretty cool pretty
compelling uh storyline i can see why
people might be interested to wear this
on a t-shirt and have some fun with it
we're gonna have some fun today with our
designs and we're going to use these as
the inspiration for the designs from the
previous episode of top five niches of
the week
so let me jump on over to photoshop and
kind of show you how i would go about
creating some cool db cooper t-shirts
using these as inspiration
all right really quickly let's look at
wikipedia so dv cooper is an
unidentified man who hijacked an
airplane it was a boeing 727 aircraft uh
he asked to be flown to mexico city
extorted them for 200 000 in ransom i
guess in the air and then parachuted to
an uncertain fate over southwestern
washington part way through the second
flight interesting small portion of the
ransom was found along the banks of a
river
triggered interest ultimately was a
mystery they call him dan cooper
that's what he booked the airline ticket
in so anyways
that is the backstory here if anybody
was curious i'm sure the netflix
documentary goes into more depth now the
first thing i want to do for these
designs is
i needed to get a picture of db cooper
and i actually used wikipedia
um to get the first image because most
of the images on wikipedia are open
source and plus there was like an fbi
sketch now i'm not a lawyer but
if you're really worried i guess like
hire one to figure out the legality
behind if you can use fbi sketches in
your
designs but
actually where was the one that i ended
up using i think it's further down the
page right here all right this one right
here is the one i ended up using uh with
the sunglasses and whatnot uh ultimately
what i did is i pulled it into photoshop
i used the magic wand tool to remove
most of the background here like you see
and then what i did is i went to
cartoonize all right and i'll put a link
to all of these tools that i reference
in the description in case you want to
check it out
you've seen me use cartoonize before
though it is pretty cool it's a nice way
of just like
i mean you can also add like filters
inside of photoshop and probably
accomplish similar things but with
cartoon eyes they just like bundle
together a bunch of these effects and on
the left hand side here you can just use
the little magic wand and you can click
like cartoonizer sketcher painting
digital art in this case i used painting
and then i believe down here nor near
the bottom i use this effect right here
pa007
and you can actually when you apply it
you can like use a little slider to
adjust how strong of an effect is
applied to the graphic you uploaded
but anyways i liked it in this quality
right here behind me
so then i went ahead and i downloaded um
this and i've got this just in a folder
that i called db cooper so
you can kind of see right here i've got
the colored version got the black and
white version it's not perfect i might
clean it up if i was actually going to
use it on some t-shirts
and then you'll notice i've got some
other graphics that i'll show you how i
gathered you know this is just kind of
me gathering the graphics that i'm going
to need to recreate these t-shirt
designs before we actually jump in and
try to put the designs together but i
just wanted to be transparent about how
i got all of them
so after this i needed a parachuter all
right so i found one on creative fabrica
right here all right and you'll notice
it's a lot of like hang gliders and
whatnot ultimately i just wanted the guy
on a parachute i figured that would do
even though it's pretty like pretty
basic pretty elementary there's actually
a lot of options on creative fabrica
there's just
i mean almost infinite options it feels
like but this one seemed like it would
get the job done it was already
silhouette
so i can put a link to this as well if
you're interested and then i just needed
a picture of a star for one of the
designs i noticed they used some stars
in the design
i don't know if i'm going to recreate
them necessarily pixel for pixel but
here we go all right so the first design
says like hide and seek champion so i go
to my merch um
template here i just have like a psd
it's like a nice jumping off point for
my merch designs you can see i've
already got some curved text built in to
this design but if anybody's interested
in how to actually do that i can show
you really quickly
um so you would go down here to like the
custom shape tool i think is what it's
called i don't know can you hover over
it and see i'm not great about what
they're actually called in photoshop but
and i'll go full screen actually
uh but it's like this blob shape and i'm
just gonna go to the ellipse tool okay
and i'm gonna hold shift and just draw a
circle okay so i held shift while i drew
that circle
and then you can just click the text
tool
and you should be able to mouse over you
see when you draw the circle there's
like a
dot on the top on the left on the right
and on the bottom so if i want to put
curve text on the top i click i hover
over the
dot on the top with the text tool and
you'll see it changes the icon so then
you can click in
and look at that it creates curve text
for us then you just literally you know
change the text to db cooper you know
whatever you want it to say
all right
and you've got that you can hide the
ellipse now
and uh for this first design what does
it say like hide and seek champion i
mean
i'm not exactly trying to like copy
these exact designs but
just to get like a high high level you
know insight into how i might go about
doing this
i might just then drag and drop
i gotta click out of the text tool for
it to allow me to do that okay drag and
drop the db cooper graphic here
something like hide and seek
um definitely doesn't look that good now
that i realize i cut off the bottom of
his shirt but you know what you can do
actually is maybe like
uh you can
whenever you have a flat bottom like
that you can just like line up some text
kind of right along
champion
um maybe change the text to
edmund texture
is the font name that i'm using so hide
and seek champion
generally speaking if i'm doing
something like this i might you know
this might actually look better as a um
against a white background too which you
know i'm not opposed to doing because
it's a nice way of being a little bit
contrarian so
what i might do is just match the color
of the text
to
the color of the graphic alright so i
don't think that looks that bad
um
maybe even like make the text at the top
bigger
okay and since we're not really using
like a circular design in the middle
there we didn't have to do the circle
curve text we could have also just like
put standard text here and then at the
very top
oops don't forget to center your text i
forgot to center mine you can go at the
top here and there's like an icon that's
like a the text icon with a
curved line underneath it it's called
warped text you can click that and then
for style just do
um probably like arc upper you can also
just do arc but whatever you would want
to do and then you can change the bend
degree
okay
to whatever you think looks best but i'm
gonna leave it like that okay so i would
say that's design version
number one and now we can move on to
number two so number two has a circle in
it and let's go back to the
okay so i kind of reset everything for
the next uh design so we can
do the
ellipsis again
get our curved text one more time
i don't know why it's filling in the
ellipsis i'm sure it's just like some
setting i can turn off but let's just
really quickly so db
coopers
okay so we got the text up there
i'm gonna hide the ellipse actually i
might keep it shown for a second because
i just want to show you i'm gonna then
go to the elliptical marquee tool and
i'm gonna make a new layer behind me i
just realized i'm blocking the layers so
i apologize for that
okay and i'm gonna make a circle now i
can turn off the ellipsis because i
don't need it what i'm going to do is
i'm going to go to
edit
and then stroke
okay and i will make a 10 pixel
stroke for the circle okay
if we need to be thicker i can always
just um
you know use the blending options as
well but whatever the whole point is
just have a circle there maybe i'll make
it a little bit thicker so blending
options
stroke
and put it on the outside
and do another 10 pixels to kind of
double the thickness there
okay
i'm just looking at my side monitor
because that's where i have my reference
points for these designs then it says
something like skydiving school and it
looks like the design says skydiving
school really small inside the circle
what i might prefer to do is to
just
put some more curve text in this design
and
put it at the bottom instead so
i'll go back to the drawing board here
uh got i've drew a new ellipsis
i got the text now and what i'm gonna
say is skydiving
school
all right and it looks like it's
actually like inverted that which is
interesting i think if i find the
um
pointer right here i should be able to
like
pull it up yeah so this tool right here
it's like the second pointer it's called
the path selection tool if you go and
you click the text you just made and you
just kind of like pull it upwards it'll
flip it uh to be inside out now and then
up here in the character pane
i believe it is
um
i believe it's the a like uppercase a
and then lowercase a thing and i think
if we just add a value there okay it
needs to be a negative value in this
case
um it'll pull the text out for us i know
i'm not the best uh photoshop instructor
apologies
but it does get the job done right so db
cooper's skydiving school um looking
pretty much like close enough to the one
we were trying to reference here
and then i've got the
png cut out of the skydiver here just
need to add some color
uh whatever color we want to add i've
been doing everything in white so you
guys already know how to change the
color of something like if we really
wanted to do it from uh i gotta like
pull this in on my end because i don't
have the overlay that i'm gonna edit in
after this video that you guys see but i
can grab the color right there
and then all i really need to do is
flatten all of these elements that i am
working with here
and
then just apply like a color overlay to
match it to
um what we were looking at what we were
attempting to recreate
so that should do it basically right
there if i wanted to i could draw
another like inner circle but
um hopefully this is close enough
right
okay
so what does the next one look like all
right there's number three and number
five look very similar to each other
uh in that it's db cooper's you know
flying school or whatever
okay let's do this we'll use the
previous like larger circle text
just resetting the design here
now i had used all sunsets to find you
know these really nice pre-made sunsets
against just saving to me time is money
and saving time is uh what i'm all about
so rather than make these sunsets myself
which i have done a previous video on
probably like two years ago at this
point
but this is basically how i would go
about doing it here
okay so i might put the like parachuter
right there i might even actually
cut off the red portion at the bottom
there
and here's the thing do i want a white p
like a white graphic overlaid on the uh
against the the sunset or
do i want to just merge these two
into one layer and then magic wand
the parachuter so that this way i can
change the background color of the shirt
and uh
everything should still work you know
what i mean it should just show the
background color of the shirt through
that's what i would prefer to do myself
so i just ended up cutting out the
silhouette instead of just leaving the
graphic floating
and then like i mentioned i might do um
i do actually kind of prefer this rather
than t generally speaking i mean i guess
whatever makes sense
on a design to design basis
but i do like when you kind of have like
a flat bottom and just like a piece of
text there for for some reason for me i
think it looks really cohesive but it is
just a subjective you know design
preference so db coopers
skydiving
school could do something like this
all right
maybe not that close together db cooper
skydiving school
all right not bad um if i was actually
going to sell this i would also
like move this
move all of these elements closer to the
top of the design
something like that
and uh yeah i'd probably resize the
skydiving school text as well so it's
not just like massive relative to the
size of the text at the top of the
design so something like this
and of course you could also um
change the color to match you know
the part of the design that it's closest
to
so something like
this as well
all right and that might do it um so yes
so then what are we left with uh just
one other design
and that other design is basically just
taking that graphic that we had acquired
earlier
you could do the cartoonized version i
mean you can play around with the
cartoonizer as well like you you have a
lot of flexibility in there with working
with graphics
uh or just the black and white version
here
okay
i've actually done at least one design
in the past that was a really funny one
i won't say what it is obviously but
like it was like using a sketch like
this kind of like a criminal sketch
artist thing
and it was a it was a funny design that
still sells to this day but it got
hijacked so many times because it was uh
it was like i'm not a great graphic
designer but i was really proud of how
it came out
all right so this would be i guess the
last db cooper design i can't figure out
how they got
the exact like silhouette you know i can
show you how i would go about attempting
to do this
but
whoever made that design did a better
job than i probably am capable of so you
can go to select and then go to color
range okay
and then from here you can kind of click
into your design
and
it'll do like a select for you on colors
similar to what you just selected
so what i might do then is
do this one more time i'll do one more
select and then color range
and try to pull out a little bit more of
the like lighter colors
okay
i'll pull that as well now here's the
thing i need a gray t-shirt color so let
me grab this off of the merch by amazon
t-shirt
okay i'm going to grab that color gray
i'm going to set the background color to
that color so that i can actually like
prep for
what it's going to look like on merch by
amazon
and then on the foreground i will
experiment with just doing a color
overlay of black and all right maybe i
sold myself short i don't think we did
too bad of a job there i didn't expect
to come out like it's not perfect by any
stretch but it's also not that bad i
mean that that's
i'm happy with how that looks given my
personal expectation for how i'd be able
to execute this definitely not perfect
but also definitely not the worst that i
could have done all right guys and i
think that just about wraps up for what
i wanted to do in this video if that was
an awful tutorial let me know in the uh
in the comments because i definitely
it's tough man it's tough doing these
photoshop tutorials especially when i
realize halfway through the video that
i'm blocking the
rightmost panel the layers panel which
is an important one to be able to see so
i do apologize i should have done one of
these and like moved myself to the other
side of the screen that certainly would
have made more sense so maybe next time
i will do that and hopefully um that
will at least improve the quality of
these tutorials but hey it's youtube it
is free for what it's worth but i will
continue to try to improve my my game
here for you guys for everybody anyways
i hope we had fun with this tutorial
guys check out the documentary on
netflix no nobody paid me to say that
but it does sound interesting so maybe
i'll check it out as well
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