hey what's up guys hope you're having a
good day i have no clue why i made the
thumbnail for this video
so tropical and sunny but i don't know i
kind of like the vibe
actually you know what maybe it's
because not to rub it in but i am going
to the beach
tomorrow and i'll probably pre-record
some videos to be released over the
weekend but like i said not to rub it in
i hope you guys find some time to get
out into the nice weather
go find a beach somewhere i don't know
even a lake anywhere get near some water
though and
enjoy your summer let's get back to the
point of this video though
i'm going to show you how to do some
text-based designs and i'm using designs
that i found on merch by amazon that are
all selling pretty well right now
as inspiration and then i'll kind of
show you i'll bounce back and forth
between photoshop
and everything i show you should
translate pretty well from photoshop to
photopia to
canva so yeah let's get started
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all right let's get started with these
design tutorials and the first one is
going to be
super easy all right this shirt is
selling incredibly well
i'm guessing it's not for the design
it's probably something to do with maybe
driving external traffic or they ranked
really early on this again meme i don't
know if this is from like a tv show or
something
it's definitely popped up before though
in the best sellers and i'm going to
show you how i would go about
designing it so it just says i can't i
have plans in the garage right
is that what it says let me bounce back
and forth here i can't i have plans in
the garage all right so photoshop
um maybe we just left justify the text
by the way i always start with a
pre-made template that has
um has like the lines of text pre-built
in so that it speeds everything up
and uh that way you know i can start off
with
you know i don't have to recreate the
wheel every time so it just says like i
can't
i have plans in the garage
right is that what it says something
like that i can't i have plans in the
garage
so maybe we just bring the text down a
little bit by the way i'm using impact
font here so it's a nice big bold
font that works pretty reliably also
when i use this sometimes i will adjust
the vertical or sorry the horizontal
letter spacing which you can do over
here
in this sidebar by clicking the a icon
and i might increase it but i won't
right now just because i'm having
trouble getting this to fit on one line
because i have to add these periods in
so i can't i have plans in the garage
that is done pretty easily you can also
distress this text
by doing a merged layers on it
and then going to the channels tab and
this is where you can add
a grunge pattern like this
and you can then use the select
color range and just click the black
section
and then switch back from the channels
tab this is all going on behind me here
switch back from the channels tab to the
layers tab
click your text and just do a delete or
a cut
and then boom now you've got distressed
text how about that that was easy or i
can roll all of that back
if i lost anybody or you think that's
too much work you can just change the
font
to um my favorite distressed font is
just edmond texture so e-d-m-u-n-d
edmond texture boom and uh when you see
this like black
box thing that means that they don't
support that character so they don't
support the
the curved quote but they support the
straight quote okay
so try that out if you see that in any
font family it's just because that
character of text isn't supported
okay so i can't i have plans in the
garage i might even like make it a
little bit bigger since we changed fonts
there's a little bit more room
boom do something like that um all right
so
we're gonna try to go through this in uh
not take not take forever so that's why
i'm going pretty quickly
um you can find maybe some tutorials
similar to what i just did
on my youtube channel and of course in
my um in my full print on domain courses
all right the next one and this is a
good example of using two different font
families i believe it's two different
font families
and contrast though so one is really big
and bold and easy to read and funny and
then the
small text underneath of course is used
to kind of deliver
it's not even really used to deliver the
punch line but at least it adds context
to the shirt like oh it's a father's day
gag gift all right got it
so it says pull out game week af all
right so i might even roll this back to
where it's impact again pull out
game week af okay
and i'm going to make the text box the
full width of the canvas by the way i'm
designing
at 4 500 by 5400 pixels
standard dimensions for merch by amazon
that is my recommendation
okay now i'm going to center this text
and i might even make it
um bigger like 500 pixels or 500 point
and then increase the vertical spacing
accordingly the leading i believe it's
called
okay pull out game week af and then i
might just duplicate this layer
and happy father's day
and just make it like significantly
smaller
maybe even change the font family if i
think that'll look good
maybe something like metropolis
would look good that doesn't look too
bad actually the only thing is i might
then reduce the horizontal spacing by
like negative 20 pixels or even like
negative
40. i think that looks pretty good
how about that it has kind of like a
call of duty you guys know the game call
of duty it has like that kind of vibe at
least to me it feels like it does kind
of
so i don't think that's uh that's too
bad there
bouncing back and forth pull out game
week af happy father's day
not bad so we're on a roll here this is
a good example of um
using good contrast uh between like big
text and small text especially when
delivering kind of like a joke
oh this one i'm not retired i'm a
professional grandpa so i don't want to
spend forever
recreating this exact design but one
thing they do immediately that stands
out really well
that's very easy to do and takes an
extra like
10 seconds when you do text only designs
is to use
color instead of just using white text
all right you can use color
um say i'm not retired i'm a
professional grandpa
so the way i might go about doing this
is something like this
okay i'm gonna make the word retired
really big since that's kind of the
punch line
and i might just duplicate the happy
father's day and pull it up
all right so i'm not retired
maybe even make that a little bit bigger
like 300
okay i'm not retired what did it say
i'm a professional grandpa okay
just duplicate the one we just made keep
the text consistent
i'm a
professional make that big
maybe not as big
make it like 350 maybe i'm a
professional
by the way i don't know if i would
actually like do it like this but i am
you know i'm not gonna make it look bad
but if i was gonna do this
on my own and actually sell it i may
spend a little bit more time on making
it look a little bit better like
professional maybe we
switch that to
i don't know if i'm using too many
different fonts right now
just kind of experimenting i'm a
professional
we should reduce the horizontal spacing
here
i'm a professional grandpa
it doesn't look that great but whatever
okay so i got the text and then i
already went ahead and i grabbed the
hexadecimal color codes
from uh this shirt so
oops so we can just
easily apply them all you have to do is
uh select highlight the text
in your color picker just paste the
hexadecimal color code you can see it
right here after i click
the color selector boom red and i think
they had this red as well by the way i'm
not stealing their designs or anything
like that i'm just doing this as a
tutorial
um so it looks like
by the way sometimes you can get away
with just using like color on the the
word retired for instance it seems like
the
word retired was kind of the kicker in
the punch line of this design so
sometimes you can just do all white and
then put
one word as like the the colored text
that stands out
whatever you think is best you know
let's make professional blue i'm a
professional
maybe i move like professional grandpa
like that that looks a little bit better
kind of like that
we go i'm not retired i'm a professional
grandpa
i think that doesn't look too bad and
then also you know we
equal out all the distance the word
retired had a little bit of a shadow
underneath it
um you can always do something like
right click that layer go to blending
options
then go to like drop shadow
and uh figure out what angle you want to
put it at i usually do like about 130
i'll do opacity 100 percent we're going
to change the color
to i think something darker like that
would probably work
set the distance out until you think it
looks okay
and uh yeah something like that can work
that's a quick easy way of doing it you
can also like clear that
and you can just duplicate the layer
and whichever one is underneath just do
a color overlay
and again select the darker color
and then just move it down and wherever
you want it
to give it that 3d look and feel that
you can see that they have here under
the word retired
okay you can actually go into like 3d
modeling in photoshop as well it's how i
built my like ryan's method logo
uh one day when i was just experimenting
anyways that one took a little bit
longer than i wanted it to but let's
move on
proudmom class of 2021 so the two big
words that they're trying to highlight
are mom in 2021
so let me just do a quick uh like kind
of tutorial of how i would go about
showing how to do that effect and we'll
use
this retired text right here
just to show like that gradient so you
should be able to just right click that
layer go to blending options
uh do a gradient overlay
and i think this is going to be top down
let me just double check yeah it is
alright it's going to be top down okay
so i'm going to cancel that it looked
like in the example that they had white
on top and gold on the bottom
so the right is going to be the top the
left is going to be the bottom so why
don't we just select
a gold color something like that
and i think that's pretty well spot on i
mean you might want to go darker i guess
if i really cared about matching it i
might just like steal the color scheme
you can also like click into the middle
here
and if you want to add a middle ground
color that you're specifically targeting
you can do that um that way
so whatever you think looks best
boom and now we got a gradient overlay
just like that
very easy uh what else let's go next one
okay this one uh the word cloud because
this is technically
a text-based design obviously there's a
graphic mixed in but you can actually
make word cloud designs
that in a in big picture at a glance
look like some graphic
so i just wanted to show you guys that i
don't need to recreate the wheel i
already did a tutorial on this i'll link
to it right here in the youtube cards in
case you missed it it is using a free
tool
you know i like to talk about the paid
tools but some of these tools are free
as well this one is completely free so
go ahead and check that one out if you
missed it
all right and uh last but not least why
don't we do this one here
uh it says human it's got the pride
flags lgbt
uh rainbow transgender lesbian t-shirt i
don't know i'm just reading the title
right now
uh so all we need to do in this case
is uh what did it say pride no just that
human all right so let's change the text
to say human
we can change the color of the text to
white i'm gonna make it as big as
possible here
just to show what i'm gonna do as best
as possible
all right boom big text bold perfect
now what i'm gonna do here is i'm going
to go to google and i'm just going to
type like lgbtq
flag and go to images
and this may not be like a perfect
reproduction of what they've got going
on here but it's going to show you
very quickly like how to execute this
you'll just need to go and find the rest
of the flags
or maybe i'll just do this and just take
this image
and uh put it over top
like that and all you have to do guys is
in the layer behind me i'm going to hide
myself for a second
okay in the layer behind where behind
where i just was
put your top layer the overlay
right above the text layer okay then all
you have to do is right click
that layer that you're going to overlay
and click create clipping mask
and then boom just like that it's
overlaid on top you can move it around
as well like if you just want it to be
some flags
you can just make it bigger um so
you can also like edit these however you
see fit and then adjust
like what shows up on top and what
doesn't all right
so i think that might have been the last
one let's double check yup that was it
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