In this video I'm going to show you how to create a simple college/university type design
on a t-shirt. Like this one right here and this is all going to be
done in Kittl. Kittl has some great tools that you can use to do this really easily.
So I'm gonna just do a step-by-step tutorial and you can follow along. Let's go!!
Thanks for joining me on this video my name is Juna with Detour Shirts. I've been designing and
selling t-shirts online since 2005 and i want to show you how to create a simple college university
type design and this is all going to be done in Kittl. Because KIttl has some really great tools
to make this really easily especially the text on the top where it's arcing or doing
some kind of distortion i'm going to show you what i mean i'm going to show you examples
of college designs on the internet so you can see what i'm talking about
and i'm going to use KIttl i did a video a few weeks ago with drew this one right here
about KIttl you might want to watch that first if you haven't he goes through all of the different
things on KIttl and shows you what it does it's such a powerful tool and it's all online
so you can try it out for free and there's tons of designs on there i'll show you that as well so
let's go to the internet right now i'll show you examples of some college university designs that
i'm thinking about uh just to get us brainstorming get us inspired of what kinds of things to do
and then i'm gonna go into kittle and show you how to do it so here i am on the internet i just typed
in google college t-shirts and you can do the same to get some ideas and you can see a lot of
them are very similar i just picked one right here trinity you can see the there's a big font or big
text on the top and a smaller one on the bottom and there's a kind of a badge here and usually
dates or something on the side so um not always but sometimes the the dates are gone you can see
this one that's a college t-shirt you can see this one has a football that's a football one
lots of different ways to do it so and if we scroll down here you can see different different
ways to do it as well i also typed in university sweatshirts is another thing that you could do
you can see here this is kind of a parody on it just a random university right dates sometimes
there's a wreath sometimes there's a banner you can play around with those kinds of things
let's take a look at some other ones yale you can see right there harvard you know always some
kind of a bigger text on the top smaller on the bottom some kind of badge here with stuff inside
let's look at zoom university right that's a fake one um colombia you get the idea usually an
arc some kind of arc text sometimes it's straight but we have some fun fun things like that so let's
go to kittle right now and i just went to kiddo i typed on t-shirts or clicked on t-shirts i
think by default you get to all but i just want to show you uh you can start here with any of these
i did one earlier there's mine right here you can click on that and start there i'm gonna
do one from scratch though today so we're gonna i'll show you how i came up with that
but lots of different ways you can start you can see here's there's some things in the middle here
you can use this as a as a middle banner thing you can use this this is almost there right
kind of like the college university so um have fun with this lots of different inspiration like that
could be that badge in the middle too and a lot of these could a lot of these could right here it
just needs that tall big uh text so let's get into it i'll do uh start from scratch the way you start
from scratch is new project right there and it's going to take a little while after you click on it
and it's going to load it up and you can see by default if i go here it is a default size
by 1200 by 1200 and that's what you're going to want to use if you don't have a page subscription
it's going to default to that and i don't think you can go any bigger but i have a pro
subscription and if you do and if you want one there's a link in the description to try it
out for um three months so i'm going to type in 4500 right here just to make it bigger by 5400
like that so this is the merch by amazon size right here and it will work we're just going
to go edge to edge so that it fits so first thing we want to do is get that big text that arc text
right here and i'm going to go to text and you can see there's some vintage text already so i'm
going to show all and we can you know pull this out if we want and see all the different designs
a lot of them already have that arced thing you can see this one i'm gonna use this one
but again you can do any one of these you can see this one has a little more of an arc
this one probably has the arc that we were looking at right here but different font
this one i want to do so let's just click that and close this and you can see it's already here so
let's just make something big like that now what what we saw on the on the shirts let's make this
uh centered first is there was a big one up here and a little one on the bottom so
let's ungroup this this is grouped by default to ungroup just hit command g
g like that so now i can move these independently there usually wasn't a date on top it was on the
side so let's put that on the side we don't need this one and this one was on the bottom like
that right so there was like this estimated estimated so let's let's do the date first
so let's copy this you hold down option click on it and then hit click shift
and drag so that it just stays on the same one and we're gonna do let's just do a date so
81 18 like that let's do that that's good for now and then we'll put something in the
middle but what i want to do is use one of my favorite fonts that i've
found recently for this kind of thing and this is right here it's called tricot
so i'm going to hit tricot and the reason i like tricot is because of the slab serif so you can see
nice big thick it reminds me of university kind of college fun i'm gonna do the same down here
tricot right here and we can change this to whatever we want so let's just do
i'm gonna just pick a city um you might want to pick one that's a little shorter like long
city like philadelphia would fit but it's just gonna be skinnier right so i'm gonna do a phoenix
like that there you go and then of course phoenix arizona
that's that's a easy one all right so now let's need we need a badge here in the middle so let's
go here to elements and guess what they have badges so just pick any one of these
badges will work we saw a lot of different examples online um i'm just gonna pick one
let's just do this one boom or you know we can easily switch out to this one with the lines here
or whatever we want right there's so many good ones it's hard to pick sometimes down the cool one
on the coolant let's just pick one of these i'll pick this one you can see it just it already looks
like what we're talking about right so let's make these dates a little bigger like that
i mean you can use any font you want it doesn't have to be milk store i'm going to use this one
that's a little skinnier london news that's kind of cool you can mix and match fonts if
you want i would use only one or two fonts it's easier to just use the same font everywhere so
that that i would do that i'm going to delete this and
and then just copy this one so it's the same size 81 and this arizona needs to be
bigger so let's do that so we're just getting everything in the right proportions
cool and you can center everything too if you do this and this and hit center
make sure everything's in the center so you can see it's really close to what we saw already
if you want to make this taller you can you can hit edit transform right here and then grab some
of these and just make it taller so i'm holding down shift to make sure that it's same but you
can see i have more of that arc now so you can see i have the straight top but there's other
things that you can do here you can do it rise or arc or wave or any of those things
for the athletic design that we're doing we probably either want custom
distort was what we have or arc an arc is just like we saw in most of them where it's a rounded
top as well so i like this right here we're going to need something in the middle just to give it
some interest so i'm gonna go to illustrations and phoenix when i think phoenix i think uh
cactus so we could type in cactus but let's do this first look at all these animals that
you could put in here so we saw we could do that that would be really cool phoenix hawks bumblebee
would be great right i mean any one of these would would be cool just make sure that it fits nicely
the snake may look cool but well yeah i think the snake would work too i was just gonna say
the snake looks kind of tall but um you might want something more square like this this tiger
look at that that would be awesome right there so um i'm gonna do a cactus just just because i want
to show you that you can search for something too so let's do cactus and kittle has a ton of
designs you can see tons of cactuses already i'll just pick this one and let's put it inside here
all right and you might want to maybe even break out of it like that cool
now the other thing i would put i'll put some words in here so let's zoom in you can just
zoom in like this hit that bottom part and then put in some text here so let's do text all you
need to do is hit the letter t and you got some text by default it's going to be black driver but
we want to change that to tricot and make it bigger and put it down here uh i'm just gonna
type in you know phoenix i i think valley of the sun you can put whatever words you want in here
right this is just fake stuff so let's see how big it is i'm gonna zoom out just a little bit
or there maybe one one more in just so we get that roundness so here's how you do the circle
um by default it's at the top but you can switch this to the bottom by invert right there and all
you got to do is make the circle the same size as the circle inside so let's do that so you
want to kind of capture this and let's make this um text bigger so let's go until it reaches that
all right so that looks pretty good and you can also you can also make it wider so this right here
or the letter spacing in between
you can see how that that works if you want to do something like that
cool that's looking really good so let's zoom back out you can see i can i can put some
other things in here just to give it some space so let's let's do some lines here so
um we could do illustrations another thing you could look for is mine
so i want to just put a line above and align below let's do that
real easy and kiddo right and then i hit option shift and drag click on it and then drag
that's kind of a nice thing i'm going to click on these two hold shift and click on that and group
them command g and then move them whoops option hold down option i forgot to click option now
you can see there in both places that's looking good right you may want to change the color so
now that we have everything in place let's make sure we want the right color so zoom out
so think of the background color that you want here instead of white let's say we want a blue
like a darker blue like that any blue you can pick any color here so uh you could do red if you want
too right so let's let's stick to our original plan blue here um and then let's say we want
these things different color so opposite or contrast with blue is orange so let's
do some kind of more orangey thing right here something like that and now that we have that
color it's real easy to have the other colors match it so we just go here here
you know match that orange just pick the same one here i would suggest you use only one or two
colors you saw in those examples that they were basically a dark color on a light t-shirt or a
light color on a dark t-shirt and maybe a couple of colors so let's just do one color for now
so maybe this color right here is that orange and this color right here is that
orange or you could do white let's do maybe white and orange are two good colors here
let's do this one let's see what this is if we do that orange that's kind of neat
uh what happens if we turn this oh that's neat too so we could um reverse the text now
and do that white or even that blue that's kind of neat and then those white um
ones why don't why don't we make that blue that could be cool now we got to change that
cactus so the cactus um could be you know blue and then this white so we we're trying to just
kind of just have two or three colors so yeah that could work right there and if you
wanted to make that orange instead of white we could do that too kind of have that stand out
and do this but if you want to bring it down to just two colors right we could do that
oh we're missing a color here and that's that sneaky one so i'm gonna move myself
away and i'll show you what you can do now to just make sure everything's two colors
so here's the colors for the whole thing so you can see i'm still that color right there
so we can change that color to white just to so you can see it now that i can see it i can
click on it and change that white to orange if i want and then that way i can have two colors
now we may want to move things around and that's fine so this
whole thing what i would do is i would group it
not this and not this not that just this hit command g and then this way i can make
it bigger or smaller so let's say i want one right there instead and move this up
and maybe this this thing i would group here and this thing i would group here and
you know maybe make it a little bigger right there make sure this is the right size
like that
you know kind of tighten it up like that so there you go and then if you want to change this
real easily maybe you don't like the orange after you're looking at it and you want everything white
there's real easy to do so let's go back here and everything that's orange just change it to white
in that cool just real easy you can change it whatever color you want
and then the background as well so if you want the background let's say oh i want that
to be red or whatever you can do that so real easy to change colors around
on kittle just to figure out what colors work best so there you go just real simple right here
i'm gonna save this as a template for use for you guys so you can play around with this one as well
as well as the other one that i have in there which is really similar but you can see i'm
using different things here play around with this have fun with this add more things now i
didn't add a wreath on this one like i did on my other one but there are wreaths here
um that we could do and they're just at the bottom here wreath so you know this could also
add some nice flair to it so if you want to do a wreath around it you know something like that
that's that's really cool right but then you're gonna have to adjust um move your things around
just so it it fits here and maybe maybe this needs to get smaller to fit inside of the wreath so you
can see that that's just real simple i just did that real quick on KIttl right and just
changed it up a little bit so have fun with this um this is a real easy one to do on KIttl so i'm
excited for you guys to play around with it and have fun with it make lots of different designs
so that was it for this video hopefully this video was super helpful for you
if you haven't tried KIttl you can try it i'll have a link in the description below for three
months of free pro access so that means you can do everything that you saw that i did
on there try it out it's so fun really easy to do all those things you got the text and
the arc and wreaths and just tons of graphics and then you have a lot of different places to start
a lot of starting points you saw all those t-shirts on there you can click on any one
of those as a starting point to kind of change it and make it your own so have fun with kittle
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the question of the day for this video is what college or university um do you like the best
maybe it's the one that you gone to or um have a t-shirt about or or something like that leave
that in the comments right there it doesn't have to be the one that you actually attended but it
could be a favorite maybe you love college sports and things like that so put those in the comments
those can be really helpful look at those designs as a starting point for inspiration
don't copy those but those could be really cool if you look up those kinds of things thanks again for
watching and if you want to see more videos on how to design with KIttl click on these videos
right here and as always guys keep creating and keep learning i'll see you on the next one bye