hey what's up guys in today's video
we're gonna jump back into using Kittle
and I'm going to create some campfire
themed designs now I don't know if I'm
the only person that likes to design
this way but I like to do batches I like
to sit down and make multiple designs
and even if they are in the exact same
Niche I mean I'm okay with uploading
multiple to the exact same Niche but I
typically like in this example let's say
I want to do the campfire theme that
we're going to work with in this video
if I have that graphic and I really like
it what I'll typically do is do a little
niche research find
um other sub niches and cross niches
that I can Implement and work with
really easily where I can just Leverage
The Graphic that I have right here that
I really like and maybe just swap the
text you know what I mean and change how
the text is you know if it's wrapped or
if it's just straight whatever it is I
mean this is basic design but it's
definitely good enough to make sales uh
again that's what we say are your
designs good enough that's like the
first thing we ask people when we're in
like the Facebook community and people
are like oh man still in tier 10 or oh
no sales it's like all right share some
of your listings because chances are if
it's a campfire shirt and you put
campfire shirt in the title the
algorithms will figure out that it's a
campfire shirt but if the graphics and
the text and you know whatever it is you
know what I mean if they're not good
enough that people don't want to buy
them you're not going to make any sales
obviously because people have options so
that's just the nature of the game with
print on demand low barrier of Entry
anyways in this video we're using Kittle
to make designs that are good enough so
let's get to it
good
we're gonna jump on over to Kittle in
two seconds but I wanted to remind you
that I have a free print on demand mini
course that you can take advantage of
the links right there in the description
I'll send you one lesson a day over
eight days all I need is your email
address and I've got a great
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love to have you in if you're not
already a member alright so I'm over
here at Kittle and what I like to do to
save time and benefit from other
people's crazy graphic design skill is I
like to use templates so I found this
template on Kittle and I said you know
what rather than me saying ahead of time
we're gonna do this Niche I said I'm
just going to scroll through the
templates which if you're using Kittle
you can do the same thing there's a link
in the top of the description if you're
not already using Kittle and basically
just click the template click use this
template and you're good to go so I
decided I'm going to use this as
inspiration I love that campfire graphic
we're going to work with this guys uh
now the first thing it says camping
bonfire good Supply so maybe this I
don't even know what the good Supply is
referencing maybe it's like a company
what I like to do though is jump on over
to Amazon merch Pro or pretty merch Pro
Plus
use the research tab which does require
an upgrade if you don't want to do this
though you can still just go to Amazon
type in campfire or go to Etsy type in
or type in campfire shirt actually
that's going to help a lot more but I
like to use the research tools when
they're available so here I just going
to switch to grid View and it doesn't
have every single
shirt available on the Amazon catalog
indexed on campfire
um you know I don't think anybody has an
exact replica of Amazon's database but
for for now we have eight shirts to go
with to get started with making a couple
campfire designs again inspired by the
Kittle template that we got
so the first one says uh coffee and
campfires so I think we can make this
design
relatively easily and no we're not
trying to copy this design we're just
saying okay BSR of 564 000 uh so it's
making semi-regular sales I mean to me
that's probably like a sale a week maybe
at 17.99 and it's got 12 reviews so it's
been selling pretty well and that's a
nice little Evergreen I would say I mean
maybe not Evergreen I don't know
campfire is probably not during winter
time but um definitely probably makes
decent sales
throughout the duration of a year so
what I might do then so it's like coffee
and campfires so I might just click into
the upper text by the way uh Kittle
makes it really easy to apply different
effects to your text you can see doing
the backwards green screen Point here
but I got it right right where I'm
pointing behind my head it says
transformation so anytime you're working
with some text uh go ahead and just you
know you can distort you can Arc it rise
it make the wave have it wavy uh have it
you know like a flag waving lots of you
can basically do anything you need so in
this template it already came in the
circle effect so maybe we'll change that
maybe we won't depends so let's do
coffee
and I'll do the and sign I like the
Ampersand all right coffee and
down here we will say campfire
campfire
okay now we could do it like that but I
don't like the campfire so small so what
I'm thinking is maybe I will click into
this text layer and undo the circle
and then I will stretch it out to maybe
match it to let's see what font size we
have going on up here it looks like uh
137 so let's just maybe manually key
that in down here to match for
consistency all right and we'll stretch
it out and center the text coffee and
campfire so I'd say that's a good you
know first design it took us what I
should have started a clock maybe like
60 seconds to 90 seconds to create that
design also I guess you know what I
would do honestly is I would move this
towards the top
I don't know if it's just me like a pet
peeve of mine but I like to vertically
um align my designs towards the top of
the canvas because I hate when I see uh
like whether it's in real life or you
tend not to see them in real life as
much but I see him a lot in my red
bubble Shop reviews for some reason and
I always call people out when you have
designs just floating in the middle of a
shirt vertically so it's like it's just
awkwardly low on the shirt uh so I like
the way that this looks and before I
download it I just remembered that
Kittle supports now Alpha masking so
this like kind of grunge texture that we
see overlaid on the design we can
actually just click into it and then the
you know sidebar pops up where it says
color burn switch that to Alpha mask
okay and this is actually going to
remove the grunge texture from our
design so that then when we click the
download icon uh click remove background
save as PNG I've already done this here
I'll pull it into Photoshop and you can
see that it has in fact uh removed that
Grunge texture that Grunge effect from
our design okay so instead of it like
kind of saving the grunge effect on top
it actually just cut it from our uh the
foreground the real portion of our
design so that is just super super cool
then I'm going to roll that back because
I intend on you know continuing to
actually use this template to make a
couple more designs all right so let's
move on to the next one but I hope you
guys thought that was really cool
because I thought that was pretty sweet
all right how about this one down here
Master of the campfire 910
000 BSR so to me what is that like a
sale a month maybe a sale every like
three weeks or so
Master of the campfire why don't we just
do that
Master of the
and I gotta remove the Ampersand there
oops Master of the
campfire and it's already done how about
that boom
guys what was that 20 seconds download
another design and it's already a
validated sub niche of campfires because
as we saw
um pretty much Pro Plus just showing us
and it's all by the way that shirt also
has 20 reviews so it is certainly doing
all right you know what I mean and if
the goal is to make sales and make money
well this is doing just that
and sometimes you sit down it's like oh
writer's block what Niche should I make
designs in again I just looked at
Kittle's templates found one I liked and
I'm using that as inspiration for the
niche research
I mean it you know it doesn't have to be
hard right we're keeping it simple I
love keeping it simple
uh s'more Squad now I don't know if
we're gonna be able to make that one
work without you know we could take a
peek at maybe some of the elements in
Kittle but
um what would it be like marshmallow
all right did I misspell it I always get
confused no I thought I spelled it
correctly marshmallow marshmallow
no we were right all right there's one
little kind of
I mean hey this could that could work I
mean it could work right that could work
uh Master s'more Squad
let's just go for it you know what I
mean we'll let the customers
decide if if this design is good enough
or not all right s'more Squad they
didn't say s'mores they said s'more
s'more Squad
and then I guess you could just delete
the uh text at the bottom temporarily
boom so now we got s'more Squad and I
mean you would think I was a good
graphic designer nope and Kittle all I
did was go to add elements searched for
marshmallow they had the marshmallow on
a stick which was exactly what I needed
I mean you would think this was planned
but I'm honestly just doing it on the
Fly here so Master of the campfire uh we
already did that one today's agenda how
about today's agenda all right so let's
pop that back up
two days agenda might need to make this
text a little bit smaller I'm thinking
so maybe like 1 15.
all right today's agenda
um you could even say like bonfire if
you wanted to I mean or campfire
whatever it is we say campfire let's do
campfire campfire and chill
campfire and chill all right we'll do a
little
all right now we need to reduce the
vertical by the way I'm doing another
green screen point up here uh you can
reduce the line height all right
this was something I always liked to get
to Perfection when I was working as a
web developer I don't know what it was I
just felt like you could make or break a
website by having like really nice uh
legible
text so I would kind of obsess over the
right like font size line height
um even like letter spacing you can
control all that with CSS when you're
building websites so that's stuff that I
used to really pay a lot of attention to
all right we made the top layer 115 so
we're gonna make the bottom 115 as well
which means we'll probably have to
reduce the line oh no it auto adjusted
all right Perfect all right today's
agenda campfire and chill maybe we get
rid of the marshmallow again all right
let's just call it there I think that
was a pretty good video it went better
than expected honestly they really made
my life easy with having the marshmallow
stick there so that we could get into
the s'mores
um I guess one thing that I should
mention before I sign off is that when
you're doing your Niche research you
always want to do the trademark
validation and I kind of skipped that
step here for the sake of this video but
obviously you're going to want to keep
your account safe no matter where you're
uploading designs to so make sure you do
your own validation just because you see
it on you know pretty merch Pro Plus on
Amazon merch doesn't mean that it's not
going to be you know trademarked because
that could easily be if it was
trademarked this could be the owner of
the trademark selling it so just always
be careful there guys uh but check out
Kittle check out the alpha masking thing
I mean that's super cool so again I
click into the background uh under the
texture just click Alpha mask now when
you download this it's going to apply
the grunge effect which I love
especially in this sort of a a theme of
or a niche for a shirt kind of like a
worn distressed I'm wearing this outside
I love I'm an Outdoorsman you know
rugged and I'm an indoorsman I'm just
kind of thinking out loud of like the
the Target customer here you guys know
I'm an indoorsman but I do have callus
Tans because I do love to work out so
I'm going to go ahead and um brag about
that because I feel you need to prove
myself to you but uh back on track all
right I hope you guys like this video
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a new video oh yeah and one last thing I
will link to this specific template in
the description on Kittle in case you
want to use this same template as your
jumping off point like I just did
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