hey what's up guys so i had dropped a
video recently where i talked about how
i can enhance some pre-made designs or
really any design even if i'm making
like text-only designs by just applying
nice-looking color schemes
and i mentioned that one of my favorite
tactics is uh borrowing if you will good
color schemes that i like uh really from
anywhere on the internet it could be in
real life just take a picture upload it
you know use the little eyedropper tool
and i have a habit of just writing down
color schemes that i like i even just
created a shared drive with marielle my
girlfriend who we're collaborating on
this new etsy shop together and i was
like you know what we should have a
place where we just share like our color
schemes too because we're you know
sharing fonts sharing graphics sharing
color schemes so anyways um we'll just
like highlight the color code in the
color that it is and it makes it nice
easy to visualize but someone had
reached out to me and sent me a link to
a website that basically specializes in
helping us generate color palettes i
haven't used one of these websites
really since i was last working as a web
developer but i definitely used to use
stuff like this for like in the context
in my mind of websites but it definitely
works with print on demand too so i'm
going to show you how we can utilize
some
pre-built color palettes from this
website so why don't we get started
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going to show you this website uh
coolers it's like colors but with two
o's i'm gonna show you this website in
just a second and there's other websites
like it uh but i really you know this
one looks really nice and basically
gives us exactly what we need it's one
click away it's free they do have a paid
version but i don't really think we need
to worry about upgrading to the paid
version what they have for free should
be definitely more than enough and uh i
also just wanted to kind of piggyback
off of that video that i had done
previously and just show you that you
know if you're thinking well what am i
going to do with these color palettes
like i said number one you can make your
own text only designs
uh it's you know there's a million ways
you can make designs for print on demand
that don't involve having
uh artistic ability like for instance
you can
just name a word like in this case i'm
using i'm looking at nursing pre-built
designs on creative fabrica behind me
but let's just say you don't want to use
creative fabrica no worries like
you can literally just make this just
popped into my mind but we've seen it
work before you can just write the word
nurse in a good looking font
replicate it
10 times if you want you know what i
mean just just each row is the word
nurse once
and then color each row
a different um color
and you know each row of text a
different color or in this case like
we'll use some pre-built designs this is
a bundle of 20 different designs from
creative fabrica and we're just going to
basically go to the color scheme website
and apply some of these colors to the
very like flat black and white nursing
designs from this bundle i will link to
creative fabrica if anybody's not a
member wants to check it out you can
join for a dollar also i will link
directly to this bundle in case you
don't want to join creative fabrica but
you do want to check out the bundle uh
no worries there so anyways let's jump
on over to the color website
all right so we are here on coolers dot
co i don't know how to pronounce it it's
c-o-o-l-o-r-s-c-o i will link to it in
the description and i'll link you
directly to the trending palettes
actually because this is a nice place to
go if you don't have anything specific
in mind
lots of really nice complementary color
schemes listed right here there is an
art to it i'm not going to pretend to be
like an expert but i'm pretty sure it
involves like selecting colors in the
same hue
which is like the level of saturation of
that color if you start mixing different
saturations of colors it tends not to be
very cohesive
and it is a very common you know what's
really common really quickly is that
people i don't think design with the
shirt
color like with one specific shirt color
in mind for instance if you're uploading
to merch by amazon and you're gonna
offer it in black just go and grab the
black t-shirt and move it as your
background for your design template that
way you know how your design is going to
be framed and how it's going to look to
the end user because you really need
that to look really good um so for
instance we're doing a merch black
t-shirt okay well we should select color
schemes that are going to be
contrasting really well in the
foreground against that black t-shirt
background you get what i'm saying
because that primary thumbnail really
needs to be good to get clicked to get
purchased etc
anyways here so as you can see this is
like the trending color palettes
i didn't have to do anything to get
these to be generated um they are just
here right now if they are truly
trending then i would anticipate that
these will change with time
uh but they've got you know pretty wide
variety here to choose from
given that this is really just color and
i'm sure they could just use ai probably
to generate complementary color schemes
as well
they probably have just infinite options
if i had to guess and you can actually
see how many times they've been
favorited kind of implying usage i
really like this one behind me here for
instance as like a little like vintage
kind of color scheme now i'm thinking
about doing these nursing shirts
so what should we do for nursing shirts
maybe how about this one right here
this kind of what i call it like a lot
of purples on this palette did they
actually
name the palette no they just call it
palette okay well anyways so you can
just click in here that's what's really
cool too it copies the hex the
hexadecimal color code to your clipboard
just from clicking it so it's like very
easy to use now again i went and i
downloaded this pack of designs from
creative fabrica there's 20 of them
right here and i opened up
what like four of them in photoshop just
to really quickly show you how much of a
breeze this is to do now we're not doing
rocket science here this is pretty basic
but things don't need to be complicated
like also i've said this before but you
don't get bonus points
for spending
more time on your designs right like if
i go and i ask juna at detour shirts you
know a great youtube channel for print
on demand for design if i say hey man
like come up with your best nursing
design and i try to make one as good as
i possibly can it's probably going to
take me like 20 times longer to come up
with anything remotely close to as good
as what he's going to crank out in 20
minutes you get what i'm saying because
he's a professional he's really good and
i'm mr you know go do pre-built design
pre-made designs or go do text only
right keep it simple stick to my
strengths so hopefully you guys get what
i'm saying like just because you put
more time and effort in
if it doesn't manifest in the form of a
better design then it's almost always a
better option to keep it simple just let
the you know experts do what they do
right that's why creative fabric is
pretty good option especially when you
can join for a dollar so all right let's
go ahead and start like filling in these
colors first i'll probably
well i don't know i won't fill in the
background or maybe i will i'll just
make it like gray or something
um so that
we at least have a background there or i
guess blue i don't know not even
following my own advice four four four
four four four okay that's what i meant
to do and then i'm just gonna kind of
click in
and use the so when i click into the
color on the color palette it copies it
to the clipboard so then i just go into
photoshop click the color swatches there
for the color selector and i just hit
paste or control uh v on windows now
i've got my paint bucket tool and then i
can just
make sure i'm on the right layer here so
the layers are behind me make sure you
got the right layer selected and then
just click
and this is basically almost a white so
we don't have to use white um it looks
like we've got
we could maybe use the white i don't
know we can decide later actually i'll
switch to the next color now
whoops don't forget after you click the
color palette to actually
set that to your color in photoshop or
whatever you're using
feeling stabby
nurse is what this design says
all right
oops i keep forgetting to actually set
the color as i like recommend doing it i
don't follow my own advice naturally all
right click that color
okay so there we go and now when i
actually set the background to black the
reason i didn't want to set the
background to black right away is
because i was worried that the
foreground which was black would
disappear completely you know what i
mean so that i'd have a lot a tougher
time
actually targeting it so there you go i
mean wouldn't you say we just made that
design look better it took maybe one
minute to do uh we'll jump on over here
to
um a different one here
i'm gonna change the background again
though to like this gray
just so that we can do what we just did
there
i'll do it on all of these really
quickly in case we end up using all them
we can actually set a little timer here
and just see how long it takes us to
enhance these designs right i have a
feeling it won't take that long we can
even switch to another color palette
let's just pick one at random for fun
so will trade medical advice for tacos
that's pretty funny um who doesn't love
a good taco there
and then i mean the gray background
doesn't look as good so really quickly
just so we see um you know when you
switch it to black i think it just
contrasts much better against black so i
think that looks pretty good as well
wouldn't be my first uh color choice i
really like this one behind me here if i
duck my head down this one right here
actually no i like both of them hmm how
about this one right here we'll do that
one so open up this palette
got like that vintage look
all right another nice looking design
there and we got one left to go so let's
jump on over to the pediatric nurse grab
one more color palette um
the rainbow maybe i don't know
nah let's not go to the rainbow how
about this super pastely one
all right there we go so we got four
designs that we just tricked out using
uh well just using color schemes uh from
a free website so that is one easy way
of taking some pre-built designs from a
place like creative fabrica where you
can save time for a very little bit of
money and hopefully generate a lot more
money in return and even though i just
did another video on a very similar
topic it is always nice to have
basically infinite um complementary
color palettes at your fingertips i do
appreciate it when you guys send me
these little suggestions so that i can
share them with the rest of the
community so if you have more keep them
coming i do appreciate that uh thank you
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