hey what's up guys thanks for joining me
for a new video so today we are doing
a do-it-yourself sunset tutorial except
i'm not really planning on showing you
how to build the sunsets since there's a
website that you can join for like three
dollars a month i'll link to it in the
description you can get them pre-made
and you can get a bunch of them pre-made
in lots of different styles and colors
et cetera but what i want to show you is
how you can utilize these sunsets like i
have almost all of my i mean i don't
want to say almost all because i do a
lot of text only designs but if i'm not
doing a text only design
a massive percentage of my shirts that
sell are using sunsets from all sunsets
okay i'm not just saying that it's true
okay but that's just what works for me
what works for me may not work for you
but
what i'm going to show you i can promise
works and i'm going to show you how to
take these sunsets
and tailor them to your needs and it is
a very cheap easy way
to make really nice looking designs at
least i know that's subjective but i
think they're nice looking like for
instance look at the thumbnail behind me
look at those palm trees i mean you can
do that in seconds with what i'm going
to show you in the tutorial in this
video so why don't we call it like
sunset silhouette design tutorial all
right sunset silhouette design tutorial
that's what we're gonna do so let's get
started
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let's get to this tutorial alright so we
are here in photoshop this is my kind of
design tool of choice i don't know that
what i'm going to show you in this
tutorial will work on something like
canva but i know you can go to
photopia.com which is basically like a
clone of photoshop but it's free built
into a web browser and you can
definitely do what i'm about to show you
there so you can check photopia and
follow the exact same steps uh
illustrator most apps you can probably
do this in so we're going to use sunsets
and like i mentioned rather than
designing them myself i like to save
time especially when you can get it
literally it works out to like three
dollars a month and they're running a
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i'll put the sale link uh you save money
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that rate so make sure you do that
cool all right now we have our sunsets i
mean you just snap your fingers and boom
oh they're already made it's beautiful
it's okay to outsource but if you guys
don't want to outsource pause this video
come back when you have a sunset um
anyways we can just choose i grabbed a
couple you literally have like hundreds
of choices
i really like this one right here um if
you caught my video from
and depends on what order i release
these videos in but i just did a cinco
de mayo video as well and i mentioned
that sometimes i like to use sunsets
that have
kind of a cutable top and bottom portion
because i might want to like put flat
text there sometimes i like to use round
text et cetera but that's not even
really in the scope of this video so how
about we use this sunset though at least
initially uh the first thing you might
have to do is like can you see over my
shoulder right here uh you kind of have
to like i always select the the layer
that i just dropped
and then i make a blank layer and i
select both of them by holding the shift
key
and then i right click the new layer and
i hit merge layers
and when i do that now i can cut out of
this i can cut out of this sunset but
without doing that i won't be able to
actually like take a cut out of it
so here's what's cool what i'm showing
you in this video and this was based on
some designs that i saw during the top
five niches of the week video from this
past weekend
is you can just just go grab a
simple graphic like a silhouette and
while i am not a lawyer
i feel comfortable saying that you
should probably
be able to just grab a silhouette
graphic out of google images because
we're not actually doing anything with
that graphic right we're not we're no no
no pixel
uh from that graphic will make its way
into our final prod product right all
we're actually doing here
is we are taking the shape we want and
you can just grab the magic wand tool
and click in and you'll notice it
selects it then i'm going to hit ctrl x
on windows to cut it
and then i'm going to go back here and
i'm going to paste it and i will resize
it to make it as big as i want it to be
within the sunset
and again i'm not actually going to use
this graphic in the you know what i
export from photoshop all i'm doing is
i'm then going to use the magic wand
tool again click into the graphic
and then what i'm doing here is behind
me sorry my my green screen pointing is
not that great because everything's
backwards but i'm gonna go back to the
sunset layer and i might as well
name this layer sunset make it easier to
remember
so sunset
i'm gonna then click that layer so when
you when you magic wand these the
graphic that you want to select so that
you can make it into a silhouette uh
it's you're then gonna have to switch to
the other layer because we're gonna cut
from the other layer okay so now i'm
gonna turn off the palm tree graphic
just so you can see photoshop still has
my selection right there
and all you have to do
is hit control x and it will cut
out of the sunset
all right so now without we're not using
the graphic from wherever the graphic
source was like google images whatever
you use all right um you can do your own
graphics i was just saying that like
since we're just tracing it basically
for the outline i think it's probably
okay to um to just you know borrow one
from wherever right we're not actually
gonna use the image you know what i mean
i can even go in and delete that that
layer just so that nobody thinks i'm
using it all right
but now what we have here
is a sunset with that silhouette cut out
and i think it looks pretty darn good
and you saw how easily we just did that
right so if i want to go through and
make another one real quick how about we
use
this sunset right here
all right i place it i'm going to merge
it with a layer so that i can actually
cut out of it if you skip that step you
won't be able to do the last step where
you actually cut it all right so we just
did the palm tree i have another one
here of a dog so let's grab the dog
graphic and literally it's gonna be the
same story you know um
by the way depending on how you wanna do
your graphics like
you know i honestly like you know what
i'm just gonna show you how i would do
it i don't to say i was gonna say you
can get cute you can make like the dog
small and put text in the sunset graphic
but i'm a big fan of like bigger
graphics i think they tend to work
better like i was reviewing somebody's
designs just the other day and uh
why is it selecting everything that's
weird
okay it's blending in with the
background so i'm gonna turn the black
background off so that i just get the
dog here all right so now i've got the
dog i'm gonna turn that off by the way
you don't have to turn it off as long as
you just select the sunset layer here
which again i'm so bad at the green
screen point because it's backwards but
layer four now is now my sunset number
two
um
so i just select that layer and i cut so
i can turn the dog off and
there we go we can see here and the
reason this is you know nice is that you
know because you could always just keep
a flat color graphic over top of the
sunset but
by doing it this way guys like you see
here i can switch between black and
white and it looks great on both um
you can change the background color uh
the thing is if you do that like keep in
mind like if i put the background color
to yellow well now the sunset kind of
blends in at points with the yellow so
not you don't need to make it a design
look good on every single shirt color
like i think it's better to just design
with a specific intent in mind now it's
really hard to execute
a shirt that looks good in both black
and white because what happens when you
add text
when you add text i mean unless you do
something like this where you um
make the top like uh
make the top text like red and match the
top of the sunset of course i made that
so that it covers up the color so i
can't actually see it
but you know what i mean you can match
the top here
um
to that and this might actually look
good on black and
white shirts but
i i don't always feel the need to like
go way out of my way
to make things make sure it's look good
on black and white generally speaking
like i'll either do it for dark colored
shirts or you know light colored shirts
but you see here how we just made that
shirt like very quick very easy very
simple we started with the base sunset
take any silhouette you can even just
draw it yourself um
one last example here what we do one
more time i'll show you how quickly it
can be done if i'm not trying to do like
tutorial speed so i'll grab this sunset
i've got the dog paw here so i will
select the
paw
put it over here
select
then go to the sunset merge
cut out
and boom now we've got the sunset with
the paw cut out i did just want to show
one last thing as well like you don't
have to use silhouettes and or you don't
have to use like pre-made graphics you
know what i mean like if you don't want
to do the dog paw you could just do text
i mean there's no
reason why you can't just um
i don't have a text layer yeah i do
you can just add your own text here like
you can write text over top and say
my name is ryan right you just put that
over top
i don't know how well this shirt would
sell but um
you can just put it right over top of
the graphic and then you know select
everything on that layer i just did a
a nice quick shortcut for selecting if
it's like multiple letters instead of
doing like clicking every single letter
you can go to um select and then go to
color range that's what i just did and
then i clicked into the blue color and
because only the text uses that color
blue i knew it would just select what i
wanted which is perfect so then i just
click ok and as you can see here i can
even zoom in to prove it uh it's got
just the text selected and then again
just make sure you are you know in the
layers panel and i'm so bad at the green
screen point it is absurd but just make
sure you have the right layer selected
if you're not sure it's the right layer
you can always toggle it on and off to
make sure
select the layer you want to cut from do
your control x wait why didn't that work
the selected area is empty what
oh i had already cut it out my bad all
right i forgot so it was already cut out
from behind now is this the most optimal
looking design as far as the cut went
probably not but i'm just doing it for
the youtube tutorial i wouldn't actually
probably try to sell this design behind
me because
again guys just one quick reminder like
i don't want to do a bad example even
though this was meant to be a silhouette
design tutorial
i just always want to say that like you
know if we're doing something to the
graphic that makes the text hard to read
you generally don't want to make that
edit like do it in a different way like
put my name is as curve text above all
right like that's honestly what i would
do right here is i would probably make
curved text above so really quick this
will be the end of the video you can see
what i was trying to talk about here my
name is above and then you could put is
ryan here in the part of the graphic
where it um is easy to read and it
doesn't look bad so that was really all
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