How to Design T-Shirts with AI and Start a Print on Demand Store | EASY Step by Step Tutorial
Summary
TLDRIn this engaging tutorial, the host guides viewers on harnessing AI tools like Chat GPT and Mid Journey to create unique t-shirt and sweatshirt designs. The video offers a step-by-step process, starting from brainstorming ideas with Chat GPT, generating a Kawaii Boombox illustration with Mid Journey, to refining the design on Canva. It also covers the technical aspects of printing with Printify, including selecting products, ensuring print quality, and setting up the online store. The host promises a sneak peek of the final product, adding an exciting element to the video, which concludes with a review of the actual sweatshirt, showcasing its quality and print.
Takeaways
- 🎨 The video is a tutorial on using AI tools like Chat GPT and Mid Journey to create unique t-shirt and sweatshirt designs.
- 🤖 Chat GPT is used to generate ideas and inspiration for t-shirt themes and phrases, such as 90s Nostalgia and associated imagery and phrases.
- 🖌️ Mid Journey is utilized to create an AI-generated illustration, like a Kawaii Boombox, with a specific color theme and style.
- 🖼️ The created image is then upscaled and enlarged using AI to ensure high-quality print resolution for the t-shirt design.
- 📏 The design size is determined by Printify's print file requirements, which dictate the pixel dimensions for the design.
- 💻 Canva is used to assemble the final design, including removing the background and adding text with chosen effects.
- 🔄 The background is removed within Canva to ensure the design is ready for printing on a variety of t-shirt colors.
- 📋 The design is exported with a transparent background to prevent a white square from appearing on the final product.
- 👕 Printify is the platform used for printing and shipping the designed t-shirts, with a focus on selecting the right product and sizing.
- 📈 The video also covers aspects of e-commerce, such as setting profit margins and creating product titles and descriptions for online listings.
- 📦 The final product is received, unboxed, and reviewed for quality, showcasing the print quality and material of the sweatshirt.
Q & A
What is the main topic of the video?
-The main topic of the video is demonstrating how to use AI tools like chat GPT and mid-journey to create unique t-shirt or sweatshirt designs.
What is the special treat mentioned at the end of the video?
-The special treat is a sneak peek at the actual physical t-shirts or sweatshirts that the video creator will be bringing to life using the AI design process.
How does the video guide viewers in generating t-shirt design ideas?
-The video suggests using chat GPT to ask for inspiration and ideas for t-shirt themes or specific categories, such as 90s Nostalgia, and to request image and phrase suggestions related to the theme.
What AI tool is used to create the boom box image for the t-shirt design?
-The AI tool used to create the boom box image is called mid-journey.
What is the purpose of using a white background for the boom box image in mid-journey?
-A white background is used to make it easier to remove the background later, ensuring the final design is suitable for printing on various t-shirt colors without a background showing.
Why is the image from mid-journey upscaled and enlarged further?
-The image is upscaled and enlarged further to ensure a high-quality print on the t-shirt without appearing pixelated or blurry.
What platform is used to finalize the t-shirt design with the image and text?
-Canva is used to put together the final t-shirt design, including adding the text 'blast from the past' and removing the background from the image.
Which print-on-demand company is mentioned in the video?
-Printify is the print-on-demand company mentioned in the video for printing and shipping the t-shirts.
How does the video creator ensure the design fits the product size requirements on Printify?
-The creator checks the print file requirements on Printify for the specific product (in this case, a women's sweatshirt) and ensures the design size matches these requirements when creating it on Canva.
What is the importance of exporting the design with a transparent background on Canva?
-Exporting the design with a transparent background ensures that the design will overlay correctly on the t-shirt without a solid background square, which would not look good when printed.
How does the video guide viewers on choosing the right colors for their t-shirt design?
-The video suggests considering the visibility of the design on different t-shirt colors, avoiding colors that would cause the text or design to blend in or not stand out, such as black for a light-colored design.
What is the final step shown in the video for preparing the t-shirt design for sale?
-The final step is uploading the design to Printify, positioning it correctly, selecting product variants, creating a mock-up, adding a title and description, setting the pricing and profit, and then publishing the product.
What does the video creator do after publishing the product on Printify?
-The video creator orders the sweatshirts for themselves to check the quality and then plans to show the actual product in a follow-up video or update.
Outlines
🎨 AI-Powered T-Shirt Design Process
The video introduces a creative process using AI tools to design unique t-shirts. The host shares an exciting project involving AI, specifically chat GPT and mid-journey, to craft eye-catching t-shirt designs. The audience is encouraged to watch until the end for a special reveal. The host guides viewers through the AI design process, showcasing how to use chat GPT for inspiration and ideas, and then mid-journey to create a 'Kawaii Boombox' illustration with a boho pastel color scheme on a white background. The design is intended for a print-on-demand business and the video promises a sneak peek of the final t-shirt product.
🖼️ Enhancing and Preparing the AI-Created Image
After obtaining the initial AI-generated image from mid-journey, the host explains the need to enlarge the image further to avoid pixelation on the final t-shirt product. Using an AI image enlarger, the image is upscaled to a size suitable for high-quality printing. The host then proceeds to Printify, a print-on-demand platform, to select the product and gather print file requirements. The design is prepared on Canva with a custom size matching Printify's specifications, and the white background is removed for seamless integration with the t-shirt color.
👕 Designing the T-Shirt on Canva and Preparing for Printify
The host uses Canva to finalize the t-shirt design by uploading the upscaled image and removing its background. The chosen phrase 'blast from the past' is added as text to the design, with adjustments made to the font and size to ensure it stands out on a light-colored t-shirt. The design is exported with a transparent background to prevent a white square from appearing on the final product. The host then returns to Printify to upload the design, ensuring proper positioning and sizing, and selects product variants, focusing on lighter colors that will effectively display the design.
🛍️ Finalizing the Product Listing and Receiving the Sweatshirt
The host finalizes the product listing on Printify by creating a mock-up, adding a title and description that highlight the 90s nostalgia theme and the boombox design. Pricing is adjusted to ensure a consistent profit margin across different product variants. The product is then published, and the host decides to order the sweatshirt to personally review its quality. Upon receiving the sweatshirt, the host is pleased with the softness, packaging, and print quality, concluding the video with a satisfied review and an invitation for viewers to subscribe and like the video for more content.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡AI
💡Chat GPT
💡Mid-journey
💡T-shirt Design
💡Print-on-demand
💡Printify
💡Canva
💡90s Nostalgia
💡Kawaii
💡Boho
💡Mock-up
Highlights
Introduction to using AI for creating t-shirt designs with chat GPT and mid-journey.
AI tool chat GPT is used to generate ideas for t-shirt themes and phrases.
Requesting 10 image ideas for a 90s Nostalgia theme t-shirt design.
Selecting a Boombox image and generating phrases to accompany it.
Utilizing Mid journey to create an AI-generated Kawaii Boombox illustration.
Choosing a design from Mid journey and upscaling it for higher quality.
Using AI Image Enlarger to further increase the image size for print quality.
Designing the t-shirt layout on Canva with the upscaled image.
Removing the background of the image within Canva for a clean design.
Incorporating the chosen phrase 'Blast from the Past' into the t-shirt design.
Exporting the design with a transparent background for printing.
Selecting a print-on-demand service, Printify, for t-shirt production.
Choosing a product and gathering print file requirements from Printify.
Designing the t-shirt on Canva with specific print area size.
Uploading and positioning the design on Printify's platform.
Selecting product variants and colors suitable for the design.
Creating a mock-up and setting up the product listing on Printify.
Setting profit margins and product visibility on Printify.
Ordering the designed sweatshirt to evaluate the final product quality.
Unboxing and reviewing the received sweatshirt's quality and print.
Transcripts
[Music]
hi everyone welcome back to my channel
so today I've got something truly
exciting to share with you I'll be
showing you how we can harness the power
of AI specifically chat GPT and
mid-journey to create stunning and
unique t-shirts or sweatshirt designs
whether you're starting a
print-on-demand business or just want to
unleash your creativity this video is
for you but here's the best part make
sure you stay tuned until the end
because I have a special treat in store
for you not only will I guide you
through the AI design process and show
you how to seamlessly print and trip
your designs with printify but I'll also
reveal the actual physical product
that's right you'll get to see the sneak
peek at the stunning t-shirts or
sweatshirts we'll be bringing to life
together so make sure you stay until the
end as you don't want to miss this and
if you enjoyed this video please make
sure you give me a big like And
subscribe to my channel
all right so the first AI tool we're
going to be using today is chat GPT and
what we're going to be doing here is to
basically ask chat GPT to give us some
inspiration and ideas in terms of the
types of t-shirts we could create so
that could be a very generic question
for example you know what kind of
t-shirt themes could I consider creating
or it could be something a bit more
specific if you already have a specific
category in mind so let's say I know I
want to create something using the 90s
Nostalgia theme then I could ask them
but I'm not sure what image I could use
to go with that or what phrase I could
use to go with that I could ask chat GPT
to give me some ideas please give me
some image maybe 10 image ideas I could
consider using for the design of my
t-shirt leveraging and 90s Nostalgia
theme
all right so very quickly it has created
a number of ideas 10 to be exact because
that's what we asked it for this is just
so we can think of like if I want to
create a 90s Nostalgia theme what kind
of image should go on that T-shirt
design so I can either pick from this if
I don't like it I can regenerate the
response but let's take a quick look and
let's say I like let's say I like
Boombox so what I'm going to do now is
maybe I should come up with a phrase
that would go well with it on the
T-shirt so can you please give me 10
phrases I could potentially use for a
90s
Nostalgia T-shirt with a boom box image
on it
let's see what Chachi PT comes up with
pump up the jams rocking it old school
90s beats never die last from the past
bring back the boom tune into the 90s so
there's quite a few cute ones I think I
might go with glass from the past so
let's say we're gonna go with the broom
box up here as our image and then we're
gonna go with the blast from the past as
our phrase
okay now that we have our image idea
we're gonna hop on to Mid journey and
we're going to use AI to help us create
that boom box for our t-shirt design so
in mid Journey what you would have to do
is do backslash imagine and then we'll
put in our prompt which is going to be a
boom box so what we can do is boom box
and maybe I can add like I want it to be
cute I can put like Kawaii Boombox
illustration and maybe in terms of color
theme I want it to be like a boho style
pastel style so I'll put like boho
pastel colors and then I want it to be
on a white background because ultimately
I need to remove the background so white
will just make everything easier so
let's hit enter and see what happens
all right so now we have our four images
from mid Journey that we could choose
from and these are actually pretty cute
so one two three four I actually quite
like number three take a closer look
here we open it in browser
okay so I'm going to pick number three
so what I'm gonna do is come down here
so upscale means getting the bigger
version of these images so I'm going to
upscale one two three number three okay
so we're gonna wait for the journey to
do that and there we go so we have our
upscaled version what we want to do is
download this right now
I'm going to open it in browser
okay and then we're gonna save it
all right so now we have our image for
our t-shirt design
now that we have our Image Design
completed from mid-journey and download
it to our laptop what we need to do is
to actually enlarge that image further
because the image that we got from
mid-journey although it's upscaled
already it's not to the size that we
need in order to generate a high quality
T-shirt image so we don't want our image
to come out all pixelated or blurry on
our t-shirts so to ensure that we get a
high quality shirt or a sweatshirt we
want to come to AI image and larger or
any other image and larger that you
typically use and what we're going to do
is upload that image and in this case
I'm going to use AI image enlarger I'm
going to select the image that I had
downloaded from mid-journey earlier
upload that so you have an option to
enlarge it by two times or four times
I'm going to do four times and I'm going
to hit start
okay so now that it's done let's hit the
download button and we can now save this
version onto our computers and there we
go
okay so the next step now that we have
the image from mid-journey is to put it
all together on canva so before I go
ahead and do that what I want to do
first is to actually go to printify
which is the print on demand company
that I will be using to print and ship
my t-shirts because what I need to get
from here is number one I got to pick
out the product that I want to print on
and then find out what size that is so
that I know what size to put into canva
when I start designing so I'm going to
go to catalog so you can see there's a
lot of different things that you can
print your designs on which is
absolutely amazing for me I'm going to
go to women's clothing and maybe I'll
print it on a sweatshirt even for
sweatshirts there's a lot of variety for
you to choose from in my case let's just
pick the best seller for illustration
purposes and what I want to do here is
actually come down here
and so you can see there are a lot of
Print Different print providers they all
have different ratings locations are a
bit different they all offer different
colors some maybe have 18 colors 11 and
you got to take a look at the sizes as
well so in my case I'm located in Canada
so I'm going to leverage this one so
let's say if I click on start designing
here so what I need from here is to
print file requirements so this is what
I need okay so now that we have the
print area size we're going to hop back
onto canva and create a design
okay so we're going to do custom size
and we're going to put in
3600 times 4200 pixels and then click on
create new design
all right so what we're going to do now
is
click on upload and I've already done
that but what you would do is just
upload the image that we had just
created and we're going to put it in so
now what you're going to notice is that
although we had put in white background
before it's kind of showing up a little
grayish here so there's nothing to worry
about what we can do is just click on
this and within canva we can actually
easily remove the background so we're
going to click on background remover
so very quickly canva has helped us
remove the background so now as you can
see it Blends in with the white so what
we're going to do is as you remember
earlier uh when we were on chat GPT we
asked it for some ideas in terms of
phrases that we could include on our
t-shirt so the one that we had picked
was blast from the past so what we're
going to do is come back here and click
on text
I'm going to add a heading I'm going to
type
last from the past and what we're going
to do is find a font that we like
and it can be anything and try a few
this one's not too bad let's see what
effects we can put let's do this okay
that's pretty nice actually let's say
I'm happy with this design and actually
I'm going to make it a little bit bigger
we'll actually make the words bigger too
if I want all right so let's say I'm
happy with this then what we can do is
export this and when we export we got to
make sure that we export with a
transparent background because we don't
want the whole white square on our
t-shirt we're going to click on share
and we're going to click on download and
PNG is fine but what we're going to do
is click on transparent background click
on download
and we're good so now if you go to your
downloads folder we should see it here
we know that we can't really use a black
T-shirt because the text is not going to
show up but I'm planning to use a
lighter colored t-shirt so I think we'll
be okay
all right so now that we have our design
completed from canva we're going to hop
back onto princifi here and what we're
going to do is upload our design so
we're going to come over here on the
right hand side I'm going to go add
design from my device because saved on
my laptop I'm going to click on the file
from canva and we're going to wait for
it to upload
okay so now that our image has been
uploaded what we want to do is to make
sure it is positioned in the place that
we want it to be we could also enlarge
it or Shrink it so I'm going to make it
a little bit bigger and make sure
nothing goes out of the margins sure
it's kind of centered okay so that looks
good so we're going to click on product
variants or you can click here for
different colors and take a look at what
they would look like black is definitely
a no-go in this case because our text is
not going to show up
uh we can also have the sand color it's
also a sport gray although sport gray
the text might not stand out too much so
I think in this case we're going to have
to pick the lighter colors so what I'm
going to do is actually I'm going to
come over here because you can also
select it's been product variants here
and you can see the cost of each color
we're going to click on white I think
I'm also going to pick the sand color
and maybe also the ash color I'm going
to pick these three for now and then
click update
and you can take a look at what it looks
like and let's say we're happy with this
I'm going to click on Save product to
move on to the next step
okay so now what it's asking us to do is
to create a mock-up for our shirt so we
could either choose this one which is
the default one that they had provided
to us which is okay too or you can have
a model wear it which also looks quite
nice so I actually prefer someone
wearing it so I'm going to pick this one
and you have to pick a mock-up for each
of your colors so I'm gonna for
consistency purposes pick the same
person
uh actually sorry so I'm gonna have to
so I'm going to pick this one I'm going
to unselect
all the
ones that are worn by I don't think I
need that many
okay so there so these are the ones that
I have selected this is going to be my
main image
maybe this should be my main image and
then this one
I'm gonna pick this as my main image
back view
and okay same
so all of these are the same ones
selected so that's perfect so now we're
going to come down here and we're going
to add a title so you can certainly do a
bit more research on your title you can
take a look at your competitors what
they put and also leverage some tools
for keyword research but in this case
we're just gonna for illustration
purposes put last from the past 90s
Nostalgia sweatshirt
for women and Boombox design okay and
here in the description we already have
a pre-populated description based on the
product that we had selected so it shows
like the materials the size details and
also a little bit description of the
actual product that we had selected but
what we can do is also add a specific
description on the design of the product
so we can also put this sweatshirt is
designed for women who enjoys the 90s
Nostalgia Vibe honestly you can put
anything you want this is just for
illustration purposes and basically it's
a description of your product that's so
that when customers look at it they kind
of have a sense of what your design is
all about
okay so what we're going to do is select
all here is where we edit the pricing
right now it's already default to a 40
margin so here we're going to edit the
pricing this is ready so I'm going to
select all
and I'm going to edit the profits so
this is basically
um a way for me to guarantee that you
know no matter what the cost of my
product is because the different colors
are cost have a different costs the
different sizes of a different cost I'm
going to make sure no matter what like
the unit that I sell is going to make
this amount of profit so let's say if I
want like a 15 profit uh or you know a
twelve dollar ten dollar profit then I
could put that so for now let's just put
twelve dollars and apply and
okay and so what we're going to do now
is so let's see product visibility
only show in stock variants and hide any
so this is what we want
um
I'm going to show uploads and we are
going to so I'm going to hide it for now
just because I want to make sure I'm
comfortable with it so okay I'm going to
click publish
and there we go your product is now in
the process of publishing so what we're
going to do is I'm actually going to
order the sweatshirts for myself and I'm
going to be able to show you guys what
the quality is like so I'll see you
again when the product arrives
so this just arrived in the mail and I'm
super excited to open this up to show
you guys what the sweatshirt we made
together looks like
and it's very nicely packed with even
washing instructions and it feels really
nice and soft and the print quality is
actually really really good
I think I'm overall actually quite happy
about this and I hope you guys enjoyed
this video and if you did enjoy it
please don't forget to subscribe to my
channel and give me a big thumbs up
see you next time
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