- Free, free, free. Everybody loves free. Hey everyone, so, do you know what's free? What's free getting my eternal gratitude for taking a moment out
of your very busy day to hit that like button
before we get started in this video tutorial. But no, seriously, while
I am always very grateful for anybody that does take a
moment out of their busy day to do so, there is
something else that is free and that is money-making
t-shirt design apps that I am gonna show you in this video. Yes, in this video, I'm gonna be revealing four mystery print on
demand t-shirt designs that have made the creators
thousands of dollars and show you how you could have made these t-shirt designs
yourself using the five apps that I'm gonna show you in this video. And the best part is it, as you will see, four out of five of these
apps, either are 100% free or they have free account versions that you could take advantage of to start making your own
print on demand designs today. So, let's get started by
taking a look at our first money making t-shirt design
that has been a super hot seller on the print on demand
marketplace, Redbubble. So, what I've decided to do for this video is not only show you my five favorite apps but to also show you how to use them by finding top selling t-shirts on print on demand
marketplaces like Redbubble and recreate them. Now, I'm not recreating these t-shirts because I think you should copy them. That's not why. I do not endorse copying
other people's products. It is simply to show you
how if you had been the one to come up with one of these top selling nurse t-shirt designs like this one here, that you could have made it
yourself, even as a beginner using the first app that we are
going to discuss on the list which is admittedly my
personal favorite app for creating print on
demand designs, Canva. Yes, as my longtime subscribers will know, I am genuinely a huge fan of Canva and it is not because I am being sponsored by Canva today, nope. No, unlike what some people seem to think, just because I like an app doesn't mean that they are sponsoring the video. You're welcome to use my affiliate link to sign up for Canva, if you want to thank me for the tutorial and I do always appreciate it. But the reason why I recommend Canva is because I genuinely use Canva myself. It is the app that I use the
vast majority of the time, if I want to make my own designs and not have to get a
designer or an artist to make one for me. Now, you have two versions
of Canva accounts, the free account and the pro account. Now, the pro account does
come with some extra pictures and fonts but as I'll explain later, you don't want to use those. However, you still want to
sign up for the pro account which we'll have a link to in
the video description below because as you'll see in
my step by step tutorial, the pro account lets you save pictures in very high resolution with
a transparent background. Now luckily, Canva has
a giant 30 day trial. So, if you're on a tight budget, register for that free 30 day trial and take advantage of it to
make as many designs as possible during that free 30 day period. All right, so with that out the way, let's use Canva to recreate this top selling Redbubble
t-shirts, step by step. So, when you create a new
design project in Canva, you get to choose your dimensions. And since I'm designing
a t-shirt for Redbubble, I'm gonna use 2,400 by
3,200 as my dimensions, since that is the standard
Redbubble t-shirt dimensions. Although, as you say later on, we will increase the size of this later. Next, I'm gonna change the
background color to black and that's because this
design utilizes white text. So, to make it easier for you
at home watching this video, I'm just changing the background color to something that will
make the text stand out. We'll remove to black background later. And after that, I'm
gonna click on elements and look the nurse's hats for our picture. I'm gonna filter out the
results to only show free, non-animated pictures
that you can legally use in your designs. Now, you want to make sure
that you only use images that free, not images that
have the pro crown symbol next to them, even if
you have a pro account. And that's because of this,
image and font licenses. Now, most of the free fonts
and non-photo pictures like the cartoons and drawings have either a public domain license, which means you can use
them in any way you'd like or with their free media license, which also means that you
are allowed to print them onto commercial products that you sell. However, there are
extra pictures and fonts that have a personable next to them, have a much stricter
license like this one here. And usually, you are not
allowed to print these pictures onto products that you
sell and many pro fonts also have strict licenses. And so basically, in my opinion, especially if you are a beginner, it's so much easier to just
stick to using the free images and the free fonts that you
don't have to worry about breaking lessons rules
with pro images and fonts. And so, even though I
recommend that you sign up to the pro Canva account,
any pro pictures or font should be avoided. So, I'm just gonna use
this free nurse hat here and change the color of it
to be white instead of blue. Now, in the design that
we are replicating, it was at the top of the design. So to do that, you just
click on whatever element you want to move and drag and drop it to where you want it to be. And next we're going to add in some text. So, you just click on the text button and click Add Heading like
me and type in your text. Now again, Canva has lots
of fonts to choose from and a handy feature is it groups texts into the type of text it is. So, if you want a handwritten style, you can browse through the
handwritten styles and pick one. But remember, Canva has two
different types of fonts. It has fonts only available to pro members which has a little crown next to it, warning you that it is a pro font. And even though we have a pro account, we don't want to use
these because pro fonts usually come with stricter licenses. For me, I picked a free font
and I know it's a free font because it doesn't have the
program symbol next to it. So, to move your textbooks around, you just click on it and drag and drop it and you can also drag it
to increase the box size and you can send to your
textbooks by dragging it until you say that purple line up here, which means that the
text box is now centered in your design. Now, this font here, the
Barlow Semi Condensed is a free Google font which means it has an open
source license that allows it to be used for commercial purposes. And actually, my pro tip for you is that if you ever wanna check out your font and make sure that it has a license that you able to use
for commercial products, you can just Google the name
of your font plus license to find out what license your plant has and if it can be used
for commercial purposes. And I have yet to find
a free font that doesn't so that's why I recommend beginners just stick to the free fonts. So now, I'm gonna go and
add in the next text box. And in the original design, they chose a bigger, bolder
font for the word drink to place emphasis on it so
that's what I've done here. For this one, I've chosen
the free font Open Sans. Now, I already knew that this free font does indeed, have an open source license because just like with Barlow,
Open Sans it's a Google font and all fonts made by Google
have open source licenses, which means that you can legally use it for commercial products that you sell. Now, the next bit of text in
this design was interesting because instead of it using
a straight hitting font, it was a fun handwritten font. So, this time I'm gonna
filter the font styles to instead, show handwritten fonts and pick one that was similar
to the original design. Handwritten fonts, they are
very trending right now, especially for t-shirts
aimed at a female market. There are tons of trendy,
handwritten fonts in Canva that are free but the font
Beth Ellen is pretty cool so we're gonna choose it. And it is surprise, surprise, another open source Google font. And as you can see, mixing fonts like this is a really highly effective way to create a visually fun design. The key is to mix these fun
phones with most serious fonts, just like this design does. And it's a great way to
create engaging designs, even if you aren't an artist,
since, as you can see, it's mostly just text and simple graphics. So, if you're interested in making fun, text-based designs like this yourself, then my recommendation for
you would be to browse through a print on demand
marketplace, like Redbubble and see how people mix the fun
and serious fonts together. And then that way you can get inspiration to create your own designs. So now, we're gonna replicate
the other part of the design, where they had the word nurse
and then had the wine glass for the letter, U. Switching out letters
for words, for pictures that look similar is a clever,
easy way to visually spice up a design and make it more interesting. So, for example, a tree is often used in place of the letter I or the letter T and a coffee mug is used
in place of letter O or U and a dog face as the
letter O in the word dog is very common, same with cat
with the letter A being used in the word cat with a cat face. So, we're gonna look
for a wineglass picture and I've still got my search
filters set up earlier, making sure to only
look for free pictures, even though I have a pro account and have access to pro pictures too. We want to avoid them because
we don't have the rights to use them for commercial products. So remember, only choose free pictures, never with the pro crown. And something that's pretty
cool is that oftentimes, especially with free pictures, we can change the colors of them. So, I'm gonna change the
drink color of the wine glass to be light instead of
these different shades of yellow and green. But yes, something that
I want to reiterate is that just because I'm
recreating this design doesn't mean that I
think you should copy it. That isn't the purpose
of what I'm doing here. I'm simply recreating this to show you that if you have been the one
to come up with this design, that you could have used Canva
to create the design yourself and uploaded it to Redbubble. And something that you can do, of course, is take a design like
this, that someone made and see if you can put
your own twist onto it. So, for example, what
if it was safety first, drink with a doctor, you know? One of the most effective
techniques that I've found when it comes to researching coming up with winning
designs is to look at what has done well in other niches and to then repurpose
the design to my niche. And so, you know, with that, boom! In just a few minutes,
we've recreated this design. And then if we check out how
it looks on a red background, since that is the most
common t-shirt color that people buy the design,
it looks really great too. So, you know, white text is
definitely better than black for this design. All right, so now, that we
have finished our design, it is time to save it. And we are finally going to be
using the Pro Canva features to do this. And we're gonna be using
these two features. So firstly, we're going to
increase the file size by three. This will save our picture
in a high resolution which means we'll print more
vibrantly onto the t-shirts and products that we create. And then secondly, we're gonna select that that red background be removed and that the background
be transparent and empty. That way, just that text and pictures will get printed onto products,
not the red background. If we didn't select this and
we keep the background red, then this is what would happen, if we didn't make the
background transparent. Whereas by keeping the
background transparent, our t-shirts are going to
look and see it like this, which is much nicer. But yes, I went ahead
and uploaded our design with a transparent
background to Redbubble, to check out how it looks. And here it is uploaded to Redbubble and we made it entirely in
Canva in just a few minutes. And by the way, if you're
enjoying this video and you would like even more free training on print on demand, you
need to be sure to download my free ebook, The 6 Steps
to 6 Figure Online Stores, Follow to Make Over $10,000 a Month. And you'll find a link
to download my free ebook in the video description below. But anyway, back to the
video and onto the next step that is 100% free forever. So, here's another top
selling t-shirt on Redbubble. This design was released
pretty much immediately when 2020 started falling
apart, back in March and it's sold super well ever since. Now, I'm gonna recreate
this design using two tools. Firstly, I'm gonna be using
this app here, Photopea to actually design the shirt. This is a Photoshop
clone, except unlike that, you don't have to download
anything or buy anything. The free version of this works great. And secondly, I also use
this tool here, open clip art to find a picture of a star for free that I'm legally allowed to use in products that I create and sell. And this is an awesome
website that lets you find free images that you can legally use in products that you make. So, if you want to add pictures to your print on demand products and not have to pay someone to draw it, you should definitely
check out this website. And the reason why I had
to go to open clip part is because unlike with Canva, that has a bunch of images
installed, Photopea has none. So, if you wanna use
images in your designs, you will have to find them yourself. So, to get started, I'm
gonna create a new file. I'm also gonna see the size
and I'm gonna set the DPI to be 300, which means that we'll print in crisp clear resolution onto the shirt. That's essentially, what we did in Canva, when we massively increased the file size when we saved it at the end. With Photopea, instead of doing
that when you save the file, you set it to be in a
crisp, clear resolution before you begin. I'm also sitting the
background to be transparent. Unlike with Canva, where again, you make your background
transparent at the end, with Photopea, you can make
your background transparent before you begin designing. Because of this, even though
the design we are recreating has white text and white pictures, I'm gonna be using black
text and black pictures just to keep things easier
while you follow along with me on screen so that you can
easily see what I'm doing. So, please just imagine that the pictures and the text I'm using is
white instead of black. So, I'm not gonna lie. I think it's going to
become apparent very quickly as I designed the that Canva
is a lot more beginner friendly compared to Photopea. And I'd say that Photopea is
a true graphic design app. It's more of a basic free
version of a paid app that I frequently use, Photoshop. It took me years to get
good at using Photoshop. And while I still use
Canvas for designing, I'll use Photoshop for resizing pictures and things like that. Now, because there is so much
that I'm doing on Photopea that requires a lot of explanation, I am not going to explain
why I'm pressing the buttons or clicking the options that I'm doing. If you are confused by what
you were seeing on screen. Like for example, if you don't
know what layers has means or what channels mean,
then this app is probably not the best app start with. For some of you though,
with design experience, you'll absolutely love
it because it's free. But for most of you probably not. So, instead of explaining
every little thing I'm doing, I thought I'd take it
as a good opportunity to chat a little bit
more about image licenses and how to find free images online without breaking copyright laws. So, when you're creating
print on demand designs for say, your Redbubble
store or your Etsy store or your Shopify store, you'll
probably want to use pictures like me here, I'm using
a picture of a star in this design here. Well, the way that most
people would find a star image to include in their design is
they would go to Google images and look for a star and click
on the first one and use it. But usually, this would be
a mistake because you see, the moment that you draw
a picture such as a star, it is immediately protected
by copyright laws. Any picture that you or someone else draws is by default considered a
copyrighted piece of artwork. You don't need to register it. You don't need to do anything. It is 100% yours and you
have the exclusive rights to use your picture. No one else is allowed to use it that you. But you see, not everybody
who draws a picture mind if someone else uses it. There are some very kind artists out there who draw pictures and
they want to let others use your pictures for free. Well, if they want to kindly
do this, they are allowed to. And so, what these kind
of artists essentially do is when they upload your picture online for other people to find,
they will make a written note that states what people can and
can't do with their artwork, IE what type of license your picture has. So, some people will upload
a picture online and say, you can use my picture but you have to put a note next to it attributing me as the artist. This is an attribution license. And then some people upload their artwork and then give it a written note stating that it's part of the public domain. It's got a public domain license. Well generally, what you want to look for, if you're looking for free artwork to use in products that you sell is artwork that has been given a
public domain license. A public domain license means
that the artist has deemed that this is part of the public domain and any artwork that
is in the public domain has zero restrictions. That means you can use it for any reason, including printing it onto
t-shirts that you sell and you're allowed to
modify the picture too. So, the star I'm using in
this design was uploaded to the public domain. And yeah, as you can see, by
using that public domain star that was uploaded to Openclipart, I was able to recreate
this design and Photopea. Coming up with funny
t-shirt designs like this that customers love can
definitely be a challenge, which is why inside my
premium video training course, The Ecomm Clubhouse, I show
my techniques for using other top selling t-shirts
to help me come up with my own top selling
designs to sell too. If you're interested in seeing if my course is right for
you, I'll have a link to it in the video description below. Something else I want to
also note about Photopea is that it has lots of free fonts too. And like Canva, I have yet
to find a font in there that is free, that does not
have an open source license because just like with pictures,
fonts also have licenses. When somebody makes a font and designs it, they can choose whether
they make you pay to use it or whether they'll make
it available for free. Well, the good news is
that all the fonts you see in Photopea are 100% free. They have a free license and
they are allowed to be used on products that you sell. I have yet to find one that does not have a free license like this. And Photopea has tons of really
unique, cool, trendy fonts to choose from. So, you've got lots of
options for creating cool typography designs using Photopea, if you're willing to learn how to use it but it's definitely more advanced
two us compared to Canva, which has been designed to be
extremely beginner friendly. So, then let's move on to the next step and this is way more beginner
friendly compared to Photopea. So, here's the next t-shirt design that we are going to create. This is a top selling print
on demand t-shirt on Etsy. So, we're gonna be making our
own version of this t-shirt by using this app here, Placeit. And yes, unfortunately this
is the one app on the list that is not free. You will have to pay to use it. However, luckily, I have a discount coupon that you can use to get 15% off of it. If you click on the link
in the video description to register for a Placeit, you'll immediately get
15% off your subscription, which is neat. So, what does Placeit? Well, it's a super handy tool
for print on demand sellers. The main way that I use it
is for the mock-up photos. So, for example, if you've
watched my previous videos on this channel, you may have seen my example tutorial store for treats. So, you see this photo that I have here of this girl wearing my t-shirt? Well, I didn't take this photo. Instead, I came to place
it and found this photo in their database and it's
not just t-shirts they have, they have mugs, masks,
leggings, iPhone cases, all sorts of items. But yes, I found this t-shirt
photo, uploaded my design and quickly made a lifestyle picture of it for my tutorial store. So, that is the main
way that I use Placeit for the mock-up lifestyle photos
and I absolutely love that. But that is not the only
tool that Placeit has for print on demand store owners. Note that it also has a design tool that lets you create print
on demand and science. There are templates that
you can use to get started such as t-shirt design
templates or like me, you can just start from scratch. And probably the biggest
strength of Placeit is the sheer number of
fonts that you can use. It is not an exaggeration
to say that Placeit has hundreds of fonts uploaded to it. If you wanna make some cool designs featuring trendy typography, then you will be spoiled for choices here. While Canva does an okay job
at grouping the fonts together so that you can search for
a particular type of font, Placeit makes it exceptionally
easy to quickly find the type of font that you want. So, for example, if you want us to create a t-shirt for gamers,
then it's really easy to come into the gaming category and find a gaming related font. So, for most beginners who can't draw, typography based designs
featuring trendy or funny slogans are probably going to
be the simplest products to start making money with. And so, choosing an app
that has lots of fonts installed for you will make
creating typography designs way, way easier. Like it was really easy
for me to find a font that was similar to the
t-shirt that we're recreating because of the way that Placeit
groups of fonts together and the way that they are
laid out in a tile pattern, rather than just in one big
scrolling list like Canva. So, it's definitely a
superior way to do it. However, unlike Canva, Placeit
does not feature a free trial or at least not at the time
of me uploading this video, which is a shame. So, you know, pros and cons. But if I could take any
feature from Placeit and add it into Canva,
it would definitely be their font feature. Placeit makes it super
easy to scroll through hundreds of fonts at a glance. I still prefer Canva
personally, I'm not going to lie but I really do like that feature and I wish Canva would
add it into the app. And I just wanna clarify something here. Whenever I say, I like
any sort of product, people come in for comments and be like, oh, you must be being sponsored and paid to say that you like these products. Well, no, I'm not. I have affiliate links
if you choose to use them but just to clarify, I do actually run an e-commerce business and I genuinely use
both Placeit and Canva. I recommend these, not because
anyone is paying me to, I recommend them because
I actually use these and I find them helpful. And so, I hope that other people
will find them helpful too. And people often want to
know which tools I use and well, these are the
tools I genuinely use. So, adding in this text was super easy and it's also very easy
to add in pictures. Placeit's art team actually
draws a lot of the pictures in here themselves. So, you'll find some original pictures that you can't find anywhere else online. And all of these, you are
legally allowed to use on products that you sell,
like print on demand designs. I personally think that this
picture of a donut here, it's super cute and I love it. And so, I'm gonna use this picture here when recreating the t-shirt
design that sold well on Etsy. And it's actually a popular slogan, that's done well on
several different versions of the t-shirt on Etsy. But yeah, boom! Look at that. We've created our own version
of that top selling shirt with Placeit's design feature. But that's not all because we've still got a fourth winning t-shirts
design to recreate and that is this t-shirt here. This one is pretty interesting. This Etsy store generally gets about 15% of its customers leaving a review. Well, if we come and take the reviews left for this shirt, 145 and use that number to do the maths. That means then, that this shirt has made over $20,000 in sales. And something that's pretty cool is that to create a simple one word
text design like this on Etsy or a Shopify store, you don't even need a
dedicated graphic design tool like Canva or Photopea or Placeit. Nope, instead you can create super simple, text-based designs like this
straight within these two apps. And one of those is Printify
and doing so is super simple. Just come to the product
that you want to design and then click start designing. And then once it's loaded
up, click Add Your Design and then come and click Custom Text. And here, you can just
write slogans directly within the app. Printify doesn't have a
huge selection of fonts to choose from but for simple,
one word designs like this, that often doesn't matter. Printify's small yet
curated selection of fonts often does the job. All of these are fonts that
you are legally allowed to use when you're creating products to sell. So, you don't have to
worry about using a font that you need to buy a license for, all of these are free
because free, free, free. Everybody loves free. And yeah, that's it. You can resize the text or move the text around the product you're creating by just dragging and dropping it. I also just want to note that
you can't save this design as a picture. So, this only works, if you
are integrating Printify directly into your print on demand store, such as an Etsy store or Shopify store. You cannot use this to
create a design for Redbubble or Teespring where they
have their own integrated print on demand service in app. And the same thing applies to the next app on our list, Printful. Here at Wholesale Ted, most of my viewers have print on demand stores and they are split into two groups. The first group of opened
their own private store with either Shopify or Etsy
and either Etsy or Shopify have a print on demand service or app. So, you need to integrate an outside one. And as my viewers know,
Printful and Printify are the two that I used. The other group my viewers
sell on an online marketplace like Redbubble a
Teespring that already has their own print on demand service. And so, you don't need to integrate Printful or Printify into it. Well, if you're selling on
one of those marketplaces and you can't use this feature
to create text based designs because when I created
this design with Printful, I don't actually get to
keep the image file to save and upload elsewhere. Instead, it's saved
directly within Printful. So, to sell this t-shirt,
I would need to sell it directly with Printful. So, I only recommend this app to sellers either selling in own private store such as with Shopify or on Etsy who are choosing to use
either Printful or Printify as a print on demand supplier. But as you can see Printful's editor, it's even more robust and
it comes with free pictures and clip art that you can use. So, if you're using Printful,
then this is a great way to quickly make simple text-based designs without needing to Baba with an external graphic editing app. So, did you learn something new? If you did, be sure to hit subscribe and click that little
notification bell next to it so you don't miss out any of my videos. And if you'd like to learn
about another free app that you can use to create
profitable t-shirts, you should be sure to watch my video, How to Make Free Money
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