Make Money with Midjourney T-Shirt Design + ChatGPT – Monetizing AI

mid-journey is an absolute gold mine for anyone who knows how to monetize it and one of the easiest ways to do that is to use mid-journey to create print-on-demand and merge products that you can sell on sites like Amazon Redbubble tea public spreadshirt and many more you see the beauty of print on demand is that it's one of the few online business models that allows you to build a passive income stream now that doesn't mean that you won't have to put in the work in order to build and maintain that income stream however it's a simple and straightforward model that is relatively easy to manage without having to worry about operational details and I should know because I started with print on demand in 2008 long before most of you even had a clue that's right 15 years ago you have absolutely no idea how old I feel right now anyway today I'll give you a broad overview of the basic process of organic print-on-demand sales how to research a niche how to ask chat TPT for ideas how to create design elements in mid-journey how to edit them in a T-shirt design simple prompts that produce good results and the three most common mistakes that all newbies make you'll definitely want to stick around for that very last part alright so let's not waste any more time and kick things off anyone who's currently in the merch game understands how much of a game changer mid-journey and other AI art generators are and to be honest I wouldn't even be surprised if we see some AI merge design generators popping up within the next 12 months but until then my journey can already massively improve your workflow you see the vast majority of best-selling designs are nothing more than a really good high quality illustration combined with some topography and thanks to mid-journey literally anyone can create these high quality illustrations straight from the desktop in a matter of minutes and what's even better is you have so much more control over the final image and you can spin up some of the wildest Concepts just for fun mid-journey allows you to cut down on production time and production cost it basically levels the playing field for everyone because just until recently hiring an illustrator is something that only a few people could afford but now literally anyone can do it so let the games begin I know what some of you might be thinking right now but what about all those poor illustrators whose jobs are going to be lost well they will have to adapt just like any other business has to adapt all the time listen I actually run a stock illustration platform called threadbasket threadbasket is completely optimized for merge and print on demand is my journey going to kill that business that's actually very possible so do you see me sitting in the corner crying to myself complaining how unfair the world is no I adapt or I die so if you feel like you might be affected by this then get your act together roll up your sleeves and do something about it so there's about a million different videos out there dedicated to print on demand and merch that's why I really don't want to waste too much time explaining it all over again there are dozens of really great YouTubers out there who cover all of this in much more detail than I can be bothered to do right here and to be honest they even do it in many different languages however I do want to give some of the newbies among you a quick overview of how this business model roughly works so you start off by researching across various different niches or niches or whatever you want to call it you decide on how you want to pronounce it anyway a niche might be speak culture live action role-playing pickleball or even crocheting does that sound a little bit too specific well yeah that's kind of the point if you try to go for the most obvious niches out there then you're going to have a really rough time there's just way too much competition so instead you want to focus on niches that people are really really passionate about and that are not too mainstream and most importantly make sure people are actually searching for this stuff because otherwise it's pointless niching down too far is literally a thing generating ideas is probably the easiest part you can simply search the web for funny or other popular quotes you can also try to dive really really deep into forms that are specific to that Niche and try to figure out what resonates with that audience or in 2023 you can just ask chat GPT that's right chat GPT will actually be able to help you with some of those ideas and I'm going to show you how to do that a little later in this video now I think this part is pretty much a no-brainer you take your idea and you just bring it to life in our particular case we're going to take the quote that we choose and we're going to try to combine it with a really nice illustration and that illustration will come from that's right mid-journey however even though mid-journey can help you get those really really nice high quality illustrations you're still going to have to learn how to use an image editor once again this is not something that I want to cover in this video because there are far more than enough videos out there on YouTube that explain exactly how to use them there are countless channels out there that are much better at teaching those skills than I am the final step is to upload your designs to one of the countless marketplaces out there that already have organic traffic why is this important well unless you're willing to spend money to run ads in order to send people to your store or you have some other way of reaching people no one's going to find your products marketplaces such as Amazon have more than enough traffic I don't think I need to explain that to you the only thing you then need to do is you need to make sure that your listing is optimized in a way that makes it really easy for people to find that very specific design that you created and even though this might surprise you it is still one of the biggest challenges that people face when they get started with print on demand since not every Niche is the same it takes a lot of trial and error to figure out what works and what doesn't now I usually don't advertise any product during my videos but today is a little bit of an exception here's my Shameless plug remember how I told you that I've been in this print-on-demand business for quite some time already well I actually have a merge research and strategy report that I publish on a bi-weekly basis it's called the hydron report and if you're keen on getting started with merge and print on demand then it's definitely worth checking out it does come with a free sample report so you can have a look through all of the pages and all of the content before you decide whether it makes sense for you or not alright so I'm sure you're anxious to finally start creating some designs in mid-journey so let's get right to it I'm going to skip the research part and go straight to idea generation the main idea of this video is to show you what sort of prompts work relatively well for merge design lines and that make it quite easy to edit them afterwards so let's start off with the dinosaur Niche I personally know that there's a fairly big market for t-shirt designs with T-Rexes doing all sorts of weird strange and fun things so I open up chat GPT and I simply enter I need 10 funny t-shirt quotes for people who like T-Rexes and enjoy playing guitar then chat to PT does what it does best and gives me a list of 10 quotes and I'm going to be very honest with you here I was pretty surprised at how funny and how good some of these quotes really were I'm going to pick War means play me a riff in T-Rex because shorter quotes tend to be much easier to implement within a t-shirt design now I still need a really cool illustration that goes with it so let's open Discord and enter the following prompt in mid-journey Imagine t-shirt design on white background T-Rex playing the guitar flat illustration style and an aspect ratio of 4 to 5. the reason why I'm using an aspect ratio of four to five is because this ratio is relatively close to the typical Dimensions that you would use for a t-shirt design on merge by Amazon ideally this will give me a type of design that is easier to fit into those particular dimensions and what do you know these are really nice so the only problem I see here with these designs is that the splashes of color in the background and the borders of the design might make it relatively difficult to cut it out and that's why I'm going to try something slightly different imagine sticker design on white background T-Rex playing the guitar and flat illustration style aspect ratio four to five I only changed the word t-shirt to sticker and I did this because stickers tend to be displayed with fat white borders around them this actually makes it much easier to remove the background so let me show you how I would create this design first I'd upskill the image once it's upskilled I'll copy the URL then I'll open a new tab and go to www.upscale.media they actually provide a free upscaling service that is more or less good enough for what we're trying to do here and the best part is that they don't add any watermarks so you click on paste URL and then you paste your URL and after about 10 to 20 seconds you'll see your first results I then usually turn on enhanced quality and I increase the upscale factor from 2 to whatever it will allow me to do sometimes this will fail because the image becomes just too big for the free version and in those cases I just stick to the regular upscaled version that they give me then I download the image and I open it up in a image editor I personally like to work with affinity designer simply because I'm not a fan of the Adobe subscription model next I'll eliminate all of the unnecessary background and I'll fast forward for this part because it's going to take a bit of a while [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] once the illustration is ready we can start to add the text you may have noticed that I added a black background layer behind the illustration the reason I did this is because 80 of the shirts sold on Amazon literally have a black or dark navy blue color so my text is going to have to be white and in order to read it I need to have a dark background in order to see it so there are many different ways how you can do this and how you can place your text however I generally recommend to make it as big as possible people who buy T-shirts with quotes they want other people to be able to read and see them from far away I'll fast forward this part one more time and you can just watch me while I'm doing it [Applause] all right [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign we now have a t-shirt design that actually looks pretty decent we can now deactivate the black background and Export the design as a transparent PNG now all you need to do is upload your design to a platform of your choice create a listing optimize that listing and wait for the sales to eventually come in so let's get back to the original prompt that I used I decided to use the sticker keyword because the generated image was easier to edit but that's not always the case so take a look at this example for a firefighter design imagine t-shirt design on white background firefighter design flat illustration style and aspect ratio of four to five I kept this prompt very simple and if we now look at the images you'll see that they are pretty awesome the fact that most of them are on a dark or black background is probably due to the firefighter theme that makes cutting out the background a little trickier than usual but just have a look at what I turned the bottom right design into that's actually pretty neat isn't it and trust me these are exactly the type of designs that sell within this Niche now things took a very interesting turn when I made these slight changes to the prompt notice how I removed any mention of the word t-shirt design and also strictly said that I do not want to see mock-ups well it turns out this produces a really interesting flat design style you rarely see this type of style in print on demand and merch but I can totally see this selling pretty well let's quickly walk through a few more examples imagine design on clear background angular design flat illustration Style no mock-up AR 45 in this example I tried to create something that we could use for a fishing t-shirt I've used the word angler which is a common term within the fishing nit and these images are a really great starting point for a t-shirt design if you wanted to focus more on a very particular fish then you could use this prompt imagine cut out sea bass design on white background full color Vector illustration flat comic Style by the way you don't necessarily need to use the same style that I'm using right here I just personally find them quite useful specifically for t-shirt designs so make sure you experiment with different types of styles not just the ones that I show you here until you find exactly what you're looking for and as you can imagine this whole process works with other objects as well so let's say you wanted to create a t-shirt design for people who enjoy failing well then you could use something like this imagine very detailed icon of an anchor on white background rope and shells Vector illustration flat comic Style this gives us some really beautiful illustrations of anchors that you can cut out and then either use as is without any text or you add some type of quote that fits the niche so by now you should have a fairly good idea of how you can use mid journey to create really nice t-shirt designs in most cases all you really need to do is create a design element that fits the theme and then combine it with some aesthetic topography now for the final chapter of this video let me quickly share with you three of the most common mistakes that people make when they get started with print on demand one of the biggest mistakes that people make when they get started with print on demand is just the general way that they approach things if you've experimented with selling T-shirts before then some of these things are going to sound very very familiar to you while it might seem intuitive to believe that whatever you find appealing others will find appealing as well this is probably the easiest way to fail graphic designers and illustrators are actually most at risk here because they are literally in it for the art they incorrectly assume that the general public actually knows what's artistic and what is not they also assume that the customer wants to buy something that's artistic well I hate to tell you but they don't the vast majority of people literally have no taste at all they also don't really care about how artca design is they simply buy stuff that they are passionate about they also buy stuff that shows the entire world who they are and what they stand for why else do you think that t-shirts like this one or this one sell like hotcakes so rule number one create for the customer not for yourself so you've created a design that you're pretty sure people are actually going to like you know this because you did some research and you saw that similar type of designs are already available on marketplaces and you can see that they are being sold they even have a few reviews and a decent bestseller rank on Amazon so it's pretty clear that they are being bought by some people so you list your design on Amazon but for some reason you just can't get any sales even though your design apparently is so much better than all of the others so why is that well it all comes down to eyeballs that's right if no one can find your design then no one's going to buy it remember if one out of 100 people who see your design actually end up buying it that's an incredibly good conversion rate for e-commerce make no mistake e-commerce is all about conversions so make sure that enough people are actually searching for the product that you're trying to create and also make sure that you optimize your listings in a way that makes it more likely that it will be found by the right people not just any people okay so you created 10 designs and now you've been waiting for an entire week but you still don't have any sales and you're starting to get a little bit frustrated seriously are you kidding me your expectations are just completely out of whack if you want this to work with Organic sales you are going to have to create a lot more designs and I mean hundreds possibly thousands of designs and you'll need to learn to accept that this is a long-term game you can actually get a lot done in a couple of months however for this to turn into a meaningful source of income it's usually going to take a couple of years unless of course you know how to run ads but that's definitely not something that I necessarily recommend to beginners if you'd like to learn more about how to monetize mid-journey make sure you check out part two of this series Once it goes lives you'll find it linked here in the corner of the screen and as I publish new videos for this series I'll be adding them to a dedicated playlist that'll be linked I don't know somewhere here but in the meantime both these slots will contain recommendations to other useful videos on my channel make sure to like subscribe and leave a comment keep on learning and take care

Channel: Tokenized AI by Christian Heidorn

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Length: 19min 7sec (1147 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 05 2023