Mhm. It was like an example design for I was making like a merch line. That’s a fake merch line for a video. Okay. Funnily enough, this is also uh from from a video. Okay. Totally geared out. Did you do this illustration or did you um No. Is it like a Canva? Okay. You can probably imagine. I mean, this was years ago. So, at that point, my design skills were virtually non-existent. Uh, but it’s okay. I’ve I’ve grown and I’ve learned and it’s been what like 5 years now. Yeah. Well, this is a design style that we were talking about in another one of the live streams or like in planning for one of the live streams, I I suppose. Yeah. I kind of can’t wait. Um, I’m excited to see mostly what you have kind of picked out. Yeah. Um, let me
Yeah. So, I have all of mine lined up. You’ll see. Uh, I might have overdone it a little bit. Uh, you can already kind of tell, but it’s fine. It’s fine. I got excited about it. Yeah. Yeah. It’s about like a minute and a half before we go. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I’m like more nervous than I think I usually am. Really? I guess it’s, you know, when people create big designs, they really care about Yeah. the product. Yeah. Totally. I don’t want to go. And this is not good. But yeah. Well, I was uh uh saying as we were getting ready that I was feeling a bit a bit like kind of jumpier than usual, too. I don’t know. I don’t know what’s up, but whatever. You know, too much coffee. It’s possible. That’s always on the table. But too much coffee, I say as I sip my energy drink from my I was looking for an energy drink, but I wound up with a Dr. Pepper. Do you like Dr. Pepper? Have I ever tried Dr. Pepper? Is that Do I need to write my No, it’s I mean Dr. Pepper is a soda that has a a lot of fans, but a lot of people are like it’s kind of gross. But I don’t know. I like it. I think it’s pretty great. Okay. And but I also I I rarely drink it, you know, but when I do, it’s pretty good. It’s kind of got like almost I don’t know. it. I I feel like people might say it kind of has a cherry coke like flavor, but I think that even that is a little bit like people who love Dr. Pepper are like, “No, it’s not cherry coke.” Fair. So, I don’t know. I don’t know. I’m a very like Coke Zero girly through and through. Uh almost to a fault. Uh the the the amounts that I drink are kind of crazy a little bit. It’s like liters plural a week. Yeah. I need to drink water is what I need to do. Yeah. Okay. Let’s see. I’m kind of excited to get into it. And I think we are live now. Uh so, hi everyone. Uh thank you so much for joining. My name is Liz. This is Zach. Hello. Hello. Uh and we are here to do a bunch of design reviews. Now, if you didn’t get a chance to submit this time, we might do another one of these. But for uh this specific stream, we actually got over 200 responses. Uh which is wild. We obviously will be able to go through all of them. So I picked five and Zach picked five. And uh I haven’t seen yours, you haven’t seen mine, so it’s going to be a surprise for each of us. Uh and we’re going to give a little bit of advice in terms of design. It’s obviously not going to be this color isn’t pretty. Choose a different color. Uh but it’s going to be driven a lot more by what is good for the design guidelines uh that work for the products that that you guys have picked specifically for these designs. I know is there anything that you’re going to be more guided by in this? Well, definitely. I mean, this is kind of a topic that we return to anytime that we do one of these live streams, I think. But, um I mean, you mentioned the guidelines. That’s kind of specifically where I’m coming at it from like um and from the things that specifically me and my team look for when we are uh checking designs and I’m actually going to be using some of the uh the the the files that um they’re like templates that we actually use when we are uh analyzing things. Um, but I’ll also be showing you a little bit about how to set up your own um if you uh don’t have access to such a uh or the well you wouldn’t have access to the exact same templates that we have set up. But um I mean it turns out you can do a lot of this stuff on free software as well as um the software that I’m going to be using which is the Adobe uh suite. Mhm. So, uh, in that case, I think we’re going to be covering several different software, uh, options that you can use cuz I’ve actually chosen to use KD specifically for this cuz I wanted everything to exist in one pane and just go artboard by artboard, which this was immediately uh, my pick. So, let’s make sure that we can cover as many uh, as we can today. And if you have any questions throughout this, drop them in the chat. uh you they’re either going to be answered by a who is moderating today or uh we are going to gather all of them and try to answer them at the end. So without further ado yeah do you want to uh show me your first one? Yes. Yes, I want to. Uh okay. Uh so I have KD open over here and what I’ve done is I’ve created like an artboard for every single design. Um and can I actually interrupt real quick? Yes, go ahead. Um I’m not super familiar with KD. Can you tell me what KD is? Yes, I can. So, uh there are a bunch of different types of uh design software that you can use. Um you’ve seen us use a like I think at least five over the years on the channel. Um what uh I like KD for is it’s kind of a perfect blend of several features that I really enjoy. like I have uh a real I used to have like this real affinity for like Canva elements specifically because it’s a giant library of stuff but uh the design tools are a little bit lacking uh like when you can’t really vectorize anything there uh and it’s a lot more it’s very beginner friendly uh but I was missing some small things and then I would use something like or try to learn Illustrator or I would use like a Figma Uh, and what I was constantly missing is that I have to build every single element from scratch where I have to like find someone who already made it and downloaded and uh, in KD there’s this giant library of stuff. I can actually maybe open something up here. So, let’s say I am creating a design. I’m like, ah, I’m missing this like this corner is a little wonky. I need a triangle to put in there or something. Triangles may be a little too simple. But let’s say I for fun want to do a little banner underneath my text and I need it to be like squishable and movable and editable. So I can’t really just go and download some kind of SVG. Uh and I see like banners in here or I could just go in and type banner and maybe I want it to be look like it’s made of paper. And so there’s like 2D stuff. there’s a bit more complex things, you know, a bunch of these different elements that you can really move and and use. And some of them are paid, some of them are free. Uh so you don’t necessarily have to have a paid account to use a lot of this stuff. Um and um yeah, the other difference specifically for this demo is that uh you can have art boards like that. Uh so much like in Figma if you have used it before you can create these frames uh where everything you don’t have to have every single layer of the design in in the layers pane and have to organize it. It’s all immediately you know in the layers pane based on what artboard you have. Nice. Sorry to get you off track right right immediately uh at the start but um you know I thought that uh you know I don’t know a whole lot about KD and I was kind of thinking that maybe some of our viewers might um want to know about some of these uh softwares that we’re um using. Yeah. And I’m going to ask you to explain some stuff as well about whatever you’re going to be using. Uh but yeah so the very first uh design that I picked from the 200 plus submissions was this design by Moren. Uh so hi Moren I hope you’re watching. Uh, and what we have here is this hoodie with a front print and a back print, both using DTG, which is going to become important. Uh, and the color variations are also over here, but I’ve just picked this one to be the main one to show you guys both prints. Uh, and so what it is, let me zoom in real real real real real close so you can see it. And is like I really like this design and I picked it because it was so relatable. It’s introvert energy conversion, meaning that every single social interaction takes some energy from you. Uh, and uh, the concept was really cool until I was like, let’s let’s do this. Let’s cover it. Uh, and I’ve added some notes for myself so I don’t forget anything that I thought of. And the very first thing that jumped out at me when I was looking at this is I think there is a slight bolding issue here. So, let me actually turn off this so you can see for yourself. As you can kind of see here, the I isn’t bolded or it’s maybe less bolded, like a semi- bold compared to the other ones. Yeah. Compared to like the T, it’s not it’s not as thick as the T. Yeah. And to double check, I kind of lined up the front uh design to the back design. And you can see that it’s like also a little bit thinner. What I think or assume that happened here is uh the star was a little too juicy looking. And so you selected it to remove the bolding from that but also accidentally removed the bolding from the eye. Not a big deal but a tiny detail. Uh and then let me bring that back. And then the other thing is this is potentially like nitpicky. Uh but the dots kind of like this dotted line don’t really line up very evenly. So there are two ways that you could do this. uh when using these kinds of dotted lines is you either line them up exactly uh at the same point so that it’s the same kind of edge or you can line it up depending on how thick the element is at the end of that line. And in this case, if you can kind of see on my screen here, uh it’s neither. So, uh, if that was the case, the these dots, for example, would be a little farther than in this case, and, uh, both of the 11% ones would be exactly the same, which they are not. They’re also not lined up perfectly like that. So, ideally, I wouldn’t want to see them completely lined up so that the last dot is the same dot. And if that that means that the spacing uh on this side is maybe a little different, I think that is going to be way less noticeable than uh the spacing here. And then the uh last kind of thing that I wanted to mention in this design specifically is that you’re using DTG uh which is probably like a very good choice, but in that case, I would increase the size of this text right here. Mhm. So, it’s it’s a fun text, but relative to everything else, it’s going to be very small. As you can see here, it might get a little bit blurred out just because the fabric is quite thick. It’s going to absorb some of the ink. That That’s what I was going to say. Especially on the fabric of the hoodie, like a thick thick fabric. Yeah. So the difference between something like a a direct to film or DD flex print and a direct to garment or DDG print uh is that uh when you’re printing with a direct to film technique, there is kind of a barrier that prevents that ink from being absorbed by the fabric. So let’s say your fabric is here uh and uh it gets pressed on as one layer. it doesn’t necessarily get spray uh sprayed on and absorbed, meaning that you are going to get crisp edges and you’re also not going to get much feathering around the design versus for this uh I think the size of the font is going to make it a little bit less legible than you would prefer. I would also say that it might be tricky even if you did DT flex to be honest because I’ve seen um situations where very small text doesn’t even adhere to the fabric. Yeah, it’s too small. Right. So, it would like peel off as the teeny tiny detail. So, the fix here is just to make it larger and and you’re fine. Uh, but overall, this is such a fun design. I really want this hoodie. And what I wanted to point out, because this is actually an issue that comes up a lot uh in people’s designs, is that in every single variant or like color variation of the hoodie, uh the contrast is great. So, even in something like a brown or a gray or a red, uh the white is enough to stand out. And we’re going to come back to this as we go on to some of the other designs that I picked out. Uh but the the contrast is very very helpful. And another kind of small thing that I wanted to point out is this is not necessarily an issue at all, but uh Moren, if you’re watching, I want to prompt you to think, do you need these bullet points? Because to me, this it it’s not necessarily serving much of a purpose. You can they’re already very clearly split by the lines. I think it just makes the design a little bit busier. If I were you, I would remove them, but if you think they look cool, keep them. Um, I’ll say, Moren, I kind of like those bullet points. Um, but I I see your point. Um, especially since you have the bullet points. Um, and then you have the dot uh uh grid bringing your site to the percentages. Um, so there’s just like a lot of dots. Um, I see what you’re saying. I got to think that they’re cool, but it might be um worth thinking about. um like it kind of seems like you’re sort of trying to evoke the um like design language of like a invoice or Yeah. Yeah. receipt or invoice or something like that. And I wonder if maybe you could um look at what invoices uh typically do um and like copy that same style. I think Yeah. And then the last thing that I wanted to say which is a good job because this is my immediate thing that I looked at the design. I wanted to make sure that the percentages add up to 100% and they do, unless I did my math wrong, but I think I did it right. Um, so, uh, overall, I need this hoodie. I want this hoodie in every single color cuz I like every single color. These are just the teeny tiny details, uh, that if you’re going to be selling a product, I would pay attention to. So, that’s my first product. Now, it’s going to be your turn to do your first product. Um, okay. Let’s So I’ I’ve done this um quite a bit different than you. Uh I uh it seems um so um my first one that I picked was um by Lauren. Um Lauren submitted this design for um a vintage cap. Um it is actually this is one thing that I had some difficulty uh understanding when we were looking over the submissions whether this was a DT flex or embroidery. I’m going to assume that it’s embroidery but I think that the things that we can uh talk about kind of apply to both. Yeah. Correct. Um so I like this um I like this logo like design. I like the um I like the center element. Um and I I love a circle text. Um and I think that it is uh it it like when sewn it could be a nice um stark design. Um but I do want to say um that it does seem to have a lot of the um um guideline issues that we uh that we often talk about in our um team. Um, so this is the vintage cotton twill cap. Um, I’m going to show Sorry, I didn’t have that. Yes, I I have them all pulled up here. Um, so this is the vintage um cap. Um, and you can find the guidelines and the print area size um by going to the product and then clicking file guidelines. Um I uh since we are located here in um Europe, I have all of my uh things set to centimeters. Um but you’re if you’re in another part of the world that uses um inches, it will should pop up in inches. Um but when uh but I also have the um I went ahead and downloaded the guidelines also. So when you download the guidelines, you get a PSD file, an AI file, and a PDF file that are all formatted for the print area size already. Uh can you tell us what each one is? Yes, I can. Um so um AI and PSD are Adobe Illustrator or sorry are Adobe um formats. PSD is the Photoshop format and AI is the uh Adobe Illustrator format. Good. because I feel like when people hear AI these days, they don’t immediately think of Adobe Illustrator. True. That’s good to know. Um, but yeah, so you can uh well, I’ll show you the preview here. So, the preview shows you what the size is in inches. Um, it has the minimum resolution. I will say for an embroidery resolution is less of an issue because you’re literally designing elements to be sewn with thread. You’re not going to see the pixels. Yeah, exact. Well, there aren’t any pixels when they’re sewn. So um uh what’s more important is line thickness and actual size in the actual um print area. Um and of course when you download these templates it gives you uh our critical guidelines which um maybe uh if you’re reading these guidelines you might kind of start to see what the issue might be. I’m seeing some stuff already. Yeah. Um, so the text should um at least be 0.25 or a/4 inch uh tall and lines should be at least 05 um in thick. And so what I have done is um I’ve pulled up this design in our template for uh for measuring um uh designs and design elements. Um, this is the actual template that I use. Um, this is something that you could create yourself if you wanted to, but you can also do this when you are creating your design, too. I mean, these are literally just line segments that are 0.05 in. Um, I yes, we can see my screen. Um, so these are literally just line segments that uh match the the guideline um requirements. So what I do when I measure a design is I will literally drag these onto the design to see if they meet the minimum requirements. Um I have found that um whenever I’m making a design for myself, usually I actually don’t use this template. I will um create a um design that is um like 5.5 in by 2. Um, and then when I’m creating the design, I can create like a line segment and then I click it and let’s say let’s uh angle is 45 in or 45° right now. I don’t want that. I want uh zero so that it’s flat and then 05 uh in. And then you’ll get a line segment that is um that minimum thickness that minimum thickness. The other way that I uh we used to do this in my team too. Um there’s no reason why we like stopped doing it necessarily. Um but um let’s do 0.25. Um uh if you do a circle um then like the circle can kind of measure the tops, the bottoms, the sides, you know. Um but we just particularly use line segments. So I I normally when I check uh the the sizes I think I do a circle kind of intuitively because it you know fits in anywhere. You don’t have to turn it around. So I’m going to measure the text here. And as you can see the minimum size for text in embroidery is 0.25 in which is about a quarter. Well it is a/4 of an inch. Um, and you can see all of these um, letters are quite a bit smaller. And if we go for the smaller text, you may notice these are quite a bit smaller. Um, woof. And that’s that I I’m kind of imagining what that is going to look like on the final product. And it’s just all going to be one single thread going through just trying to attempting to create some kind of text there. I mean, anything that is below 0.25 25 in in height. Any text that’s below 0.25 in in height is going to need to be sewn with run stitch, which if you’ve seen another one of our um live streams about embroidery, you probably know run stitch no bueno. No good. It’s a single line uh of um thread and they can kind of give uh lowquality illeible outcomes. Mhm. And then also this uh is a kind of sneakier guideline. Um all tax has to be at least 0.1 in tall to even be included to even be considered. Um basically the reason for that is because.1 in anything smaller than that like isn’t even as big as one complete stitch. So like you can’t even physically form the the letter with that. So I actually don’t I I don’t know. I kind of suspect, yeah, we’re looking at um text uh with both um the name uh of the state and the date and the um coordinates are below 01 or so sorry um 0.1 in. So in this case um both because the the bigger text is smaller than 0.25 25 and then the smaller text is smaller than 0.1. Um, this would probably be done in run stitch and then these would probably be removed completely. What would happen if uh this design gets sent in? I’m assuming your team would pro like would it get flagged or or what would happen? Yeah, it would get flagged. Um so what would happen is like we are kind of set up to to well okay so digitization files which is what we call the file that tells the machine how to print something digitization files need to be created manually. Um and so when we notice something like this there’s not much we can do besides um flag it and um send you an approval sheet. Mhm. And an approval sheet will tell you basically like what we did, what kind of design, you know, um what’s the word? Like concessions or like um you know, things that downgrades. Well, I suppose you could say that, but I mean like um things that had to happen in order to even get to a printable like final version. Um, and if you approve of that, you can just simply click approve in your Printful dashboard. Or you can send my team an email and we can work with you um to try to find something that will work for you. Whether that means increasing the size of the text or like helping you um helping you understand our guidelines so that you can um fix this on your end and re-upload a new graphic. Um but yeah, as uh as you can see um oh and then sorry, I threw another um guideline in here. 005 in is how thick lines segments need to be. So that is also another issue. Yes. So for both the text and these little lines in the lighthouse, um it would be below that. And I actually did just notice one more thing. These windows are made with negative space, which negative space and embroidery doesn’t go so well. Basically, this shape would have to be sewn with tatami fill, which is a chain-like structure that fills an entire area with color. And then these would probably have to be done with like a different stitch. Like the areas between the window would have to be done with like the stitch that we do with uh uh that we make lines with. Um and so basically, um there would be some issues with uh that. Um, so yeah, uh, I basically just want to say I I like where we’re going with this, but um, also I would say um that we should check the guidelines and um, work on the sizing of the text and some of the lines. Nice. And it’s so interesting cuz I’m I don’t think I’ve ever seen you go through the actual process of of using a template to check a design. So this is illuminating for me and I hope for for everyone there. Um, so and now we’re going to jump over back to the designs that I picked out. Uh, and my next one is by Lee. And this one actually, uh, from what I can tell was created in the design maker itself. So without like an external software, just on the Prull platform. Uh, and this is a custom knitted crew neck sweater. This is the relaxed fit crew neck sweater. Uh, and I picked it in part because I was like, “Ooh, this is really cool.” And then my next thought was, “Wait, what does it say? What What is this?” Uh, so my first initial thought when I saw it kind of like from afar like this, uh, I thought it was nope. And then as soon as I saw it closer, I was like, “That’s not an O. Is that nape?” Like the nape of the neck. But then the the design is on the front. Is it? It could be nuke. What is nuke? Maybe it’s a play on the word nude when D is like turned upside down. Point being uh I am not sure if if nuke is the brand name. Uh even in that case, I would say this needs to be moved slightly down or um the the text needs to be adjusted so that it’s clear what the second letter is or what the overall text is saying. Uh but the actual design itself, I would honestly wear it. I I might not even care what it says. uh in part because the color combination is one of my favorites that you can create with knitwear. Um I’ve uh taken liberty of of picking out the ones that I think these are. It seems to me that this is burgundy and mellow and these are all the colors that are available with knitwear and I would struggle to pick out a better color combination to be fair. It is both colorful and not overpowering and has great contrast and I just they’re complimentary colors. I really like it. Uh and uh lastly, which I think is cool, uh it is not immediately like obvious when you look at it, but the placement of the letters is very creative. Like it’s quite fun. So the fact that the letters don’t exactly line up uh makes it and and also the fact that the letters are quite bold means that with the solid um uh color selection mode uh this is going to be a very striking design uh and it’s going to look very cool. I would just advise to slightly move around the letter so it’s clear what it says. Yeah, when you first pulled that up I thought it said nope too. Um uh one thing my question would be is I wonder what the back looks like um like do are the letters in a um like do do the letters line up uh in any way in the back as well? No. So this was the only design placement just the this front section uh that I could see in the template. And you can also kind of see it in the mockup as well that like only goes I can really zoom in here cuz my artboard is so big. Uh I Oh, I see. But yeah. Yeah. It it only comes up to the seam of the sweater. Um I mean that would be difficult to line up anyway. Yes. Near impossible. Yeah. Um so yes, this is one of those that I’d probably wear, but uh if someone asked me what it says, I would not be able to tell them. Yeah. Yeah. So, uh this is uh my my second piece of advice. This one was kind of a quick one just because I really wanted to point out that like even this kind of small issue that would be so easy to fix could be something that could be hurting your design a little bit. Uh now it’s your turn. Yeah. But I I I do want to say that I really like the um the placement and it’s a good use of uh our design maker and everything too. Yeah. The the font looks really cool to me. Yeah. So the second one that I picked out um was from Imani. Um Imani actually this is another hat. So, I think that this one will be quick as well because uh it does seem like there are um a lot of the uh same issues. Um so, I actually I have this pulled up already. It is in a different size of a hat. Um, and I mean I do want to point out again that in all of these um you can go to the uh file guidelines to check um and like that’s really important when you are creating the design because as we’ve seen um the size of the design within the print area really matters for embroidery. This actually is another one where I’m not sure if it is embroidery or DT flex. Um but I am just going to be quick about this one. It looks like these letters are actually um big enough, the word handyman. Um but I will say that the um negative space text probably won’t work so well with embroidery. Yeah, I would assume that whoever would be digitizing it would just fill it in. I I don’t see this working any other way. it. Yeah, almost definitely would just be a a a solid text and you would probably get uh an explanation in the approval sheet saying we replaced uh a texture with a solid um text. That’s what we would call it. Um but let’s see if these these letters are even big enough to embroider. And it doesn’t look like they would be, especially the smaller like not capitalized ones. Yeah. Yeah. I suppose these would probably be need to be removed. Um and then let’s just check. I mean same thing with these letters. I mean the lines are way too small in uh if we are leaving them as uh uh the negative space but they are also too small um for uh they are below the 1/4 in um height. Um uh these lines are thick enough the border which is uh which would come out really well. Um, but uh the te these this small text this small text would not work out so well. We would probably be able to embroider handyman, but this would have to come out in run stitch and this would have to be removed. And then I’m not really sure about the wrenches either. I think that that might cause issues with um how big they are too, but this might be able to be uh it is a bit smaller than it should be and especially with this negative space here. that might be a little bit tight as well. Um, so I’m not sure what we would wind up doing with this element. Um, we probably have to increase it if we remove this or, you know, did run stitch or remove this or something. Maybe this could be made a little bit bigger to be more um, solid. But, um, we would have to we would definitely have to make some concessions with this. Mhm. Um, but I also just wanted to just throw out real quick, um, I wanted to mention that you can do a lot of this on Canva, which is a free software. Um, there are paid plans to it, but all the stuff that you would need to do for this would definitely be free. So, I get a lot of questions like, how would I do this like if I don’t have Adobe Illustrator? Um, this is how you would do this. Um, so if you are creating something in Canva, you can always uh you can create the custom size. Um, this one was actually 5.9, but I have one pulled up for 5.5×2, which again you can find on our um, uh, product page. And then you can do the same things as you can do in Illustrator by grabbing a um, line segment. And then when you click the when you generate a line segment and then click it, you can click on position. And then in position um you can um uh change the size change the size um which uh in this case it um I did have to figure out like how these positioning uh ones work to get it to point uh 05. Um but I assure you that I did that before I set up. And then same here. This one is actually a bit easier. So maybe in Canva it makes more sense to use circles because as you can see here it is 0.25 um in for the circle. Um and like if you were to measure this um clip art, you would see like it is too thin also. So I mean this is how you would do it in a free software. I just happen to use Illustrator because I’m more familiar with the software, but you can do it in this, you can do it in Photoshop, you can do it with um any of the like free alternatives to Photoshop. Um but yeah, that was my second design. All right. Okay, that was a very cool one. And from what I could tell, it was a company, right? Company merch. Uh, I have uh another company merch example example later. And I feel like when we’re talking about merch that is going to represent your uh brand as promo for it, that should definitely be something that you make sure uh looks as good as possible. But let’s uh move on. My third design that I’ve picked out uh comes from Brent. Uh, and I did have a a lookie at the store as well. Um, so this is part of a lineup of shirts that are themed uh after different what would I even call it? Uh things in the orbit. Uh so there’s planets and and then there’s also the moon and stuff. Um and they’re all dripping. Uh which is very cool looking especially as a design. Um, and so this is the big back print right here. And then this is the smaller kind of uh left chest front print. These are also DTG. Uh, and these are the other colors that are here. You can already kind of see some of the smaller shoes that I’ve uh uh flagged in this. Uh and I think the most obvious one to me immediately and why I initially picked out this design was the contrast issue. Uh so the design features very dark elements like the moon and the drip and very light elements which is white text meaning that there is virtually no product color that this is going to have great contrast with. Uh, so I picked this blue as a very clear illustration of this because the white text really does not stand out as much as you would like it to. Uh, but uh, you can also see this issue coming up on some of the darker shirts like this uh, gray moon on the gray uh, shirt might work out okay because of the darker border, but it’s still like will not be as contrasty as you would like. And it’s definitely an issue on this very dark one because the drip kind of will almost disappear into the shirt. Uh so what I would advise is picking either a dark or a light approach to whatever you’re designing and then applying that to the correct variance. So, if you want two variations of uh a shirt design that is going to go on two different like either lights or darks, uh you can invert the colors essentially. So, for something like this, I just went with a very quick example. Uh I just cut out this this moon uh and applied some effects on it in KD just to show you. You definitely have the original uh graphic for this. But so this is that moon with the background removed. And I’ve just pulled the brightness and the contrast up and slightly like reduce the saturation to show you the difference between something dark on dark versus keeping everything light. It doesn’t have to be white the same way as the text. It can just be, you know, a little bit brighter. And then this is a much more contrasty design as a result. Uh some of the things about this that I found really cool immediately was of course the concept of everything dripping. Uh but also as these smaller things I really like the fact that the moon graphic comes out in front of the text a little bit that gives it dimension. Uh I like the style of the moon illustration quite a bit. Uh and also the the font choice like this looks very epic to me the Luna. Um, so there are a couple of smaller issues that I want to just flag for you outside of the contrast. Uh, one being, well, I don’t know how small of an issue this is, but I don’t know if, uh, you necessarily have the permission from NASA to use it, but I did look it up to use the NASA logo. It’s not in the public domain. You do have to get permission from them specifically, like send uh, a letter for merchandise approval. they have a lot of information, but I’m hoping you have it already, but if you don’t, uh, then do keep that in mind. You could just have a satellite without the NASA logo in it. Um, and then another, and this is getting really nitpicky thing, uh, is when, you can see this picture as well. When water is drip dripping from something, especially if it’s completely circular, there is some surface tension that exists on the outside of it. meaning that when these drips appear on the sides, they are very sloped and come out from the very outside of the object. Uh now what happens here and let me actually turn off the light thing that I have uh to illustrate this. So in this original design, it kind of looks like the drip is coming from behind the moon rather than it’s something dripping off of it. And you could really fix it very easily by adding slight shapes to the outside. These are just triangles, so it’s it doesn’t look quite as good as it could, but you could add like slightly curved shapes around here. And it would instantly look like something is, you know, dripping off of the moon rather than outside from behind it. Um, and maybe slight alignment things like I don’t think this Luna text is exactly centered. And then also uh the spacing right here is maybe something that I would look into. Uh because this drip is exactly at the very center of the design. Uh these differences in spacing make the text look like it isn’t even if the overall uh text from Moonrip volume 1 is centered. Uh but overall very cool. I love the fact that there’s like information about this these different celestial bodies. That’s the word that I was looking for. slash bodies in it. Uh so it’s a very very cool concept just once again small tiny details that I would refine. I also think that it’s interesting that you picked two designs that have um the dots leading to uh information. That is true. Yes, I did not think about that. I’m sure I I know for a fact that I’ve definitely also done designs that are kind of inspired by that. Uh but curiously actually to compare it to that very first design that we looked at uh these dots line up to where the um numbers end. Meaning that uh they’re not lining up in a straight line like this, but they make sense with where the numbers end. Also, I think importantly, um it looks like all of the dots sort of line up with each other. So, it kind of looks like the uh uh uh this the same line spacing um text spacing is applied to uh all of these lines, which um wasn’t the case in the first one, I believe. Yeah. So, great job. I do want this t-shirt. I just uh would like for it to be either contrasted light on dark or dark on light. Um, I also wanted to say uh if you are curious about um the question of whether you can use the NASA logo, um we do have uh printful.com/policies will tell you all of our specific guidelines um including you uh your intellectual property and content guidelines which would be relevant in this case. Yes. So please if you don’t have permission from NASA, don’t use the NASA logo. Okay. Good call out. Let’s keep this going. Uh we are about what? More than halfway through. About halfway through. Uh so let’s take a look at your third picked out design. Awesome. Um, so I this one I hope will be a a quick review because um I picked I saw companies um all over print um unisex hoodie and um I will show you what it looks like. Um, we have a very contrasty um, one side is black, one side is white. Um, hoodie, very stark, very cool. Um, with the logo uh, as the branding. Mhm. I think that this is a very cool design. I would wear that 100%. Yeah. Uh, I could see you wearing that. Um, and then you can also see they have included uh because you can do this with uh all all over print, you can choose what color the stitching is. Um, they’ve gone with the white stitching, although I imagine that the black stitching would look equally as cool over here. Um, but I like the contrast of this white stitching. Um, the uh few things that I just want to call out with um all over print are some things that we’ve talked about before. Um, one, I’m guessing that this person designed this with our design maker. Um, which I’m a big fan of using our design maker for all over print stuff because, um, the print files can be huge for all over print. Um, and making them in Photoshop or Illustrator can sometimes, you know, if you have a slow system, it might not load so good. Um, it might not upload to our system very well. Um, so doing the work in the design maker can be a really good option. Um, and especially if you’re doing something with a pattern or like um a solid color, but then your logo on the chest or something like that, you can do the the color in design maker and then just take your graphic file and put it on the chest. Yeah, I’ve never thought of like combining uh methods necessarily. I always either do design maker or I do external software. But yeah, adding the color or the pattern uh or the the I don’t know background squiggles or whatever you’d want to add uh through the design maker is a great job. Um but if you uh do want to design in a design software, um same thing as everything I’ve mentioned so far. Um you can check the file guidelines and we even have print file templates for these. Mhm. Which I haven’t actually opened them yet. Um but they come in a zip format uh a compressed format. So when you double click them they um uh they unzip they um compress the same um but uh in this case we have uh PDFs which give a whole guideline of how to do this. And actually it looks like um our uh did something fairly similar to what we have in the design um guidelines. Um, and then you can see like this is a 40in x 40 in um, print area where you would be doing 150 dpi or like 150 to 300. As we’ve talked in other live streams, I would not recommend doing 300 dpi. That’s massive. Uh, yeah. So, I mean, if you multiply these numbers out, it’s a big file. Um, but if you did want to create the templates, you know, we have them here as well. Um, but I always say it’s always a good thing to be using the design maker. Um, but I wanted to say about um this the the the one thing that I kind of wanted to call out about this design specifically is um I wonder if the um person who created this design wanted these lines to line up perfectly. Um I would assume so. Yeah. Yeah. Which and we’ve kind of talked about this in uh in the past. So Oliver print is um Oliver Print and like cut and sew. kind of use those uh terms interchangeably sometimes. Um but it is like cut and sew literally is you’re cutting out fabric and then sewing it together like by hand. Um and so there is a margin of error and where the like seams line up um we can’t guarantee that they are going to line up perfectly everywhere. Like this pocket this hoodie pocket like if you order 20 of these bless you thank you. Um, if you if you order like 20 of these, you’ll probably see like 20 different slight variations um of the of the placement. Um, but that’s also I mean in this case it wouldn’t matter all that much, but that’s also why we have this safe print area. Um, safe print area basically says anything within this area is going to print successfully. For sure. Yeah. Anything outside may get cut or sewn. It’s not a guarantee that it will get cut and sewn. Um, it’s not going to for sure give you a bad outcome, but it might. And if you got a bad outcome from putting something outside the safe print area, it would be considered an expected outcome. Mhm. Um, but beyond that, I like this nice stark design. Good use of our design maker, which I don’t know, should I show what design maker looks like in this moment? I I feel like let’s get through the designs. Uh I think that that’s uh why I asked him the question. Yeah. And then if if we have time at the end, we can, but I doubt it. Um so let’s let’s keep it moving. Um I have a design number four, which is that um kind of it’s not really company merch, but it’s kind of is company merch uh that I mentioned. Um so this is and uh pardon my literal French. I do not speak French at all, but mondroville.net. So, what this is, and I just found it so sweet, uh, is a, uh, website, uh, where you can see all of the different things about the city, which is Drummondville in Quebec, uh, in Canada. And, uh, it’s a bunch of like local events and businesses and and stuff like that. And honestly, looking at that website made me want to immediately visit. It seems like my kind of, uh, sweet place. Uh, and what this is is a promotional t-shirt for that website for from my what I understand trying to translate this through Google Translate is for businesses to kind of be more visible and show up and and be discoverable by the community. So, uh, what I kind of wanted to flag in this is really really nice that there are three placements here. So there’s the front and both sleeves and also the I believe the outside label as well with the with the logo. The first thing is immediately since it’s uh promotional merch, it’s very nice that the branding is all over visible everywhere. Uh and uh to me when kind of people uh do this kind of thing where they put the logo everywhere, they use the same logo variant across every single uh placement versus here there’s this shortened logo on the sleeves and then there’s the longer one on the front on the back. Nice choice. Uh and the one thing that I well the couple of things that I wanted to flag about the actual design was first the uh spacing. I’ve kind of created a border around this actual print file to show you that there is less space on the right than there is on the left. And there is quite a bit of space at the top. Meaning that what it does is it puts this horizontal design kind of lower than you would expect on the actual t-shirt. Uh I if I was creating a horizontal design in a vertical space, which to be clear, I normally wouldn’t, uh I would put it up higher so that it comes up to right about the middle of the armpit right here. So on the actual design file that you’re creating, it would come up to maybe half up this space. The other thing that I wanted to point out is that this has clearly had a white background initially and the background has been removed. I’ve kind of tried to zoom in as much as possible. Uh the background removal, however, is incomplete. On a white t-shirt, that might not be too much of an issue, but uh on any other color. If you wanted to put this on a beige or a light blue or something, you’re definitely going to see that. And lastly is uh kind of like a comment about this right side illustration, mainly due to how many things there are. Uh so if I kind of just like take some time to go through everything, you can see that there are 1 2 3 4 five gears. There are one two three kind of graph style arrows going up, but also there are 1, two, three arrows kind of pointing up and to the right in general. Uh and then there’s a phone being held by some hands. And then there’s this kind of uh award. Yeah, like a ribbon. Uh I guess this golden ribbon, which I’m assuming is some kind of certificate or something. Uh and then some uh a map with a bunch of different businesses and and landmarks on it. Uh, so something that I would do in general when it comes to illustrations, but especially if you’re putting it on like a t-shirt that you need to use as promo for it to be immediately recognized as something, uh, I would just go ahead and remove a bunch of these things. They’re not conveying any essential information about what your business is like. Uh, and I’m just going to really quickly show you how I would do it. So, I’ll click remove background right now just to get rid of some of these white things. And then I’ll click on edit cutout here in Kable. And I’ll start going at these small individual things so you can see. Is it big enough? Am I in the right space? There we go. Erase. And I would literally just go ahead and erase all the stuff that we don’t need. So in this case, it would be the arrows, these kind of funky looking gears and stuff. So point being, you can go through and you can be really meticulous about it. you can restore some of the things that are lost in here like these whites. Um, but I would not put as much stuff into one illustration mainly because it loses the viewers’s attention and if you’re trying to promote your business or in this case your website, uh, it’s going to take away from the point. Uh, and lastly is a comment on this kind of ribbon. usually and this is something that I’ve seen my friends who try to promote their businesses do. Uh they put the every like important certificate and and and thing on the merch even though that is something that comes up when somebody visits the actual website. And putting uh this kind of ribbon on here that has this 3D texture and golden uh look takes away from the premiumness of the design. it makes it feel less premium just because it looks disjointed from the styling of the rest of the illustration. These are kind of like the the general like comments on something that I probably would do and I would change. Uh but it is up to you if you feel like these uh gears and stuff let me actually bring this back to the way it was. Uh if these gears feel very important to the context of of your business, keep them. If these arrows feel very important, keep them. But I would just minimize. Whatever it is you minimize, it is up to you. I really like this map, though. I mean, I think that I like the vector look of the map. Um, and but I think that that is a very good note about the uh the award. Um I it uses a complete different like style than the map. Um and it is a bit jarring. Um and I also think that it’s uh such a great point that you make about the u background removal. Um, like you can even see in the award that like the bottom of the award um has uh like been affected by the background removal tool. Um, and I think that this is just a really great example of like the reason why background removal tools aren’t always going to be the best solution. I mean, in a pinch, they’re usually pretty good. And in fact, you uh when you did it with KD, um it seemed to remove more of the background than whatever tool was used um before. But uh it’s it’s a really good note that I mean you probably have this text in a separate like PNG like transparent file and even if you don’t you can create it in design maker directly. Yeah. Um although if they are using a specific font for their branding we may not have it in the design maker. Um but uh I’m not sure. This looks like a fairly common font. So it it is likely that they could find a font that would work in our design maker. Um but yeah that I think that that’s really good point. All right. So that was my number four. Uh and then now it’s time for yours. Yes. Um so I actually have a DTG now at this point. Um this one would be the unisex garment dyed heavyweight t-shirt um comfort colors 1717. My favorite blanks always. And this one um was uh submitted by Dana. Um for uh Dana, this is what we’re looking at. We got a um velociraptor looking uh dinosaur guy. I’m glad you know your dinosaurs cuz I do not. I mean Jurassic Park kid, you know. So um uh I mean who knows? Could be a T-Rex. I don’t know. But we all we know now dinosaurs really don’t look anyway, you know. Um I don’t I don’t have time to get into it. Um uh but um so the uh thing that jumped out to me is that this looks like a really really light print um even in the mockup. And so I kind of suspected that there might be um some uh semi-transparency issues going on which semi-transparencies infamous semi-transparencies. Yes, we talked about this a lot. Um semi-transparencies are not really recommended in DTG. Um that basically means like anything that is a see-through pixel. And um it’s because it kind of wres havoc with um any sort of the underbase layer that we put down to kind of um pop the color out from um the the the shirt. But I’m going to open this in Photoshop um and just like take a look to, you know, confirm my suspicions. Oops, that was the wrong one. I’m so sorry. Um this is the one I want to open up. Um, I do see that it is already in um, uh, at the right size. It is 12 in x 16 in at 150 dpi. That’s what we like to see. Um, but I’m going to start zooming in and you can see like this checkerboard background um, indicates something is transparent. Oh, and so if I zoom in, I can start to see that almost all of these pixels are some form of semi-transparent. Ooh, yeah. And if I open up the info um panel in uh Photoshop, I can actually see if I hover above these pixels, this OP number here is the um opacity. Yes, the opacity. Thank you. Um, and you can see 64% 60% 52% 23 16 10 8. Um, so you can see all of these pixels are semi-transparent, which I will admit, um, we, you know, we always are improving our the way that we handle files. Um, it’s gotten a lot better over the years, um, how we handle semi-transparencies, but it is definitely not the recommended um, format and I suspect with such low opacity that a lot of these pixels will come out really really light, especially on um, a color like this green. A light meaning very white pale. No, like not visible. Oh, I see. um like very difficult to see. And I mean, if that is what you were going for, that’s probably fine. I mean, it look you can tell that it is going to look fairly light in the um in the mockup, but at the same time, um I suspect that that when this is printed, you’re probably going to get an even lighter print. Um, but it also looks kind of like this may have been I mean, you can see these dark pixels in here, which kind of suggests to me that maybe there was some sort of background removal happening here as well. Um, but I’m not 100% sure. Um, but, you know, I I uh love a dinosaur shirt. Um, but I I think that I would improve this by um having more solid pixels. Um, and like I mean I could experiment. I mean, if you just like copy and paste it. Yeah, just copy and paste it. you can make it a bit darker. Um but I mean you will still see these um semi-transparent edges. Um but um also on a design level I think that um um would you want to see like the dinosaur’s name on here or something like that? I don’t know. That’s just a thought that I have. Um I mean it’s just the dinosaur, right? Yeah. It it could be if you know you know. Yeah. But I I quite like the idea of it being this kind of like faint design, but I think in general you can’t fully rely on mockups to show you exactly the colors and how they’re going to look like in real life. Meaning that it’s faint now and with the semi-transparencies and with the like maybe slight difference in in color from from print to screen, you might barely be able to see what the design is. Yeah, I I had the same thought with um your uh Luna drip. I’ve seen colors similar to that moon on like a trib blend, like a kind of darker gray that are just the same color and it’s really hard to see. Yes. So, do uh keep contrast in mind because uh if something looks okayish on your screen, it might not still look okayish in print. All right. Uh let’s try really quickly to knock out a couple more designs. Uh and I’m going to move straight into my number five, which is actually this one by Miss Pix. Um so I could not resist uh this cuz I feel like anything that is like a black and white or black and white and a and a red is very much uh my cup of tea. Uh, and this in particular I quite liked because, and this once again is one of those things that isn’t immediately obvious, but some of the elements are larger, some of the elements in here are smaller, and it creates a lot more of a dynamic pattern than if these were all just the exact same size. Yeah. It’s like filling in the gaps. Yeah. Yeah. It’s very, very like fun looking because of that. Uh, and I have kind of twoish notes, uh, but one really important one. So let’s start with the less important one which is on this inside label. I don’t have the exact like print file for just the inside label and this logo. But looking at this, there are two things that are clear to me. One being that there is a white square background behind this. uh which is not necessarily a problem, but it might look cleaner if uh you had like maybe removed a couple of these elements or maybe put a white circle behind them just to hide them. H and that way it would look cleaner like the element of your logo exists in between everything else. And the other thing is I would just say that this is probably a little too small especially because I cannot read this text on on the mockup and I would assume that you would not also be able to read it very well in real life because you know printing is still printing. It is not like a perfect vector eternally scalable and movable thing. So you can see that it would benefit from being maybe the size of at the very least this spade, but maybe even this hard. Something like this. And then the bigger thing uh that I wanted to point out about this shirt is the non-tilable quality of the actual pattern. So, I’ve added these green lines just to show you, but you can really see it in here when you zoom in. The tile of the template, even though it is quite large, it’s probably put right here in the center like this. But this tile isn’t tileable. So, it has these harsh edges that are going to be very obvious when you wear the shirt. and and something you know ends and and uh this diamond like begins abruptly. So the solution to something like this would be to either uh create a and this is probably the less recommended way to either create a really really big pattern and just have it uh as a large enough file to cover the entire area of the print or make it smaller. Make sure that uh your elements line up perfectly. So if you want um this uh heart for example to line up exactly, it would need to come out the exact same amount at the very top of your tile here. So whenever uh you are creating a pattern, consider that when you’re putting elements in the corner or on the bottom. I normally just to keep it safe split the elements like in 5050 so that one half is at the bottom and the other half you just take it from the bottom and move it to the very top and that way it’s going to be perfectly tileable and seamless and nice. Uh but other than that it’s a very cool shirt. I would absolutely wear it especially this you know summer. Uh and thank you so much. I to me this is in general great use of AOP because of the like white background and the fun pattern. Um, and I don’t know. I I feel like every single design that I picked out I would wear and I would find cool. I just wanted to make them even better. Yeah. And I think that when you talk about tiling, you can also like trying to make them line up is often a challenge. Um, but another way you could just remove the elements that are overlapping completely. Um, so that is kind of a quick and dirty way to do it, but um, it would it would it would work. And uh I also suspect that this person used our um design maker the the tile the tiling feature in design maker um which again uh you know really good use for all over print because um you can put down something. I mean we did we literally did this in a previous live stream where we um got a tileable graphic and then used the tiling function um in uh all over print and uh it came out pretty good. So yeah. All right. And now let’s get into the last design of the day. Uh we are like quickly running out of time, but let’s make sure that we can actually get the 10 that we promised at the beginning. Um so uh Suma uh submitted this one. Um I wanted to look at it just because it is a a pretty cool allover print design. Um we have uh what looks like some kind of a dark elf with a bunch of bugs um all over moths. smart. Don’t call them bugs. They’re special. I mean, fair to to to uh gothically inclined people. I would say they are. Um uh or you know, it’s that kind of gossamer wing type of like kind of the fairy wing type of thing. Um uh I think that this is a pretty cool looking shirt. Um, and I I just kind of wanted to like open it up because I am kind of even sort of wondering like how it was made. Um, because well, as we talked about with all over print before, a lot of these files are going to be pretty huge. Um, 26 in x 33 in at 150 dpi. And it looks like this is a single image. Um, now I want to say I am not sure. I hope that I’m not um uh uh slandering your artwork, Suma, but I kind of think that this might be AI. Um Oh, yeah. I’m looking at some of these curls and these elements, and I’m wondering like what this is. Mhm. Um and same with some of these twigs. They don’t seem to go anywhere. um very detailed face, but then some of these bugs kind of gel together in a in a way that like there’s an extra wing here um that doesn’t seem to go anywhere. Um but you know, I I kind of wanted to just mention that because I I noticed it upon investigating it. Um yeah, I wouldn’t have immediately said that at first, but now that you say it, it tracks. Yeah. Um, but I I’m wondering how this like I mean if if this is AI, I want to know what prompt uh created this. And I mean like especially because if we open it in Photoshop um uh and look at the image size, I mean it is 26×33 at 150 dpi. Wow. Um so it is like one this is this isn’t like how we were talking about with other all over print where it was um created in our design maker uh with tiling or whatever. This is one big image um that is put onto a um put onto a shirt. So I think that this is a very cool use of um some sort of like uh the entire print area. Um and I mean if this was done by hand I am you know very impressed. But even um even um if this was generated I uh I think that um like the details are pretty cool looking. Mhm. Um, and I mean I would imagine, you know, seeing somebody wearing this at like some metal festival and being like, “Hey, cool shirt.” Yes, absolutely. And I feel like a big part of it for me, the reason that I’m immediately drawn to it is the metallic texture, I guess, that you get around the headpiece isn’t the kind of bright gold that I you would immediately imagine. It’s this brassy goldy type of thing that to me really is reflected in the wings of the moths. I don’t know. It just makes everything look super cohesive, which I’m a big fan of. And with the really like pale almost greenish skin tone, it it really matches the color palette. I quite like it. And the other thing that I wanted to check um was color gamut, which is something we haven’t really talked about in this. Um, so I’m going to turn on gamut warning, which gamut warning tells me like if something is within this area of the color spectrum, this gray area of the color spectrum, it may not print too well. Now, let’s actually grab like a bright purple and just take a brush. Um, and I’m so sorry for uh this design, but like um as you can see, I’m drawing it and it is coming out gray. That is because I have the gamut warning set up as gray. Anything gray will or anything that with sorry with my gamut warning turned on. Anything that is out of gamut will turn up gray. So I can turn off the color the gamut warning and you can see that it’s that bright purple. But when I have the gamut warning on it’s gray and that is because um or that is telling me that this is not going to print out very well. Um because a lot of the stuff in here is kind of gray anyway. I can’t really tell um if things are out of gamut. You can actually change the gamut warning color in Photoshop. I don’t know if I want to go into all the details of that, but um I also can just drag the um color picker through here and I can see like it doesn’t look like many of any of these colors are noticeably out of gamut. They all seem to be within um the color spectrum that is printable. Um, and just to say because I realize I didn’t say color gamut is the space of colors that are printable by our printer. If any color is out of gamut, um, if you use out ofgamut colors, our printer can’t print it and it’s going to come out looking funny. Um, I mean funny meaning like just not what you see on the screen. Yeah, it might not be crazy like if you pick a bright red, the printer is not going to pick a bright blue to replace it with instead, but it is not going to match the expectation that you have created for yourself by creating a design that’s out of gamut. Yeah. Is that accurate? Yeah. Yeah, I would say so. And uh and it’s also based on an algorithm. So if you use the it’s not random. So if you use the same color again, you’ll get the same output. But um so you’ll have consistent output. It’s just not going to match your screen whatsoever. Um, and we actually have guidelines on our website. Um, uh, uh, um, I believe it’s called the color matching. Yeah, that’s what it is. It’s called the color matching guide for print on demand products. This is a very good guide because it talks not only about um, color gamut. Um, but like it kind of goes into color theory and like how the same design on two different colored shirts uh might look different even though it legitimately is the same color. Um, and about like the, you know, color context and, you know, gamut and types of fabric and everything. This is a really good read. I recommend anybody who is submitting designs, uh, that are printed with ink uh, read this um, page in our blog. Nice. I will be reading this as I fall asleep today just to, you know, not because it’s boring, but because I like reading before bed. Um, we have like a couple of questions that I really want to get into real quick. Um, and then we will wrap up, but uh, some of these are are I think useful. So one is if it if I design a hat in Printful uh DT flex it will be embroidered and is that uh the only feature that allows removal of the background uh that your design is on? Um there’s a lot of questions within this question and I’m not 100% sure I fully understand. I mean I it sounds like there might be a misunderstanding somewhere. Um but uh embroidery and DT flex are two different printing techniques and um a lot of our hats offer both. There was a time that we only offered um embroidery for our hats, but we started um adding uh uh uh uh DT flex because it is a bit more well flexible um uh than embroidery. Um that being said, a lot of the designs that we looked at earlier um that wouldn’t be suitable for embroidery might also not be suitable for DT Flex because of those small letters that we talked about earlier. um small letters might not adhere when like adhere with the glue that we use to put it on. Um so, uh it is more flexible like you can do more complicated designs. Um but um it so it’s more flexible. You can do more complicated designs, but when you print something on a hat, it doesn’t look as premium as embroidery. Um and also you still have some design uh uh limitations that you need that um but the other part of this question was and is that uh the only feature that allows removal of the background um your design is on. So um the design maker has a background removal tool. Um I would say uh it works in a pinch but I wouldn’t rely on it necessarily. um the background removal and that’s I think to me the case with any background removal tool right it’s it’s not necessarily that oh the design maker one don’t use it but in general if you can create a design in any way without having to then remove a background after do that yeah that thank you for thank you for pointing that out that is exactly what I’m trying to say like um uh background removal tools aren’t perfect um the best way to not have a background is to not have it in the first place yeah uh and uh kind of tied to this previous question. So you talked about if uh the two techniques that we offer on hats, DT flex and embroidery. Um on the subject of embroidery, is it possible to replace the smaller letters with just print and if the font size is too small? So I’m assuming if you’ve submitted something and our team flags it as hey the these letters are too small, can you then say hey can you switch the technique to printing? Uh you can. I actually uh heard this um question a bit differently I think than than you did. Um I heard uh is it possible to combine the DT flex and embroidery techniques which the answer to that is a strong no. Um that isn’t something that we offer. But if if there is if we do flag something as not embroiderable um depending on a few factors which I could get into um you you should be able to edit your order and change the technique from embroidery to um DT flex. Um those details are like if you ordered like something that is split into two shipments and one shipment has already shipped, your order can become locked. And there are other reasons why your order can become locked. But I mean that is why you would want to reach out to our excellent uh customer support team um with uh help figuring out why uh your um order is locked and uh how you can replace the graphic or change the technique. Yeah, but in general very helpful to know. I had no idea that you could uh change it kind of retroactively after you’ve already sent it to be digitized. Uh but it is a great I guess solution unless your letters are that small that they can’t even be printed with or other small details too. Um we don’t really recommend uh being much smaller than like I don’t know a we say a few pixels but like five pixels or so. Anything smaller than that, you run the risk of um of uh not adhering. Um and um also I did want to say it might be a good idea to edit your um product variant or your template in your store after you uh edit the the the specific order as well. Or you could always just like cancel the specific order and then you know edit your template or your variant order again. Mhm. Good to go. And then kind of last question that we’re going to cover today uh is going to be if you create a t-shirt with a design on the back when it is printed uh is it scaled to the size of the shirt? You know, so if uh you create a design uh in the print file template and is it going to be a different size com with a small and then an extra large? Um yes. Yes, we do. Um let me pull up the shirt. Um so can we see my screen? Yeah. Um so basically um in our file guidelines we show uh the max print area and you can see that this is um you know uh disclaimed with an asterisk here. Um basically the maximum print area is going to be um for gra uh for shirts that are uh a certain size. I believe that the uh that the um level where the scaling happens uh is slightly different from shirt to shirt. Um and um uh but basically um the way that you want to design your graphics is printing for the maximum print area and like like don’t try to you know scale down something for a small uh if you’re thinking like well I’m putting it on a small shirt like it’s I have to make it smaller myself. Uh it will become smaller when you print it. Um uh so you uh when you are putting it into the design maker you want to design it for like the maximum possible size um so to speak um and then it will scale down for for smaller sizes and it’s always better when something gets scaled down than when it needs to be scaled up. Uh but yes whenever you are designing a t-shirt you can always assume that whatever you’re designing in if you’re using the sizing of the uh template uh you are designing for the largest shirt available. Mhm. Absolutely. Yeah, that’s the best and safest safest way because if you scale it down trying to compensate for the uh if you scale it down yourself trying to compensate for a smaller size, it will then get scaled down even smaller and then you might come out with something that is uh unexpected but we would consider it expected because that is um described in our uh yeah in our final guidelines here. Yes. Uh this does only apply to uh shirts with a print like area specifically. I feel like uh for um correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe for all over print apparel or for knitwear, you needed to design individual sizes separately. Knitwear. Yes. Um and that’s because each stitch is a pixel and so you kind of have to be specific about your pixels. um all over print um you design for the largest size and it does get scaled down um as well. Um also uh hoodies have a different scaling than um than uh shirts. Like usually shirts have like two print areas like one for like triple XL to like um L I want to say and then M to XS is a different size. Um it it does depend on the shirt. Um uh this is not something I believe is written in the specific guidelines here, but this is something um that you could uh like ask our um customer support team um to help clarify. But I mean the it like the better plan is to plan your graphic for the biggest size and let our system scale down anything that needs to get scaled down. Cool. Uh and I think with that we are going to uh end this. I hope this has been helpful. Even if your design wasn’t chosen, if you applied uh at least maybe some of these tips are applicable to something that uh you have designed before yourself. Uh and if you really like this and you want us to do this again, do let us know. We might look into uh doing another one of these uh things in the future. So stay tuned, subscribe to the channel and we will see you next time. Thank you. 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