Awesome instructions! I watched, went to my artboard and added a grungy look to my text with no problem. Love that I can add grunge to any image or font! Thanks for the video.
This is great!! Other videos show you how to download the image, use another software to add, then remove background image and I was totally confused since I'm not a designer by trade. Thank you for this great and simple to follow tutorial.☺
Love Kittl and love the textures. Just one suggestion though. Could you add pure black and white textures? Or allow us to upload our own? The problem with all the gray tones in the textures is when you are using the Alpha Mask it reduces the opacity throughout the entire image which isn't a good thing for POD. If you have pure black it would cleanly knock out those texture areas and leave the pure white areas of the texture completely in tact. Thanks for all you do!
Hey there, the textures currently are mostly black and white, but with Alpha mask specifically, you would want to either clip the content (which you can do with the Clip Content Slider), or turn off the background completely as to not get any weird streaking in places that you don't want. Hope that helps! Cheers!
This is great. Just signed up for paid Kittl and am enjoying the learning process. Hopefully you'll add some to the Adobe Illustrator style functions to the design software in the future. The AI is giving me weird results. I've been looking for slot machines and it keeps giving me weird foreign slots and not front views like I'm prompting. I also kept searching for Chief Sitting Bull and kept getting generic images. I'll keep trying.
Drew, is there an easy way to add an overall tint to a Kittl project. For example if you want to tint the entire project red, or sepia etc? If so, please make a video demonstration of that feature (if it exists) or technique. I saw there is something in the IMAGE SETTINGS/OBJECT SETTINGS menu (box) that allows removing a single color. I tried that, but it only removes a single color (as far as I can tell). But, i would like to ADD a color across the image (in Kittl) prior to downloading the final project image. If this does not exist yet, I encourage you to recommend it to the Kittl developers. I think it should be as easy as adding a "gel" group to the Textures menu, with standard gel colors or a color wheel or picker to select a custom color "gel" or tint for the project. The current Textures slider with opacity scaling can be useful too, to increase or decrease the opacity (tint) of the gel color selected. I hope that can be built into Kittl.
Hey there, you can simply add a basic shape (rectangle) to your arboard, size it up to cover your artboard, make it the color that you want, and then lower the opacity. You could also upload a colored PNG or JPEG and play with the blending modes to get it how you would like it. Cheers!
Now just imagine if you could move the texture layer. So for example when you clip it to your art you can adjust it to clip to just certain things and not the entire thing... Just a thought... Would love to see it haha
Happy to know that! Already paying for the first tier on the site and intend to stay as I am looking to create all future designs for my business through you guys. :) @@Kittldesign
@@Kittldesignyes I’ve been trying to add different textures to different elements in the editor and going crazy because I can’t figure it out. So I guess that’s because it’s not possible yet?
I understand I can clip the Texture using the Clip Content... but I am needing to clip the Grunge under the Abstract. I s there a way to do that? I have dark text I am wanting to add white grunge to without it being on the back ground... but I don't see an option to clip it like I can the ones under Texture.
Hey there, if you are referencing grunge textures that are in our library, they can't be clipped the way that preset textures can. So for the moment, you can't have multiple clipped textures, only one. We are currently working on more advanced clipping mask capabilities.
Yay, I figured this out! I needed to use the Alpha Mask in order to get what I was calling the white in, but it is the erased look parts, then I was able to clip it to my text. I found one of your other videos..and my answer as to what I was trying to achieve for the distressed white look...
How do I add grunge textures to my design without adding holes in the picture after I make it a png? I think it'll be harder to print a t-shirt if I have holes in my image, right? or do the holes only show up on a png?
Hey there, this depends on what kind of effect you want. For the grunge distressed look, and alpha mask setting that removes the texture from the design will give it that weathered look. If you want more of a clean art look, we suggest removing the texture completely.
Hey there, a more advance feature will come for custom texture uploads in the future, however, you can already upload your own photos and select a blending mode from the right side panel.
@@Kittldesign It's great to hear that this feature is coming! Currently the available blending modes don't allow me to use my own textures to cut the texture out of my graphics. (unless I'm not understanding how to do it) Right now I'm applying the texture cutout in Photoshop and then importing the image into Kittl. But I very much like Kittl's feature of simply clicking on different textures to see what the final product looks like. So being able to add my own textures into this feature would be great.
Hey there, you do have to select an artboard before selecting a texture, because Kittl won't know where to place the texture if you have nothing selected. Textures apply to your entire artboard.
I'm new to this.... why are my textures showing up as objects? I don't get the same controls that you are showing... no ability to do any fades... just color changes
Ok there's the question I should have asked. lol ... When I try any of the Textures I can only get the black in color... How would I turn these white? That way I could clip them to stay just over my text. I must be missing something ..Or is it not yet possible to get white? Thank you... @@Kittldesign
More slide features will come in the future, but you can also already do this with uploaded images! You are welcome to upload any texture of your own as a JPEG/PNG and utilize it this same way. :)
You can certainly use Photoshop if you would like to, but Kittl takes some of the best and most difficult features, like textures and masking, and makes them easier to accomplish in a shorter time. Feel free to give it a try (for free).
What kind of texture do you prefer? Grungy, cracked pavement, grain, paper? Let us know!
Awesome instructions! I watched, went to my artboard and added a grungy look to my text with no problem. Love that I can add grunge to any image or font! Thanks for the video.
So happy to hear that!
This is great!! Other videos show you how to download the image, use another software to add, then remove background image and I was totally confused since I'm not a designer by trade. Thank you for this great and simple to follow tutorial.☺
You are most welcome!
Dope, thank you for this! Pretty Awesome. I prefer grungy so far but playing with grain as well.
For sure!
Love Kittl and love the textures. Just one suggestion though. Could you add pure black and white textures? Or allow us to upload our own? The problem with all the gray tones in the textures is when you are using the Alpha Mask it reduces the opacity throughout the entire image which isn't a good thing for POD. If you have pure black it would cleanly knock out those texture areas and leave the pure white areas of the texture completely in tact. Thanks for all you do!
Hey there, the textures currently are mostly black and white, but with Alpha mask specifically, you would want to either clip the content (which you can do with the Clip Content Slider), or turn off the background completely as to not get any weird streaking in places that you don't want. Hope that helps! Cheers!
This is great. Just signed up for paid Kittl and am enjoying the learning process. Hopefully you'll add some to the Adobe Illustrator style functions to the design software in the future. The AI is giving me weird results. I've been looking for slot machines and it keeps giving me weird foreign slots and not front views like I'm prompting. I also kept searching for Chief Sitting Bull and kept getting generic images. I'll keep trying.
Thanks for the feedback! And yes we will continue improving Kittl and Kittl AI!
Have you considered to add gradients? Or, how we can add it? Thanks.
Hey there! You can find various gradient shapes in the elements panel under basic shapes.
Drew, is there an easy way to add an overall tint to a Kittl project. For example if you want to tint the entire project red, or sepia etc? If so, please make a video demonstration of that feature (if it exists) or technique.
I saw there is something in the IMAGE SETTINGS/OBJECT SETTINGS menu (box) that allows removing a single color. I tried that, but it only removes a single color (as far as I can tell).
But, i would like to ADD a color across the image (in Kittl) prior to downloading the final project image.
If this does not exist yet, I encourage you to recommend it to the Kittl developers. I think it should be as easy as adding a "gel" group to the Textures menu, with standard gel colors or a color wheel or picker to select a custom color "gel" or tint for the project. The current Textures slider with opacity scaling can be useful too, to increase or decrease the opacity (tint) of the gel color selected. I hope that can be built into Kittl.
Hey there, you can simply add a basic shape (rectangle) to your arboard, size it up to cover your artboard, make it the color that you want, and then lower the opacity. You could also upload a colored PNG or JPEG and play with the blending modes to get it how you would like it. Cheers!
Could you do a grudge effect with words?
Sure! We have a variety of grunge style fonts that you can mix with our alpha textures to give it an extreme grunge effect.
Now just imagine if you could move the texture layer. So for example when you clip it to your art you can adjust it to clip to just certain things and not the entire thing... Just a thought... Would love to see it haha
Yes and true clipping masks will be coming in the future, as you've defined here. :)
Happy to know that! Already paying for the first tier on the site and intend to stay as I am looking to create all future designs for my business through you guys. :) @@Kittldesign
@@Kittldesignyes I’ve been trying to add different textures to different elements in the editor and going crazy because I can’t figure it out. So I guess that’s because it’s not possible yet?
Is this second part, the alpha mask clip to erase texture from the graphic, part of the pro plan or does it come with the free version?
Yes, it is part of the pro and expert plans.
@@Kittldesign ..but is it part of the free plan? (And I just can't get high resolution download)
I understand I can clip the Texture using the Clip Content... but I am needing to clip the Grunge under the Abstract. I s there a way to do that? I have dark text I am wanting to add white grunge to without it being on the back ground... but I don't see an option to clip it like I can the ones under Texture.
Hey there, if you are referencing grunge textures that are in our library, they can't be clipped the way that preset textures can. So for the moment, you can't have multiple clipped textures, only one. We are currently working on more advanced clipping mask capabilities.
Yay, I figured this out! I needed to use the Alpha Mask in order to get what I was calling the white in, but it is the erased look parts, then I was able to clip it to my text. I found one of your other videos..and my answer as to what I was trying to achieve for the distressed white look...
How do I add grunge textures to my design without adding holes in the picture after I make it a png? I think it'll be harder to print a t-shirt if I have holes in my image, right? or do the holes only show up on a png?
Hey there, this depends on what kind of effect you want. For the grunge distressed look, and alpha mask setting that removes the texture from the design will give it that weathered look. If you want more of a clean art look, we suggest removing the texture completely.
@@Kittldesign yes but won't that create semi-transparent pixels that will show the white layer when printed DTG?
Can you please add the feature to allow us to upload our own textures and use the "Alpha Mask" and "Clip Content" feature on them?
Hey there, a more advance feature will come for custom texture uploads in the future, however, you can already upload your own photos and select a blending mode from the right side panel.
@@Kittldesign It's great to hear that this feature is coming! Currently the available blending modes don't allow me to use my own textures to cut the texture out of my graphics. (unless I'm not understanding how to do it) Right now I'm applying the texture cutout in Photoshop and then importing the image into Kittl. But I very much like Kittl's feature of simply clicking on different textures to see what the final product looks like. So being able to add my own textures into this feature would be great.
why do I get the message “Please select an Artboard” it only applies the texture to the artboard
Hey there, you do have to select an artboard before selecting a texture, because Kittl won't know where to place the texture if you have nothing selected. Textures apply to your entire artboard.
I'm new to this.... why are my textures showing up as objects? I don't get the same controls that you are showing... no ability to do any fades... just color changes
Nevermind.. I just figured it out. I had done a "search" for textures and chosen my texture that way instead of clicking on the texture icon.
Glad you figured it out!
Ok there's the question I should have asked. lol ... When I try any of the Textures I can only get the black in color... How would I turn these white? That way I could clip them to stay just over my text. I must be missing something ..Or is it not yet possible to get white? Thank you... @@Kittldesign
I added a grunge layer then chose alpha mask and now there is specs all over that area on the tshirt. I "removed back ground " and it's still there
Hey there, to clip the texture to the design, please select "clip content" over in the right side panel when you select the texture.
Or maybe create a slider that allows us to adjust the contrast of the current textures.
More slide features will come in the future, but you can also already do this with uploaded images! You are welcome to upload any texture of your own as a JPEG/PNG and utilize it this same way. :)
Wouldnt I simply use Photoshop and not Kittl?? lol
You can certainly use Photoshop if you would like to, but Kittl takes some of the best and most difficult features, like textures and masking, and makes them easier to accomplish in a shorter time. Feel free to give it a try (for free).