This was an interesting demo of Canva features. I really appreciate your good teaching skills, and really like your pacing as you point out each feature and options you choose to use.
One more tool for this technique- if you happen to find a hard to crop letter like the first S you tried, you can crop as much as you’re able to, save the cropped image as a jpg, drag it back into your document as an upload, edit your image, remove the background, and then in the final step there is an erase tool, which you can use to erase the stray bits from other letters you’re not able to crop. 😁
Juna your videos are really educational. What I've learned from your tutorials has really helped me level up my designs and for that I'm grateful. You deserve all the success that comes your way
Thanks for sharing, I really need to use Canva more. I mainly use photoshop & don't use the crop tool that often in there. This looks easier that what I'm using now, thanks again.
I tried this today and found it fun! It’s something I had not tried as far as splitting and combining designs. You are teaching me quite a few new tricks in Canva. Thanks so much, I love your channel!
@@DetourShirts Dang it, you're right. And on another note, I just found someone listing TONS of crap they stole off Creative Fabrica. I'm assuming anyway--I recognized a set from one artist and so looked at their whole catalog and then saw TONS of stuff I recognized from several other artists. 🤬 Reported them to Canva and CF--not sure how much good it'll do.
Hi Juna! I've thought about using the crop tool like this before, but wondered about resolution. Do you know if you crop something and then resize to fit a shirt size, does it get grainy or does it keep the clarity?
It could if you are using photos... but I'm using vectors... you can tell because I can color them.... look for designs like this that you can color and you should be fine when you scale them up
Great learning videos like always! Can you make a video on how to save Canva or PSD files, in case your design has been removed unnecessarily and they asking for the original files for verification? Do they check for dates when it was designed or something? Thanks.
Wouldn't have thought of using the crop tool this way-very helpful tutorial. I've learned something new again, thanks Juna! Simple yet cute summer design. Unfortunately though by the end of this video, there'll be several copycat versions of "Seize the Summer " tees on Merch and RB 😄 Looking forward to your next Affinity Designer tips tutorials as I've learned so much from them. If you could do a tutorial on using the pen tool and explain how the various node transformation tools work and what the settings do, that would be greatly appreciated. I find it difficult to edit curves symmetrically, thanks!
I didn't know you can save graphics. I was just using Canva and wishing I could save more graphics. You have the recently used section, but some things I want to save.
They removed my other comment, where I was saying that you can search fonts in elements, that you don't have to crop. You could search...polka dot font, furry font, rainbow fonts, etc, and each letter will be there, separated, so you wouldn't have to crop. However, there are all kinds of videos, here, that show how to get a gradient effect, or how to put photos/graphics into fonts, on Canva, too. It takes a few steps, but it works, for those of us who don't know how to use the more complicated programs, like Photoshop. Canva is really adding some great features. I also asked if you knew there was a way to convert it to CMYK on Canva. I watched a video yesterday, but I can't remember what she did (I believe it was for the paid version), but you can download it and take it to a free CMYK converter too. Also, the PNG files are set at something like 96 dpi, so people are downloading them in the higher quality PDF and using a free PDF to PNG converter.
Thanks for the tips... I'm not sure about the CMYK converter on canva... I'll have to do more research... I do know about the PDF thing... that definitely helps
Wow! This is amazing! Thank you for the inspiration! BTW, how can I communicate with you (i.e. via email)? I need to ask you something personal! Thank you!
When you say copy do you mean using your designs on multiple POD sites? If that's what you mean then yes. Put your designs on as many POD sites as you can manage
They are two different kind of tools.... Illustrator is more for making your own designs....especially if you like to draw..... Canva is more for putting different graphics together... there is no pen tool so you can't draw your own stuff..... which ever one works best for you use that one.
I can’t figure out for the life of me how to size my font for text frames and make them all the same size. I’m using the text frames to write NYC and when i try and make the height and width the same in each letter they never match up.
FIRST :) Hey Juna, I am not yet on Merch By Amazon (MBA). I have watched several of your videos where you mention MBA. When I took a look at MBA yesterday, for a "Key Word" topic I am considering, I noticed that the "BRAND" names for the sellers seems to be a mix, with some apparently real brands or store/seller names (e.g. XYZ Shirt Company) and others appear to be simply key words such as "Funny Tshirt Father Sarcastic Jokes Humor Adult" and similar. My observation is that the "BRAND" (the line that appears just above the title on the Amazon listing) appears to be used for key words, instead of a store sellers name. I would appreciate some guidance on this. I was under the impression it is important to try to create a POD "Brand" or name that customers can identify and follow. I know that most of the shirts seen on MBA are not from a "brand store" page (except for some like Disney, Marvel, etc.). But, I also saw a couple of "Brands" that appear to have a very slick or professional looking "store front" page that has their shirts on the MBA site, but contains stuff like a banner graphic (sort of like Redbubble does), along with their shirts (thumbs), and even more content such as their design or selling process etc. In short, it looks more like a "branded websiite " for that seller or Brand. So, I suspect those "brands" with their own MBA sites must be the biggest sellers. Or they pay for those pages? Or they are big "advertisers" within MBA? Or something that gives them the "store front look" for their brand??? If you know, please advise on this (video or text reply). I have not yet applied to MBA for an account. And I was initially thinking I should pick a "brand name" for my MBA store. But after seeing so many "BRANDS" that appear to be using just key words, I am confused on what is best to do to make sales on MBA. I am now wondering what is the best practice. Does it make more sense to use the “Brand” line for more keywords (if that helps SEO)? Or is that just wasting the use of Brand line that could lead buyers to your other products for sale (assuming you have more products on MBA). Please advise. Thanks.Please advise. Thanks. FYI: I am subscribed, LIked this video, and turned on Bell Notifications for your videos and to help you in the algorithm.
So you can use brand names in two ways... the brand can be your brand name... for me that would be Detour Shirts.... but you can also use the brand to have more keyword... I use that technique too.... either one is fine for now.... personally I like to put my kawaii stuff under my brand and my other designs with the keyword brands
@@DetourShirts Thanks for your answer. I have not yet opened a MBA store/account. I was under the impression that a person could only have ONE MBA account. I am aware that Redbubble does allow multiple "stores" (if the owner uses multiple emails to set up the multiple accounts, or something like that). But I assumed that because it is so difficult to get a MBA account going that everyone would just use ONE MBA account/store, and I assumed they chose to use their account name or "brand" name for that "BRAND" line for their products (or designs) they wanted to sell. I am still a bit confused by this, because I assumed (apparently wrongly) that you had to use your "brand" name or account name as the BRAND for all designs you upload to MBA. Given your comment/reply above that seems to not be required (if I understand you). Thanks for your replies to questions and your shared experience. :)
Wow !!! You are the best teacher ever 😀
Wow, thanks!
@@DetourShirts You’re welcome.
This was an interesting demo of Canva features. I really appreciate your good teaching skills, and really like your pacing as you point out each feature and options you choose to use.
Glad it was helpful!
Great tutorial Juna! You are awesome!
Thank you so much!
Thank you! Would never have thought of using the crop tool
Happy to help!
Another great Canva tip, Thanks!
Glad you like it!
“Remove Bg” is easy to use ….Thank you Juna ..great sessions as always
You are so welcome!
This is genius Juna ! Your tutorials are always very helpful 👏🏾
Glad you think so!
Thank you! It is a creative way to use Canva!
You're welcome!
Oh you are so creative Juna!
Thank you
One more tool for this technique- if you happen to find a hard to crop letter like the first S you tried, you can crop as much as you’re able to, save the cropped image as a jpg, drag it back into your document as an upload, edit your image, remove the background, and then in the final step there is an erase tool, which you can use to erase the stray bits from other letters you’re not able to crop. 😁
Great tip! I forgot about erase... nice work around... thanks for sharing
This is a very cool hack! Never thought of this before. Thanks!
Thanks... yeah Canva has some cool fonts
As always, you are the best! Thanks!
Thank you too!
Thank you Juna. Really love Canva now it's easy to use especially when you show so e tips and tricks. Really appreciated it.
Glad it was helpful!
Cool, Juna is thinking outside the box as usual! Thanks for a great video
Thank you and thanks for watching!
Another amazing video ❤️👍🙏
Thank you! Cheers!
Thanks for the great help!
Happy to help!
Juna your videos are really educational. What I've learned from your tutorials has really helped me level up my designs and for that I'm grateful. You deserve all the success that comes your way
I'm so glad!
Love this idea!
Thank you! 😊
Thank you Thank you thank you!!!!!💕
You are so welcome!
Really enjoyed this thanks! :)
Glad you enjoyed it!
such a great potential u sharing thanks a lot for all this playlist of design ;)
You're very welcome!
Great Lesson. Thanks Sir.
You are welcome!
Awesome! Thanks a lot!
Glad it helped!
🙌🙌🙌 I love this tutorial. I have not used the crop tool before.
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for sharing, I really need to use Canva more. I mainly use photoshop & don't use the crop tool that often in there. This looks easier that what I'm using now, thanks again.
Glad it was helpful!
Never used it before. Appreciate all your tips. Thank you.
You are so welcome!
Fantastic tip. I'm going to give it a try
Have fun!
this help me a lot thanks bro!
Glad it helped!
Detour Shirts. Number One
Thank you
Thanks so much Juna, I'm going to make something now :)
Wonderful!
I tried this today and found it fun! It’s something I had not tried as far as splitting and combining designs. You are teaching me quite a few new tricks in Canva. Thanks so much, I love your channel!
You are so welcome! So glad you liked it
Thank you very much. You are really a wonderful person. You helped me a lot in this field. I am a beginner. I am grateful to you💖🙏🥰🌹
You are very welcome. Glad I could help
good pablo from argentina very very gracias
You are welcome!
Very cool! I have used the crop feature after seeing you demonstrate it in another video. :) Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
I use the crop quite often actually. Btw, thanks for this tutorial.
Happy to help!
Great thank you
Thank you too for watching
THANK YOU😀😀
You're welcome 😊
Genius!!!!
Thank you
Nice ❤️
Thanks 🤗
This is amazing. ONe thing--if you have the pro version and you "erase background" (under edit image, I think?), you then get access to an erase tool.
The erase tool is for photos I believe... I haven't tried it yet.... I'll see if I can do a video about it
@@DetourShirts Oh dang it. You might be right. Let me try real quick--I have Canva open in another tab.
@@DetourShirts Dang it, you're right. And on another note, I just found someone listing TONS of crap they stole off Creative Fabrica. I'm assuming anyway--I recognized a set from one artist and so looked at their whole catalog and then saw TONS of stuff I recognized from several other artists. 🤬 Reported them to Canva and CF--not sure how much good it'll do.
Hi Juna! I've thought about using the crop tool like this before, but wondered about resolution. Do you know if you crop something and then resize to fit a shirt size, does it get grainy or does it keep the clarity?
It could if you are using photos... but I'm using vectors... you can tell because I can color them.... look for designs like this that you can color and you should be fine when you scale them up
Thank you Sir for your interesting content!
Can you please explain us more about wall art designs
Sure I will
@@DetourShirts Thank you a lot
thanks
You're welcome!
Great learning videos like always! Can you make a video on how to save Canva or PSD files, in case your design has been removed unnecessarily and they asking for the original files for verification? Do they check for dates when it was designed or something? Thanks.
Yes I can. I'm not sure if anyone checks for that but when you download the PNG it should have the date.
Wouldn't have thought of using the crop tool this way-very helpful tutorial. I've learned something new again, thanks Juna! Simple yet cute summer design. Unfortunately though by the end of this video, there'll be several copycat versions of "Seize the Summer " tees on Merch and RB 😄
Looking forward to your next Affinity Designer tips tutorials as I've learned so much from them. If you could do a tutorial on using the pen tool and explain how the various node transformation tools work and what the settings do, that would be greatly appreciated. I find it difficult to edit curves symmetrically, thanks!
Thanks and thanks for the idea for a video
CooooL :)
Thanks
I didn't know you can save graphics. I was just using Canva and wishing I could save more graphics. You have the recently used section, but some things I want to save.
Yup... you can favorite design so that you can find them again
👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thank you
is there a way to crop using like a pen tool where we can do intricate cropping?
Not in Canva (as far as I know)... but you could do it in Affinity designer
They removed my other comment, where I was saying that you can search fonts in elements, that you don't have to crop. You could search...polka dot font, furry font, rainbow fonts, etc, and each letter will be there, separated, so you wouldn't have to crop. However, there are all kinds of videos, here, that show how to get a gradient effect, or how to put photos/graphics into fonts, on Canva, too. It takes a few steps, but it works, for those of us who don't know how to use the more complicated programs, like Photoshop. Canva is really adding some great features.
I also asked if you knew there was a way to convert it to CMYK on Canva. I watched a video yesterday, but I can't remember what she did (I believe it was for the paid version), but you can download it and take it to a free CMYK converter too. Also, the PNG files are set at something like 96 dpi, so people are downloading them in the higher quality PDF and using a free PDF to PNG converter.
Thanks for the tips... I'm not sure about the CMYK converter on canva... I'll have to do more research... I do know about the PDF thing... that definitely helps
Wow! This is amazing! Thank you for the inspiration!
BTW, how can I communicate with you (i.e. via email)? I need to ask you something personal! Thank you!
Thanks... Facebook works
@@DetourShirts thank you!
Should I often copy products from one website to another?
When you say copy do you mean using your designs on multiple POD sites? If that's what you mean then yes. Put your designs on as many POD sites as you can manage
Thanks sir
I am thinking of dumping adobe illustrator and going for pro mode of canva. Anyone done this and feedback?
They are two different kind of tools.... Illustrator is more for making your own designs....especially if you like to draw..... Canva is more for putting different graphics together... there is no pen tool so you can't draw your own stuff..... which ever one works best for you use that one.
@@DetourShirts good point, thanks.
When you save it as a png, how can you be sure that it will print clearly DTG?
You don't really know but if it looks clear zooming in there is a better chance it will print clearly
I can’t figure out for the life of me how to size my font for text frames and make them all the same size. I’m using the text frames to write NYC and when i try and make the height and width the same in each letter they never match up.
Just do the height and not the width.... you should be fine
FIRST :) Hey Juna, I am not yet on Merch By Amazon (MBA). I have watched several of your videos where you mention MBA. When I took a look at MBA yesterday, for a "Key Word" topic I am considering, I noticed that the "BRAND" names for the sellers seems to be a mix, with some apparently real brands or store/seller names (e.g. XYZ Shirt Company) and others appear to be simply key words such as "Funny Tshirt Father Sarcastic Jokes Humor Adult" and similar. My observation is that the "BRAND" (the line that appears just above the title on the Amazon listing) appears to be used for key words, instead of a store sellers name. I would appreciate some guidance on this. I was under the impression it is important to try to create a POD "Brand" or name that customers can identify and follow. I know that most of the shirts seen on MBA are not from a "brand store" page (except for some like Disney, Marvel, etc.). But, I also saw a couple of "Brands" that appear to have a very slick or professional looking "store front" page that has their shirts on the MBA site, but contains stuff like a banner graphic (sort of like Redbubble does), along with their shirts (thumbs), and even more content such as their design or selling process etc. In short, it looks more like a "branded websiite " for that seller or Brand. So, I suspect those "brands" with their own MBA sites must be the biggest sellers. Or they pay for those pages? Or they are big "advertisers" within MBA? Or something that gives them the "store front look" for their brand??? If you know, please advise on this (video or text reply). I have not yet applied to MBA for an account. And I was initially thinking I should pick a "brand name" for my MBA store. But after seeing so many "BRANDS" that appear to be using just key words, I am confused on what is best to do to make sales on MBA. I am now wondering what is the best practice. Does it make more sense to use the “Brand” line for more keywords (if that helps SEO)? Or is that just wasting the use of Brand line that could lead buyers to your other products for sale (assuming you have more products on MBA). Please advise. Thanks.Please advise. Thanks. FYI: I am subscribed, LIked this video, and turned on Bell Notifications for your videos and to help you in the algorithm.
So you can use brand names in two ways... the brand can be your brand name... for me that would be Detour Shirts.... but you can also use the brand to have more keyword... I use that technique too.... either one is fine for now.... personally I like to put my kawaii stuff under my brand and my other designs with the keyword brands
@@DetourShirts Thanks for your answer. I have not yet opened a MBA store/account. I was under the impression that a person could only have ONE MBA account.
I am aware that Redbubble does allow multiple "stores" (if the owner uses multiple emails to set up the multiple accounts, or something like that).
But I assumed that because it is so difficult to get a MBA account going that everyone would just use ONE MBA account/store, and I assumed they chose to use their account name or "brand" name for that "BRAND" line for their products (or designs) they wanted to sell. I am still a bit confused by this, because I assumed (apparently wrongly) that you had to use your "brand" name or account name as the BRAND for all designs you upload to MBA. Given your comment/reply above that seems to not be required (if I understand you).
Thanks for your replies to questions and your shared experience. :)