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1. Trailer: So you've got a whole
gallery of beautiful, seamless patterns made in
Procreate, but now what? How do you actually
use them to start selling on print on
demand platforms, especially for those bigger, more complex
products like shoes, duffel bags, or backpacks? If you've ever felt
stuck trying to get your patterns
from Procreate into a product ready format without splashing out on expensive
subscription software, you're absolutely not alone, and that's exactly why
I made this class. I'm Rebecca Flaherty, a surface pattern designer and content creator from the UK. I help artists like you to make patterns and then turn
them into beautiful, tangible products,
whether it's fabric, wallets, stationery,
dog harnesses, or print on demand items. If you've taken any
of my other classes, you'll know I love
helping you work smarter, not harder and with tools and workflows that make your
creative life easier. In this class, we're diving
into Affinity Photo, a great value one time
purchase software that's perfect for pattern designers who make their
patterns in Procreate, but want more options
when it comes to applying those
patterns to products. I know Affinity Designer is
popular in the pattern world, but for my pixel based workflow, which begins in Procreate, I found Affinity Photo to be my preferred choice for
processing those designs. And if you're already used to using a certain subscription based photo editing program as I was and are looking for a
more affordable alternative, you'll feel right at home here. Affinity Photo looks and
feels very familiar, and there are even a few things that I think it
does even better. This class is specifically for artists who can already make a repeating tile and are now ready to step into the
world of print on demand. You'll learn how to work
with two popular platforms, Redbubble and threadless,
but the techniques I teach are totally adaptable
to any platform you choose. In this class, you'll learn how to import your pattern tile and use it to fill entire
layers or specific shapes. How to scale your patterns perfectly for printing
and maintain resolution. How to download
and open print on demand templates from Red
bubble and threadless, and then use them to create reusable templates to
speed up your workflow. How to make marketing assets like Pintress palette pins and mock ups that you can use over and over with
just a few clicks. Plus, I'll share my own tips for organizing your design files so nothing gets lost in a sea of random JPEGs
on your computer. This is an intermediate
level class. You'll need to come with
a finished patentile made in any software you like, as long as you can export
it as a PNG or JPEG. I'd be assuming you're completely
new to affinity photo, so I'll walk you through
everything step by step. But if you've used
it before, then this class might be
just the thing you need to level up
your workflow and start getting your patterns
out into the world. If you're ready
to go from I made a pattern to I made a product, then this class is
your next step. Let's get those designs out of your iPad and onto the
products they were made for.
2. Overview & Class Project: Let's take a quick look
at the class project you'll be working on as we
go through the lessons. You'll start with one of your own finished
seamless patterns, create a set of
reusable templates, apply your pattern
to those templates, and upload your
designs to a print on demand platform like Red
bubble or Threadless. When you're done,
I'd love you to share your work in
the project gallery. You can upload a mockup
of one of your products, a pin tress pin, or
even a screenshot of your shop filled with
your beautiful designs. Sharing your project is a
great way to stay motivated, get feedback, and inspire
other students in the class. So when you're ready, head to the project gallery and
show us what you've made. And now let's get started.
3. Importing a Pattern Tile: Hopefully, you already have a
patentile ready to go in either a JPEG
or a PNG format. The first job is to open
it up in Affinity Photo. Let's right click
on my patentile here and I'm going to choose
open with Affinity Photo. This patent tile can
be made anywhere. So if you do all your
patent work in Procreate, just export a JPEG or PNG of your finished tile
from there and then send it over
to your computer. Likewise, if you've made it
in Illustrator or Photoshop, just export a PNG or JPEG of your patentile the
way you normally would. So this is Affinity Photo. If you've never used it before, then don't panic.
I've got you back. I only started
using it last year, and although it took me a little while to figure
out what was what, just because I was so used to doing everything in Photoshop, it is pretty intuitive and if you are used to
using Photoshop, you should find it quite
easy to adjust to this. A lot of things are the
same, but there are one or two things that might
be a little different. We're going to start by
setting up our workspace. I think this is how
yours should look. I've reset mine to the factory
out of the box settings. You can do that by
going to Window, studio, and reset studio, and that should bring
it to this view here. This is hopefully how yours will look if you're opening
for the first time. The first thing to say is, don't be overwhelmed by
everything here. We won't actually be
using most of it, and it's okay not to know what everything does right away. You've got your tools
down here on the left, and then panels down
here on the right, and we can also put panels
here on the left as well. Let's start by decluttering it a little bit and removing some
things that we don't need. The first thing that can
go is our histogram. So I'm going to click on this Hamburger menu here and
I'm going to tap clothes. We also don't need color, but I am going to
put swatches in. So I'm going to tap on
Window and then come down here and go to swatches. And then I can get
rid of the color one. Then down here in this section, we do not need channels. We also don't need brushes, and we also don't need stock. I'm going to drag my layers out and dock that one over here, we've got a bit more room
here to see all the layers. On this bottom one down here, we don't need navigator. We also don't need history. I'll keep transform there and the other panel that
I'm going to add, I'm going to go up to Window, and this is going to be
the one that we probably use most after the layers
is the Assets panel. I'm going to jump over here, but I'm going to dock it over here with the
transform box. So we're going to add our
pattern tile to this. And the way we do that,
it's really simple. We're going to go to assets, Create New category, and I will call this one
Print on Demand. And then we've got
this subcategory underneath there called assets. We can click on this
Hamburger menu here, not this one up there, this one, and choose Add from selection. And there you can see it's
put our patent tile in there. The Assets panel is
a place for storing elements which you want
to use in your documents. It's available in
any file you open, not just this one we're
currently working in, and anything you add to it can be opened in any other document. Everything will stay saved in here until you
manually delete it. So you could quit
affinity, open up again, and anything you've
put down here in your assets will still be you
choose Add from selection, it works by adding everything you have on the current
layer you have selected. So if I go to my layers, I've just got this
background layer. My whole pattern
is on one layer, so it's added the
whole pattern to that. If you have made your
pattern in affinity, so I've got this one
here, and this is made up of various
different layers. So I've got this part in
the middle, for example. If I was on this layer and I go to my assets and choose
Add from selection, it's only going to
add that part there. You can see here it's not
added the whole tile. The way to add a pattern
if you've got various bits on different layers
is go to your top one and then right click
and choose Merge Visible. That's going to make a new layer there with everything on it, and then you can down here
click Add from selection. So the first bullet
point here is that to add a pattern to
the Assets panel, you click on Ad From selection. I will add everything on
whatever layer you're on. So your paten tile needs
to be on one single layer. And if it isn't, you can
create a new layer with all of your pattern on it
by right clicking on the layer and choosing
Merge visible. So that's how to add an asset. If you want to delete
it, you can right click on it and
choose Delete asset. If you want to get rid of
lots of them all in one go, maybe you've been doing
a bit of processing. You've got lots
all saved on here, and you just want to clear
them out and declutter things, click on this menu and
choose Delete category. That will delete
Print on Demand, and then you can add a new one. You could call
this like Patterns 2.0 or something like that, and then you can start
adding new ones into there. So now that we have
our pattern in here, we can use that to
fill layers or shapes. Let's look at filling
a layer first. So I'm going to
go up to layer on my top menu here and I'm going
to choose new fill layer. And to start off with, that's
just going to fill it with whatever color you have selected up here in your swatches. Then I'm going to press G, and this toggles between
these two fills. This one is like a paint
bucket fill, and this one, if I press G again, this
one is the gradient tool, and you can use that for
filling with patterns as well. So if I click on my
pattern down here, that's going to fill this with
the pattern and it always fills it at a super,
super tiny scale. But we can fix that by just clicking and dragging
anywhere on the document, and then we can drag
our pattern around. I'm going to grab
the middle node here and center that
one on the document. If you've got snapping on,
that should snap quite easily. If you don't have snapping
on, go up to view, click on Snapping
and then up here, make sure you've got
Enable snapping selected. These two handles
can be used for rotating and changing the
direction of the pattern, which is going to be
very useful later. But the moment, we want this to be just properly
the right way up. You can snap it to
the lines like that, and if you hold shift,
it's just going to automatically snap it to
straight lines anyway. Let's just drag it out to
the sides of the pattern, and I'm going to snap this
node to the edge of the tile, and this is now at 100%. If I hide this fill, you can see the pattern
tile underneath, and they look exactly the
same because this fill is a copy of what's
underneath at 100% scale. This is a good point
to check your tile is actually repeating properly. So I'm going to put
that one back on, click on the layer underneath. I'm going to go
up to layer again and put another fill layer in, and I am just going to
make this one in a color. I choose this dark color here. Then I'm going to
tap on this layer, and I'm just going to drag this pattern fill
down like that a bit. G to press Z and click and drag up here
and zoom into the corner. And where we drag that
pattern fill down, it's brought the
edges of the tile. If I hide both of these, you can see it's brought
it down a little bit. So if there was any seam along the edges of
the pattern tile, that blue would be
showing through, and you'd see if
there was any gaps. So just pan along the top and the side and make sure
that that is tiling properly. And it is so we can get rid of that one and just
recenter this one. If you exported your JPEG or
PNG from Adobe Illustrator, having seams or gaps
around a pattern could be quite a common issue due to the way Illustrator
exports tiles. If you've got that problem and you want to find
out how to fix it, then have a look
at Lesson three in my speed up your society
six Workflows class. As well as adding patterns
to this Assets panel, you can also add other
images such as an image with transparency that you
might want to add to a t shirt or a
sticker or art print. I'm going to open
up this file here. So I'll right click on this one and open with Affinity Photo. Up here, I'll say
loading document. That's how you know
it's doing something. And this one is made up all
of these different layers. So I'm going to turn
off the background, and now this is all transparent. I can't add it to
the assess panel yet because everything is
all on different layers. We come up here, right click
and choose Merge Visible. Now that's put that
all onto one layer. Don't be confused
here by the wording, if like me, you're
used to Photoshop. In Photoshop, merge visible would flatten all of
these layers into one, whereas in affinity, it creates a copy of all these
layers merged into one. So don't worry, you won't be losing any layers
when you do this. So then once you've
got this flattened, you can go to your Assets panel, click here and do
Add from selection. And now we've got this little Panda print in there as well. We could go into
this other document. And we can drag this into there. It's going
to be a bit bigger. Once you have that in
your Assets panel, you can drag that in
into other files. So that's how to add your
patterns and prints to the Assets panel to use when
we come to make templates. In the next lesson,
we'll have a look at the different products
that you might want to create templates for.
4. Deciding Which Templates to Make: When it comes to uploading your patterns to print
on demand platforms, not every product needs
a dedicated template. For example, on Redbubble, most products let you upload your seamless patentile and
then apply it in repeat mode. But for some items,
especially those with more specific
placement needs, creating a custom template really helps your design shine. Other platforms work
a bit differently. In this class, we're focusing on threadless as our
second example. There, you'll need to upload a separate template
asset for each product. So how do you decide
which products to sell? Time versus return
on investment. First, it's important
to remember you don't have to enable
every single product. The more products you choose, the more assets you'll
need to create, and that means more time
spent on each design. Now, taking your time over
something isn't a bad thing. Great work takes time, but
you want to make sure that the time you're investing is actually giving you a return. You're getting sales
across all categories, then yes, it's worth creating
assets for everything. But if you notice, for example, that skateboards never
sell well for you, it might not be worth taking the time to make a separate
asset for those anymore. In that case, your
time might be better spent jumping onto your
next design instead. Your design style
and what sells. Different styles suit
different products. If your work has an edgier vibe, you might do well with
skateboards or phone cases. And if your designs are softer and more floral, like mine, you might find more
success with clothing, home decor, or accessories. The best approach
is to experiment, enable a wide range of
products when you start out and then keep track
of what actually sells. Effort versus no extra effort. There are some
products that don't require any extra
work to enable. If you can just
apply your repeating pattern without
tweaking anything, go ahead and leave it enabled. But if a product needs
custom adjustments and you're also not making any
sales in that category, it's probably not worth
the extra effort. Does the design work
on that product? Some designs just aren't a great fit for
certain products. A repeating pattern
will look great on fabric or tote bags
or phone cases, but it's not going
to look so good on a t shirt or wall art. If all you have is a square or rectangle tile
of your pattern, it might not translate well. And in those cases, it's
okay or perhaps even better to disable those products or
adapt your design for them. One tip I like to use is to take a small motif
from the pattern, save it as a PNG, and then apply that to a t
shirt or poster. You can also add text or extra design elements
to make it work. For example, I created a set
of Japanese floral patterns and turned them into
these travel posters for wall art and clothing. A little repurposing
goes a long way. At the end of the
day, the only way to find out what sells is to initially throw everything at the wall and see what sticks, enable a bunch of
products at first, see what performs, and then adjust your strategy from there. Over time, you'll get
a clear picture of which products are worth
your time and effort and where your designs
really shine. I
5. Downloading Templates: I finished the last
lesson by saying, there's only one way to
find out what sells, and that's to start by selling everything or at least
as much as you want to, and then review
things over time. Each platform
provides guidelines and templates for
their custom products, and here's where
you can find them. First of all, Redbubble. You can check Red
Bubbles help section for recommended file sizes for different products and
go to this page here, and they have a
Google Drive folder with all the different
templates on it. I'll put a link in the
resource sheet for that. You can also find the
product dimensions in the image editing dropdown. The only templates that I use for Redbubble are the clock, backpack, and duffel bag, and also a small rectangle for art prints and the
journal notebook, which is a custom one that I made, and I'll
show you that later. Now we come to Thread list. Thread list provides
downloadable templates for all
of their products, including the shoes,
bags and leggings. You can find a complete list
of all the templates here, and I'll put a link for that
in the resource sheet, too. Or if you already have at least
one product in your shop, you can open up
the product here, click on any of the designs, and download templates this way. Most of the products are
grouped together in categories, so you don't have to download
them all individually. For example, this Duve
template comes in a zip file with all of these products here.
We download that one. Click to download
that one. Open it, and then we can just double
click on this to unzip it. Open up the file,
and you can see you've got all of the
bedding templates there. So I recommend downloading
one at a time, opening the zip file, seeing
what else is in there so you don't end up downloading
the same folder twice. So your next actionable step is to think about which designs you want to sell and then download the
templates for them. If you already know
there are some you don't want to bother
with, that's okay. And if you aren't sure yet, then just go ahead
and grab them all. So I've got all of the
templates downloaded here now. Some of them a zip
files like this one. Those will need
unzipping, and some will just download as
individual PSD files. Be fooled by the PSD format. Even though that's a
Photoshop file extension, we can still open those
in affinity photo. No problem. So go ahead and
unzip all the zip files next. On a mac, you just
double click them, and I will put a link in the result sheets showing you how to do that on a
Windows computer. Once you have all of the folders
downloaded and unzipped, I would go through and
organize them a little. I have TH added to the beginning of all my
threadless templates, and then RB added
to the beginning of all my red bubble
ones just to help me see at a glance which is which I also prefer to have them
all in one folder like this. Having them all
over the place in the individual's
subfolders feels a bit too chaotic to me. But having them group that
way makes more sense to you, then obviously do your thing. Our brains are all a little different and
that's a good thing. In the next lesson,
we'll head back into affinity photo and start working
on some basic templates.
6. The Basic Templates: Most of these templates are just basic single
square or rectangle. So those are the ones we'll
tackle first to get used to things like using the
rectangle tool and filling. If you already have
Photoshop installed, you are going to need
to right click on these and open with
Affinity Photo, because if you double click a PSD file and you have
Photoshop installed, it's probably going to open it in Photoshop as the default. So let's open a
nice big one first. We'll open this
Beach to one here. So right click open
with Affinity Photo. You'll see this has some
info on file type there, as well as some
guidelines setup. So it's telling us to save it as a JPEG and it's got
these guides there. If your guides aren't showing, you may have guides turned off. Hold down command and
press the colon key, and that will toggle
those on and off. The reason we want
to save these as JPEG files rather than PNGs, is the way that threadless processes the two
different image types. If you upload a PNG, it will size it to fit in a nice placement on the product, whereas a JPEG will be
applied edge to edge. You can find out a bit
more about that here, and I'll put a link for
that in the resource sheet. So let's apply our pattern
to this design here. We're going to go up to layer, and we're going to
add a new fill layer. And remember that's just
going to fill it with a plain white fill or whatever color we have
selected up here. So press G to make sure you have the right
fill tool selected. You don't want to have
the little bucket one. You want to have this icon here. Go over to your assets
and fill it with this. And remember, it's going to fill it at a really tiny scale, so we can drag this out. Bring the middle
node into the middle there and then hold down shift and we can snap
this to the lines there. To make sure your pattern
is the right way up, this one is really
obvious because it's got pandas in it and we can
see which way up it goes. If you've got a non
directional pattern, but you still want
it the right way up, the way to remember
this is you want these handles here to
be in a 3:00 position. If that's like saying 3:00, then your pattern is
the right way up. Imagine there's a 12 up here, that's the up direction, which will be relevant
later when we come to pans at
different angles. When I first started
experimenting with making these templates
in affinity photo rather than in Photoshop, like I did for my
Society six class, the first snag that I
ran into was not being able to know exactly what
scale my pattern was in. In Photoshop, you can type in how big you want
the scale to be, for example, 50%, 25, et cetera. And why does that matter?
Well, these designs are meant to be 300 DPI. If I press Command Option I, you'll see that this
document is 300 DPI. That's the resolution we should be uploading for this
particular template. But your pattern will
only actually be 300 DPI if you've got this pattern
scaled at no more than 100%. If you make your
patent super big like this and take
it above 100%, you are reducing the resolution. If you have it twice
as big at 200% scale, your patterns are now actually
only 150 DPI quality. Even though we can save
this file out at 300 DPI, and it will say 300
DPI in the metadata. It's made up of a 150 DPI image. So really, that's the
actual quality of it. As I said, in Photoshop, you can type in
what scale you want the pattern to be
when you adjust it. But unless I've missed it, that doesn't seem
to be a thing you can do in affinity photo. So I had to figure out
a way of making sure I wasn't stretching my
patterns above 100% size. Here's the workaround
that I came up with. I'll just bring this back
down to a smaller scale. My patentile is 3,600 pixels
square or 12 " at 300 DPI. We go to the original tile here, delete this one
that we put in and delete the fill, put
the background back in. This is my patentile. By press Command option I, you can see the data here, it's 3,600 pixels by
3,600 pixels at 300 DPI. So that's like a 100%
scale of my pattern. Let's go back into
the Beach tower one. I can use that data
as a reference to set my pattern scale to 100%. Let's go and grab
the rectangle tool. Hopefully, you've got space for all of your icons down here. I need to have mine
a bit smaller. So it's the rectangle tool, and behave. There
we go. This one. So click and drag to
draw a rectangle. And then come down here
to your Transform panel. Remember, if you don't
have that, you can go to Window and get that down there. Change the width and height of this to the same scale
as your pattern. So mine is 3,600 for the width. And also the height as well. So now, this area here represents one full
repeat of our pattern. You can see the little panda there is repeated over there. So that marks out 100%
scale for our pattern. I'm going to grab the move tool, and I'm going to center this by clicking up here on
the alignment tools, and I'm going to align it in
the middle of the canvas. Now I'm going to go back
onto my fill layer, press G for my gradient tool. And what I'm going to
do I zoom in here. I'm going to adjust
this so that it's, first of all, centered
in the middle. And then if I bring
hold down shift and snap this to the
edge of the box, this is now at the
same scale as the box. That's the middle of
my pattern repeat, and that's the edge. So we've got it scaled to 100%
because it's 3,600 pixels. And if we have a look here, you can see the edge of this strawberry matches up
with the edge of that one over that is the method
we're going to be using for making sure that
we don't go past 100% scale with our patterns. We're going to hide
this rectangle now, leave it there
because that will be useful when we come to
edit the patterns later. So this is our template setup. We can, as it says,
delete this layer. You can also delete
the background and just leave this
fill layer in here. I'm going to put the
template back on now. If you use lots of different
scale patterns in your work, then you're going to need to
make one of these boxes each time for the different
scale patterns you use. You can label each one
up with the scale, so I'm going to put 12 by 12 or you can put Let's
change it to 3,600. Let's just stay in
pixels for this class. 3,600 times 3600. There we go. And then you can
turn that one off. If you're working with a eight by 12 pattern,
which is 2,400, you could duplicate this
one press Command J, and then change this one to
2,400 Oops, which is 8 ". Can center this one. Let's show it so we can see
what we're doing. Center this one on the canvas. And then change the
name of this to 2,400. So then let's pretend this Panda pattern is
2,400 wide repeat. You can press G, and we
can drag that in there, and that's how you
size it to that. So yeah, if you use lots of different pattern
sizes in your work, you can have them all up here
ready to turn on or off. I'll delete this one because
I pretty much exclusively work in this size
here, 3,600 pixels. So I'm actually going to
mark this out with guides. I'm going with my move tool, which is V, I'm going to
drag from my rulers here. If you don't have rulers, you can go to view and
choose Show Rulers. And you can just drag and snap one of the guides
to the edge of the box here on that side, onto the top of it and
one to the bottom. Then you can hide this, or you could actually
just delete that if you don't need that anymore because
we've got it marked out, and then you can use these guides for adjusting
the scale of your pattern, and when we can see through it, you can much more clearly see
that this has adjusted to be 100% scale 14 width repeat. It's press Command zero and we can see the
whole thing there. As I said, if you use
lots of different sizes, then you might not
want to bother with the guides and you can
just make a new box each time in the dimensions that you'll be using
for your patent tile. Because we're just getting
these templates set up rather than playing with
the scale at this point, I would just leave this
set to 100% scale and use that as a starting
point each time you open a template and
apply a new pattern. And this is pretty
much all we have to do for these
simple templates. You can delete these layers underneath this one here
and the background. I will delete this one as well because I've got
my guides marked out. So we've just got this
simple pattern filled there, and that's all our
template is made up of. And then we're ready
to save our template. At the moment, these
files are in PSD format, which is a Photoshop file. When we press Command S to save, you'll see that it wants to
save it as a dot AF photo. That's affinity
Photos file format. If you ever want to save this as a PSD format, we
can still do that. You go to File Export here and you can choose PSD
as export option here. So saving it is going to
save it as affinity photo. If you want it as a PSD file, then you need to export it. I suggest if you're going to be only using these
in affinity photo, save it as an affinity
photo format. So we'll close that off. Press Command S to save. When you save these files out, I suggest putting them all in
a new folder somewhere and adding a tag to them if that's an option on your
operating system. So I will create mine in just my downloads
folder for now. Let's make a new folder, and I'm going to call this
Threadless Templates. You'll see over here, I've used tags for organizing
different kinds of work. To add a tag, you click up here, type in a new name for it. You can either assign a
tag you've already got. My current tag that I
use for these kinds of templates is
affinity processing, but that also covers some
red bubble templates I use. So if you want to have all of your threadless
templates in one place, you can just type a new tag
in and call that Threadless. And then you can choose
a color for that. Let's go for yellow
and press Enter and then click on Save, and then that's
going to save that in this folder for us here and if we're
in a different folder, we can click on this threadless
tag over here and that's going to bring up all of the
threadless templates for us. That's a good way of
being able to find them quickly from any
place on your computer. Let's open up our
next template now. They are all hidden in here
and I'm going to go for the mouse MAP next.
Let's open this one. So right click and open
with Affinity Photo. When you get pop ups like that, you can just ignore those. There's nothing
scary, and it's okay. The default action that
it performs is okay. So this one has a
few more guidelines and a bit more info on it. For patterns, though, we
can mostly ignore all of these safety lines because our pattern goes all the
way off the edges anyway. You only really need
to pay attention to these if you're putting a placement print on there and you want to make sure
that it's inside these edges. But luckily for us
pattern designers, we can just slap our pattern on there and it will go all
the way off the edges. So click on this top layer here, go to Layer. New fill layer. I've already got the
gradient tool selected, so I can click on my
pattern fill here. I can drag this into the
middle, drag it out. I want it to be set at
3:00 holding down Shift, so it's in the
straight line, and then I'm going to grab
the rectangle tool. And let's make this 13600 again by 3600. And then
we're going to center. And as you can see, this mis mat is actually smaller than
our pattern repeat anyway. So what I'm going to do
is change the opacity on this one to 50% so that we can still
see the edges of this. And if I press G on this layer, we can then drag
this out to here, and you can see
there it's snapping to the edge of that box. So this is the biggest we
could go with that pattern, or I didn't center
it. There we go. There we are. There we go. It's going to snap
to the edge there. This is the biggest that
we could put this pattern, and that's our 100% scale. We'll close this one. We can get rid of these
layers underneath. If you're going to
be making designs where you might want
to leave these in, you can leave those in there, or if you're just only ever going to be using this patterns, you can select all those
and delete them and just have your fill with your placeholder rectangle
hidden above it. Now we can press Command
S to save again. It's going to choose the
same folder we've used before and you can
just press Save. On that one, I didn't add the
tag, but we can open it up, drag it onto the threadless tag, and that's another
way of adding tags to your items if you forget to do it at the moment,
you're saving. So let's just open one more
template to work on together. Let's open the DuveO. So right click and choose
open with Affinity Photo. If you have a mac and you
want to change the default, PSD file opening program to Affinity Photo instead of
Photoshop if you use both. The way you do that
is right click Choose Get Info and down here when it says open with choose Affinity Photo and
then choose change A, and that will open
all PSD files in Affinity Photo as default if that's the thing
you want to do. Going to cancel that and
carry on doing it this way. I think right click Open
with Affinity Photo. You might see pop ups like this when you
open these files. It's pretty safe to trust
these files from Threadless. I'll leave that up to you to
make the ultimate decision, but I'm going to go
ahead and just open these because I know
they're okay to use. So here's our last template
that we'll work on together. It's the Duve and we can make
things a little bit easy. We don't have to make a new pattern fill layer each time and make a
new box each time. We can go back to one
we've already done, and we can shift click
on both of these layers, press Command C to copy back into this one
and press Command V, and that's going to paste
them both in there. It won't paste them
right in the middle, but we can grab this layer with our move tool and
just center this. And then the fill
should still be at 100%, but we can
double check that. So then we can drag
our guides down, snap them to this box. Then we can delete
the rectangle, and that is our Dou
Va template setup. So each time you
open a new file, go back into one
where you already have the rectangle
and the fill set up, and then you can
just paste that into each new one to
save a bit of time. So now we can delete
the layers underneath. We just got this fill there with our guidelines in press Command S. I'll add my
threadless tag to it, and then click Save. And that's all you
have to do for each of the basic templates. Just paste your 100% fill layer there and your scale guide box, center them, add guidelines if you want to, and
then you can save it. Then each time you want to open your templates to work
on some new designs, you just double click, select your fill layer, press G, tap on a new pattern here, and that's going to add your
pattern to the template. And as you can see, this one
is also a 12 inch scale, and it's applied
at that 100% size. If I want to make it smaller, I can just click and make
the template smaller, and if I want to make
it bigger again, I can use this as a
stopping point to know I'm not going past
that 100% scale. So now you need to
work your way through all of the basic
templates on the list, saving out a template with a
pattern and fill layer for each one and the scale guide
rectangle set up in there. Don't forget to
save each one with a tag if that's an option
for your computer, so you can easily find
your files later. Once you have all of
your templates made, using them is really simple. Just open up the template, apply your latest design, adjust the scale on
positioning, and that's it. A lot of the time,
you'll find you don't even need to
adjust the scale for each one if you mostly work in the same sort
of scale like I do. In the next couple of lessons, we'll tackle the more
complicated templates, starting with the shoes.
7. Advanced Templates (The Shoes!): Okay, so now we're feeling a little bit more at
home infinity photo. Let's tackle something
a bit more advanced. Let's start with the shoes because they are my
absolute favorite product. Seeing my patterns on shoes
never fails to make me smile. That smile might
disappear when you see this template because it
does look a bit complicated, but once it's set up, it's
very simple to use, I promise. And this one is the
most complicated. So once you have this template
done and out of the way, it's all a lot
easier after that. So you can see all
the different parts the shoes are made up of here. We've got the toes, the
sides, and the heel. And there's arrows on this to show which direction your
pattern should go in. So for example, on the toes, the top of it should
be going this way and on the sides here, we should be having the
top facing that way. So we're going to
grab the move tool V and start by clicking
here on this layer. Art goes here. And
we're going to add a rectangle that will be
our first pattern fill. It's U is the keyboard
shortcut for that. And then I'm going to
click and drag a rectangle and snap it to
these guides here. If your guides aren't showing, mine don't seem to be
turned on at the moment. Actually, hold down
Command and colon and then your guides will pop up.
There we go. That's better. And then I can snap
it to these guides here and then just
adjust this corner here. So that fits to the
guides as well. So that's our first rectangle. I'm going to grab a color
for this just so that we can see these against
the white background. I'm going to click on
this layer here and I'm going to press Command
J to make another one. Then with my move tool V, I'm going to drag this one over here and snap this
one into this corner. Then I'm going to make
a fill all the way down across the bottom
here for the heels. The reason I use
two for the toe, so a separate one
for each toe is because this is a
much larger area, and this is a lot more visible, so it's nice to be able to line the pattern up
properly on each toe, Weas for the heel, it's
such a small area. It's okay to just use the
same fill for the back, and that bit doesn't really need to be lined up that much. If you do want to make
it two separate fills, you can do that by just
having two boxes like this, and then you'll
have the option of adjusting those two
fills separately. But I'm going to leave mine
as one big fill for the back. Then we come to the size. These are a little
bit more complicated. This one here, if I zoom in, these go in two
different directions. So this one and this one here, they both face to the right. We can have that
all on one layer. So I'm going to click and drag a rectangle from the edge
up to that line there, and then another one there. Then I'm going to command, click on this layer
thumb now here, then press Shift
and click on the other one whilst also still
holding down Command. And you can see
I've got marching ants around both of
these boxes now. I'm going to come up to layer
and choose new fill layer. And that's going to
make a new layer there with both of those
areas selected. I'm going to press
Command D to deselect, and I'm going to shift
click on these two, the rectangles we
made underneath. And with my move tool, I'm going to drag these
over to this side now, that's all filled nicely. I'm going to just
click on that one. Then command, click on this one. Then Shift Command click on
the one underneath as well. Now we have these two selected, and these are both
going the same way. So we can go to layer,
new fill layer. And then we've got a new layer
with those two on there. So whatever pattern
we put on those, it's going to be set
to the same direction. You can get rid of these
two underneath now. I'll press Command
D to deselect, select both of those
layers and delete those. Press Command zero, so I can
see the whole of the screen. So I'm going to label up the layers now so that
we know what's what. This one here,
rectangle is the left. So I'm going to press
Command Shift R and rename this one to left. This one here then is the right. This one is the heel.
And then this one, I'll just put side
one and side two. So we've got all the different
parts of the template set up now so we can apply the
pattern fills to them now. G to find my assets. There we go. Here's
the ones I was using. So we can click on this one here and I'm going to press G
and apply this to them. They'll probably come
out in a range of different scales and sizes. And you'll see when I
click on this one here, that's going to apply it to
both of those pieces there. They're all going to come
out in a different range of scales, but don't
worry about that. We'll set the
scales in a moment. Let's make our reference box for the 100% scale first so we can grab our rectangle
tool again, draw a square. Let's make a different color. Come down to transform, and I need to make this
at 3,600 pixels square, and then I'll center
that on the document. So now we need to center all
of the fills on this box. And if you want to hide
the guides at this point, because they can be
a bit confusing, you can do that by
pressing Command colon. That's going to hide
all the guides, and then it'll be easier
to center on the document. So we're going to
center our fills and then hold down shift
and make them all 100%. Don't worry about the
direction at this point. We're just going to center
them all and make them 100%. So click on your other side. Make sure this one's centered.
Then we can do the heel. Then the toes. You can see with the toes here, the fill isn't quite
centered properly. So this is snapping
to the top here, but this side is
coming in a bit short. And if I drag this one
and snap it to the side, you can see it comes
up a bit there. That means this fill has got slightly stretched a little bit. So it's been made
taller. That's because when we drew this rectangle, we kind of drew it and
then resized it a bit, so kind of it's skewed a little bit when
this fill is applied. To reset a fill, if you notice that
it's gone a bit weird, just come down to your
fill here and then just click on it again and you'll see that
I'll fill it properly. And when we do this one, as well, we need to
do it with that one. You can see that's centered
and to the edge of the box. Now, I don't know about
you, but this is kind of a bit visually
overwhelming at the moment, so we can make it
a bit more user friendly by taking out
some of these layers now. So I'm going to hide the medium
size and the small size. So we've just got one
set of guides there. I'm going to change the
opacity on this to 50%. We probably go a bit low
with that, actually. Let's try 20. There we go. And I'm also going to put a
color overlay on this one. So click on this layer, come down here and
click on the FX. So toggle cuddler overlay on here and maybe put
linear burn for it. I've just chosen
black opacity 100%, and that makes these details
a bit easier to see. The other thing we
could do here to make this a bit less
visually overwhelming is to make a layer to mask off all the parts that aren't
parts of the shoe. So I'm going to use the
flood select tool over here. Shortcut for that is W. And
on this template layer here, I'm going to press Command zero. So I've got full
screen view here. And I'm going to turn
off these layers, so they're not distracting
us while we do this. I'm going to click and select
this area inside here. I've got contiguous selected, and I've got my
tolerance at 30%. Going to shift
click in this area, the two sides of the shoe. And both heels. Then we're going
to go up here to layer and create a new fill
layer with this selection. And then if we just
grab a color here, you can see we've
got that filled. I'm going to press
Command D now. And on this layer here with
the flood selector again, I'm going to click on
the negative space out here and again, choose new fill layer. Make it white, press Command D, and delete this one underneath. And then if we put
these layers back in, we can see we've just
got those parts showing, and it is a lot
less overwhelming. We can bring our guide
up over the top there. That is much nicer
to look at, I think. So now we can sort out the direction for
all of these fills. I'll start with
the toes up here. So the arrow shows us that the art needs to be
going in this direction. So these pandas are
actually the wrong way up. Think of these nodes
here like a clock. So this one is 12:00, and this will show what
direction your art is going in. So if we want it down this way, we need the 12:00 arrow to
be going down that way, too. So I'm going to drag this
down to the bottom here, snap it to the edges, and now our pattern is
the right way up. Then we can click
on the other toe, hold down shift, and snap
this to the bottom there. Then we come to
the heel. This one will be the right
way up already. The top of the arrow
is going that way, and your 12:00 node
is also that way. The sides. Which one
have we got first? This one here. The direction for these is actually
hidden underneath this, but you can see it
goes that way for these ones. I put that back in. We need the 12:00 arrow to be over this way,
facing that way. So we can click and
drag that over there. You can hide the
template, and you can see this little panda here.
He's the right way up. And then the other side
needs to go the other way. So this 12:00 node
needs to be over here. And if we hide this, you can see over here, this little panda is
the right way up now. We can hide our guide there, press Command zero. Put this on. We can hide the template, and there you can see we've just got the bits of the
pattern showing now. It's a lot easier
to see what's what, and you can see
where everything is. When you come to
use this template, if you want to move
things around, say, I wanted this panda to be a
bit more centered on there, you could just grab that one. Once everything's set up at the right scale
and direction, you can drag this around
without changing the scale and direction and you're
just moving the positioning. So you could move that over
and then this one here, we could move this middle panda, so he's a bit more
in the middle. And now that the scale and
direction is set up for these, when you come to
open the template, you can just apply new
fills to it like this. I know this is not a
good pattern there. It's got the mistakes in it. But you can see it holds the scale and the
direction for each one. And then once you were ready
to save out your design, you would just turn
all of these layers up above off so that you can
just see your pattern here, and then you would export
your asset that way. You're almost certainly
going to want to change the scale to
something smaller, though. So let's have a look at how
to do that before we move on. Go to press undo and get
back to our panda pattern. So to change the
scale for all of these, you could
just eyeball it. So for example, if I made this one a bit bigger like this and wanted to
have it like that, you could eyeball it
for the other ones. And just go, well, they're
about the same size. But if you want them all to be exactly the same
scale, we can do that. I'm going to undo
those two moves. And bring our box back up here. So let's center this one again. Say I wanted to make my pattern scale something
smaller like that. What you need to do is
look at where this node is here and then adjust this
box to about the same size. So it's kind of just on the
end of that strawberry there. So if I make this box smaller, I'm going to hold down
option shift and command, and that's going to
make it smaller evenly, and I'll drag it until it's about on the edge
of that strawberry, which is where we had
the scale set to. Then we come back to
this right toe here. Press G again. Just make
sure it's centered on this box and then adjust
your scale to that. Then you can click
on the other toe. Center this on that box, and you can bring down
the scale for that one. Heel, you can do the same. Just make sure
you're not changing the direction of any of these. Just drag them in that way. And that is how you
would change the scale for all of these
to make sure that they were all the same scale. At this point, I
would save it with all your fills centered so that it's easier to
adjust them each time. So you can press Command S to save and then save that
in your selected folder. So that's how to set
up the house template. And as I said, I've got a set of ready made templates
for you to use. If you want to jump right in and don't want to
set up your own, you can download those with the link in
the resource sheet. In the next few
lessons, we'll look at some of the other
custom templates, which should be a little
easier now that we've covered most of the
techniques in this lesson. Oh
8. Redbubble Custom Templates: So now that we've tackled
the complicated shoes, we can work on something
a bit more simple. Let's do our red
bubble templates now, and we'll do the
duffel bag first. This one is a flat PNG
rather than a PSD file, so we need to right
click on this one and do open with and
choose Affinity Photo. Because this is a PNG, it has no layers
set up in there, so we're going to have
to do all the guidelines and bits like that ourselves. So if we zoom right in here, you can see here, it says, design can face any direction. These two ends, the artwork
needs to go that way up. And there's no other information apart from these
two arrows here. But the way I set
mine up is similar to the one that we'll look at for the threadless
template later. I have this one
facing that way and this pattern facing downward because then when you
apply it to the product, you can see this side, the
pattern is the right way up, and on the reverse side, the pattern is the right way up. If you put the same pattern
across the whole of this, one side of the bag
would be upside down. So let's have a look
at how to do that. I'm going to zoom in here, and this dotted line
across the middle, that's like the bottom of
the underneath of the bag. So we're going to use
our Move tool V and drag a guideline from the rulers and just align it with
this middle line there. Press Command zero.
First of all, we can do a layer
fill that will cover the upward direction on these
two and the one up here. So let's go to new fill layer, and press G, and then we can apply our Panda
pattern to it. If we have the right
G, there we go. And then we can make
that the right way up. Center that on there
for the moment. And I don't currently
have any other files open here that have my 12
inch square box in there, so we need to make a fresh
one with the rectangle tool. That's the U, if there's
a shortcut for that, and I'm just going to
drag out box here, go to my transform box
and change this to 3600. Then we can center on that guideline there,
tap on our fill layer, press G. And then we can just line that fill up with the edge
of that box there. Let's hide this one for now
and put this background. If I just click on
that to unlock it, we can drag this
up to the top and then we can still see
these guidelines here. What I'm going to do now
is put a rectangle on that goes from this
line down to here. So actually, we could
zoom in and put another guideline in down there. If we make it end
somewhere in between here, these are the safe lines there. As long as it ends somewhere
in here, we're okay. Let's press V and just
put a guideline to come in there and I
can hide this one, and I'm going to
press my rectangle to press G, find our assets and
apply this to it. Then we can show
our rectangle again and just line this up with the edge of the rectangle there. Hide that one. And then this
one needs to be upside down. So actually, we are going
to need this on again. So press Shift and drag this
node so that it's down to the bottom there and then line it up with the
bottom of that rectangle. I I move it to the top
there you can see that is lining up with that,
so we can hide that one. And then this would be our red bubble, duffle back template. So we can press Command
S to save this. Choose Save As because
we don't want to save it as a PNG file. So
we'll do Save As. Go add our tag to it. You could make a red bubble tag for these if you wanted to. I and then choose Save. The next one we'll look at
is the backpack template, which is also a P and G file. So we have to add our
own guidelines to this. So we zoom in here,
we can see where all the different
directions of it face. So the front part
all faces upward, so this could all be one piece. We've got this section up here, which faces upward so that
can be the same thing. This one needs to go downwards and these can go in
either direction, either down or across. So let's start by putting a new fill layer
on the bottom to cover all the upward
direction facing things. And we can grab this
rectangle from over here, so we'll click on that
press Command seat copy. Come over here,
command V to paste. Let me click on our fill layer. Center this one drag that out so that
we know that's the biggest that pattern can be. Make this a different color
and bring the opacity down to 20% unlock this layer and I will bring that
one up to there. So we've got this part
here taking care of this one and this part here. So let's add a rectangle to take care of
this section now. G to zoom in with
Command and plus, and I'm going to press V, and I'm going to drag
some guidelines down that come down to this
dotted line there. And then drag one
out to the side that comes under this gray part. Then press Command zero. Then we can zoom back in. So we can see this part here. And with my rectangle tool, I'm going to drag out a
rectangle that starts here. Then I'll press G to fill
it with our pattern. Make that 100% scale slightly
off center. There we go. And this one needs
to be upside down, so we need to drag this
top node down to there, and we'll bring that
one underneath. Next one we have to do
is these two parts here, and we can make this
from one strip, which goes that way, I think. So let's zoom in here, put the guidelines
back on Command colon, and we can drag
one out to there. And then on this well, we can use that middle line
there that's there already. And then draw a rectangle
to go in there. We'll click to
refill, reset that. And if we put it back to 3:00, we know that's the right way up. Sometimes, if you start
from upside down, it can be difficult to work out which way to put
the right way up. But if you always remember
3:00 is the right way up, it's easy with this pattern because you can see which
way up the pandas are going. But just hide the guidelines. And then this one wants to
be going in that direction. So we'll put this
12:00 node over there. So that's all the directions
for this one setup. If you want to change
the scale like this is probably a little bit bit
too big for the backpack. I'm going to start
with this one, and I'll just bring this
down to a scale that I think looks kind
of okay for a backpack, and probably just aligning it
to this line there is okay. So then we change our
rectangle to that dimensions too with move tool and I'm
going to hold down option, command and shift and bring
that down to about there. Then we can go back
and adjust this fill properly to snap it to there. Then we can do this one as well. And then this one. Then when you want to save
this one or export it, you turn those layers off, and that's what you'd
export for your backpack. Just save this one now, and we're going to save as. And I want to add the red bubble tag to this one and save. Then we've got the
clock template. So let's right click
on this one and choose Open With Affinity Photo.
We'll ignore that. And so this one
here, the guides, this is kind of more for,
like, mockups and things, so you can visualize
how it's gonna look, so you'll want that turned off. And then if we open
this folder here, we've got a mask here
for the artwork. This If you open
this in Photoshop, it will be a smart object, so we can turn that off.
Turn that one off. And then this folder here is
going to be the useful one. So I'm actually going
to delete all of the other ones off here. We can delete the mask and
we can delete the guides. And then these chapter
rings are the things which you can use to put
where the numbers would be. So you've got numbers, you've got Roman numerals. You can have diamonds. Maybe if I turn dashes
off, you can see those. So you can have diamonds, dashes, dots and dashes. So choose whichever one of
these you want to have. We'll stick with dots
and dashes for now. Then we can close this. So now we need to put the
pattern fill layer. We can go grab that
from this one. So we'll grab the rectangle
and the fill layer, press Command C to copy those, and then in here,
we'll paste those. And we want these to be
outside this folder. So just close that one and then we can bring
this folder up above there. So then we want to
center our rectangle. So with our move to V, I will just center
the rectangle. And as you can see, this one is bigger than the clock itself. If we put this one
at the bottom, we can have that turned on, and then we'd be able to
adjust the filter this. So we can center
the fill on here. Then if we leave this one
turned on underneath, you can see we can still
snap to the edge of that, but probably you're going
to want this one a little bit smaller,
something like that. Then if you want to
change the color of these, we can open this up. Find the one that we've
used, the dots and dashes. You can tap on this
little FX down there and tap on color overlay. I suppose I should say click, but because I'm using
the track pad on my laptop, I keep saying tap, but then it sounds like
I'm using my iPad, so tap or click
on color overlay, and then you can pick
a color for this. And you see over here that
changes the color of those. You can go with black or white, anything that you think
is going to look visible. If you've got a lot of
colors in your pattern, it may be that it's just not going to show up
very well anyway, so you're best off
just going with black. So there we go, that's
the clock template, and then you would just
save that the same, and we can add the tag to that. And then that one is saved. And then when you export this, you'd export it with this
chapter rings layer showing. There's one more template
that I use for red bubble, which is one that I made myself. And it's a small rectangle
that works well for the art prints and the
journal notebooks. And the size I use
for that one is if I just look up here,
it's this one here. And it's this template here. And if I do Command option I, you can see the
dimensions I've used for this one are 2841 by 3951. And that's a good ratio for the prints cards and posters if you're using
just a pattern for those. And I also use it for the hardcover journal
so that I can have that rectangle on each side and then choose a background
color for the spine. The reason that I use this size, it's actually the
same template that I made for my Society six class, which is a good size
for uploading for the mini art prints so that you get a nice
board around it, and then I discovered
it actually worked really well
for red bubble. So this size here is just based off that size,
and I noticed that works. So if you want to make
this template and use that for the journal and
for the art prints, it's a plain rectangle, and it's 2841 pixels by 3951. So that's the only other
template I use for red bubble. In the next lesson,
we'll look at the other custom
threadless templates.
9. Threadless Custom Templates: So let's begin
with the backpack. We can apply one whole layer fill to this to cover
this part here, this part here, and this
top part because you can see the directions
here with the arrows. We've got the top of art going this direction for
all of those pieces. So we click on our
Art goes here layer, and we're going to go to layer and choose a new fill layer. Press Command zero,
so we can see that and let's fill it with
our panda pattern. And then sent this into the
middle of the document, and we can make our 100% scale reference
guide as well now. So then let's choose
the rectangle tool. You drag out a rectangle, go to our Transform panel and change this to the same size as your patentile
minus again, 3,600. And you'll see this
looks massive on here, and the reason for that
is that this file is if I press command option I, you can see this
is a 150 DPI file. It's not 300, so the pattern scale kind of is
effectively twice as big. So that's why this pat
looks huge on here, even though you're thinking,
Well, this is 12 ". How is my backpack
suddenly 6 " wide? Is because this is 150 DPI file. So we can center this
on the document. Remember, you can show
and hide your guides with command colon if you want to bring them up in a
moment for snapping to. So let's make this 50% opacity, change the color it to
something a bit more visible. So we can grab this fill here. G, and we can center that on 100% scale on this is probably going to be a bit
big for most of your things. So let's change it to
something like that for now. And we can hide that
guide rectangle. The next fill we want to work on is these two side bits here. So these both go
in that direction. So we can grab our
rectangle tool with. We're going to
press Command colon to get the guides back up again. Zoom in here. And we want to draw a rectangle that snaps
with this line here. You can see the
cut lines on here. If I put a color overlay on this layer because
at the moment, it's white and we can't
see it very well, so I'm going to put a color
overlay on this layer. So this is where the
cut lines will be, and you'll actually save
the workout with this on. So as long as we draw something
that comes underneath here so we can hide the join in between these two, it's fine. So let's go and use this line
here to center that one. And we'll bring this
underneath that one. There you go. You can see if we put that one and this one on. As long as everything is
under this purple bit, we're not going to see any joins in our pattern, whereas
if we hide that, you can see where
the joins are there, but they'll be hidden by this. So then, again, we
can hide those. So we've got these two
bits taken care of. The only other piece we need
now is this one down here, the other side, and this one
needs to be upside down. So let's draw another rectangle, snapping it to this line here and taking
it down to there. So now we can put these
two layers back in, and we can make sure that
these are all filled with the same pattern
and the same scale now. So remember, from our shoes, we use one as a guide. So if we're going to say this is the scale
that we'll use, the edge of our thing comes like roughly in line with this. So if we bring our rectangle, make that visible and
click on that again. And I'm going to drag
this into the edge of the holding down
command and shift. To make it smaller
in all directions, and we'll snap it there. Then we can adjust this fill, press G, snap that to the
edge of the box there. Then on this rectangle, we can fill it with fill again. And remember, this one
needs to be upside down, so our 12:00 node needs
to be done this way. We can center this. I'm going
to hide the guidelines now. So I'm going to
press Command colon, that will make it
easier to center this just on the document. And then we can snap
this to the box. So these are now the same scale. And then this rectangle here, fill that with your pattern. Click and drag whilst
holding Shift, then we can center this, adjust it to the edges of our box and the
direction of this one. If I just hide that needed to be the 12:00
needs to be over this side. So we can hold down shift and snap that to the edge there. Then we can press Command zero, put all of these layers back in, hide our rectangle, take off
that color overlay on there. And you should have
something looking like that with motifs on these two
sections going that way up. This one should
be that way up up there and upside
down down there, and then these ones should
be going in that direction. And then when you're
ready to export, this layer gets left on. You can see that says save
and then this one underneath, we turn that one off. That's the seam lines on there. So a, this one off,
this white one on, that's okay, and that's
normal to have that on there. It says here to leave that on, and this is what
you would export. When you want to bring
a new pattern in, you just click on each layer, apply your new
pattern fill to it. Do each one at a time,
and it will save that scale and direction
for each one of those, and then you again
just export that. The next one we'll look at is
the five by seven journal. The reason I've put this as a more complicated
template rather than one of the basic ones is that
I like to put a spine on, and you can see
these products here. I've got a spine
on them as opposed to just having a plane
all over pattern. You can either have one pattern
fill for the whole book, but if you want to
be able to move each side around individually, you'll need to put two
pattern fill layers in there. So let's do and draw a rectangle in here
to come to halfway. And fill it with our pattern, press G, and we
can fill it there. Then again, and fill this side. Just click press G and make sure that's filled
at a non stretched ratio. We can then put our guide in. So let's with the
rectangle tool, click and make a 12 inch box. And you can see this one comes
probably all the way off the edge et's adjust
our pattern scales now. So center this, and then we could have it as big as
that if we wanted to, which I think is quite a nice scale for this
pattern, actually. And then we do the same for this layer. Center
that in the middle. Make it 100% scale, and then you can then move
these around independently. So if you want to have like there we've got four
of our pandas on view if I wanted to
then move this one around a bit. We can do that. And that's why it's
nice to have each one of these as a separate fill. Now we're going to put
a spine over the top, so let's grab our rectangle
tool again with you, and I'm going to
drag the box that snaps from one of these guidelines to the
other in the middle. And we can just make
that a fill color. Can hide this rectangle. And then if you press I, you can pick one of the colors from your pattern
to fill that with. I think I'll go for this
purple color there. And if I hide the guidelines, that would be what you'd export
as your finished pattern. And then when you want to
bring new patterns in, you just click on each layer. And then you can apply
your new patterns to this. If you want to change the scale on both of these together, if you shift, click
on both of them, you can adjust the
scale for both of them at the same time and then adjust the positioning
individually like that. That's the journal notebook. Now we'll look at
the duffel bag. This one is going to be made up of a rectangle on the top, facing upwards, a
rectangle on the bottom, facing downwards, and then these two parts here will
be also going upwards. Let's do one fill layer that will cover the
upward direction first. So we click on the art goes here layer and do new fill layer. And let's fill this
with our panda pattern. Let's grab the 12 inch rectangle from over here,
suppress Command C, and let's paste that one
into here and center it on the document and bring it up
to the top so we can see it, and then we can adjust
this fill to 100%. So that's the one to cover
this area and the top area. Now we need to add a layer above and fill it
with a rectangle, which will snap to the
middle down to here. If you don't have your
guidelines showing, and you want to use
those to snap two, remember bring the
guidelines up and then draw it and you can
snap two down here. And then you can fill
that with pattern. If we bring the
rectangle up again, you can click and
drag to the edges of this I'll turn the guides off so that we know
where we're snapping to the middle of this, for sure. And then the direction of
this needs to be upside down. If I hide this on the fill, you can see the top of the
art needs to be done here, which means that this node
here needs to be done the bottom. There we go. And on this template,
you need to delete both of these lines
before you export them. So then, again, when you bring
a new pattern into here, you tap on this one, tap
on this one separately, and then you've got the
different directions in there. Now we can move on
to the cut and sew. And on this template, all the patterns go in
the same direction, so you could use just one
fill to cover everything. But with this one, I like to have a separate fill for
each part so that if I want to say if I've got a
geometric pattern and I want to line it up
with the middle, that's the thing I can do. So click on this layer
here, Rectangle tool. And one rectangle to fill that. Press G, and we can fill that. Then press Command J, press V, and we can drag
that on over there. And if you shift, click on these two to select them
both, press Command J. You'll get a copy of those, and you can bring those down here. And then snap those
up there, press G, and you can fill those both
the correct pattern again, and then one more rectangle
to fill this section here. Reset the ratio on that one. All of these can be filled with the same pattern
because they are all going in the same direction. We want the same direction
and the same scale. So we can click to select all
of these and fill them with the same pattern and adjust
the scale for all of these and then move each
one around individually. So if we want to move
this one around, you could adjust
the positioning on this one. And on this one. I'll just grab the rectangle
fill from this one, paste it in here. Center this. Hide our guides, and then we can make sure
we've got 100% scale on these. I select all of those, press G center this on the document and just
bring that down a little bit. So we've got that 100% scale, and then you can move
each one of these round individually then and
line them up that way. When you come to save
out the cut and sew, you delete this layer here. You drag my layers out.
This one gets deleted. This one here that says save there's a little mark
on the pattern there. It's outside the cut line, so that won't show
on your pattern, but that's just to help them put the garment together properly. So make sure you leave
that one in when you save. Then last of all, we
come to the socks. I'm going to start
this with a bit of a disclaimer in that I don't
bother with this product. Because the socks are made of a separate front and back piece, that means they have a
seam going up either side, which means a big
jarring seam in the pattern right where you want the design to
look, it's best. It's not impossible to get the seams to line
kind of mostly, but it will mean that you
are restricted to having your pattern set at
a 4.5 inch repeat, which may be too small a scale
for it to look any good, and even then they still
don't line up perfectly. I think the socks probably work best if they're designed
from scratch with placement motifs
that avoid the seam altogether rather than having
a pattern applied to them. And that's why I don't currently enable these for
new designs in my shop. But I will show
you how to set up a pattern template so that
you can choose for yourself. So we're going to
make a rectangle to fit each one of these strips. So we click on the
Art goes here. So I'm going to
make sure I've got my guides on view here by
pressing Command colon, I'm going to press U for the rectangle tool
and I'm going to make a rectangle that fits this here with ways and
fill that with my pattern. Now we're going to zoom in
and adjust the pattern scale, and you want to
line it up with the middle of the rectangle, and you want to adjust
the scale so that it ends on this safe
zone line there. And then if we copy this one, press Command J, and copy this to the right sock
back and line it up there. So here, we've got this
strawberry here that will line up in theory with this strawberry here when
they're sewn together. So you can also copy
this into the other two. So you can press Option and drag one out into
there and center it. Option click and drag that out there and
center it as well. You might want to bring your guidelines back
up here to help you snap these to
the safe zones. Just check that
they're all lined up. So I'll show you how this
looks when it's uploaded. This one I aligned it with the safe line, like we just did. You can see it's not perfect. And then this one here, I made the pattern scale a fraction bigger and aligned
it to the cut line to see if that would
make it any better. It's also important to remember there's always going
to be a bit of deviation from perfection when
it's being sewn up anyway, because it's a seam and it's
not going to be perfect. So that's something extra to think about when you're deciding which products you do and don't
want to add to your shop. And when you're
exporting this one, don't forget to turn all
of these layers off. So now we've looked at all the
assets that are available, and you should
have a full folder of templates ready to use. But before we start to use them, I just want to show you a few
quick marketing templates you can add into your workflow.
10. Marketing Templates: Okay, so in case I
haven't said it enough, efficiency is the name
of the game here. So, as well as
making all our print on demand assets in one go, we want to make all
our social media and marketing assets
at the same time, too. The goal is to only open
your patent file once and make all the assets
you'll ever need in one go. That way, you're not
wasting your time going back and forth between
different tools and files. It honestly feels so
satisfying to have everything made and neatly
stored away for future use. Here's some of the
additional templates that I use in my workflow. Pinterest templates.
I'm going to walk you through how
to create two types. Number one, a Pinterest pin that features your pattern
and color palette. These are always popular and do well for visibility and shares. Number two, is a Pinterest pin that includes a mock up
of one of your products. These are great for
click throughs. You'll need to have
uploaded your artwork to a print on demand site already
to download the mockup. So if you haven't done that yet, you can skip this for now and then circle back to it later. Sell sheet template.
I use this to create clean and professional
documents when contacting licensing
clients or art directors. I won't show you how
to make this one here because I already have
a whole class on that, which I'll link to in
the resource sheet. But that's a template all
when I'm making my assets. Marketplace templates. This will be relevant to you
if you sell your patterns somewhere like Etsy or another online
marketplace like that. I've recently started selling patterns on creative market, so I'm now including
templates for listing images, including pattern
previews, tile samples, and lifestyle mockups in my
asset creation workflow. And then lastly, we have
social media templates. Think of things
like templates for Instagram posts or
stories, Facebook, graphics, car portfolio posts, or any other platform where you promote
your work regularly. Again, I've got a whole class on making social media templates, and I'll link to that
in the resource sheet. So let's have a look
now at how to create a pattern and color palette
pin image for Pinterest. The ideal image
size for Pinterest, this info is from their
business hub pages is a two to three image ratio and ideally 1,000 by 1,500 pixels. In fact, they even go as far as saying other ratios may cause your pin to truncate or may negatively impact
pin performance. So we're going to
go to File New, and we're going to
create a document that is 1,000 pixels wide, 1,500 pixels high, and
we can make this 72 DPI. Under color, it can be SRGB, and make sure you've got transparent background
check there because that just
makes it easier with layers and hiding stuff. So then we can click Create. So this is our two
to three ratio pin, the first thing
we're going to do is put a new fill layer on there, so we can go to new fill layer. I've already got my gradient
field tool selected here, so I can just click on this one, drag it out on hold shift so
it snaps to right angles. And because this is just for viewing on screen,
it's not for printing. This can be any scale we like. As long as it looks good, we
can make it huge like that, or we can have it really
small if we want. So there's no need to
worry about making that marker rectangle for
marking out your 100% scale, this can be any scale you like. So I'm going to put it
to something like that. Then what I'm going to do
is make a row of squares or rectangles down here that
we can swatch colors from. So I'm going to grab my
rectangle tool with you, and I'm just going to click
and drag a rectangle here. It doesn't have to be any
specific ratio or size. I'm just going to pick a
random color for this for now. G to click and snap this
up into the corner. And I'm going to press Command
J to duplicate this layer, and then I'm going to click and drag and snap this
one down to here. And then if I press
Command J again, it's going to
duplicate the layer plus the action I've
just performed, so it should snap another
one down like that. We want five in all, or at least I'm
going to use five. If you want to do more colors than five, you can
do more than five. So I've got five
rectangles here. I'm going to click
on this one and then shift click on
the one at the bottom, so I've got them all selected, and then I'm going to
hover over this node here, and I'm just going
to resize these so that they fit the height
of the pin there. And you can make this
any width you want. I'm going to go for
something like that. Click off those now. And then we can use the eye drop at all. So we press I. We can then swatch colors from our
document to fill these with. Press I again, it
becomes the select tool. So then you can
click on this one, then press I again, and it goes back to
the eyedrop at all. I to select this one, I again to select another color, I to select this one, I again. And just keep cycling to
grab your colors there. So we've got our
swatches down here, and these will look
nicer if they've got a bit of white separation
in between them. So I'm going to press
P for the pentle and I'm going to click up
here where these meet. And then click down here, and that's going to draw a line all the way down there for me. Press Escape now to stop
drawing any more lines. I'm going to set
a stroke up here. I'm going to make it white, and I'm going to click on this here and I'm going to
make it 20 points. And that's put a nice
white line down there. I'm also going to put some
to separate them this way. We'll click on this
where these intersect here, and then click on that. Then press Escape, and then we can do that
again for this one. Click on there and on
there, press Escape. Press escape in between. And there we go. We've got some nice
separation between those now. The only thing that you might notice when
you're doing this, depending on how
fussy your eye is, is that these two boxes on the end, this one
here, and this one there, they kind of feel well, they are bigger than
these in the middle because these have got the
white lines separating them. So that doesn't
bother you at all, there's no reason why it should, you can just leave
this like it is. But if it's going
to bother you that these ones feel slightly
taller than those, you can just put a rectangle
over the top, if you want. So click on your top layer. You're going to grab
my rectangle tool. And you can draw
a rectangle that comes to the same dimensions as everything we've
drawn on top. Make the fill zero opacity or just click on
here for zero fill. And for the stroke, it's
already set at 20 points. But if we align it
to the inside there, can then hide this
vertical one there. And then that's another way of having those box down there, and they all feel a
bit more even now. So either of those
options is fine, depending on how
fussy your eye is. These can all then be grouped. So select all of those,
put them in a group, and you can lock that layer because we don't
need to change that. And then one last thing
that we should do with this is put your
website down there. So press T for the text
tool. Just click down here. And just put your
website in down there. Click up here on the toolbar and just press the up
arrow key in there, and that's going to
make it a bit bigger. We can use the Move tool to
drag this into place down. There roughly centered
is fine for this, and choose a different
front for that. And then if you want to
make sure that that is visible over all different
types of colors, you can select this and change the blend mode to
contrast, negate. And then where you have
it over a dark color, it's going to make it
contrast with it like that. So that would be our first
pin that we could make. And when you're making your images, you just
pull out this pin, add your colors and
your pattern to it, and that's a pin you've
got ready to add. I'm going to save this one now. I'll call this palette pin. And then the other template
we can make is one to show off one of our favorite designs. You
know, I love the shoes. So let's make a pin that can show off all
our shoe designs. So I'll shoes new, and we should be able to use the same dimensions
as last time. So 1,000 pixels
wide, 1,500 tall, 72 DPI, color, SRGB, and we've got
transparent background. So we can click Create on that. And then we've got another
document the same. I'm going to grab the
fill layer off this one. So we'll click on that layer, press Command C to copy, and then we can go
in this one and press Command V to paste. And again, this scale on this can be whatever
you want it to be. I'm going to maybe make
it a bit smaller than this so that it contrasts with what we put
over the top of it. So to make this one, you are obviously going
to need a piece of artwork already uploaded to be able to make a
mock out of it. Including this one here
in this section in the marketing template
because that feels like the right place
to include it in the lesson set because
it's still a template. But this would be
one you would use after you've uploaded
because you need to have the artwork uploaded in order to then download it and
put it into this template. I'm going to click here
and choose View in Shop. Then down here, you'll
see promo tools, and you can download
the images here. It's going to be this image
here that we're going to use, but these images are set so that you can't easily
download them. So we can click on the download. That will then email
you a download link which you click on and
it downloads the images. So let's go back into Affinity
and what e File open, and I've already got
one unzipped here. It's this one here. So what
you're going to get now is an introduction into removing backgrounds
using Affinity Photo, and it's a simple method
that works well for images like this which already have a plain white background. So we're going to
grab this tool here, which is the
selection brush tool. And I'm going to press Command Plus and zoom right in here. Let's unlock this layer. And what I'm going to do is
just click and drag and kind of paint over the areas of the shoe that I want to
select. You can zoom right in. You can change your
brush slidee with the open and close
bracket tools. And just click and drag
and select this area. I've got snap to edges on all
layers and soft edges off, and I'm in add mode over here. If you select too much
and you want to go back, you can put it into
subtract mode and go like that or to toggle between the two a bit
more quicker than that, you can hold down option to
remove from the selection. So just carefully, I'm
still in subtract mode. Go back into Add. And then
what you want to do is just carefully go round the edge
of the shoes like this. Selecting the parts that you want to include
in the selection. And this takes a while,
but that's okay. Just go at your own speed. You can make the brush smaller if that gives you more accuracy and just keep clicking
and dragging this. If you've got a stylus, this will be a lot easier. I'm doing this with the
track pad on my laptop, which is not very easy. But this kind of doesn't
have to be perfect, perfect. So just keep working your
way around the outside. Rather than speed
this up and make it look like it's really
quick and easy, I'm gonna just put some music on and leave me doing this
at normal speed so you can see that it is kind of
fiddly, but it is doable. Then once you have
the outside selected, we can zoom out a bit, and
the inside bit is easier. We just want to paint
over everything on the inside of the shoe. We can make the brush
a lot bigger for this. Remember, that's the open
bracket key for that. And I'm just gonna zoom in here because
I've spotted a bit, I didn't do quite
well enough there. Hold down option,
remove that bit. Maybe make it a bit
smaller. There we go. That's everything on
this shoe selected. Now I'm going to do
the same on this one. And then once you're happy
with what you have selected, we're going to click
on Refine up here. And this red area is
giving us a preview of what is going to be removed when we remove the background. It's looking a bit
messy at the moment, but there's a few things we
can do to fine tune this. So I'm going to bring border
width all the way down. And I'm just going
to adjust the ramp. I'm also going to put a
bit of smoothing on here. You can see that's starting to look a lot better and a lot tidier now around the edges. You can experiment with these to see what works best for
what you have selected. Okay, so I've got mine
border width zero. I've unchecked matt edges. My smooth at about 40%, feather at zero and
my ramp at 100%. So I'm going to click
Apply on that now. And that's now sorted
out that selection. And I'm going to click down
here on this little icon, which is going to mask
the layer for me. And Hey Presto, that has taken
the background off for us. So then I'm going to press
Command D to deselect, and I'm going to click
on this layer here, press Command C to copy. I'm going to go back
into this document here I'm going to press
Command V to paste. And then click up here.
We can center that. Zoom out a bit, and I'm going
to hold down command and shift and resize this and I'm going to snap it to the
top of the document there. So I just do this one as
well, they'll snap there. There we go, and we can
recenter that again. So now we've got this
centered on this and it's the same
height as the document. I'm going to click over here
and open up this group. I'm going to command click on the mask and that's selected
the area inside the shoes. I'm now going to go to layer
and choose New fill layer. And if I click on white, press Command D. We've now got these two
shoe shapes in there. What I'm going to do is hide this layer that
I've just brought in. And on this layer, I'm
going to right click on it and choose rasterize. And this will convert
it from being an editable fill to
finalized pixels. So now we've just got those
two shoe shapes on there now. What I'm going to
do now is bring in the downloaded image again. So I'm going to do File Place, and I'm going to click on these
shoes and bring those in. You'll get this little icon with a little arrow like that, and I'm going to click up in this top right corner and drag it down and snap
it to the bottom, and then I'm going to center it. And then this is, if I turn this back on
again and that one off, this is exactly the same and in the same position as
what's underneath. Any new image you bring in
with different designs on the shoes is going to fit over
the top of this perfectly. So what we want to do is
create a reusable mask now. So let's turn this
one off again and turn this white layer
on and our shoes on. What I want to do is click on this layer here and
drag it down onto this one, not over the
thumbnail, like that. We want to drag it
over like that, so the whole layer turns blue. I'll go over that
again. Not like this. You don't want to release
it on the thumbnail. You want to release it
here over the layer so that the whole layer is
highlighted. Let go of that. We can actually delete this one underneath now with the mask. And we have this here. And anytime we bring
in a new template, we just place it above this one, and that's going to
mask it to that shape. If I just add a new layer
above here and grab the brush tool with B and
just scribble over this. You can see if I drag this down in between those
on top of those, it's going to clip
it to the shape of that white fill in
the shoe shape. So any new shoes
we bring in here, we just dunk them on that layer, make sure it's the same size, and we've got a
new shoe template. One thing that's
going to help these pop against the background, though, is a shadow. So click on your layer up here. The one that should say pixel. And then down here, click on FX. And we're going to
click on Outer shadow. Put this over here so we
can see, toggle that on, and then we can bring up all of these so we can see what we're working with
and then adjust them. So we want to bring the offset
to maybe halfway up here. Maybe the radius at about 30, and then the intensity
is kind of like the softness of it.
I zoom in here. You can see there's
a nice drop shadow. So let's make these
easy numbers. Going to go for 30 for this one, 15 for that one, and we'll
leave that one at 25%. So those are easy
numbers for you to copy. You can also change the angle. I think it makes
it 315 by default. If you want to change that, you can make that go in
different angles. We'll just leave it over
here and then click Close. And then you've got
that nice shadow there. At this point, you
can adjust the scale of your pattern behind. So press G and you can adjust your
background pattern there. And then, again, I would put your website name underneath. So we can go back into this
one and copy it from here. So I chose this
layer, Command C, and then in this one, Command V, and we can center this one. And I would bring
that up to the top. If you don't want to be reminded you've made a spelling mistake, you can press T
for the text tool, right click on that
and do learn spelling. And then that will not point out spelling mistakes
when the art. So that is your then
reusable template. What I'll do now is show you how easy it is to drop another
image into this one. So if we click on this
one at the bottom, and then click on File Place, and I've got another one here
with a different design of the shoes and click and
drag from this corner here. But and then center it, and then we've got a different
pair of shoes in there. And each time you add a new one, you can then delete the one at the bottom that you've
just added in, like that. So that's how easy it is to plank a new design into these. As a little bonus, I'm
going to put this template that I've made here as a
download from my website, and I'll put a link for
that in the resource sheet. So refer back to that
original list of all the possible
templates you might need and have a go at
making those in affinity, and then you'll have all
your marketing templates ready to pull out when
we make our assets. Having these templates ready to go will make it much faster to create promotional content every time you release a new design. Just drop in the pattern
and you're done. And when it comes to marketing, working smarter with templates means you can get
back to doing what you love designing while still making sure
your work gets seen. So before we start
the next lesson, you need to make sure that
you have all your print on demand assets made up plus any marketing templates
that you want to use, and then we are ready to
work through a workflow, pretending we've just
finished a pattern, and then we make all
the assets for it.
11. Asset Creation Workflow: Mm. So I'm here in Procreate. I've just finished this pattern, and I'm going to send it over to my computer by sharing a
flattened JPEG image of it. I've also made another
image using some of the motifs arranged on a
transparent background, and I'll be using that more
for things like T shirts, where a square of pattern
doesn't really work on its own. This one gets shared
as a PNG image. So I've got my two designs here, the patentile and the motifs here that I've sent
over from Procreate. And I'm going to make a
new folder for these, and I'm going to give it an
SKU number because that's something I like to do
right from the beginning to keep everything organized. So this one will
be RF 25 oh three, and we'll call it pumpkin spice. I'm going to click on these,
right click and rename them. And I'm going to add
that SKU to these. And then I'm going to drag
them into this folder. Then I would double
click on this except double clicking doesn't seem to work while I'm using
this screen recorder, so I'm going to
right click on this and choose open in Ntab instead. And then I'm going to
select both of these and choose open with
Affinity Photo. And then I'm going to add
both of these to my assets. They're both just
single layer files, so I can just click
on the Hamburger here and add from selection. Can then close this
one and then do the same on this one,
ad from selection. And then both of those
are there in my assets. You can go to File Close, and then I'm going to go to open a file now
with Command O. I'm in my processing
templates here. And this is kind of like the bare minimum of files
that I need to open. I'm not going to
go through and use every single one of
the templates because I don't personally upload a separate asset for
each one of those. These are the ones
that I'm going to go through and open, though, and I'll put a list of those in the resource sheet
if you want that. I'm going to press Command A to open all of these
and press Enter. Then it's going to work its way through
opening all of these. You can see I've got
these tabs along the top here where I can switch
between different ones, and the rest of them are all hidden under this
little arrow here. The first one that we've got
here is the spiral notebook. So I'm going to press G, select my new pattern, and then obviously the scale
needs changing on this one. I know that my rectangle
comes off the edges of this, so I can hide that
one and then just hold down shift and bring this
in to a scale that I like. Then I'm going to press
Shift Option Command S, which is the export function. And that's going to
bring this screen up. We want to export
this as a JPEG. You've got different options
up here. We want JPEG. The file settings, we want
this just at normal size, so you don't need
to change these. Quality, you should
have a best quality. And I have my resample
just on bilinear. I think that's the
default setting, and everything else we
can leave as it is here. And then I'm going
to click on Export. Then it's going to want me
to choose a folder for that. I can try and double click on Pumpkin Spice, that's
not going to work. I'll choose Save instead, and then I can get
into the folder. And then once I'm in here, I'm going to create
a new folder. Assets and then click on Create. And then just click Save.
You can either leave these files open and close
and save them all at the end, or you could just close each one as you go along, which
is what I'm going to do. So I'm going to click
and close this one. And I'm going to
choose not to save these because then
it will be left in kind of the same state
next time with the rectangle showing and the
pattern skill set 100%. So I'm going to
chooe Don't Save. Next, we've got
the apparel file. I'm going to make two
versions of this. I'm going to make one
with a pattern fill and one with my motif
placement on the top. So you can get rid of this
little Pandagai there. We can drag this one out from our assets and center
this on the document, hide our marker, and this is the one that
we would use for T shirts. So I'm going to shift option Command S to bring
up the export screen. This one we want to
export as a PNG, so it has the transparency. You can leave all these
settings the same. Just click on Export
and press Enter. It will drop you back into the last folder
you saved into, which is handy, so you
can just press Enter. That's nice saved at that.
You can hide this one, bring up our guide and our fill. Click on this layer, press
G, fill it with this one. And I'm also just going to leave this one at 100% scale, I think. Make sure we hide the marker, press Shift Option Command
S to export again. Make sure we change
this back to a JPEG. Click on Export, save,
and that's a one done. So now we can get
rid of this file. Close off here,
choose not to save. Beach towel, press G, hide my rectangle, Shift Option, Command S. This will be
left on the last setting, which is JPEG, so I
can just press Enter, Enter again, and that's done. Then we can close this one. Then we've got the duffel bag, and I'm going to make
sure I do each fill separately so I don't
mess with the direction. Press G and fill it with this. I think that scale is probably a bit bigger than I'd
like for the duffel bag. So what I'm going to
do, I'm going to drag this node in until it's
the size that I like, and then kind of make a
mental note that I've put that node sort of halfway between the edge and the middle. Go on to my rectangle
layer, press V, or then command and
shift and drag this in until that is sort of
halfway between the middle. Then that marks out the scale
that I'm going to be using. So then I can go back
to this layer, press G. And drag the node
to snap with that, then select this layer, and then make this scale
match too. And there we go. And then if I hide this, you can see we've got this
pattern flowing that way up, that one going the
other way around. We can put these cut lines on, and we might want to adjust
this one so that we've got, like, something
centered on there. If there was a
particular part of the pattern that we
wanted to have on there, you could then click on this and move that
around like that. Then we need to remember
to hide this one, and then we can press
Shift Option Command S to save again, Enter, Enter, done. Then we can Then we've
got the fleece blanket. And again, I'm happy with that as the scale, so
we can hide that. The more of these you
do, the more it's going to become muscle
memory and you can just press Shift Option
Command S to Export and then hit Enter
twice, and you're done. You can see how if you're always making your patterns in
the same sort of scale, like you're always
using a 12 inch canvas, how this can be really
quick and easy, and you might not
even need to edit the scale at all for a
lot of your patterns. So let's do this one now. This one is the jigsaw puzzle. So this could be kind of
fun to have a small one. But actually, I think
that could be too annoying if you
had a whole jigsaw puzzle with this smaller scale, and I think that 100% scale is probably about right
for this jigsaw puzzle. So we'll just export
that as it is. For the leggings, I'm going
to put this mask back in because it helps you kind of visualize what sort of
scale you're looking at. Much too big for leggings. Let's make this a
little bit smaller. Then we need to remember
to hide both of these, and then we can export that one. Then we come to the palette pin. I like using this one.
So do the fill first. That could be moved around. Then click on one of these, press I to swatch the colors, press I again to move this one, then I to swatch again. Can see a lot of the colors. I've used the same
ones for this pattern. There we go. Then
Shift Option Command S again to save. Now
we've got the clock. So I'm going to bring the
scale down for this one, and then have a look at the chapter rings here and
decide what I want to go for. Think I'm just going to go
for the dashes on this one. So I'm going to select
the dashes layer. Click on this FX,
Enable color overlay, click on the color, and I think I'm going to use white for this
instead of the black. So I'll click Close and
then can export this one. Then we've got the backpack and this is another
one to be careful with making sure you don't try and apply it to all the layers
at the same time. We'll start with the
background layer and sort the scale for that one. I'm going to bring this
down to something like that and pay attention
to the fact that I've got this roughly lined up with that dot underneath there. Then I can adjust the
rectangle to that, press V, hold down command and shift and drag that down to
about the same size, and then we can go and adjust all these fills to that scale. Y. Making sure that we don't change the direction on any of these. Then make sure we've got
the rectangle hidden, and then this one's
ready to export. If you decide that
you are probably going to use this sort of scale for most of your patterns, you could choose to save these. So this backpack, there's
a high chance that I'm probably going to want of my patterns at this
kind of scale. So maybe I could click
Save on this one, and that would save me having
to adjust it each time. Next, we've got the
scarf, and remember, you should have this layer on top here with the cut lines. It's got a white border on it. That one needs to be saved. So remember not
to hide that one. Bring my scale down a bit, hide the rectangle, and then
we can export this one. Then we've got our marketing
template for the shoes. Obviously, because we haven't
uploaded the shoes yet, we can't download the asset, but we could put this one in and get the background ready for it, so I could just do that
press Command S to save. And then that's one
less thing to do later. So we can close that one. Then we've got the
journal, and this one you can apply to both
sides at the same time. And adjust the scale on
these, so it's even. But then if you select each one, you can move the
positioning around on these to suit however
you'd like it. If you hold down option, you can then move it around freely without it
snapping to anything. You can grab the other one. A nice selection of
motifs on there, and click on the rectangle now, press I and then choose
this dark color here. Then shift Option
Command S again. And then we've got
the cut and sew. And I've saved this one with the cut lines
showing because again, it helps you visualize
what you want on there. This one, remember,
you can apply it to all the layers
at the same time. And then move them
around individually. So I'll adjust the scale
down a little bit. Then we need to make sure
we've got our rectangle hidden and we need to make sure we've got
the cut lines hidden, but we do need this
layer in here, which has the little marker down here to say what's what for when they're putting the garment together. So make sure you have
this layer enabled, and then you can
export this one. And then we've got the
threadless backpack. So same as we did with
the red bubble one. We'll sort the scale
for this one first. Then kind of remember
where this marker is, adjust this one to
about the same. Then adjust this
fill to that one. Obviously, when you
come to adjust it, you decide it's too big, you can make it a bit smaller and then go back and
readjust your rectangle. There we go. Then
we can click on the others and adjust
those as well. Then we hide this one. The cut lines we leave in place, and then this is
ready to export. Then we've got the red
bubble duffel bag. This is another one
that I'm going to change the scale on this one. So I'll bring that down
to something like that, visualize where
that is, make it. So it's just align with
that panda's feet. Then we can bring the rectangle
down to the same size. Readjust this one.
And that one too. Hide the marker and export. Then we've got the shoes. So let's apply pattern to this, and that is much too big. So let's adjust
the scale on this. I'm going to put this mask that we made on so it's easier to
visualize it on the shoes. Then bring the scale
down a little bit. Then we bring the
scale of the box down. And then we can do the
same for all of these, remembering to do these one at a time so that we don't
mess up the direction. Then we can hide the rectangle. And if you decide you want
to move any of these around, now's your chance to do that. So grab this. Hold down option, and then you can move
it around more freely. You need to click on this
first and then press Option. If you hold down option
and click on this, you're going to get a
color picker instead. So click on this and
then press Option. So I quite like having something different on each of the
shoes so they don't match up. And then once you're happy
with the positioning on that, remember to hide this layer and we export this
one like this. And then last of all,
I've got my excel sheet. And as I mentioned, I do have a whole
class on making these, albeit in photoshop, but the principles would
still be the same. And I know some people
have taken that class and made them using
affinity designer, so the process would be the
same in affinity photo. So I'm going to click
on my patterns, press G, Then I've got
my rectangles up here. I press I. This is
just the same as we did for the
pallet pin, really. Then I would just change
the details on this, my scale is the same. Then when I want to export this, I'll show you how to
export something from affinity photo in a
lower resolution now. So the settings that I
normally use for this, I'm still going to press
Shift Option command Ts. I'm still going to use a JPEG, and I normally set
it to high quality, and the width, I'm going
to make 1080 for this one. And this is how I
export my excel sheet. So I have JPEG, high quality, the width around 1080 pixels, and then I would export this. And then if I go over to Finder, and find the sale sheet. You can see the file size, so
that is only 463 kilobytes. So if you like uploading
that to a portfolio website, which I also have a class on, your page is going
to load nice and quickly because that's
a nice small file size. And if I just open this one, you can see the image quality is also okay on there as well. So that's the workflow. I run through once I finish
the pattern in Procreate, and I need to bring it over to my computer for processing into various different assets to upload to all the
relevant places. As I said, I haven't
gone through adjusting every single template step
by step for you here, but I have covered all of the different types
of templates, including all of the ones
which are a little bit more complicated than just having a single layer of pattern fill. Most of the templates are just
a basic rectangle, though. So it's just a case of
changing the pattern, adjusting the scale,
and then exporting. I hope you can see how having all of these
templates ready to go each time you make a new pattern really improves your efficiency. And within a very short amount of time after finishing
your pattern, you can be ready to get uploaded to your print on demand store. It's a really cool feeling to draw something in the morning and then see it on sale and you're shop by
the end of the day. In the next lesson,
we'll have a look at how to upload
and apply some of the specialist assets during the upload process for both
red bubble and threadless.
12. Uploading: So now we're ready
to start uploading. I'm not going to go
through instructors for every single product because most of them, it's
the same process, but I'll walk you
through uploading each different type of
template that we made, and I'm also going to give you a few tips on things I do
to speed up the process. The first time saving tip is to upload to two platforms at the same time using
different tabs in the same web browser so that while something is
uploading in One tab, you can get on with
making adjustments in the other tab and also copy and paste
things like tags and descriptions from one
tab into another. So I will be hopping
back and forth between Threadless and Redbubble as
we work through this lesson. So I've got Red
bubble tab open here, and then I've got
Threadless tab open here. So first of all, I'm going to upload my pattern
tile to Redbubble. And as I keep mentioning the benefits of using a
similar scale every time, you can copy settings from
previous designs on Redbubble. So I've got this Panda one here. I can either add new
work by clicking here, and then I would have to choose all my scales and enable
products from scratch, or you can click on
a product you've already enabled,
choose copy settings, and that will create a
copy of that product, which you can then
drop your new design into and keep the same
settings as last time. So that's what this
screen will look like if you're
copying a product. If I go back and we
click Add New Work. Got the choice here to copy an existing one or
upload a new one. Upload my tile. Then you'd have to enable all
of these manually, edit, and then you can change
the settings on there. But what I'm going to do
is go back and instead, click on this one and
do copy settings. So even though the main image is a print rather
than a pattern, that's because it will
pick whatever you put in here as the
main image for it. I still start by uploading
the pattern tile. I'm going to replace all images, and I'm going to upload
my patent tile because the majority of the designs
in this use the patent tile. Then I'm going to
go back over to Threadless and add
a product here. I and I'm going to add
a name for it up here. You can submit it for the ongoing challenge
if you want to. I'm not going to do
that with this one. So best primary file is
a 4,200 by 800 pixel, that's the apparel file.
So that's this one here. I'm going to upload my pattern version of the apparel file. It's not mature content. You can choose a
background color, which is going to get
used for anywhere we eventually use the PNG
file, the transparent file. You click on this. There's some ready
made colors on there, or we could go back
into Affinity Photo. And we could open up
just any of these files. I'm going to press I
for the eyedrop at all, and just click on this purple
color in the background. It's going to change this fill to that color, but that's okay. We can undo that in a moment. And then let's see
if Double click is working for me at the moment.
Or it is working now. So you can double
click on that there, and then you can get
the hex code down here, press Command C to
copy that, close, and we'll just undo that fill, go back into our browser. Click on the
background color here, and then you can
paste that color in and choose Select color. And then that's going to apply that same background color to any transparent images
you put on there, and you do have the option to edit those individually
later on as well, but it's nice to just set the main background
color up there. I'm not going to bother
with a description for this product just because I'm
doing it as a test product, and I hate writing descriptions, so I'm not going to make myself do one when
I don't need to. I'm going to click on apparel you can upload additional
images if you want, but I will do that
in the next screen. And the thing to
think about here is what colors your product
is going to look good on. So imagine this
with no background. It's probably not
going to look great on orange colors because these pumpkins aren't
going to stand out, so I wouldn't enable oranges. And to be honest, what
I think I'm going to do is just enable
whites for this one. So then you come down to
the different categories, so you can select
all the men's Ts, and I'll select any that are white because that's the
only one I've selected. And then I'm going to do the
same for women and kids. Come down to home, and I'm
going to select all of these. We can turn them off in the next screen as well if we want to. And for accessories, I'm also
going to choose Select All. Then this is the part
where we have to add our individual templates. So this is where we get to upload our cut and sew template. That's this one here. And I'm going to
select all of these. Socks, I'm not bothering with, but if you wanted to upload those, that's where
you'd do that one. Next, we can do the shoes. And we'll enable
men's and women's, and then you get to
choose a binding color. Most of the time, I
choose white for these. Then we can do luggings down the duffel bag
and make sure you do the threadless duffel bag,
not the red bubble one. If you remember, we put RB at the beginning of all
the red bubble ones. So this one here
is the Threadless one and this one down here with RB, that's
the red bubble one. So we know we're doing
the right one there. And in fact, if you upload something in the wrong
dimensions for these, I'll show you on this one. That's the backpack,
but let's just upload the Let's do something that's small and going
to upload quickly. I upload the wrong
template for this one. You'll get an error
message anyway. So let's upload the right
one for that backpack. That one's easy to spot
because it's this one up here. Then you need to tick this one, make sure you've got
this part filled out. Otherwise you won't be able
to go onto the next screen, and then you can click
on Create products. That takes a while to
load. So at this point, I'll go back over to Red bubble and start working on this one. So we'll do pumpkin
spice in there. You could change your
tags, leave floral in. And just use those
ones for now just for the sake of
filling something out because what I normally do is I'll copy these and then paste those into the
threadless one as well. So I will put some in those. And let's put something in here. There we go. At least
we've put something. So then I will just go through this and edit all
these products. So this one, click on Edit, enable it if you want to, and then we're going to
click Replace Image, and we're going to use the
print that we made for this. Then we can go on to
the other T shirt, click on Replace Image, and upload that for
that one as well. These products have to be a PNG, so this is why all the JPEGs
are graded out for this one. You can use a PNG for
the hats if you want to. If you're uploading from scratch rather than copy an
existing product, you'll have just your
square of pattern in there, so you need to click on Edit. And then down here where
it says Choose pattern, you need to choose regular grid, and then that will tile your pattern over
the whole screen, and then you get to change
the scale of it like this. Then you can click
on Apply changes, and that will get saved. And then you'd
need to go through that and do that on
all of these products. These ones are both patterns. This one is a pattern.
The stickers one, I would use the PNG
file for this one. And if you leave enough
space between these, you'll see it makes them into separate cute little mini
stickers, which I love. Phone case, that's another
one to apply the pattern to. These ones are all designs that you can use the
pattern function, prints cards and posters. So if you have a
transparent print file, I would use that for this one. Otherwise, I would put the
mini print in this one. I think I'll use
this one for now. And just the same
as on threadlss, you can also choose background
colors on Red bubble two. You can click here and you can paste in the same
color for that one. If you know you want
to use the same background color on everything, you can set the background color for all the files up here. These next few
here are also ones that I would use the
pattern repeat function on. And then we come to the
hardcover journals. So I'm going to edit this one. I'm going to replace the image
with the mini print one. I'm going to go back into
Affinity Photo and grab the color that I used
for the darker purple. Double click doesn't
want to work now. Come on. There we go, working now. So let's copy that. Close, undo Go back into
Firefox, and on this one, this is uploaded now
so we can edit this and click on this and set the background to
that different color now. If you've used the
same size template as I suggested for
that mini print, then the scale you'd want to set this to is 68%
in order for it to fill all the way to the edges and make sure it's centered
vertically and horizontally. Then you can apply
changes on that, and that's how that
one's going to look. Next, we've got the
clock, which we made a specific template for replace image
and find the clock. And you'll see
that upload nicely with all the rings around there. It's always worth
going and centering this one just to make sure
it's in the right place. Artboard prints, you can replace with the PNG
file if you want to. If you don't have
a separate motif or you think it doesn't
actually look that great. And for this one, because
it's more of a square design, I don't actually think
that looks that good. I'm going to click off that and disable this
product for that one. The acrylic blocks and coasters, that is square, so I think this one will
look okay on that one. And again, it's always worth
going in and centering that. You can change the
scale on these as well. Bring that one up to
100, recenter it. These two are both
pattern repeats. This one, I'm going to
disable because it's a rectangle and I don't think the motif would look
that great on there. This one I can definitely
replace with the PNG file. And we'll do this one
as well while that's loading. Click on Edit. Make sure this one's centered. Then the badge as well. Hopefully, when
you're doing this, you should be able to see this and this at the
same time because I've got my resolution
so big I can't very easily see it all at the
same time. There we go. Then we've got the apron, which is a pattern
repeat, jigsaw puzzle we could enable for this one. File is there somewhere.
We just need to center it. Choose pattern, regular grid, and that's the biggest
we can make this one. So if you think that
that looks okay, you can leave that one enabled or if you think it's
not that great, then you can disable it. Think I will leave
that one as that is. Then you've got the
sleeveless tops, which again is a pattern
repeat miniskirts and then these ones here. So these two, you can use
the pattern repeat backpack. You can upload your
backpack file for that. That's this one. And the duffel bags, we can also upload the duffel bag
template for this one, which is the red bubble
duffle duffel bag. So we need to edit the scale on this one and make
sure that it's set to 100% and that it's centered
vertically and horizontally, and that there's no
pattern on this one. And then you should see that you've got changes in
direction in pattern here, that matches up with
these cutting lines. So then you can apply. That's how that
one's going to look. And then the duffel
bag, the settings you want for this one are 100%. You need to make
sure it's centered, and you need no
pattern on this one. Then we can have a quick
scrollba through here, make sure everything is
looking as we want it. Or we didn't adjust the T
shirts, actually, did we? So I normally position these
so that the top of the print is somewhere near the top and then just center
it horizontally. You don't get to turn
colors off on red bubble, but you get to
choose which color you have for the
main preview image. So I'm going to
leave that as white. And then we click on the
large print clothing. Again, I'm going
to just drag this somewhere near the
top and center it horizontally and apply that and just make sure the
one is optimized as well. We can make that a
little bit bigger. We can center that So that's all of our red
bubble products optimized. Before I click Publish on this
one, I'm going to up here, press Command A, Command
C to copy all that text. I did not spell pumpkin, right. So it's a good job I
came and check that. Command A, Command C. I'm
going to go into Thread list, which should all be
ready to go now. And I'm going to paste
those tags into here. Click Add tags, and I'm also going to grab
the description. Command A, Command C, and then we can paste
that into here, product description and
the meta description. Then scroll back to the
bottom in Red bubble. You can choose media or
collections if you want to. You need to say yes or
no to mature content. Agree to the user agreement, and then you can click Save. Then I'm just going to
hop straight over into Threadliss and get on
with enabling this one. So once you've pasted all
of those parts in there, you can click Save updates, and then we can start
optimizing these products. So first thing we need to do
is to change the T shirts. So if you click on
the men's tab here, or women's or kids
would also be fine. You want to click
here where it says primary file and Edit. Then you can replace the
file with this one here. This one will automatically snap the first pixel to
the top of the T shirt, and you can click Apply, and that will apply it to
all of the clothes. So if we go back into
the overview now, it will take a while to load. But you can see that
it gets applied to the men's, women's and kids. So these are the ones we
uploaded specific templates for. They're all looking
good. We can also apply that PNG to the wall art now. And it's applied the
background color. And this is where
you get to decide if you want to
enable those or not. And the same as I did with
the red bubble art prints, I don't think
they're particularly suited to a rectangle frame. So I'm actually going to click on this and do remove From Shop. And I'm going to do that
with all the wall art. But if you've got a rectangular
design that does work, you could go ahead and
replace these ones as well. But I'm going to choose to
remove these from the shop. Tapestry, we can apply our
tapestry template to that one. That one looks okay. We've got a blanket template we can use, which is called fleece. We can replace the Duve. That one, I'll leave it as it is and do the shower curtain. Then we do the rug. I'm going to use the rug
template for this one as well. I'm going to remove these. You can upload the
PNG for the hat. And then I'm going to
click on Edit Image again. But I think even
if I make it 150%, I'm still not sure that that looks actually that
great on there. So I would remove that one from Shop and also not bother
adding the baseball cap. But if yours does
look good on there, then you can obviously
enable those. It's just good to get in
the habit of thinking, Does this design work
for this product? For the mugs, you can
either leave those as the patent or you can put
your print on those as well. And for the mugs,
I think I would change the background
color to white. These next few products, I normally leave as they are, and then just upload
the PNG for the magnet. And then this notebook we've
got a separate template for. And you can see how
nice that looks with the spine that
we put in down there. We've also got a
spiral notebook, template. And the phone case. The greetings card is another one that if you've got a PNG, you could use that decide how it looks and then decide whether you want to
enable that or not. Think probably I would just
not enable this product. These two work
okay. The desk map. We've got an image for that one. The scarf we've also got
a separate file for. Then there's just the jigsaw
puzzle and the skateboard. Then you'll need to
wait a few minutes for these to populate. I'm not sure why,
but this premium rug always just fills the whole
thing with Pattern there. But if you click on this,
you can choose View in Shop, and then you get
a preview of that there and you can click on all of these and get a preview. For how that's going
to look this way. And I contacted the thread less team about how things
sometimes look different in the product screen here as opposed to how
they look in the shop, and they reassured me
that however it looks in the shop to a customer
is how it will print. So don't worry if it looks
a bit peculiar here. As long as it looks
okay in this screen, in the shop screen, then it's going to print
okay as well. So I'm going to try refreshing the page and
see if that's going to sort this one out seeing as it's looking okay
in this screen. There we go. So that should be everything and look
in as we want it now. So we are ready to
publish the product now. And then straightaway,
Threadless, I'm going to remind
you about promoting this and marketing, which is something we will
cover in our next lesson.
13. Easy Marketing: Once your products are uploaded, there's a few really quick and simple techniques
you can do to promote your product
without really making any extra work
for yourself at all. If we click on the shoes here, remember we made the
template for them. I'm going to click on this
and choose View in Shop. And then down here, I'm going to download
the images for that. And on Thread list, when you choose to download
the product images like that, it will email them to you. And then in the
email, there'll be a download link
which you click on, and then it saves those
to your downloads folder. So we can go into our
Downloads folder now, and you'll have a
zip file like this. Can choose to open it. And then we can find the shoe
image from this. You can press Command
C on that one. And then if we go
to Affinity Photo, open up this folder here, click on the image
at the bottom, and if we press Command V to paste, that's going to
bring that in there. It's not the right
size at the moment, which is why it's not snapped
perfectly into place, but we can resize this
and then center it. And there we've got our
pin ready for Pinterest. So on this one, we can
export this as a JPEG, and I'll put it out
here in this folder. Then we could go into Finder, and I'll rename this one. And then this one can also be dragged into my Pintres folder. And then over here in Redbubble. And I've now corrected all of the spelling mistakes where I spelled pumpkin wrong earlier. Once you've published, you'll
end up on this screen. This shows you all the
different products. If you click on View, that's going to take it to this product in
your actual shop. And what you can do from
here is pin a product or image directly to Pinterest if you've got the
browser extension. Over here, I'll put a link for this page in the resource sheet. You can grab a
browser extension. I'm in Firefox, so I'm going to follow the instructions and add this Pinterest
button to Firefox. Then we can go back over
to this red bubble page. Click up here to run
the extension now. And then it's going to give us all these images here that
we can pin to Pinterest. You could choose a product
image if you want. This one here is the
one that I want to pin. So then we can click next, and I'm going to pin it
to my Illustration page. So that's a really quick
and easy thing you can do. As soon as you've uploaded, you can pin this image to Pinterest. And if you want to add
your pattern as well, if you scroll down here to
one of the phone cases, we choos the iPhone soft case, click on here and choose
View Product page. If you use the Pintrest
extension on here, there's this image down
here of your pattern, which is in a nice
rectangle shape, which is perfect for Pinterest. You click on this one, run
the Pintrest save extension, scroll down to the
bottom, and we can choose this image here
and pin this one, and I'll put this on my
surface pattern design page. And these images that
you pin from here are really good for engagement
and saves on Pintrest. And some of my most pinned
pins from years ago, they are pins from this page
with these patterns on them. They're really good for getting your patterns out
there on Pinterest, and that is like 2
minutes extra work. You don't have to make
another image for it, and it's just another way
of promoting your product. So that's now all of our assets made, everything's uploaded, and now we are ready to
archive this folder, which is what we'll look
at in the next lesson.
14. File Organisation: M one of the questions I get asked most often is how I organize my files for
long term storage. So I thought it would
be good to include that in this lesson as we are kind of working through
the life cycle of a pattern. So in this folder here, this is the one
we've been using. I've already got my assets
for print on demand or here. I've got my creative
market items. The other one I
would put in here is the JPEG patentile because that will get used
on Creative Market. And then I've got
these two files here. This one is the
finished layered file that I've saved out
from Affinity Photo. And I've got the
PNG. I would put those in a folder
called artwork. So I can put those
over in there. And then the only other file I'm left with here is
my excel sheet, which I would just leave out
here in the main folder. So this is how a folder would look for a design that
I'm going to arch. I've got a folder with the artwork in it,
the layered files. I've got the print on
demand assets there. I've got my marketplace items there and I've got my
portfolio sheet there. I tend not to store social
media images in the main file. I store those in their own
file on my hard drive, and then I can
quickly go through and delete old stuff once it's uploaded or
archive it in bulk. So Pinterest and
social media things, they would be saved in separate folders dedicated for those. So then this might sit around on my computer for a while
in this folder here. I've got IMACiPad patterns
here, and then eventually, every few months, I
would then archive that to a separate
external hard drive. That's how I organize
my files for long term storage to
keep them all tidy. They've all got their SKU, so I can easily find
and search for them, and that's how I would
store them away on an external hard drive
once I'm done with them. That's actually all
the lesson work complete for this class now. And in the next
video, we'll have a quick recap for what you need to do for your
class project, summarize what
we've learned today and what your next
steps might be.
15. Next Steps: Thank you so much for
taking this class. I really hope you're
leaving with a solid, confident workflow for getting
your procreate patterns onto print on demand products
using Affinity Photo. We've covered a lot today
from importing and scaling your patterns to using red bubble and
threadless templates, setting up efficient
marketing workflows, and even organizing
your design files. I hope it sparked new ideas for you for how you
can share and sell your patterns more easily and effectively. Now it's your turn. Head over to the
project gallery and upload a snapshot of
what you've created, whether it's a shoes mock up, a pinterest pin, or a shop full of your
beautiful products. I love seeing your
work, and it's also a great way to inspire and connect with other
students in the class. If you have any questions or
you get stuck on something, just hop over to the discussions tab and leave me a message. I'm always happy to help
and chat with you there. If you'd like to keep exploring the world of Pattern
Design with me, you can find more of my content over on my YouTube
channel where I share free tutorials and inspiration for surface
pattern designers. And if you want to really dive deeper into building
your creative business, be sure to check out the
Pattern Makers toolkit. It's free to join and
packed with resources to help you level up your
designs and your workflows. Before you go, if you've
enjoyed this class, I'd love it if you
could take a moment to leave me a quick review. It really helps other
students find the class, and it makes me smile
when I read them, too. Don't forget to follow
me here on Skillshare, so you'll be the
first to know when my next class is published. Thanks again for joining me. Have fun. Say creative,
and I will see you soon.
Rebecca Flaherty, Surface Pattern Artist & Content Creator
