T-Shirt Design Mastery: Using A. I and Adobe Illustrator

1. Introduction: Creating designs from scratch can be time-consuming and challenging. Also, finding the best graphics for your design is always a headache, especially if you're looking for something new or copyright-free. With the help of artificial intelligence, you can now create amazing designs that are unique while saving you a lot of time. In this class, I'm going to show you how to use artificial intelligence to generate images that are unique, different styles and to use for your t-shirt designs. We will explore the different steps in the design process from generating the correct prompt, creating images using artificial intelligence tools and eventually turning them into eye-catching t-shirt designs. We will also go over the best prompts that can generate the style of image that we can use effectively for designing. I'm also going to share with you my book of prompts, which has over 20 tested prompts that I am using to create amazing and beautiful T-shirts. By the end of this class, you will have a basic understanding of the different techniques of Adobe Illustrator that you can use to convert your images too attractive designs. You will also complete to design projects throughout the course using images that were generated by artificial intelligence tools. I'm wide Morgan, a content creator and graphic designer with over four years of experience in Merge designed. So if you are willing to dive into the world of AI generated t-shirt design. Join me in this class. Now, let's get started. 2. Benefits of Designing With A.I: Hello everyone, and welcome to the first lesson of this class. As you know, this class is dedicated to teach you how to design T-shirts using artificial intelligence tools. And it will show you the techniques that you can use to generate unique images and eye-catching designs with artificial intelligence tools like mid journey, playground and other tools that are available in the market. The main purpose of this class is to help you by using Adobe Illustrator to create the design you want with the images that you have generated with the artificial intelligence tools. So first let's talk about the benefits of designing with artificial intelligence. There are a couple of benefits when it comes to designing with artificial intelligence. The first point is getting unique designs. When you use artificial intelligence to generate images for your designs, these images are totally unique. It's not possible that any, anybody else has the same graphics are the same images that you have generated with the artificial intelligence tool. So you will have your own unique designs that are not available anywhere around the world. It also saves time. The generated images can be created in a matter of seconds or minutes. So this saves a lot of time that you would have been spent on manual designing. It also enables designers to create multiple designs in a short amount of time, as we are going to see throughout this class. Third, it's cost-effective. Ai generated images can save costs associated with traditional graphic design. If you don't know how to draw yourself, you might go to a graphic designer or someone who can do the drawing for you. Or you might need to pay some fees to buy a license for an image. So using AI generated images can save you lots of costs. Customization I generated images can be customized to fit individual preferences. And this is what we are going to see throughout this class. We can generate different styles using AI generated images based on the prompt that we are going to use. And based on the prompt that we are going to learn how to write it correctly. Scalability, they are generated images can be easily scaled to fit different sizes of T-shirts. And also we will see the different skills that you can use or input and your AI tools to get the best result. And finally, copyright-free. Day I generated images are copyright-free because they are unique, near created only for you. So you have the rights to use it anywhere. Nobody else has the rights to use your own copyright-free images. So the process that we are going to follow throughout this class is to write the correct prompt and generate the image. Then download the image that we have created, and then upscaling the image. And finally converting the image to a t-shirt design. And in this class we're going to do two projects, two different designs using two different images. But first, what is a prompt? The prompt is the text that you use and enter in DJI image generation tool to create the image or the style of image that you would. It is the text that you use and enter in the image generation tool to create an image that eventually you're going to use to create your design. So the prompt is the most important thing when it comes to AI generations. So how to write a perfect prompt for t-shirts? So the formula that I used to create the perfect prompt consists of five main elements. Description, the style, colors, the background, and keyword. And we're going to talk about each part individually. But mainly the description is the part where you describe what you would like to have your image about. So e.g. if you say, if you want to create a design about the cat, the description could be acute cat. The style is how you would like the style of the image to look like. E.g. people can enter pop art style, vector art style, drawing, sketch book style. So it's important to have a specific style and enter it in the AI tool. Otherwise, you will get a random style of image. If you do not enter your own preferred style, the colors, it's very obvious this is when it comes to your preferred colors, the background, it means, what do you like to have in the background of your generated image? You'd maybe we can say white background. You can say a red background, or you can write the sunset background. So you have to have a description of your background. And finally, the keyword. This is the most important part when it comes to generating prompts. The art specifically dedicated to create our images for t-shirts. And by keywords, I have listed some keywords in front of you, like vector, vector art, illustration, t-shirt design, vector core, digital drawing. These keywords, whenever it exists or whenever you use any of them, were a couple of them together and you enter them in your prompt, most likely you'll get a result that creates a style that is suitable for t-shirt design. And also what one of the keywords that people use is to enter a name of an artist. So if you write e.g. acute cat in the style of Van Gough. So you will get the style of the generated image similar to Van Gogh's style. So this also, we can add that adding the name of the artist if you have a preferred artist is also one of the keywords. 3. Prompts for T-Shirts: So let's now let's take an example of a prompt. So motorbikes, silhouette, t-shirt design featuring a detailed illustration of a vintage motorcycle with a sunset background set against the backdrop of a city skyline. The motorcycle is front-facing and it's front-wheel is lifted in the air as if performing a wheelie. This is a very long prompt. And I have it as an example to show you how the structure is made. So if we color it, Our prompt according to the structure that they have, you will see that motorbike is the description silhouette. This style T-shirt design is a keyword, is one of the keywords that we have mentioned earlier, featuring a detailed illustration of a vintage motorcycle. This is all part of the description. Sunset background is a background is explaining the background of the design set against the backdrop of a city skyline. This is also a description and part of the city skyline is can be considered colors. The motorcycle is front-facing and it describes how the motorcycle should look like. So it's part of the description. Shades of orange and yellow. This is our colors, shades gray and black. These are colors. That design has a retro vibe. This is considered the style of the prompt. And the image that is below the prompt is one of the generated images based on the prompt in front of you. Many AI tools, they generate four or more than one image it for whenever you enter a prompt. And this image was one of the generated images based on the prompt, the prompt in front of you. Another example of a prompt is pop art deco, sunset, Zuma Beach, Volkswagen Beetle, surfboard, palm trees, beach surfers. So the rest of the prompt is in front of you. And also if we divide the prompt, the pop art Deco is the style sunset Zuma Beach. Still description, but since it also can be considered a background Volkswagen Beetle, this is the description, it's called surf board. This is also the description, palm trees, the whitewater ocean clouds. These are colors and this prompt does not have a specific keyword. Some other sample prompts or the one in front of you. The vector core. Vector core itself is one of the keywords that I prefer to use when using some of the Artificial Intelligence tools. Cactus with sunglasses, drinking lemonade. This is the description. Splash. This is the style sunburst graphic, also style T-shirt design vector. This is a keyword, another keyword, another sample of the prompts is this one, pop art deco. This is the problem that we have mentioned before. Art Deco, sunset Zuma Beach works wagon beetle, surf board, palm trees, speech, surfers, waves, whitewater. And this is the image that were generated based on the prompt. These prompts and similar styles we're going to test in this class to create some of the designs on t-shirts. The next prompt, looks really cool. Giraffe, nickel art, graffiti style, Marvel comic book style, vector illustration. There are a couple of styles mentioned together in this sample prompt. Decal art, graffiti style, the Marvel comic book style. All these are styles and also vector illustration. This is a style and at the same time it's one of the keywords that I've mentioned. And it created this cool looking giraffe. Another one is vector core fat American truck driver with american aviator sunglasses, splash, sunburst graphic, t-shirt design vector. So fat American truck driver, this is the description with american aviator sunglasses. Splash. This is all for. This is a style sunburst. This is a style graphics style T-shirt design. Vector is one of the keywords that I've mentioned and the vector core as well. Another prompt is t-shirt vector and in geographic detailed design pixels, retro reflective style. So the t-shirt vector is the keyword in geographic is description. Detailed is also, you can consider it part of the description Pixar retro reflective on styles. That was it for this lesson. See you in the next lesson. 4. Aspect Rations of A.I Images: So when it comes to the aspect ratio, there are different aspect ratios according to the tool that you're going to use. And we will, and we will talk about the AI tools that are available in use right now as, as examples. But anyway, these are 90% of the issues that the AI tools allow you to have. So the one by one ratio creates like a square image type, similar to the one with the monkey, the green monkey. The nine over the nine to 16 is a vertical one. The two to three is vertical one bus but wider. The four to five is also vertical one but more white. The three to two is is a more of a horizontal thumbnail style image. And the 16th tonight, if you asked me which one to use for designing t-shirts, I usually prefer the vertical one, the three in the middle, the nine to 16 to two to three, and the four to five. However, sometimes it depends on your description of the image. Like the image of the monkey, the green monkey, the angry green monkey in front of you that whose one-to-one. And it can easily be customized to fit on a t-shirt so he can play with your artificial intelligence tool to try different aspect ratios as per your style, and to see how it goes. 5. A.I Platforms: So in this lesson we're going to talk about the artificial intelligence platforms that are available. Enough about theories and talk. And let's get into the actual testing and the actual work of the class. From this lesson onwards, we will start practicing everything that we have talked about and we will start checking the AI platforms and start generating images and designs. So I've listed a couple of artificial intelligence tools that are famous these days. Most of the Bronx that I have listed in the previous lessons were tested on my journey. But you can still play with the, with the words and add keywords to get similar styles to the one that you saw. So the most famous ones, the most famous AI platforms are my journey, Play, background, Leonardo do a creative fabric as pork, blue willow, lexica, and Delhi. And we're going to check these platforms right now. So the first one we have is the dull ache. So these are some generated images that were generated by the people. And when we hover over one of the images that you will see that the prompt used to create the image is appears. So each photo is created with a prompt. This is what we have been talking about. And each Ai generation tool has an area where you can enter your prompt according to the formulas that we have talked about. So e.g. let's try to test the data ie tool and add a prompt baby dog detail to wearing sunglasses. Just e.g. just for an example, 3's background, vector, art, illustration. And click Generate. We are going to it for a couple of seconds and that he is going to provide us with four images. As you can see, these are the four images that were generated based on the prompt that I have entered? Me are they are they don't look much as expected. It's more of an amateur drawing style. So you can play with the keywords to try to get different styles when you work on, they'll eat when it comes to meet journey, the prompts that we have that I have listed are going to work exactly the same. So now this is the majority platform. In my opinion, that's the best platform available now, when it comes to AR generation, when it comes to hear I, image generation, the styles that are provided are amazing. And also these are images that were created by the community, by people. And any style of image that you like. When you click on it, it will open the prompt that was used to generate the image like this one. Topical punk skiing. So this will also give you an idea of the prompts to use if you like, a specific style. If you open the image, the whole prompt is going to be visible. And you can copy it and change the description to get similar images. So that's the major new platform. Of course. Each, each platform, each platform has different interface and has different tools to use. So you need to get used to the AI platform that you're using, to know the rules, to know to change the settings and play with it until you master the platform so that you can get the best out of it. But in the coming lesson where we are going to start creating or generating prompts, I'm going to use the My Journey plot for another platform is the creative fabric a spark? It's a totally different platform than the ones that you've seen. It also generates very nice images. But the problem was the creative fabric as parkour, the negative issue is that they allow creators to hide the prompts. So many of these prompts, you cannot see what people entered it, like. They are hidden. However, it still provides very nice results. The following platform is the playground. And the playground AI platform is also creates amazing results. And the advantage of this one, as we speak, it provides one South and three images daily. Not all the platforms provide free generation images. So and you can also click on any image that you like to save it to the bookmark. And also all the prompts that were used to generate the image can be seen when you click on the image itself. This one here. You can copy the prompt used. It can re-mix it to change a part of it or edit it and get similar results while using a different description. And the playground platform, it enables you to classify the images based on categories like vehicles, science-fiction, landscapes, food fashion. And you can search accordingly and check the generated prompts. Again. Again, copying any of these prompts and changing the description will get you similar style of image with the corruption and the new description that you've entered. And other platform is the lexica platform. This is one of the three platforms that enable you to generate three images. And it also has amazing results with different styles. And again, if you click on the image, you can see the whole prompt and you can copy the prompt and will open an editor and change it and generate different images. So this is, this is a nice sticker of a dog, e.g. if we click on it and copy the prompt and use it in the generate, books. Plays the prompt. And we can change the Q tapping German, too, cute, happy. Shin, cat, e.g. was a long tongue with a with long hair. Die cut sticker. Let's change black and white, too colorful. And no background. And click Generate. And let's see what's what we are getting. We got different photos. I like the one on the right. It can be used in designing. And also a few don't like the results. It can click on Generate again. And the AI tool will generate another four images. Or if you like one of the images, you can open it out, printed or upscale it, download it, and start working with it. As we are going to see in the upcoming lessons. Here you can see that the ratio of the image can be changed through this pore. This is a vertical ratio similar to the ones that we had. And this is this is more of a thumbnail ratio of the image. That was it for this lesson. See you there. 6. Midjourney On Focus: In this lesson, we are going to understand how to create prompts that are suitable for t-shirt designs. And these prompts are mainly focused on how to get a vector style or illustration style images that you can use later. In this lesson, I'm going to use the major new platform and show you the different ways to create this type of images that are suitable for t-shirt designs. So if you go to my journey platform on sign-in, you will be directed to a discord server. As we speak. And at the time of recording this class, the journey is using the Discord server to generate the images. So this is still the website of the month journey. This is you would have a home screen where you have all the generated images that you have done by yourself previous, previously stored. So all these images are styles that you will be provided in the course section, in the download section, that are collected and generated by myself to enable you to create similar styles that can be used for t-shirt designs. Anyway, I forgot to explore is hard. The community feet section where all people have created different kinds of prompts. And you can bookmark the one that you like and see how the prompt is described. And you can also use it for creating similar images. So if you go to the Discord server and go to my journey server, I'll show you how to create prompts. So the old, these are images that are created by me. And we're going to go over the descriptions of these prompts later in this lesson. If you're not aware of discord is not a problem. You can follow along this lesson and you will understand everything sorted to generate a prompt. You, on my journey, you will have to start by typing slash and imagined. And then you start writing what you would like your image to be. So let's for testing. I'm going to write cute cat playing with a ball. And without adding any style or any more details. And let's see what the image is gonna look like. So as we can see, the medullary created for images, which are really nice, but they're not suitable for t-shirt designs. So if we try to add a more specific type of description in our prompt. So let's say imagine cute cat playing with a ball. And this time I'm going to add vector. Let's see what will happen. And this time we can see that the pictures are more of a vector style. I started to look in the style, in the direction of the studies that we're looking for. We can use, we can definitely use some of these images to create t-shirt designs. So let's try to, to write something different. Cute cat playing with a ball. Vector vector code. This time I'm using the vector called keywords and detailed white background. I'm adding a detailed background. If you remember the structure of the prompt, the ideal structure of the prompt that I've mentioned in the previous lessons. And I'm going to add red and white, Let's red and black. Let's focus on these colors and white. And I'm going to add the illustration. Yeah. So I forgot to enter the imagine at the beginning. So I'm going to copy and paste the prompt again after adding the imagine mark and the generated images. They even look much better. One at the top right corner, and I like it so much. If you see the buttons beneath the images, they knew it means upscale. So you can upscale the image to download it and use it for your design. And each number refers to one of the generated images. So the one refers to the, the top left image, that two refers to the top right image. Three refers to the down the left, the left bottom image. And the four refers to the to bottom image. So they knew this refers to upscaling and the V refers to variation. So it means you can create variations of the image that you like. I like the number two, I'm going to create variation of the second image. And let's see what happens. The majority platform started to create variations of the image that I choose. And now we have four images for variations of the image. These variations, we can see that the tail is different. The rules are different from each other in each image and also the eyes of the kit or relative with different. So I'm going to upscale number three and then download it. So this is mainly how the process goes. This is the process of creating prompt on my journey. So now this is the image that I have asked to be up-scaled. You can open in browser. And now the image can be downloaded either by right-clicking on it and Save Image As. And it will be saved in a PNG format. In the coming lessons, we will see how to use downloaded images to create our designs. But for this class, for this lesson, we are concentrating on how you can create the images. So the first way to create images in the stars that we want is to use a style of an artist. And what I mean by that is two, if you like, one of the generated images by a community, e.g. or by someone that has the name of the artist mentioned at the end. And you like the style. And you think it can be used to create your t-shirt. You can copy the name of the artist and add it to your prompt. So e.g. let's open this one. It says that in the style of met grinning at the end, this is the name of the artist. So we can simply add the name of the artist to our prompt to see something similar and met groaning, Of course he's famous was the Simpsons. So we will try to create a cute cat. And the style of the mat grinning style. So I added his name at the end. We can delete this part. We don't need this. So cute cat playing with a ball in the style of met grading. And let's see what's going to happen. I'll also add white background. And this is what we got. So we've got these four cute cats in the style of Matt granting. And if you Google it, you'll see that he's famous for the Simpsons. So I am not an artist specialist, but of course you can Google and check the artist names and the styles that you would like and add edit at the end. And there is another example. This is and that meant an artist. Of course, this style is not the one that I'm looking for, but this is for testing purposes only. I'm going to copy her name and also add it to the image. And also we're going to use the same prompt that to have been using. Cute cat. Playing with a ball by an Lipman. And let's see what, what's going to happen. So the degenerate and images, they look really nice in the same style of detriment. Of course, these are not the best for t-shirt designs, but I'm showing you how you can choose your prompt and create the one based on status of the artist. So the second way, that was the first way of creating prompts. The second way is to use images. I have an image that I have copied from the Internet. It's an illustration style of a skeleton smoking. I'm going to add it to the Discord. By clicking on the plus sign. I'm going to add it to the discord, upload it to the discord to create similar images in this seminar style. By pressing enter the image is added. Then right-click on the image. Copy image address, and I'm going to use it as a reference. So in my prompt, I just need to enter, imagine, and paste the link of the image, which I'm, which is this one which I'm going to use as a reference. And I'm going to add cat smoking cigar to create a similar image using the one that I have uploaded. So the images that are generated by the mid journey, they used the image that I have uploaded to create similar style. But the new description, which is cat. So cat smoking cigar using the same style of the image that I have used as a reference. So this is the second way of creating the images that you want is to upload the reference and ask them a journey server to create similar styles in the same way. So that's our second way of creating prompts. And of course, if it can always click on the regenerate button, if you don't like the images that we're generating. You can always click on the regenerate button to create other variations or different variations. If you don't like the results and you can keep doing that until you find an image that you like. That was our second way of generating images. The third way is to follow exact prompts that have been tested before. And this is what I'm going to show you. 7. Book Of T-Shirt Design Prompts: In this lesson, I'm going to show you all my already tested and created prompts. And this is the third way of generating t-shirt designs using prompts, which is by following the already tested prompts and just changing parts of it to generate similar styles. So we're going to go over some prompts that I have created. Her in my book of prompts. And this book of prompts, you will find it in your Downloads section of your class and you can try all of these prompts yourself. All these prompts were mainly tested on my journey and they will create exactly similar style when you follow the description. First prompt is the dark shadow fighting female ninja, blonde hair on a red background. You can keep the dark shadow as is. You can change the feet, are fighting female ninja, blonde hair to something else and keep everything to generate seminar results. So e.g. you can write a black fighter or a white Asian fighter was white hair on a red background and you wouldn't have the same style. The second prompt is the one that we're going to use next lesson for designing. It, generates to, it regenerates very nice designs, logos, glasses, playing guitar. This is the only part that she can actually change. We should keep all the rest as is the cartoon style vector or the front view line drawing. You can keep the rest of it and changed a dog with glasses. To example, the cat were playing was about the third one, t-shirt vector. The only part that you can change is the new geographic. He can change anything, e.g. so-called fee soccer player, whatever. The fourth prompt. Also, you should keep it as is. You should change the Ford Mustang to any type of car. And you will have similar results. You will have same atmosphere but with a different type of car or type of vehicle. This is a very nice splash design effect. Vector core. You can change the black girl and the American flag while keeping all the rest of the prompt has is to generate similar design. This is also one of my favorite prompts. Man, driving a motorcycle. This is the only part that you can change the description mainly. And you keep looking, keep the rest of the prompt S is to generate similar results. So instead of man driving a motor cycle, you can write a man driving a truck, e.g. and it generates very nice a prompt. This is a long one. You can replace them OK, motorbike will silhouette with something else. And keep the rest of the prompt is vintage. Keep it as is the motorcycle from the description, you can also change and keep the rest of the prompt if you'd like to have similar results for maybe change the colors of the orange and yellow that are mentioned. Two other colors to have different color effect. So this is how the book of prompts work. You just need to change the description of the prompt while leaving everything else, the style, the colors, the background. So these are some of the prompts that you will find in the book of prompts. And you can play with them and change them as you like. And in the coming lessons, you will see how you can generate this. How you can use these images to create t-shirt designs and export it for printing. This is also one of the, my favorite prompts. Grumpy dock, drinking whiskey can change this to grumpy look to anything else. And also the drinking whiskey like acute-care playing with the bulb and leave the rest of the pompe disease. 8. Upscaling A.I Images: In this lesson, we're going to use one of the generated images to create our first design. So I'm using the dog with glasses, playing guitar prompt. This is one of the prompts that I have tested it and it generates very nice and wide vector stone prompt or image. And this is what we are going to use for our first design. You can always change the dog with glasses to anything that you would like to have and keep the rest of the prompt as is. And even if you change the white background to other colors, that will give you the effect, the same effect but different colors. This prompt mentioned vector graphics and SVG. And these are the images that I got. So I'm going to use the upper right image to create the first design in this class. But to do that, you need to upscale the image. We need to upscale the image. And to do that, I'm going to copy my image and use a website called replicate. We just need to upload the image and scale it in order to use it for our design. Sometimes the image generated by my journey or other AI platforms may be low resolution or blurry due to the limitations of the tool or the complexity of the prompt. So to improve the quality of the images, you may need to upskill them. You will be using another tool that can enlarge and enhance the image. This is before starting your designing or using them for your design. Some of the free tools that are available is upscaled media, footer. Let's enhance replicate. And the one I'm using now is replicate. So you just, you simply need to upload your image. Choose the upscale percentage that you would like to have. Maybe two times, three times, or 200%, 300%. It's according to the upscale tool that you're using and then download the up-scaled image and using for design. So this is an eighth scale image. And I'm downloading the image now in a much better quality. And there are many platforms to upskill your image. There are AI upscaling, there are the replicate. And even if you search on Google for obscura, you will find many platforms that will help you upskill your image. 9. Retouching Our A.I Image: So now when we go to Adobe Illustrator, we will have to enter the dimensions of force around 500 by 5,400 pixels. These are the dimensions that I always used to create a printer friend on-demand t-shirts with high resolution RGB color. So if you're not familiar with Adobe Illustrator, you can follow along in the class to understand the steps that I'm doing. You can change your work place from the window tab, which will change the layout of the workspace. There are many default play out in Adobe Illustrator. And also the window tab enables you to find any missing panel. These are all patterns that you can use while designing. So the workspace from changing to Essentials Classic, which gives you a totally different work space with different panels. And if you go again to the workspace and click on automation, e.g. that will show you a different layout. So let's try the topography. Also different layout and different panels. And again, all these panels can be moved and clipped anywhere else. So now the painting also gives you different paths to work with. And all these panels also can be found under the Window tab. If any panelist missing. And you need to add it to your workspace, you can find it under the window. Tap here. So e.g. let's find the character panel and click on it and clip it for our board. So this is how you can add any missing panel to your workspace. And you can save your workspace by clicking on New Workspace and give it any name pan click, Okay to save your new workspace after changing its layout. Now, let's go to file. Before that. The on your left side, these are the toolbar. Your work toolbars can expand it and now go to file and place to get the image that you have downloaded. You will find a dog image in your class downloads. Just select it and place it on your art board like that. Remember the images in a PNG format and we cannot work on with PNG images on Adobe Illustrator. We have to convert it to vector to keep its resolution. To convert it. To work, you don't have to use the Image Trace option. If you cannot find it visible. You also can, you will find it under Window tab. So select your image. Press on the Image Trace button to convert it to vector. The image has a white background. As you can see, the Image Trace option will convert the image to a vector format. We can expand the image trace menu to play with the options and little bit to see how it affects our image. So the image trace and there are many options under Image, Image Trace, we are using the black and white logo. If you have colored image, like you will see in the next class, you can choose the high fidelity photo, but for now we're not going to do anything with it. The threshold bar, it plays with the shortness of the lines. Can see that when you move it to the right or to the left, you can just are your image accordingly. And the noise also decreases. The extra ports are the extra noise that you have in your image. And you can, I'm going to press on the Ignore White option to remove any white colors from my image. So if I click and drag my image to the right, you will see that it has no white background anymore. It's just black color. And the word that you are seeing now is from the background of the art board. So once we're satisfied with our image, we can press the Expand button. And now our image is in vector format. If we upscale it or downscale it, it keeps its resolution. This is the important, this is the importance of converting the image to have a vector. Now, our image is ready to be worked on. We need to do some adjustments to fix the image. There are some problems. The first thing is I'm going to create a brush tool to draw the missing parts of damage. To do that, I'm going to create a shape using the ellipse tool. And we're going to use the brush tool panel to create a brush. If you cannot see the brush panel, just go to your Window tab and click on the brush and it will appear on your art board. So click on the ellipse and click on the art brush. Click Okay. And now, Okay, again, to create new brush with the shape that you have used. Keep everything as, as, keep the settings as is. Press Okay. And now your brush appears in the brush pen up when your right side. So click on it. And once you start drawing with the brush, it will draw with the same shape that you have created. The brush that you have used anymore. And now we're going to use the brush tool to draw some missing lines. As you can see, the head has some missing parts. So we're going to draw and complete the hat. I think the stroke is a little bit strong, so I'm going to decrease. The stroke. Can do that by using the stroke option from the upper menu. I'm going to start adding some hair lines and the missing parts. So now the stroke sizes fits better. And I'm going to close any missing parts from the outline of the head or the body because we are going to color it later. So also, the hand needs to be fixed and narrow. Some ports that needs to be filled. Here under. We just need to draw some similar lines like so I'm using my mouse, by the way, I'm not using any tablet. If you have your own graphic tablet, you can use it to draw the missing line lines. With my eraser tool. I'm going to delete any parts that I don't like. This isn't an AI generated image, so it's not 100% perfect. That's why this stage we need to fix any problems with the image before using it. So I'm going to keep adding lines in the missing parts of my image and make sure that the outline is all closed. Outer outline of the dock. Every word. Again, I'm using the brush that I have created with my ellipse tool. Just keep adding lines. And the exact same image of the dog that I'm using will be available in your Download section for practicing. So now. I need to fix the hand. I'm going to delete some parts to make the fingers look more realistic. So just deleting some ports to create the shape of the finger. Like so. Now, it looks much better. Also the guitar itself, the courts of the guitar. They needs to be fixed. This area is not 100% perfect. So I'm going to use my eraser tool to delete this area and creating new lines or new chords. And by the way, all the images are different from each other. So you might get an image that has no flows. But this is the way to fix the image that you have. So we need to create a perfect design and we don't want, want our image to have these problems. So and we have an extra eyes generated by the mid journey over the eyeglasses. We don't need them. I'm going to delete them with the eraser to have a more realistic look off and the dog. And of course, it happens that you might get images that has some extra parts here and there. Now, I'm going to select everything, the image and the drone ports and Expand Appearance. This will convert the strokes that I have done, that I have created two shapes. And then using the Pathfinder, I'm going to click on the merge button. Merge all the lines that I have drawn with the original image so that they are all one part, as you can see when I move them, the image and the drone ports are connected. So this is the layers panel. This is where you can see your layers. I'm going to change the Layers option too large to see each layer that I'm using. More clearly they appear larger on the panel. Now, I'm going to draw some ellipses on the guitar hand. Also to fix this area. I'm going to play with the shape a little bit, can using the direct selection tool to stretch it. Like so. And I'm going to replace the handles of the Guitar. Who's the one that I have created? Let's delete the old ones first using the eraser tool. And some forests that needs to be removed. And I'm going to place the one that I've created and using the Alt button, I'm going to duplicate it. If you, just, while pressing the Alt button, move the shape to have to create a copy of it. So I created a couple of copies and also again, rests on it while you are pressing on Alt and move it to create. A new copy of it. So now the handle of the guitar looks much realistic. And this is the way you, for how you should fix your image by simply drawing or deleting any unnecessary reports. So now I'm going to use my tool to draw lines or quotes. And this area, just creating straight lines. Without a stroke, without a fill. Sorry. If we, if we select it, we can increase its stroke size. Like so. And we can duplicate this line by pressing on the Alt and moving the shape down to make another copy. And if we could click on Control D, it will duplicate the last process and create other lines. So now also our guitar started to look more realistic after fixing the courts and this worked. So I'm going to group all these slides together. I'm going to select each one of them and pressing the control G to group them together. Now they are grouped. Using the eraser tool. I'm also going to fix this core part of the guitar. There are many problems in this area. So using the eraser tool, I'm going to delete these extra lines to make it more clear here. You don't have to create a perfect image by the way, but at least try to fix it as much as possible. For your final design. As we will see this in a couple of lessons, how this image will be turned into a cool looking t-shirt design. Again, using the pen tool, I'm going to draw a black shape on this area because I don't like how it looks. I have Hi, Did the quotes that I have drawn before. Also. I'm going to create some lines, some white lines here, but before that, let's draw you back shape to hide this area completely. Like so. I just add that shape on it to hide the original image. And I'm going to use the rectangle tool to create some thick lines like so. Change its color to white and rotate it. And then add it on the previously drawn lines, the ones that are the ones that have problems. While pressing the Alt key. I create copies of it by moving it. And I'm going to place different ones here to fill this area was new lines. And I'm going to use my pen tool to draw. To draw a new black area on the top area to make them look symmetrical. And the borders of the guitar have some problems. So I'm gonna base, I'm going to draw a new shape here, changing its color to white. And the borders. The bottom here, the black border needs to be fixed. So I'm going to draw a black shape. Changes color to black. Now. The border looks much better. And it all looks much better. I'm going to select everything. Unhide the quotes that I have drawn before, and move the layer to the top so that they appear on my, on top of my guitar. Now, I think my image looks much better. I'm going to delete the lower part of the Black Codes that I have drawn the so that they don't interfere with my core of the guitar. And I'm going to add the line on this area was a black stroke around the core circle of my getter. Now. Yeah. Okay, and I'm going to to add also quotes on the core of the guitar, like so. And using the Control D to duplicate the last task which is moving the cooled down. And it will duplicate records that I have created. Like so. I think the image now it looks perfect and complete. How would you just need to select everything and expanded similar to the previous time to convert our strokes to two shapes. And then we can merge everything again so that our image is now one shape. So that's it for this lesson. In the next lesson, we're going to add color, white color to the inside of our design. 10. Coloring With Shape builder: In this lesson, we are going to add a white color to our dog image so that we can place it on a black t-shirt or any coloured t-shirt. As you know, the, our image is transparent, transparent. For now it's only black color. To do that, I'll start by selecting everything, all the parts that I have added with the brush. So I'm selecting everything together and expanded to convert the brush strokes that I have added two shapes. Now I was my rectangle tool. I'm going to place a rectangle, move it to the back of my design. And I'm going to select both my image and my rectangle using the shape builder. Pressing Alt and clicking on the white area to cut it with the Shape Builder. To work effectively, you have to select both everything on your screen. And the Alt removes the ports that are outside. So as you can see, the image, the white background, it's smashed. The dog, but not everywhere. So the head and the tail, There's still empty. So this means that he had in detail there are still some parts that are not covered. They are open. That's why the shape builder did not recognize that. The head is a closed shape. That's why this effect happened. So we need to make sure that the head and the tail and the left leg, of course, these are closed areas. Before using the shape builder so that we can get the correct effect and get the white color field everywhere inside our Docker image. So we will have to again continue adding some strokes or some brushes to close the open areas. So let's check. Here. We can see that this area is still open. But the stroke, Let's decrease the stroke size a little bit. This is too much. This audio at the left side is also still open. So let's work on the tail and close these open areas from the outline of the tail. And again, the reason behind that is to close our outline from everywhere so that the shape builder understands that the dog is all one shape and the outline is closed. And when we start adding the using the shape builder to apply the color effect, it will cut the white-collar from outside our outline as one shape. So again, selecting everything together, expanding the strokes, adding the white rectangle. Let's do another test and see if we missed a part or not. So the Shape Builder, pressing Alt to delete and selecting the white area outside or duck. And now we can see that it worked. It worked fine. Now we have added the white color to our dog. So I'm going to select everything together, please. Our dog to the board. And that's it for this lesson. See you in the next lesson. 11. Designing 1st T-Shirt : In this lesson, we're going to use our Docker image to create our design that we are going to use for our t-shirt. So first thing to do is I'm going to go to font space and download a couple of fonts. So I have filtered by commercial use, and I'm going to download this font. All the fonts that I'm going to use in this class, you will find it in your Downloads section. So as you can see, it's 100% free. So I've added a black background to the design to my board and I have locked it, as you can see from the layers panel on the right. Then I'm going to use my brush to add some hair lines. This is an extra step. You don't need to do that. But I think we give a nice look to the image. So let's play with the strokes and make it smaller and add lines, hair lines to the head. Like so. We can continue adding some lines to give the image more details. So I'm going to add some lines to the cheeks. Of course, you can always press Control Z to undo what you've done and redo it. I think the image now looks much better with more details. So I'm going to select everything and using the object panel, expand the appearance, and merge all the items, all the shapes using the Pathfinder. There's indeed Text tool. I'm going to place my text to the board. I'm going to change the size of the font to 300. And my text line is living the life. I'll choose the font that I have downloaded and place it beneath the dog image and adjust it to the art board. As you know, the order board that I'm using is the one that I've created before. No, for solving for funded by 5,400. And I've changed the background to white color. So this is a simple design, but this is not our final design. I'm going to go to Pixabay, which is a free site. And I'm going to download some bricks, images of bricks to add to the background of the design. So I'm going to search for something nice. Also laid down the bricks file will be available on your download section of the class. This one looks nice. Gong to download the vector file of this one. And using the File menu, I'm going to place it to the board. Like so. This is the file. And I'm going to move its layer to the back of my dog. Now the design started to look even nicer. So my next step is to make a copy of the whole design and the art board and create a variation of this design for a black t-shirt with more details. So I'm going to click on the art board icon or tool from the left menu and Paul, pressing the Alt button. Let's undo this. So I click on the artboard and move it to the right while pressing the Alt to create a copy of your book. Now I'm going to change the text and the font to this hot ink font, which looks really cool. I'm going to delete the spaces between the text a little bit. Also. I will do download the different brick file from Pixabay. This one looks more transparent. I choose vector graphics so that it can be easily, it can be editable. Let's place it to their board. Again, similar to the last time. And expanded a little bit. Move it, move its layer to the back, neck, so makeover the duck. So the left part is not similar to the right part, which I don't like. I'm going to use my eraser tool, pressing Alt to create a racing box and delete the left port and copy the right port and reflected to match the right one. And I'm going to select both ports, the left hand, right, and group them together. Now the brick wall looks better. I'm going to change its color to red. And I'm going to create, convert my text to outline. It can do that by pressing the neurite, the right-click mouse on the text and choosing Create Outline. This wound will convert your text to shapes. I've made another copy of the bricks and please sit and placed it to the little bit down to fill the bottom area of the design, like so. Now I will choose the color of the text to yellow. And using the Pathfinder, I'm going to create an offset path of my debt myText. So this off Offset Path. When you give another layer, I can change its color to black. And this will create this outline around the text, which looks really nice and gives an effect between the dog and the text itself. So now I'm going to make another copy of the dog I want to take to extract the sunglasses out of this second copy of the dog, I'm going to ungroup the dog and delete everything but the sunglasses. So just ungroup it. Delete the parser need. And with the eraser tool, you can delete the connected parts of the sunglass sunglasses with the flying off the duck so that it's being separated. And now we can take the sunglasses out and delete and change its color to red. And you can delete the copy of the dock. We don't need it anymore. Now we can place the sunglass, the sunglasses to the top of the dog to create this cool, nice effect. And I placed it over the black one to create a shadow of the glasses. Like so. I'm going to lock my background, copy my design was the text and group it. Again. Going to Pixabay, I'm going to download music shapes, music elements to place it on the board. So one connected file, I'm going to change its color to yellow to white. And look my background. Ungroup the music elements and please them randomly on the board to fill the background of the design. And I'm going to do the same with the left design, the one on a white background. And now we have our design ready. 12. Designing 2nd T-Shirt: In this lesson, in this lesson we're going to create another design using this prompt. This is one of the prompts that you will find in your prompt book and you'll download section. It really gives a very nice colorful designs. And I have generated these four motors, motorbike images. And I'm going to use this one to create the design. So I have upscaled it. And I'm going to open in browser and save image as to download it and use it for designing. So we have to upscale it similar to the one that we have done before. But this one has a black background and has a complicated shape. The image is background. It's not clear. And we have to cut the background from the black color. So to do that, I'm using Pixlr, a free online editor to remove the background. And I'm going to show you step-by-step how to do that. Of course, if you know how to use Photoshop, you can do that using Photoshop, but I'm trying to simplify things here. I'm using the Pixlr, ie. It's a free online tool. So go to the pixlr.com website, click on Open Image and open the downloaded image of the motorbike. Let's do one. Click on full HD and click Apply. Now using the magic wand tool from the left menu and changing its tolerance to six. And pressing on the black background. This will highlight all the black color from the background. And the tolerance is, this is the sensitivity of the magic one tool. It means if you increase the tolerance, it will pick other, other black color from your image. And we don't want that. We want you want to pick the black color from the background to delete it. So you just need to make sure that the thalamus is very low. You can have it on six like I'm doing. And make sure to have the anti alias and continuous on and click on the black part of the background. Once it's highlighted like that, press the Delete button and it will be deleted from your image. And you can press Control D to de-select everything. Now you have the image without the black background. And we can use it for designing. So we need to save it first. So you have to go to click on File, save as PNG, and click on the transparent option. And Save As, and save it on your, on your computer. Now we're going to have another art board with the same dimensions on Adobe Illustrator, the 4755 by five solvent for 100, similar to the previous one. And place the image, the PNG motorbike that we have downloaded. Again, it's in PNG format and we need to convert it to vector and delete these extra parts on the left side. So again, using the Image Trace button. This time, I'm going to choose the high fidelity option because this is a colorful image and we need to keep the colors as is. So choose the high fidelity from your image trace will keep the colors and convert it to a vector and press Expand. Now we have our image as a vector file. So I'm going to place a rectangle at the background to see how it looks. Changes scholar to Blake and move it to the back of the image. As we can see, there's a white board that is generated because we converted the image to image trace. That's always the case. We have to remove the white port. So first we have to click on the image. Who's the right-click and ungroup it. Now, the image is, it has, is. Now we can delete the white ports, like so. And all these extra parts as well. But we can see that we still have E, borders, not, not clear and there are this gray color around the borders. We don't need, it. Doesn't look nice. So I'm going to pick the magic one tool. Also, pressing Enter to play with different tolerance. Again, similar to the Pixlr, are going to decrease the tolerance to four and pick the gray color at the borders and delete it. So I'm going also to pick the white color or the borders. And this will highlight all the white color. And you just need to press, Delete and decreasing the tolerance. Again. We'll give you the option to only select the exact color that you're selecting and keep this the similar colors from inside the image. So now we have a much better image. So what we're going to do now is merge our image together using the path finder. And and with the pencil tool. I'm going to draw a white area to cover the transparent areas that were raised by the magic one tool and make the free white and move it to the back. When you move it to the bucket will fill the empty white places. And this, when we turn it on and off, you will see the difference. Nice full white areas were erased accidentally by the magic one tool. And by doing so, we have covered it, we have filled it back. Now. We're going to expand everything and merged both the white layer that we have created and D, original text, the original image together to be one shape. So now they're merged together. What we need to do now as change the background color to white and gray is the extra parts of the borders is extra dots. And fix the waters a little bit. Because we want nice. So by using the eraser, we can fix all nice extra items and delete it. I'm going to make a copy of my motorbike just in case. So now I'm going to change the background to black locket. And I'll start adding some lines to the main image of the motorbike to sharpen the edges. So using the end, of course, I'm going to use the pencil tool to cover some of the parts that need to be fixed. Like this area here. And this area here. Just picking the color picker end, change its color similar to the background. Now using the brush, I'm going to add some lines to the outline to create some sharp lines. I'm going to also similar to the last time. I'm going to create a brush. This time it's a little bit thinner. Create an art brush. Tenths. This time of choosing the tenths option. This will allow me to. Change the color of the strokes of the brush. Now I'll start heading brush strokes to the main image. So let's add some stroke lines to the motorbike. Orange ones to sharpened the wheel, the tire. Like that. Just creating some outlines to give some sharp edges to my main image. And I'm going to do the same around the biker by creating lines at the borders. And also the other port at the other arm, the other side near white flames. I'm going to also to draw a black outline. This just sharpens my image and compensate on any details that I've lost when the image is converted to a vector. And we can add also one final outline to the black type, the back tire. So there is also a white port at the bottom of the tire. I'm going to use my pencil tool to draw a black shape to cover it. And also pick the same color of the tire to cover it. Like so. And now I'm going to pick the brush and create a stroke using the blue, the wild loop color and change the stroke size. Let's do it again. Now, my image looks finished. There's nothing else you needed to be done here. It looks really nice. So I'm going to select everything, Object, Expand Appearance to convert the strokes to shapes and Pathfinder and merge everything so that my image with the drone shapes become one port. So now I just need to add text. So I'll change my background to black and start adding text. This time I'm using a script text. And also I have downloaded the font that I'm going to use from a font space. And now I'll start hurting my text. I'm using this yeah, Keen font. It's a very nice script font. Adding it to a design. Now my text is gasoline banded. Making a copy of the text can change, changing the second word to bend it. And now I'm going to change its color to orange and change the color of the mandatory to orange. And we almost have our design predict. So let's expand and merge the text. Hunger are going to create an opposite pass of the reward gasoline and make its color black. Now, you can see that the G letter has a black area around it, which creates select a layer between the text and the image. And I'm going to do the same with the banded word. I'm going to create an offset path. Changes the color to black. And now we have our design ready. The next lesson I'm going to show you how to export your design and use it for printing. See you there. 13. Exporting The Designs: In this lesson, we are going to export our designs to be ready for printing. So what we need to do is mainly make sure to have everything grouped. All of our elements of the design elements grouped together on the whiteboard. And you can group them by pressing the Control G and then Object Expand to make sure to convert everything to shapes and all the strokes, two shapes. You can do this a couple of times to make sure that nothing is left. And then what you need to do is to select the design File, Export Selection. Wind. While the file is selected, you procure download folder and make sure to have it in PNG and resolution 300, the best resolution for printing. You can also add another, another option, another PDF file. I also like to export it in SVG file as well. And another PNG file, four to 100 for 150 ppi resolution. This is also a high-quality file, but sometimes the print-on-demand platforms don't accept the 300s PPIs who? I make an extra copy of 150, which is still okay for printing and keeps the hardest solution. And then you press Export. In your download folder, you will find all the four files. After being exported. Can also add another resolution, another PNG file with a lower resolution resolution of the first 72. And you can use this file for placing your design on a mockup. You don't need a higher resolution file for mockup placement. So you can also export it. 72 resolution, which works fine afforded or mock-ups. 14. Additional Midjourney Tips: This is an extra bonus lesson that I have added recently to the, to the class to talk about the, some of the tips that you can use in my journey that will make you save lots of hours in creating and generating images. And at the same time, it's important to know since there are lots of updates that come very quickly to the majeure new platform that you need to be aware of. So the first thing is when you are at your journey discord server, if you type dash settings, enter, this will open your settings, your mic journey settings. And the important part that you need to know is there are now a new version of my journey, which is version five. And these versions, they simply create better designs and better quality images. So the version four is the one that I have been using in the class and it's still super. So you can play with your major new versions and try the prompt and to see the results, how the results come differently when you use a different version. I usually switch between vision for an version five, I don't switch, don't use the previous three versions often. So e.g. if you, Let's try one of the prompts. Imagine. I'll make it very simple. I will use this prompt, line, vector, line, T-shirt, design vector. Let's try it on both vision for envisioned five and see the results. Now, let's switch to vision for right. I'll use the same prompt again, t-shirt design vector. So the second result is, is using the version for the medullary version four and the first is version five. And you can see there are 23 different worth. Really look very good. But they are different results. So the same prompt that you have, you can try to switch between, between the versions to see the results. So this one looks great. Different pose. This one looks very good. So when you don't know what the prompts book that you have in the download section of the class try to switch between the versions of the major. And the second tip I have for you is when you type backslash and described. This is an update in my journey. It allows you to upload an image directly to get the style of the image. To get the prompt, the image to understand how this image was generated in terms of text. So that you can either use the same prompt to generate similar images using this prompt, or to simply create different variations of this image, even if it is not your image. So e.g. let's try to upload one of the images that I have on my computer. I'm going to use this one here. So it gives you four prompts. And of course these prompts, each one, you can try to see which one fits better. And you can see that the journey is using some of the artists names to create the style or to understand this image. You can use these prompts again to get similar images. So e.g. if you press on one, you are going to use the same prompt here. So let's try number one. And it offers you the option to either change some parts of the prompt or use it as is. So the prompt says black tea, Australian shepherd. In the start-up, then one-fourth. So let's try this prompt as is. And we can also try wide waiting the second prompt, a black dog with a blue bandana. So let's try option prompt to, to see the results. Let's try all prompts. Actually. I'm still on version four by the way. So the results that are good are related to reinforce. So let's try version four and then let's try version five and see which ones are accurate. We're going to try all the prompts. This one is really nice. And again, I'm, I'm on version four of majority. This one also looks really great. This one looks really beautiful, but it's not similar to the one that we have. This one also looks really good. So I think the closest one is the first prompt here. Very close to the image style. So now let's change our settings to me, journey version five and see what's, what's going to happen. Now, let's press on the prompts again. While we're waiting. I will also explain some of these settings for you quickly to understand the settings. So these are the major meat journey versions and as we talked before, version for inversion and five for the most updated versions, which creates high-quality edges. These are also some other versions of my journey, but you don't need that. And here are the quality of the images. Usually you are on the base quality. If you switch to the high-quality, you are going to get high, higher-quality images, but it will cost you more of your credits depending on your subscription plan. And also you can change the style. So this is medium style. You can also switch to hide to match the style that is written in the prompt. And these are also modes that you don't need to use much all change much. We just discussed the most important items for settings in the majority. So now let's check the images that were generated. This one looks really close to our image. This one is nice, but it's not similar to the main image that we have. It's far from a similar. This one also looks nice, but totally different than the image. And I think I have not pressed default style. So let's check that. So that's why it's important to switch between vision, foreign vision for F to check the results. Because until now I think this is the most accurate or close result to what we have. This one also following the other results. Although they are very good results, but they're far from what we have. Yeah, nice results, but it's old. It's also not accurate to the image. It is not describing the image that we have uploaded. Anyway, these are two important settings that you shouldn't be aware of for using while using the journey. See you in the next lesson. 15. Final Words: Well congratulations, you have finished our class and now you are ready to start creating amazing and beautiful t-shirt designs. I hope you have learned a lot, and mostly I hope you keep practicing. And if you have made it so far, and then I would say, don't stop. Now, this is just the beginning of your artistic life. And I cannot wait to see what you do next. Take care everyone. Bye.