How to use Designious Studio tools
A practical workflow for using Designious Studio tools to prepare artwork for merch, print, ecommerce, and client work.
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Master the art of designing for physical products. From apparel to home goods, learn how to turn our assets into best-selling merchandise.
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EZ Tip: 10 Quality Of Life Shortcuts For Illustrator You Need To Know
We always look for ways to improve our work and most of the time, we focus on quality. However, there are other aspects that can move that needle too and those are often overlooked because they're not a part of the final product, such as: ShortcutsAutomationHardware performanceVariety of toolsIndust
EZ Tip: 7 Small Tools To Help You Improve Productivity In Graphic Design
There is a saying that if your only tool is a hammer, every problem will look like a nail. Which is why the best practice is to have a big belt with tools for every situation. These tools are simple, they do one specific task fast and efficiently. From simple file conversions to advanced image proce
EZ Tip: How to add highlight color to text in Adobe Illustrator
Natively, Adobe Illustrator doesn't have a text highlighter feature to use as if you'd use in MS Office, but it does have many ways of getting to the same result. However, there are several levels of utility to those results, and today we are exploring results that also bring more value over time to
EZ Tip: How to create custom decorative brushes in Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Illustrator is one of the best tools you'll ever use to create vector art. One of the features that helps you immensely in that task is the ability to create your own, custom brushes to speed up your creative process. Today we're looking at three ways you can create these brushes. Tools: Adobe
EZ Tip: How To Export Illustrator Art As Vector for Photoshop
Whenever you want to export an Illustrator file as a .PSD to open it with Photoshop, you quickly find out that all that vector art is now rasterized. The good news is that there is a quick and easy way to export it as vector art and still be able to infinitely scale and change colors as if it would
EZ Tip: How to list all the images from one folder into a contact sheet with Photoshop
Dealing with large amounts of images can sometimes be very frustrating. It is even more annoying if you are dealing with many .EPS, .SVG or .Ai files, because you have to open the file first, to see what's in it. It becomes a tedious cycle of open inspect close that slowly gnaws at your productivity
EZ Tip: How To Use The "Blendif" Feature In Photoshop
Photoshop offers an incredibly large variety of tools to quickly manipulate photos without too much hassle, and that is great. The skill floor is lower and it is easier now to get into Photoshop than it was back in the days of Creative Suite 3. For example, the newer Content Aware tools allow you to
EZ Tip: How to clean up transparency and stray points for printing with Adobe Photoshop
Whether you're running a printondemand business or a local shop, you are facing a similar problem: the print files need to be cleaned up of transparency and blending effects. Printers don't know how to interpret Opacity and you'll end up with a messy final print, most of the time with unwanted resul
EZ Tip: How to (properly) write text on a circle in Adobe Illustrator
We're sure you've attempted at least once to do a cool title written in a circle or in an arch, but couldn't quite figure out how to do it. If you still need help to do that, here's how it's done. Tools: Adobe Illustrator STEP 1 Grab the Ellipse tool, hold Option + Shift and clickdrag to draw a circ
EZ Tip: How to Use The Symbols Panel To Store Your Favorite Vector Art
In your process, I'm sure you have come across a few packs that you love to use in your designs. Be it texture packs, a decoration, an effect or a piece of clip art or just the branding parts of your company, you can store it within Adobe Illustrator's library. Here's how. For this demonstration, we
EZ Tip: How To Create Vector 'Drop Shadow' Effects In Illustrator
The Drop Shadow effect is a quick and easy way to make objects stand out from the background and create focus on them. The caveat for it, particularly for Illustrator, is that it's available only as a raster effect and we want it to be vector. Luckily, there is a way to create it in vector format in
EZ Tip: How To Add Style To Your Text With Adobe Illustrator
One of the big challenges we face in graphic design is the speed at which results are delivered. This means we are sometimes incentivized to looking for ways to increase our productivity without sacrificing the quality of the final design. Luckily, the Graphic Styles are here to save the day. What a
EZ Tip: How To Customize Stock Vector Art To Fit Your Projects
We at Designious make creativity a top priority. To live up to this statement, we make sure all vector art comes in a format that makes it easy to personalize. This ensures that even if the same vector design is available for the others to download, it becomes unique to your brand, all with a flick
The Best Video Content for Each Step of the Customer Journey
Gone are the days when salespeople just appear at customers’ doorsteps, trying to convince them to buy a product. It was a primitive and highly inefficient strategy but without any alternative. Things have changed and the sales process has become a lot more complex. Currently, the democratization of
16 Best Pinterest Board Ideas for Your Merch Brand in 2022
There's no denying that Pinterest is a powerful tool for eCommerce. A quick search online will reveal that there are countless branding, brand board, and branding design inspirations on Pinterest. But, to save you the trouble of sifting through dozens of articles to
The Print on Demand Business Free Starter Kit
If you are looking to start a print on demand business and money is tight we got you covered. In this article we've gathered a bunch of tools and resources that are free and can help you launch your business and earn your first dollar. Starting a business is simple but it is not easy. Put together t
5 Amazing Free Woocommerce Plugins for Better Clothing Stores
Selling clothing is a fierce industry to be in but it comes with great returns if you make it work. Your online shop should attract customers by offering a great line of products, an amazing design but also offers
Courses On How To Create T-shirt Designs
Creating your own tshirt designs is a great skill to have in the print on demandindustry. Giving your ideas life and the process of taking an idea to an actual design is quite fun. Also, a unique design helps you be different from other sel
How To Find the Ideal Fulfillment Company for Your Print on Demand Store
According to the United States Department of Commerce , the ecommerce industry has recorded an estimated yearoveryear growth of 44.5%. Print on Demand PoD businesses contribute heavily to this recent uptick. However, despite ho
Top 5 Tips to Hire a T-Shirt Designer
Whether you want to start a small business or you want to create some stellar merch, hiring a designer that knows their way around apparel design is always beneficial. In this quick guide, we’ll walk you through 5 of the most critical
5 Best Free eCommerce WordPress Themes For Selling T-Shirts
Selling tshirts or other types of clothing like hoodies, shorts, or sweatpants can be very lucrative. Clothing is a $1.5 trillion dollars industry and every day new businesses want a piece of this huge pie. Tec
15 T-Shirt Design Trends For 2022
If you were looking for inspiration for your next tshirt collection we've made a list of the top 15 tshirt design trends for 2022. Have a look at some of the trends from 2021 to see what changed, you are going
A Graphic Designer’s Guide to Selling On Instagram
As a graphic designer, you can use Instagram to get more clients for your business. But, you must have a strong strategy for marketing your designs and merch on the platform. If you’d like to learn more about building an effective plan, then read on to discover 5 genius tips for profiting from your
7 Best Etsy Apps To Help You Sell More Products in 2022
Building a successful business is challenging and as an Etsy seller you need all the help to make it successful Sales are the engine of every business and it's the biggest issue sellers on Etsy face. Creating and designing a good product
How To Apply Lens Flare Effects To Your Images In Adobe Photoshop
Lens flare is not something photographers want at times but this effect can create some amazing photographs used properly. In this tutorial we show you how you can apply them to your photos to
How To Quickly Clean Up Your Out of Gamut Colors Photoshop Tutorial
Have you ever noticed when printing on an object like a poster, tshirt, or anything else for that matter the colors on the printed object differ from the image on your screen? If you did, that means you have an out of gamut issue with the image and you have to fix it. What is color gamut?
7 Must-Have Plugins for Your WooCommerce Print on Demand Store
Starting your printondemand storeis a challenge and there are thousands of plugins to chose from when setting up your store. Below we have seven musthave WooCommerceplugins to help
Why You Should Learn to Cook as An Entrepreneur and 7 Secrets to Make Great Pasta
I like to cook because it's a process that gets me in the flow, I forget about all the problems and I'm really involved in the process. Cooking is a relaxing and therapeutic activity , so if you feel down just g
How to Create a T-shirt Store with Designious, WooCommerce and Printful
If starting your online shop is what you always wanted you are in the right place. In this tutorial, we are building a simple website and online store to sell tshirts with WooCommerce and Printful. Most of the resources are free, you only need a domain and hosting account. We are going to use readym
How to Start a Print On Demand Business
Today is easier than ever to start an online store from home and the print on demand business is booming. No matter where you live you can start a shop and sell to a worldwide audience, there are no borders when it comes to selling online
Create Designs Fast with Online Graphic Design Software
If you want to create your own designs to use on print on demand products or just to challenge your own creativity, we are showing you below some of our favorite online graphic design software. These software are e
How To Create An Original Apron Design With The Online Designer and Gooten.com
In this short video tutorial, we are creating an original apron design with the Designious Online Designer Appand then we add the design to a product in Gooten.com. Aprons are really a cool product to create, have a
T-Shirt Designs For Gaming Niches - Should You Tap Into It?
If you are looking for a large niche to create designs then look no further than the gaming niche. It's estimated that there are
3 Quick Ideas On How To Customize T-shirt Designs
The templates here on Designious enable you to quickly build your own online shop within days. What is even greater is that you can easily customize these tshirt designs and make them unique with just a few edits. These d