This thing to do is pick up the templates.
Amazon has already under the resources section at merge dot Amazon Dot com.
So if you click on resources there and then on the right hand side download product templates and this
way you get the templates for all the T-shirts that rights of the bosome you have the pop sockets templates
and download the illustrator one for illustrator obviously.
And if you're using any other image manipulation program or software or whatever.
This will give you the correct size for them which is of course by the way 400 a 5 pixels by four hundred
ninety five pixels.
Did that start with the Adobe Illustrator 1 and double click that to open it.
So here is the template in Illustrator and there's some instructions there but way you want to do is
go into the layers palettes I'm zooming in and out by the way with command and control plus and minus
on the keyboard.
And you can hide the layers.
And in fact the guides but you can always hide the guides by going commando control semi-colon.
I find I toggle this on and off all the time create new layers to put your artwork on.
Let's start with something really simple pop sockets you want to have backgrounds on them.
It's completely different design discipline.
Doing T-shirts one with been finding is we do T-shirts on transparent backgrounds with light graphics
and text and they go dark T-shirts and the black and the dark color of the T-shirt fills up the transparency
of the energy that is applied to Amazon's completely different.
So kids tend to be popular amongst young women.
So go for girly thing.
So look at the layers here.
Before we get to the background notice that we are on a blank layer for five or six doesn't matter.
These are the ones we just created by clicking the new layer icon.
But look at the ones that we have there already These are the ones that came with the template.
Great idea to lock these layers so you don't put anything on these layers.
And of course we can toggle them off and on get rid of the guides if and when we want but let's put
our artwork on these vacant empty layers here.
So we want to put a pink background that's get girly.
So we just go for the rectangle the two and drag it.
Now you can draw it to the size of the board.
There it might snap correctly to the size of your board.
You don't know or you can just drag it any old way.
Visually this makes things difficult of course.
Let's make the size exactly the same as a board and it should be snapping to it.
But you can also always hit a transformer.
Look it's not correct.
So if the black door is there you can go 0 0 and the size remember is four five by four or five.
So you don't have to do that because when you export the PNB it will be exactly the right size.
But it helps visually.
Now we want to make this a pink background.
There is a variety of ways of doing it.
We can change the feel here by double clicking on the foreground color or we could go into the color
palette and just slide the slider over that make it pink.
And of course it's got a black stroke.
This is the default and that's the line around the box.
We don't want that so we'll put that off doesn't actually matter.
Again this is visually for us that will help us while we're designing but nothing outside that green
dotted circular line will be printed and nothing much outside the red dot.
It's likely that we'll be seeing this area between the green and the red here.
It's kind of wraps around the edge of the socket.
So let's have a look at our layers palette.
And if we go to background it's also a good idea it's a locket.
That means we're going on to layer 5 and we put artwork on this layer.
It means we won't click off the artwork and then select the layer underneath which makes things a little
bit difficult.
So let's get to love.
And I know what you're thinking.
This is completely an original.
You try to make a pop socket for a young lady and you know you're going for a pink lover.
You know that's ridiculous.
Well I believe that the pop socket market on Amazon is not as saturated as the T-shirt market is.
I have sold love hearts on Amazon as a pop socket as an original as that sounds it's sold and it's made
me money.
So I mean I just think it's better is an easier market at the moment on Amazon than teachers.
Certainly.
So in order to get a royalty free image let's go to pick's buy.
So here we are on pixel Bay let's search for Vecsey graphic and carked and let's with only looking for
the shape so we're not going to copy these highlights here but as we're in Illustrator will download
the vector graphic the SVGA file rather than those P and G.
So we're opening up this in Illustrator.
Funnily enough it hasn't come in properly but that's no problem because all we need is the shape.
I did select all selectable command a and the vector seems to be there even if the color isn't.
That's absolutely fun.
So we're only a five and paste I say in and we got those highlights.
I don't really want them to be honest with you.
Let's put the film to the fore and fill it with a lighter pink in the color palette.
If you don't have the color palette go window color there.
So there we go.
That's the whole image.
Filled with a lighter pink.
Let's scale this down.
I'm holding down shift.
I have the bounding box turned on to go down the heart's OK.
So if you want that scented Let's go to the a line pilot a line to board and click that one line horizontal
and that one line vertical.
Make it a little bit bigger.
Remember it's going to be inside the red dotted line.
This visually sends it vertically we don't want to be much better centered.
And then lastly turn off those guides.
That's how Pop.
Let's make it a bit lighter.
Know and looking at it and properly
pink file X poo P and g use up Bode's that's important just in case your background is a bit bigger
than the uproars Expo.
Screen 72 by
optimized don't worry about the background color that is it's that creates European G which you can
upload to Amazon.
Ok I hope you enjoyed the house make pop sockets with Illustrator and Photoshop using the templates
provided much by Amazon Dot com.
My names will come on.
I'll see you in another video.