-: I want to talk about creating and selling merchandise.
So you can go to a website like Redbubble
and find some trending items.
Let's go to phone cases, we'll go to all phone cases.
If you go to see all, we can go here to from bestselling,
which would be a good category to go for to trending.
And it's your choice, which thing you want to go for.
The newest, most relevant, trending, bestselling.
But if we go here to trending, we can see the phone cases
that are selling usually for around $30.
There's a lot of different categories here from clothing
to stickers to wall art and more.
We will just go through one example for this lesson,
but you can use this concept
and this technique for any of these categories.
Now, we will remember
that we have a trending ocean picture here,
and this might be something we would try to recreate.
Now we're gonna remember this and go over to Etsy.
And Etsy also has a bunch of different categories.
You can go to clothes if you wanted to, just for an example.
And we can see that here is a circle of flowers
with 5 star reviews, 13,000 reviews.
This might be a good kind of design to go for.
So next we're gonna hop over to Midjourney
and create an iPhone case design and a T-shirt design.
So now I'm gonna ask for some waves
and a sunset in the style of Katsushika.
So this turned out really great,
and if you were doing this for real,
maybe you would iterate this prompt a little bit more.
But just for the purpose of this exercise,
we're gonna stop there.
And I'm gonna make the T-shirt design prompt next,
and we're gonna try a circle of flowers
for a T-shirt design.
Great, so this looks really good,
but it's not quite what I had in mind so let's try again.
We're gonna try flowers in the shape of a circle, wreath.
Amazing, this is just what I was looking for.
So we'll go and pick one of these for our iPhone case.
Here, I'm gonna up-res number four,
here. I'm gonna up-res number three.
Now we're gonna download these images.
Next we'll go to Canva, where,
depending on the kind of project,
you might want to add some more to your design.
So here you click, create a design, edit photo,
and we're gonna go to our flower circle.
Here you can click background remover,
which will remove the background
in case you wanted your design to be free.
You can click use in design.
Now we have our flowers free of any background color,
for the purposes of this T-shirt we're trying to make,
I think this is good enough,
but let's say you wanted to add some text.
There's a really easy way to do that here.
You just find a font that you like.
You can scroll through these, grab this, drag it over here.
So let's say you just wanted to customize this text
and have it say "Wild" for your T-shirt,
this would be a very easy way to do that.
You can go through different examples
of different fonts in case you don't like this one.
And then when you're done, you can click share
and go to download.
And I'm gonna click transparent background.
We want PNG,
and we can change the size
depending on what we're going for.
A bigger size or smaller size will be more relevant,
Here, since we're going for a T-shirt,
I'm gonna make it the biggest size that we can.
And now in our downloads, you can see Grow Wild,
and we can look at our downloaded image
with a transparent background.
So now we hop over to ChatGPT,
and we say, "I would like to sell a T-shirt on Etsy.
I have a design already,
please give me a step-by-step guide
on how to get my design onto a T-shirt
and ready to sell on Etsy."
Great, so I won't walk you through every single step,
but you can see that we have a comprehensive list
on how to take our design
and get it ready on a T-shirt to sell on Etsy.
And one of the websites it suggests to do this is Redbubble.
Next, you can see we create an account.
Once we're happy with the design
and the services, we are ready to order a sample.
We can take high quality photos, create a listing,
and publish and promote on social media.
So it's really pretty easy from design to merchandise.
You can use this same process
for any of the items available on Redbubble, Etsy,
or any other similar kind of marketplace website.
So if we jump back over here,
let's say you really liked this waterfall design,
but you weren't sure where you wanted to start.
You can also ask ChatGPT to please gimme some design ideas
for an iPhone case,
similar to a waterfall flowing down pyramid steps.
So next we can look through our different answers
and see if any of these resonate with us.
This geometric waterfall looks pretty cool.
It describes what it would look like.
You would then take this description
and find a way to word it into Midjourney
to get your ideas started.
This is just a quick overview
about how you can use the different AI tools available
to create designs quickly in trending areas for products
and get them ready to sell in no time.