I worked in Desktop Publishing for 10 years. You just taught 3 years of in-production training in less than 18 minutes. This video is incredibly useful!
66 Year Old Fart signed up for your course. Had to apply eye drops this morning due to eyes glazed over when I hit the Figma portion. I figure everyone starts at "0", right? It's hard, but I'm going to be one of your best students.
Alek, you're just the greatest, buddy. Personable, concise, cogent, and without the prevalent hucksterism and funnel hustle found in so many YT presenters. And all of your videos are so encouraging. Thanks for your high level of professionalism.
@GsudbdJdndb No. How about you go get a real job and do something with your life, 'cause this ain't it. You make the world worse, not better, think about that when you go to bed.
@alek thanks for this great video, when I try and get the distressed look to work the distressed layer is just disappearing and the coloured text is not being affected. any tips why this might be happening would be greatly appreciated! thanks in advanced!
Thank u. I have been using Godaddy studio for a few years..and love it for its ease and intuitive platform, and phone and desktop app integration - but it has its limitations. So now I can try out figma when i want to get more sophisticated with Text.
This is another awesome video. Thank you! Have spent a fair amount of time in Photoshop and can 100% agree with the value of learning the hot keys. Thank you, Alek!
This was a really great video, thank you. I watched it then played it through again following along, stopping and starting while I worked it out. I've not used figma before as I mainly use Canva so some of the things took a little more work until I understood what you were doing but I got there in the end. A lot of these text effects can't be done in Canva (or at least I don't know how) and this has opened up so many new things for me to play with.
I am so glad I started watching your videos, like a week ago. This video is answering a lot of left over questions I had about using Figma. Thank you for explaining how this all works together step by step.
While I already know how to do this with the other programs in my arsenal, this is a great video, and because of your design video, I'm learning figma... Thanks man!!!
Thank you Alek for this incredible content that is so helpful. But, Is it possible to make a full tutorial about how to use Figma but a little bit more slow ? 😅Some parts oh this one are to fast me my beginners mind 😄
Excellent video! I'm a UX designer who uses Figma daily, learned a few tricks here. Unfortunately, the texture mask technique doesn't work anymore in Figma.
This was incredibly useful information! You are a great teacher and communicate the information in your videos so well. It's truly amazing how much information you fit into each one.
Thanks for making it so simple. And also showing simple examples. These tips will help me out big time as my main problem when designing still is thinking too complicated. Also this figma software is so similar to affinity designer, crazy that i never heard of it.
That was a great fully loaded video, i watched one of your other videos and you used figma i downloaded and got confused! after this i think i am going to try it again. Thanks
Hi I’m new a subscriber and I love your videos so far! Can you please talk about the resolution of the designs? I made one using mid journey and when I uploaded it to printful, the quality was bad.
Alek! You are incredible!!!! This is absolute gold. Thank you so much for keep putting out these awesome content! I will repay your kindness one day $$$. I've used your affiliate links and if there's anything else I could do to show support, I'm game. I'm a subscriber and always liked your videos. 😍
Bro i Just binge watched 30 of your videos to learn and understand Etzy and online earning, i wish i started following your etzy journey from november but i guess nows a better time to start then never , so much to learn , thank you for your insights , gotta watch one more video before i sleep now , also its 3 am here in India D: , i just hope this etzy business venture becomes successful for someone from india.
Is Figma completely free to use? I was trying to move along with you while watching the video and trying to use figma, and I was missing a lot of options. Thank you!
Hey Alek love your Videos :) Question i know you like Figma but do you use it often for your shops or do you prefer more Adobe Illustrator or maybe Affinity Designer? Greetings from Germany. PS: can anyone tell me whats the name of the tool to show what ranking reveneu etc for etsy? Thanks
I'm a bit confused. I keep trying to achieve the distressed look. I layer my text over the distressed overlay, group the text and the distressed overly and then click the sub mask icon, but nothing happens.
Skill #7 (Distressed Layer) - Really struggling to get this to cut the "dots" out of the text in the right way. It either completely deletes the layers, or is very sparse and you can't read the text (basically the inverse of what you're accomplishing). Am I missing something?
Skill 7 double masking is not working for me if i am masking a text with image it's working fine but after that if i try to mask distressed layer the color of that group is changing to the distressed pattern anyone have solution for this
hey, the thing you're showing at 11:20 is not working. When I do it, the overlay just disappears and the text looks just like normal text would. Does anyone have any tips? I've been struggling for several hours... Doesn't work both with jpg and svg..
A great video with so many tips in such a short time! But one thing doesn't work for me: the grunge effect! I put the font over the effect, select both, go to mask and the effect doesn't work. I've tried everything and have even restarted the program. No chance. It only works to a limited extent if I set the mask to "luminance" afterwards - but not properly either. Does anyone have any ideas? Thank you!
Thanks for the great video. I've seen oyu used both Canva and Figma in designs making. From your opinion are they interchangeable or you use them in different ways?
@@alekSheffy do you know another way to create distressed text layers because the masking isn't working for me and I followed your instruction step by step
Hey Alek, great video! I was wondering how to run s POD from another country works. How do I manage the returns and lost in mail, all that stuff. Thank you!
How can I be sure that resolution of a graphic shall be quality enough for printing on a T-shirt and that my product will look exactly as I have seen it on my monitor?
Hi Alek do you offer the 35$ Free Shipping Guarantee in your shops? I do and I'm struggling with that. When I offer a 15% discount on my items, then once people order 2 things (above 35$) and get free shipping I make hardly any profits, considering 6.5% Etsy fees as well, and the 10$ shipping I have to pay. And if I price my items even higher I end up way more expensive than the others, I'm already in the mid range. Considering I'm a new shop trying to grow this is tough! What is your personal experience?
I'm a professional graphic designer and artist... I can't see where if I was new to GD this would be the easiest way to get it done IN THE BEGINNING. However if you make this your full time I say to learn more. I'm not even saying to buy software but to learn concepts and some design theory from UA-cam videos by designer for free. Also get better FREE software that do pro level work like Inkscape instead of Adobe Illustrator. Then for a lil bit of money then buy Affinity Photo and Designer.
Hello Alek, thanks for all the great videos, and I'm sorry to hear about your recent shop issue with people ripping off your designs. If I may ask a question of you, or anyone else with an opinion, would you have separate Etsy shops for the US and the UK, using local Printify print providers for both? Thank you, and all the very best 👍
Wowwww, I have 22 listings no sales Lol, but I'm also taking the righteous path and only doing designs that are beneficial to world. I.E animal rights, plant based, environmentalism, etc. Not the typical garbage people buy.
I did a Mother’s Day shirt and then a dog birthday shirt, views and sales completely gone now lol, think I got super lucky, definitely do what you enjoy if not it just feels like another 9-5. But if you do want a 9-5 in Etsy then making the best selling “garbage” designs might be the best way to bring in sales. Still fairly new to all this but I’m in it for the long run. Trying to get 2 designs out a week. Gonna start designing for holidays as well. Good luck man I hope you get 1,000,000 sales with your designs.
Great video Alek! I have watched your other videos as well. How can you compete as a complete beginner with bigger fishes who are already well established in platforms like Etsy? These guys probably are way more SEO optimised than a newbie starting out today.
Thank you very much for the video. On creating negative spaces, I'm trying to do the same and it keeps cutting a rectangle instead of the bigfoot shape. Already tryied with svg files png files and nothing. But it works with created fonts on figma. I you or someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong I'd appreciate. Thank you
🫰 Try Printify: try.printify.com/alek
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I worked in Desktop Publishing for 10 years. You just taught 3 years of in-production training in less than 18 minutes. This video is incredibly useful!
66 Year Old Fart signed up for your course. Had to apply eye drops this morning due to eyes glazed over when I hit the Figma portion. I figure everyone starts at "0", right? It's hard, but I'm going to be one of your best students.
Im gonna have to watch this like 50 times on half speed.
Same here this is my 5th time
😂 yeah
Im on attempt 12 but I know I'm sure I'm doing 13
😂😂
Right behind ya! 😂
Alek, you're just the greatest, buddy. Personable, concise, cogent, and without the prevalent hucksterism and funnel hustle found in so many YT presenters. And all of your videos are so encouraging. Thanks for your high level of professionalism.
Wow!! Super helpful. The type of video you watch straight through and then go back to pause and try to master (and remember) each part.
holy moly that was a useful video, I’ll probs be watching and pausing that many times
As always, much appreciated Alek. I keep waiting for those ads but another seamless watch. Thank you.
@GsudbdJdndb No. How about you go get a real job and do something with your life, 'cause this ain't it. You make the world worse, not better, think about that when you go to bed.
@alek thanks for this great video, when I try and get the distressed look to work the distressed layer is just disappearing and the coloured text is not being affected. any tips why this might be happening would be greatly appreciated! thanks in advanced!
This is why you're THE BEST! 200k here we come.
Thank u. I have been using Godaddy studio for a few years..and love it for its ease and intuitive platform, and phone and desktop app integration - but it has its limitations. So now I can try out figma when i want to get more sophisticated with Text.
Between you and Patryk you guys are killing it
This is another awesome video. Thank you! Have spent a fair amount of time in Photoshop and can 100% agree with the value of learning the hot keys. Thank you, Alek!
This was a really great video, thank you. I watched it then played it through again following along, stopping and starting while I worked it out. I've not used figma before as I mainly use Canva so some of the things took a little more work until I understood what you were doing but I got there in the end. A lot of these text effects can't be done in Canva (or at least I don't know how) and this has opened up so many new things for me to play with.
I am so glad I started watching your videos, like a week ago. This video is answering a lot of left over questions I had about using Figma. Thank you for explaining how this all works together step by step.
So how has it turned out. Planning on starting.
While I already know how to do this with the other programs in my arsenal, this is a great video, and because of your design video, I'm learning figma... Thanks man!!!
Thank you Alek for this incredible content that is so helpful. But, Is it possible to make a full tutorial about how to use Figma but a little bit more slow ? 😅Some parts oh this one are to fast me my beginners mind 😄
THIS WAS BRILLIANT! THANKS ALEK
Excellent video! I'm a UX designer who uses Figma daily, learned a few tricks here. Unfortunately, the texture mask technique doesn't work anymore in Figma.
This was incredibly useful information! You are a great teacher and communicate the information in your videos so well. It's truly amazing how much information you fit into each one.
Thanks for making it so simple. And also showing simple examples. These tips will help me out big time as my main problem when designing still is thinking too complicated. Also this figma software is so similar to affinity designer, crazy that i never heard of it.
Value packed video Alek! Thanks for the awesome content you share with our community! Keep up the great work!
Thank you for delivering another great video packed with great value. 100% agree with learning the hotkeys, this is a game changer for any designer.
thanks for everything you do Alek
really hope you would make a viedo about shopify POD, would be amazing to hear your input on the subject!
Working on it 🙏
Wowwwww you are God sent! Such a great teacher!!!!!!!!! Thank you!! Gratitude, Gratitude 🙏😊
High Quality Content !!!
I just spent 7 days learning how to use Canva when this was available the entire time. Thank you for sharing this game changing information.
That was a great fully loaded video, i watched one of your other videos and you used figma i downloaded and got confused! after this i think i am going to try it again. Thanks
Summary of topics discussed in this video are:
0:00 - Intro
1:14 - Skill #1 - Terminology
2:08 - Skill #2 - Text Controls
3:48 - Skill #3 - Color Controls
5:19 - Skill #4 - Shapes
6:43 - Skill #5 - Alignment Controls
8:43 - Skill #6 - Strokes
10:53 - Skill #7 - Masking
14:51 - Skill #8 - Warping
16:07 - Skill #9 - Bonus Tips
Tip #1 - Learn Hotkeys
Tip #2 - Make use of Plugins
Tip #3 - Jin the Discord Community
Lol watched it twice, then decided to put it in .75 speed so I could keep up better. But super awesome video, learned a whole lot from it!
Hi I’m new a subscriber and I love your videos so far! Can you please talk about the resolution of the designs? I made one using mid journey and when I uploaded it to printful, the quality was bad.
Great informative video, thank you
Omg this is so simple and so useful. Please make more content like this 🎉🎉
How do you export your designs from figma, and can you export them as jpegs and png files?
YOU.ARE.THE BEST! Thanks for your videos! I learned so much from you!
Alek, I LOVE you! Thank you for all you do. You have helped me a ton!
this video is pure golddd, thanks so much !
This is BRLLIANT. Thanks for sharing!
Great content!!! Saved and pkan to watch sections over and over. Thank you for this amazing information!
This is amazing!!! THANK YOU! So much to learn!
Super valuable! Thanks so much. Subbed
Hey, you did cover what I was looking for Alek. Thank you!
Very useful. Kinda feels like a crash course. Awesome.
Alek! You are incredible!!!! This is absolute gold. Thank you so much for keep putting out these awesome content! I will repay your kindness one day $$$. I've used your affiliate links and if there's anything else I could do to show support, I'm game. I'm a subscriber and always liked your videos. 😍
Thanks so much, for sharing, u r the best 👌 👍
Thanks for such a useful video!
Bro i Just binge watched 30 of your videos to learn and understand Etzy and online earning, i wish i started following your etzy journey from november but i guess nows a better time to start then never , so much to learn , thank you for your insights , gotta watch one more video before i sleep now , also its 3 am here in India D: , i just hope this etzy business venture becomes successful for someone from india.
completely fried my brain watching this one , need some sleep fml
You can do it bro
Lots of info 😅
Thank you! Thank You!!
Great Vid...gives a good inside what is possible with Figma. Thank you.
Great Video!! Thanks for all the info. 😊
Is the free version of Figma tool enough to do all that you have covered?
very good video great value
Awesome video! Thank you, Alek!
Thank you ♥️
Very good info and summary.
16:12 The confused look on MY face, trying to figure out HOW would i become a better designer, if I learn the "Hockey's" 😂 😂
Is Figma completely free to use? I was trying to move along with you while watching the video and trying to use figma, and I was missing a lot of options. Thank you!
Fantastic! Lot of info packed in here! Thanks!
Thanks for this awesome video. Need more vids like this😊
Thank you
How many font designs do you recommend? What about color of shirts, basic, white, gray and black? Thanks
Hey Alek love your Videos :) Question i know you like Figma but do you use it often for your shops or do you prefer more Adobe Illustrator or maybe Affinity Designer? Greetings from Germany.
PS: can anyone tell me whats the name of the tool to show what ranking reveneu etc for etsy? Thanks
@@milopack1191 thank you :)
Which version of FIGMA do you recommend and is FIGMA similar to Illustrator? Do I need both?
Love your videos! Are you planning on making a course?
I'm a bit confused. I keep trying to achieve the distressed look. I layer my text over the distressed overlay, group the text and the distressed overly and then click the sub mask icon, but nothing happens.
Yeah me too, I keep trying moving the layers up and down, but it won't stack the image to the other layers 😑
I get the same issue
really good ad for figma
Figma is my favorite especially since it's free
Epic tutorial. Thanks your videos are the best 🙏🙏
Hey thanks
Skill #7 (Distressed Layer) - Really struggling to get this to cut the "dots" out of the text in the right way. It either completely deletes the layers, or is very sparse and you can't read the text (basically the inverse of what you're accomplishing). Am I missing something?
I can't figure out how to stack masks, everytime i overlay a second mask, the first one disappears
Skill 7 double masking is not working for me if i am masking a text with image it's working fine but after that if i try to mask distressed layer the color of that group is changing to the distressed pattern anyone have solution for this
Is there going to be a video showing how to use printfy? I'm trying to make a simple text shirt.
hey, the thing you're showing at 11:20 is not working. When I do it, the overlay just disappears and the text looks just like normal text would. Does anyone have any tips? I've been struggling for several hours... Doesn't work both with jpg and svg..
Little bit late but you have to place the vector on top of the words, select both layers, and then mask them.
What about kittl instead of figma? It has good text features, but is it worth of buying?
WHAT IS THE @ I KEY? the key you mentioned to select the color
A great video with so many tips in such a short time! But one thing doesn't work for me: the grunge effect! I put the font over the effect, select both, go to mask and the effect doesn't work. I've tried everything and have even restarted the program. No chance. It only works to a limited extent if I set the mask to "luminance" afterwards - but not properly either. Does anyone have any ideas? Thank you!
Thanks for the great video. I've seen oyu used both Canva and Figma in designs making. From your opinion are they interchangeable or you use them in different ways?
I really only use Figma, I just know a lot of people use Canva instead since there are more tutorials on it and it's less intimidating
@@alekSheffy do you know another way to create distressed text layers because the masking isn't working for me and I followed your instruction step by step
Hey Alek, great video! I was wondering how to run s POD from another country works. How do I manage the returns and lost in mail, all that stuff. Thank you!
How can I be sure that resolution of a graphic shall be quality enough for printing on a T-shirt and that my product will look exactly as I have seen it on my monitor?
Do you prefer fiqma over AI illustrator for designing?
Hi Alek do you offer the 35$ Free Shipping Guarantee in your shops? I do and I'm struggling with that. When I offer a 15% discount on my items, then once people order 2 things (above 35$) and get free shipping I make hardly any profits, considering 6.5% Etsy fees as well, and the 10$ shipping I have to pay. And if I price my items even higher I end up way more expensive than the others, I'm already in the mid range. Considering I'm a new shop trying to grow this is tough! What is your personal experience?
I'm a professional graphic designer and artist... I can't see where if I was new to GD this would be the easiest way to get it done IN THE BEGINNING. However if you make this your full time I say to learn more. I'm not even saying to buy software but to learn concepts and some design theory from UA-cam videos by designer for free. Also get better FREE software that do pro level work like Inkscape instead of Adobe Illustrator. Then for a lil bit of money then buy Affinity Photo and Designer.
Hello Alek, thanks for all the great videos, and I'm sorry to hear about your recent shop issue with people ripping off your designs.
If I may ask a question of you, or anyone else with an opinion, would you have separate Etsy shops for the US and the UK, using local Printify print providers for both?
Thank you, and all the very best 👍
A 17:26-minute video is far more effective than a 10+ hour paid course.
How to change color of the shirt?
We should really be paying for all this knowledge… thanks so much Alek. On my 3 rd sale my second day after my first listing went live.
Wowwww, I have 22 listings no sales Lol, but I'm also taking the righteous path and only doing designs that are beneficial to world. I.E animal rights, plant based, environmentalism, etc. Not the typical garbage people buy.
I did a Mother’s Day shirt and then a dog birthday shirt, views and sales completely gone now lol, think I got super lucky, definitely do what you enjoy if not it just feels like another 9-5. But if you do want a 9-5 in Etsy then making the best selling “garbage” designs might be the best way to bring in sales. Still fairly new to all this but I’m in it for the long run. Trying to get 2 designs out a week. Gonna start designing for holidays as well. Good luck man I hope you get 1,000,000 sales with your designs.
Great video Alek! I have watched your other videos as well. How can you compete as a complete beginner with bigger fishes who are already well established in platforms like Etsy? These guys probably are way more SEO optimised than a newbie starting out today.
You'll have to win by posting more listings to try and rank, or by paying to run ads to gain traction in the algorithm
@@alekSheffy and don’t you think there are less competitive niches left which have a lower barrier entry ?
yeah I'll be watching this a few more times I imagine
Thank you very much for the video. On creating negative spaces, I'm trying to do the same and it keeps cutting a rectangle instead of the bigfoot shape. Already tryied with svg files png files and nothing. But it works with created fonts on figma. I you or someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong I'd appreciate. Thank you
Is the writings are the only t shirts that sell?
Graphic tees sell too
Hello for me it outlines just the letter not the stroke what am I doing wrong can not get it to work.
Now To Watch This 100 More Times, So It Sinks In. Annnnnnd Go.
man just awesome
Still My Etsy shop is suspended without any reason or e-mail😢
mans giving out literal gold
Love you bro.
❤❤❤❤❤
Love from Pakistan 🇵🇰
Why don't use illustrator for designing?
What is software he use
whats the rush
for some reason, i can't get the distress texture to work
Did you upgrade to the paid version of Figma?
No I use the free version!
I can’t get mask to work. I downloaded a grunge image from freepix and I am trying it but it won’t work. Can you help?
same here! did you figure it out, by any chance? there's not a lot of tutorials about it