Testing Canva's Text to Image AI Art Generator. Can it Create T-Shirt Designs for Print on Demand?

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[@MissMolly3377]

Yay. You made a video about my question. 👏 Thanks Juna. I made some fantastic images on there, but I don't know how to tag them, now. As far as any AI art is concerned, the prompts are key. Use lots of descriptive words and even some names of artists you like.

[@DetourShirts]

Happy to help! Thanks for your insight and comment

[@dp5711]

Thanks for this intro! One thing is for sure, AI for designers is here to stay. Will be ... interesting ... to see where it all goes!

[@DetourShirts]

I totally agree! Time will tell

[@burcuicen7071]

Very informative video! Thanks, Juna, I think text-to-image generators can be used to generate unique graphics, that no one else used on their t-shirt. The rest is, adding the text, and generating the design! Maybe you can try Midjourney in your other videos. It is a wonderful tool.

[@DetourShirts]

Very true! Thanks I will try Midjourney and make a video

[@MissMolly3377]

I haven't tried Midjourney, I have to learn Discord, first. 😂

[@ErwinKok]

Great video! I used a few different AI Art generators. I think the prompt should be more focused on the design style itself, not on what you are going to use it for. So don't use words like t-shirt design or poster etc., it takes that too literally. What works better, for example, is "A panda riding a bike in kawaii cartoon style" and in some generators, it helps also if you give more information like in the style of {artist name} example "van Gogh" or mood, environment, etc. In general, my conclusion is it takes a couple of tries to get something useful, but it can help with composition ideas or concepts. If lucky sometimes even useful parts can be cut out or can be used as templates/sketches to draw over with vectors. It can be helpful if you are stuck with ideas and get creative ideas. But mostly I am faster if I draw from scratch myself especially because I like my art in vectors. For generating text designs it is useless it mostly generates nonsense words.

[@DetourShirts]

I'm the same I rather draw my art myself...thanks for the tips... maybe I'll do those searches for the next one with a different AI app

[@-----m7909]

My account was suspended yesterday after watching this and after trying canva AI tool to create design..I changed them little bit..but it didnt work😭😭😭

[@silvermushroom-gamifyevery6430]

Couple of points: 1) I’ve heard that the new Deepfloyd software can handle text, but other than that, text is a known weak point for the ai art generators, and canva is likely using one of the older models 2) You usually need to put in hundreds of repetitions with good prompts and even in-painting (deleting a section of an image, and then regenerating that section with the same or a different prompt) to get to the image that you want. That said, 3) I think that currently AI art will be useful for base images that standard graphic design apps then alter into a final design, and a GODSEND for Lifestyle ads and stock photos. Also 4) AI art is a huge topic that is constantly developing. I recommend the channels aitrepreneur, Mattvidpro AI, and your best scuba kit if you’re interested in learning more.

[@silvermushroom-gamifyevery6430]

Also royal skies has some solid vids on stable diffusion, current champ of free open source art generation.

[@DetourShirts]

Great comment... thanks for all the tips and feedback...I'll have to check out the other channels

[@osmanburlington1265]

If you don't mind, please re-state the name of the 3rd KZbin channel you recommended.

[@amyemmert6350]

I have just recently come across your channel and I gotta say you have taught me so much. Thank you Thank you Thank you!! Looking forward to more content from you.

[@DetourShirts]

You are so welcome! Glad I could help... more coming soon

[@jic7843]

Hi, thanks as always. I tried using the same words (prompt), minus “t-shift design” results were better 😊 (some images were kinda wired though) 😅

[@DetourShirts]

Thanks for sharing! Yeah I was hoping the word t-shirt would help.... it probably made it worse

[@bazz1376]

Hey Juna, interesting vid, Thank you. I had similar results, but what I did was take a couple prompts of Lexica and Midjourney, they were insanely detailed and the results on the original platform was mind blowing. BUT things went off the rails on Canva, but I still got some useable graphics for t-shirts after some cleanup work so I'm thinking Canva for me is low on the totem pole but still useable. What must be said is that I don't do exotic, beautifully rendered art works, I'm more like "wham, bam, slam get it done, type. So it's horses for courses. Thanks again for your effort

[@DetourShirts]

Great comment.... thanks for sharing

[@househeadspeakz]

Thanks Juno for the video. I wasn't aware of Canva having AI. I noticed the AI feature is not there. I prefer to create my own design using Canva template and features.

[@DetourShirts]

You are welcome! Yeah... I'm sure it will get better over time for t-shirts.... for other stuff it's pretty amazing

[@hiliaacevedo1264]

Don’t know much, I would try it, and let you know, thanks, keep your videos coming, 🙌🏼

[@DetourShirts]

Will do! Thanks

[@afaqahmed831]

Thanks for the video, Juna!

[@DetourShirts]

My pleasure!

[@simplyojphotosnshop]

Thanks Juna for this video. I've tried this feature at Canva and it really depends on the prompts you type. I have not tried to use it in POD.

[@DetourShirts]

Thanks for sharing!

[@cirruscapo]

Thanks for the video, it was a great help with using Canva in general...

[@DetourShirts]

Great to hear!

[@simplyrelaxedvideos]

Night cafe is awesome. Some of the ones in creative fabrics spark are also pretty good.

[@DetourShirts]

Good to know! I'll have to try them

[@vandvaka8878]

Thank you, will try this, What is the font name you were using in your orange slides( in the video)? Is there any equivalent font in canva or from creative fabrica,?

[@DetourShirts]

I believe it's Veneer

[@houndar1]

I've used it for parts of my design when I couldn't find an image that I wanted, but I had to be very specific and run it a few times.

[@DetourShirts]

That makes sense

[@jenniferweiner-wordpresswi1045]

The last update I saw for The Text to image is that free accounts have 25 uses lifetime. I don't remember the number for pro accounts. Look up design with canva channel, which is where I saw this.

[@DetourShirts]

Nice to know... thanks

[@brianm5798]

Hi Juna. Do you recommend downloading the free fonts they use in Canva (which are actually Google fonts) or purchasing something like Creative Fabrica to download from their catalog which has just under 90,000 fonts to choose from? Thanks in advance!

[@DetourShirts]

I didn't know you could download Canva fonts.... yeah, that sound like a good idea.....it really depends on the font and if you are going to use it though

[@brianm5798]

@@DetourShirts Thanks. Yeah, I only checked the first 5 fonts from the ones you like in your 32 Canva fonts that you prefer video, and they’re at Google fonts. I’m assuming that’s why they’re willing to allow you to use them. I guess you’re saying if you can get them free then use the free ones rather then buy them. Cool!

[@MexLatinFoodplusArtConsultant]

I'm gonna try creating text free images in ai and download each of my designs to my photo album on my phone and then import them into canva as a custom design template....and then add text over that

[@DetourShirts]

Great idea

[@GolpokothokRaktim]

I believe that this year will bring us a ton of incredible AI technologies that will improve our lives. The winners will be those who can effectively use these AI tools. Recently, using the Blue Willow tool, I produced incredible photos

[@DetourShirts]

Well said... thanks for the comment

[@panamagirl1968]

A very informative video Thanks for sharing

[@DetourShirts]

Glad it was helpful!

[@drewlongbrakevibes]

Hi, great info! I just want to confirm, for the future, is it legal to sell the Ai designs from Canva commercially? Thanks!

[@DetourShirts]

I would be very careful.... for now I would use them as ideas

[@brianm5798]

Hi Juna. You show a lot of videos where you use the free stuff within apps like Canva and Creative Fabrica to make t-shirt designs. So I was wondering if you think it’s worth it to have the paid version of Creative Fabrica? I’m concerned that if I do use their stuff year after year, I will accumulate a lot of their graphics and fonts and then will be required to always use their service. What do you think?

[@DetourShirts]

Good point... it really depends on your process. If you find that Creative Fabrica is working and getting you sales than it may be worth it.... if it's not maybe you need to try something else.... it's all a test really.

[@FUNKBOOGIE1]

Detour Shirts Juna ? How do you determine what would be the best type of text for a design ? I be coming up with designs ideas by luck with no plan but can't finish the design because the text don't look right for that design. Also how do you determine if you even need any text at all ?

[@DetourShirts]

I try to think about who the design is for... does the person wearing it want text or not... and what kind of text would they like.... think like the customer

[@FUNKBOOGIE1]

@@DetourShirts Juna ? I wanna see you create a design around AI images.

[@alhadimushola08]

can you edit the puzzle as if the text goes inside and vice versa

[@DetourShirts]

Interesting... thanks

[@DaveLynchWriter]

Hey Juna, when using Canva for merch designs, how do you deal with the dpi? Thanks.

[@DetourShirts]

I just make sure it is 4500 px x 5400 px and it's been fine

[@DaveLynchWriter]

@@DetourShirts ok thanks.. I was a bit paranoid cos Amazon says designs should be 300dpi but Canva only exports 92dpi.

[@kettunenemil2286]

Hey! Important question!! I heard that Teespring does not promote your designs even you get the 10 sells. They have removed the trust score and you need to promote all you designs on your own??? That is what i heard, is it true?

[@DetourShirts]

I'm not sure... I haven't been keeping up with Teespring... sorry

[@MissMolly3377]

Juna, I am not sure if you know who Hamish is, he has a channel here on YT. He just did a video about this, but he used Midjourney, however, he names a channel in his video, that showed him what prompts to use. Anyway, I don't want to name the channel, for two reasons, the first YT will block my comment, and the second is, there are several channels with the same name, so it's better to watch Hamish's video, he shows the name of the channel at the beginning of his video. I think he made the video yesterday, or the day before. It might be helpful for you to get better images. The prompts are key. Using simple prompts doesn't result in very good images. The more descriptive words you use, the better, and also add in art styles and names of artists. It is really about the prompts. Oh and there is a channel I watched, about upscaling, if I can find the video, yesterday, I will tell you what it is. You can take the image into "bigjpg," then take it into Photoshop and you can really make it good. Bigjpg will upscale it 4X, for free, but if you want it bigger it is a paid subscription. The video for upscale is called The best way to upscale AI art for printing by Analog_dreams. Hopefully, YT won't take my comment.

[@DetourShirts]

This is great.... I'll have to take a look

[@nakedhighway]

Leave out the phrase "a t-shirt design" and just write what you want it to design. I've gotten some really good/usable results. This will work on non-Pro canva accounts. If selling on Etsy, from what I've read, Etsy requires that AI art be altered in some way by a human before it can be sold on their platform. This may change, but this is just what I've read from doing a simple search on their policy.

[@DetourShirts]

Thanks for the comment... I'll have to try it the way you said and see what happens

[@panamagirl1968]

Nightcafe is a great AI website

[@DetourShirts]

Thanks... I'll have to do a video for that one

[@AhmedAhmed-yd3nn]

The best ❤️❤️🥰

[@DetourShirts]

Thank you

[@kettunenemil2286]

I have an question about print on demand! Can i make i design with a picture of my friend or friends, something funny for them and sell it to a friend and get the teespring 10 sells to get the trust score? Awesome videos btw!!

[@DetourShirts]

Yes you can!

[@kettunenemil2286]

@@DetourShirts so theres not any copyrighting or something like that

[@DetourShirts]

Unless your friends are famous people and really don't want to be on a shirt then no....you should get their permission but most friends shouldn't mind if they are your friends.

[@ningrat1]

The Ai in canva still has a long way to go. For now I'm still not impressed. Have been playing with it for the last month & frankly it's annoying. DALL-E gives better result & Midjourney.

[@DetourShirts]

I'll have to try those... thanks

[@MissMolly3377]

I got great results on Canva.

[@nickrkr]

I tried it out and the even if the technology is new the images it creates are shockingly detailed and borderline scary

[@DetourShirts]

This is true... the technology is amazing

[@-----m7909]

My account was suspended yesterday after watching this and after trying canva AI tool to create design..I changed them little bit..but it didnt work😭😭😭

[@DetourShirts]

Really? What design did you do?

[@johngalvin5327]

I tried Canva text to graphics but didn't like it , the style always came out to serious for my style

[@DetourShirts]

I think it's still to early but it should get better

[@theachieversgraphics1827]

Can I use this for print on demand product?

[@DetourShirts]

You could but I don't think they would do well

[@MissMolly3377]

Canva text to image was an app for the free account, I am not sure if it still is, though.

[@DetourShirts]

I believe it is... I still need to check

[@jonathanwilliams3846]

pixel dimensions of images produced by canva AI is now approx 532 x 532.

[@jonathanwilliams3846]

so if you enlarge it you might possibly have problems with pixelation on the final product.

[@DetourShirts]

Good point

[@bettyeverett8089]

It certainly has it's strengths, but it doesn't comprehend T'-shirt design. I have had success with patterns, surface and seamless, but some work and some don't. It is definitely trial and error. My best have been some images of horses, cats, unicorns, mention specific colors mainly concept art works the best. Text is an epic failure. I think if you generate the graphics and then incorporate other elements and text, it could probably be useful. I would leave out the word T-shirt design and just be specific on the graphics you want to create. It doesn't understand styles of design, text, or the size of the space you are trying to fill. It has potential, but a long way to go.

[@DetourShirts]

Good point... maybe I should have taken out the word t-shirt.... maybe on the next one

[@gotchagr]

Yes, this service needs a PRO account.

[@DetourShirts]

Thank you... good to know

[@laibkhaled1185]

❤️

[@DetourShirts]

Thanks for the love

[@kaivalyaagnihotri1255]

Have you tried Midjourney

[@DetourShirts]

No but I hear great things.... maybe in another video

[@KV45355]

Canva needs a AI vector image output.

[@DetourShirts]

That's kind of what it is

[@wackyworld-youtube]

I do currently my master in artificial intelligence. I think Canva has just fear to get hanged up by the competitors. Under the hood, i suppose, they use Stable Diffusion or Dall-E. Nothing impressive from Canva, im sure, just fear-driven.

[@DetourShirts]

Interesting... thanks for the comment

[@Recallalertnetwork111]

Problem you keep saying t shirt, that is why it is making a t shirt?

[@DetourShirts]

True..... t-shirt design does work on MidJourney though

[@woodcrafterinyourpocket8640]

Creative Fabrica Spark, Playground AI, Mid Journey are 3 other AI programs that are better than Canva

[@DetourShirts]

Yes! Thanks for the comment... I will have to make videos for them all

[@MissMolly3377]

If you use the right prompts, it works really well, actually. I got some fantastic images from it. The biggest problem is resolution, I suppose, but all of them have low resolution. It's all about the prompts. Simple prompts won't do.

[@Lucenator69]

@@MissMolly3377 l agree, l had some nice year of the rabbit designs created by the Canva AI, of wich l used 3 to put on a t-shirt, it's not perfect (yet) but it's worth keeping an eye out for the future

[@cxa011500]

Looks like right now AI is just good for nightmare fuel. 😬😅

[@DetourShirts]

True... some crazy stuff

[@MissMolly3377]

😂 Yes. I got some awesome images from Canva's, text to image. They were definitely nightmare fuel, but they came out fantastic!!!

[@pushismano77]

I found my unique way to use AI (not canva) 😉

[@DetourShirts]

Yeah... Canva is cool, just not for t-shirts yet

[@Lucenator69]

tomotorme ✌

[@sevenseven31]

use midjourney is better than canva

[@DetourShirts]

I'm adding it to the list... many people have commented the same thing... I'm intrigued

[@basedinbox]

Where's the AI? 😆😆😆

[@DetourShirts]

It's built in... but not very good for designing t-shirts yet

[@LordCagliostro]

Prompt engineering.

[@DetourShirts]

Right.... I'm sure it will get better