Make AI Art Better! How to Trace AI Art in Affinity Designer! Full Tutorial

[@tracypastorak2707]

Yes, illustrator tutorial would be awesome!

[@DetourShirts]

Will do!

[@letmeeeentertainyou]

yes please

[@ZombieEeyore0710]

Please. It's been forever since I used it and it's changed so much 😅

[@tranquilmentor]

Great Tutorial Juna! I just purchased Affinity Designer 2 and I am learning so much from your videos! Thanks so much for all of your help and inspiration!!😃

[@DetourShirts]

You are so welcome!

[@DannyvdB]

Thank you Juna. Love your videos. So helpful and inspiring. Bought Designer recently as you use it and these videos help a lot with learning Designer and finding ideas to use. Keep going.

[@DetourShirts]

Awesome! Thank you! More coming

[@susanravella6261]

This was a super useful tutorial! Thank you very much, Juna! Someday, if you are stuck looking for an idea for a video, could you cover how to keep your designs organized so that you can find things when you need them, and not clog up your hard drive with a million versions? 😅 Many thanks, Juna! You are doing such a good job! ❤

[@DetourShirts]

Thanks for the idea!

[@jcarlin596]

Loved this video. Please keep them coming

[@DetourShirts]

Thank you

[@alienlife3215]

This is a great tutorial, Juna, thank you! Would love an Illustrator tutorial 🙏🏼

[@DetourShirts]

Noted!

[@NZTiberius2023]

Juna, your videos are fantastic! Thank you. If you had time to do an Inkscape version that would be amazing, but if not, we'll figure it out. 🙂

[@DetourShirts]

Sure thing!

[@vegasminimansion]

Awesome explanations video

[@DetourShirts]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Matthew_6_20]

Couldn't you use Inkscape to do a trace bitmap and import the SVG file into Affinity Designer, then modify it as needed? Also, I think a lot of people are buying some or all of the Affinity products. I just bought the whole suite during their 50% off sale. You had a series of videos on using Designer to design T-shirts, but it's 3 years old. Can you do another video (or series) using Designer and showing off some of the new features in version 2.5?

[@DetourShirts]

Great idea... I'll put it on the list

[@chrissy8764]

Thanks for the video! All your videos are super helpful. I’ve been using upscaled AI art (ideogram) mainly for my graphics and sometimes adding a vector line border to correct jagged edges after removing the background. Question: I find that gradients and textures created by AI look good from a distance but tend to pixelate pretty quickly as you get closer. Even when upscaled. Should I worry about how that looks on tshirts? I don’t want to have to test print things. 😅

[@DetourShirts]

Yes. It depends on how bad the pixelation is. A little may be okay

[@ToniWall]

Great tutorial! Are you using Chat GPT 4.0 and is Stickerwhiz inside Chat GPT?

[@DetourShirts]

Yes and yes

[@carbunkle311]

Do you recreate every one of your designs in Affinity Designer? and also can you explain how to get approved by amazon merch on demand? or how to reapply ? I just got declined and I don't know what to do now.

[@DetourShirts]

I don't recreate every design just a few.... There is no guaranteed way to get a approved it's pretty much luck. Try at different times of the month. Reapply with a different email.

[@woodcrafterinyourpocket8640]

How is the integration between Affinity and Canva going to work? Do you need to pay for both subscriptions?

[@DetourShirts]

Im not sure yet. Right now you will have to pay for both but my guess is they will have an integrated plan in the future

[@RobSandstromDesigns]

This is a good tutorial but I was wondering if you are familiar with Adobe Illustrator. I am not I have affinity but I keep hearing Adobe was a good tool for doing the vector tracing and turning the graphics into paths without the detailed tracing. Do you know if this is true? I know Adobe is much more epensive but if it allows doing this type of work without all this manual tracing it may be worth it. Just curious.

[@DetourShirts]

Yes... I have this video I did with Illustrator.... I may do more in the future....kzbin.info/www/bejne/o4bWeKaensmoeKMsi=bgIK9TYf8EEa1Va3

[@Siffat22]

Can we use kittl vectorizer....or affinity design is better

[@DetourShirts]

It's different.... A vectorizer is faster and will try to duplicate what it sees but because the AI art is inconsistent to begin with the vector made by a vectorizer will be inconsistent too.

[@taniamorelos8391]

I wanted to make a tshirt with the word capy on it but I found out capy and capybara are trademark... so I had to change the word phrase capy life for something else and then there was another phrase "100% swag" ... do I infringe in trademake if I use a trademark work in a longer phrase?

[@DetourShirts]

It's tricky but most of the time it's the full phrase

[@taniamorelos8391]

@@DetourShirts Thank you :)

[@yadavruturaj]

Hey why did you remove the video 😮

[@DetourShirts]

So the first video I uploaded had the ending cut off for some reason. So I had to save it again with the ending and re-upload it.

[@yadavruturaj]

@@DetourShirts thank you 🙏🏼

[@MiguelSerrano-r9c]

is this the paid ChatGPT version?

[@DetourShirts]

Yes

[@Uptwnkickz]

Can I use a Mac?

[@DetourShirts]

Yes... I use a Mac

[@SenatorPapahatziharalambrous]

G’day mate. Is there an easy way to turn an existing AI design into a sticker, or give the art work, the clean white background around it, using affinity? No matter what tools I use to remove the background, it’s never perfect, so I am thinking maybe I just need to trace around the subject/artwork and give it the sticker look - so it doesn’t have jagged lines or faded lines by trying to remove the background on Affinity or most online apps. Thanks in advance. Keep up the great videos now that you’re a “free man” 🫡

[@DetourShirts]

Yeah... I like to use white background but I often have to trace around it so there are no jagged lines like you said.