Build a Print on Demand Business from Scratch

Define your niche for bulldog lovers, then choose a store name and secure a domain, exploring GoDaddy or Shopify options before designing logos and apparel like shirts, hoodies, and mugs.

Create a free logo for your Shopify print-on-demand store using a free design site, customize Bulldog text, and download a 200 pixels by 200 pixels logo.

Launch your Shopify store with a 14-day trial, choose a plan, and customize with the what you see is what you get editor, then connect a domain or buy one.

Find free images for commercial use on two platforms, download the best, and upload it to your store. Create and apply six design options for t-shirts, hoodies, mugs, and more.

Connect Printful with your Shopify store to enable a print on demand workflow where Printful handles printing and shipping, while you earn profit and commissions from orders.

Add products to your Shopify store by selecting item types, uploading designs, and setting mockups. Then configure pricing, currency, sizes, tags, and collections to organize shirts, hoodies, mugs, and gifts.

Create and organize product groups by building collections for shirts, hoodies, hats, iPhone cases, mugs, and stickers. Display them in your store with a collection list and drag-and-drop order.

Learn to customize a Shopify store with a clean, direct design, add logo and announcement bar, image overlays, collections, testimonials, payment methods and social links to build trust.

Create and link new pages to the main navigation to build an online store. Add contact us, frequently asked questions, and about us pages, and adjust the main menu order.

Create and link essential store policies including refund, privacy, terms of service, and shipping using templates, then add them to the footer navigation and tailor shipping times.

Learn to add and activate payment methods in Shopify, including PayPal and third-party providers, configure merchant details, and enable checkout options for customers.

Fine tune your Shopify store with colors, branding, and imagery; set the home page title and description, connect a domain, and configure analytics and Facebook pixel before publishing.

Explore Merch by Amazon and the print-on-demand model, learning how to rank products, generate free traffic, and design, upload, and optimize with keywords for passive income.

Discover the Merch by Amazon dashboard for a print-on-demand shirt business, showing seven-day activity, multi-market listings, artwork uploads, product creation, and earnings analytics.

Learn how Merch by Amazon tiers cap uploads, up to 100 designs per day at higher tiers, and prioritize quality with keywords and titles to avoid removal after 90 days.

Discover why Amazon buyers seek fast shipping, huge selection, and convenience, and how sellers can leverage organic traffic with unique, affordable print-on-demand shirts priced 15–20 dollars.

Explore the range of products you can upload to Merch by Amazon, including standard t-shirts, premium tees, long-sleeve shirts, sweatshirts, hoodies, and pop sockets, with product-specific dimensions and templates.

Learn how to request an invitation from Amazon, create and verify a new account, manage payments and taxes, and use a Pioneer card for non-US users.

Learn to use free images for print on demand with caution, and prioritize original artwork or licensed vectors to protect designs and monetize your work.

Learn how Amazon best seller rank (BSR) signals sales velocity for print on demand shirts, how lower ranks imply more sales, and how to conduct research to push BSR lower.

Explore Google Trends to identify daily search trends in the United States, then design shirts around popular topics and market them on Merch by Amazon.

Learn to use the Merch Informer tool for Amazon market research, keyword discovery, and BSR insights on print on demand shirts. Explore trademark search and pricing options.

Explore a calendar-based research approach to identify high-demand dates for shirt designs, assess niche competition via Amazon BSR, and plan designs months in advance across Pinterest, Facebook, and Redbubble.

Research each word for trademark status, avoid terms like army on merch by Amazon, and use military-related keywords to prevent takedowns.

Explore the pretty merch extension for Google Chrome, which speeds up uploading, shows daily sales and top units by marketplace, and supports research with a free version.

Discover step-by-step research for merch by Amazon products across Amazon, Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, Redbubble, and Google; compare designs, identify niches, check trademarks, and craft unique shirts.

Explore evergreen versus trending designs for merch by Amazon, weighing long-term income against short-term sales, with practical guidance for beginners.

Learn how to upload designs to Merch by Amazon, choose colors and pricing to win early sales, and optimize titles, brand name, and keywords for discoverability.

Explore how teesh spring? wait no: Teespring lets you design shirts and handles printing, shipping, and payments, earning about ten dollars per sale at a twenty-dollar price.

Learn how Redbubble turns a single design into mugs, phone cases, T-shirts, and more, and how to set up your account, upload designs, and set pricing.

Explore Sunfrog's three earning paths—designer, bookseller, or both—by uploading designs, using templates, and editing shirts to earn 10% (designer), 30% (seller), or 40% (both).

Discover how this Photoshop course blends hands-on practice with activities, perfect for beginners. Explore interface, workspace customization, layers, selections, brushes, and text, with projects like business cards and app icons.

Learn where to download or buy Photoshop, try a seven-day free trial, and consider the $19.99 per month plan with a portfolio site, fonts, and 20 gb storage.

Learn to convert an image to black and white in Photoshop and restore color to the cat eyes with a brush tool and quick size shortcuts for fast, clear results.

Learn to optimize your computer for Photoshop by allocating RAM, tuning the graphics processor, and reducing history states, then restart Photoshop to apply the changes.

Explore how the Photoshop search feature acts like a built-in Google, helping beginners and advanced users quickly locate tools, layers, and stock assets with access via three methods.

Explore the Photoshop interface, learn tool bars, panels, and color swap efficiently. Navigate multiple documents and customize panels and workspace, including color swatches and the foreground/background color swap.

Set up and save a personalized Photoshop workspace by grouping and docking panels (color swatches, adjustments, properties, brushes, layers), removing unnecessary items, and naming the layout for quick reset.

Students learn to remove objects from photos using the polygonal lasso, content-aware fill, and precise selection to preserve the background and create seamless edits.

Create a new Photoshop document using shortcuts or the file menu, select web presets, set 1920×1080 at 72 ppi, and start with a white background.

Learn multiple ways to open documents in Adobe Photoshop, including open with from the image menu and drag‑and‑drop to open as new documents, with smart object creation.

Learn how to save work in Photoshop, including creating a new document, naming layers, and exporting as formats like jpg, png, and gif.

Master shortcuts to work faster: switch move and brush tools, adjust brush size with brackets, undo with ctrl+z, fill with G, swap colors with x, zoom and transform, manage layers.

Learn to use the Photoshop layer panel to isolate content, create and delete layers, adjust fill and capacity, manage visibility, and control stacking order and blending modes.

Explore Photoshop layers, including image layers, adjustment layers, fill layers, and shape and type layers, and learn how to use blending modes and masks without affecting underlying pixels.

Create, name, and group layers in Photoshop to organize your design workflow, and apply blending options to affect only the layers inside a group while preserving the background.

Learn to use the move tool in Photoshop to move, duplicate, transform, align, and group layers, with auto-select, multi-layer selection, and keyboard shortcuts.

Learn how layer masks control transparency in specific areas of a Photoshop layer, enabling selective reveals or background removal without destroying the image through brush work, selections, and masking techniques.

Stay organized by grouping layers in Photoshop, even with many layers. Name groups and use groups to simplify editing and prepare client-ready designs.

Master photoshop selection tools—quick selection, rectangular marquee, and polygonal lasso. Size brush with brackets; add or subtract with shift or alt; move selections to new layers.

Explore rectangular and elliptical marquee tools to create, modify, and refine selections, add or remove areas, and manage layers for quick cloud-like shapes and precise edits.

Master the lasso tool to draw freehand selections in Photoshop, finish by closing the loop, and refine by zooming in, adding with shift, and using high-quality images.

Master the polygonal lasso tool to draw free-form selections with straight sides by clicking to add anchor points, create selections on new layers, and fill or move them easily.

Master the magnetic lasso tool in Photoshop to create edge-detected selections that snap to object edges. Adjust frequency for detail and use the standard lasso to refine tricky areas.

Explore how the Photoshop magic wand tool selects pixels by tone and color, explains tolerance settings, and demonstrates adding to selections.

Explore a set of Photoshop selection tricks, including color range adjustments, pen tool paths, and converting paths to selections or selecting layer contents to speed up edits.

Master Photoshop selection tools for students to extract objects, move them to new layers, and colorize selections from red to green using color range, colorize, and hue/saturation.

Master Photoshop brush tool basics, including size, hardness, capacity and flow, opacity, blend modes, and edge control, and learn to import or create custom brushes for tablet or mouse painting.

Learn to use the spot healing brush tool non-destructively on a new layer, adjust brush size and blending mode, sample all layers, and remove distractions in portraits.

Learn how the healing brush tool samples pixels and paints to remove objects. Work on a new layer to avoid destructive edits and master combining tools for portrait images.

Create your own custom brushes from photos by using selection tools, removing backgrounds, and defining brush presets. Test the brushes and save them for potential sale.

Explore the difference between the clone stamp tool and the healing brush tool, including sampling points, with clone stamp for defined edges and healing brush for blending with the background.

Practice removing unwanted elements from photos using the healing brush in Photoshop to create natural-looking edits with before-and-after comparisons.

Master cropping with the Photoshop crop tool to crop images to specific sizes, aspect ratios, or free-form shapes. Apply shortcuts, preserve cropped pixels, and manage layers for precise results.

Master the eyedropper tool to sample colors, view color names and numeric values, and quickly switch between foreground and background colors. Learn keyboard shortcuts to speed up Photoshop color workflows.

Remove red-eye artifacts quickly by using the red-eye tool to adjust size and darkened amount, hover over each eye, and apply a clean image to any photo.

Explore how the Photoshop clone stamp tool copies pixels from a source to a target, using layers and sample settings, and compare it with the healing brush tool.

Explore the eraser tool and its variations, including background eraser and magic eraser, to remove pixels while learning how layer states, foreground color, and sampling influence results.

Explore linear, radial, angular, reflection, and diamond gradients, apply and adjust transparency, save and rename gradients, and use new layers and selection constraints in Photoshop for print on demand designs.

Master the paint bucket tool in Photoshop: fill layers with the foreground color, adjust tolerance and opacity, and control fills across layers and selections using different modes like multiply.

Explore blur, sharpen, and smudge tools with adjustable brush size, hardness, and strength, and compare before-and-after edits across layers.

Learn to use the dodge, burn, and sponge tools in photoshop for targeted edits on small areas, mastering range, exposure, and desaturation for realistic results.

Explore Photoshop blending options and layer styles to enhance text with effects like stroke, drop shadow, overlays, and gradients, and learn practical steps to apply them.

Learn the type tool basics in Photoshop: type with the horizontal tool, adjust fonts, size, color, alignment, and spacing, then transform, rasterize type, and apply layer effects.

Create a gold text effect in Photoshop by applying gradient overlays, blending options, and motion blur while adjusting colors and layers for contrast.

Create a burst text effect in Photoshop using gradient fills, duplicate and merge layers, and apply radial blur with blend modes for a polished print on demand graphic.

Master the rectangle tool in Photoshop to create shapes on new layers, apply fills, gradients, patterns, and strokes, and explore shape options like combine, subtract, and intersect.

Explore the rounded rectangle tool and its options, adjust the radius for edge curves, preview the shape, resize with ctrl/command, and apply fill, gradient, pattern, or stroke.

Master the ellipse tool to create circles on new layers, align and stack shapes, and use front/back and subtract options; understand how shape layers differ from raster layers when resizing.

learn to create polygons with adjustable sides, resize and rotate shapes without losing detail, and master the polygon and line tools to set line thickness and color.

Master the custom shape tool to create vector-based shapes that resize without quality loss, rotate, flip, and colorize, using shift for proportional rescaling and free-form effects.

Create a glitch effect on a t-shirt design in Photoshop by building layered text, duplicating groups, and offsetting red, blue, and black color layers at 300 ppi.

Create a bold text effect in Photoshop for a print on demand shirt by layering strokes, blending options, and color adjustments to finalize the design.

Discover how to create a cartoon effect for t-shirt designs by making rough selections, applying filters, refining areas, and adding text, color, and texture details in Photoshop.

Create a printable camping mom t-shirt design in photoshop using shape tools, vector rectangles, 60-pixel strokes, mountains, text layers, and layering techniques to refine spacing and details.

Master blending options to craft a standout black t-shirt design by stacking text, applying strokes, gradient overlays, and inner shadows while organizing layers and duplicating groups.

Design a vintage style t-shirt by building a bold typographic layout using a Wintech color palette, layered shapes, strokes, and textures, then refine with masking for print-ready results.

Create two shirt designs using the described design workflow: import images, apply color range with masks, add text with varied fonts, and enhance with strokes and shadows.

Master color manipulation by creating radiant text effects with gradient overlays, strokes, and smart objects, duplicating layers, and applying blur to build dynamic designs for apparel.

Create a shirt design by building circle-based shapes, applying inner strokes, and arranging text to follow those paths; use masking, color range, and texture painting to achieve a transparent image.

Learn to design a red shirt graphic from a vector image by desaturating, applying a 60% multiply blend, and centering white or yellow title text in Photoshop.