Adobe Illustrator T-Shirt Design for Merch by Amazon

Learn how to add a new color to your swatches in Adobe Illustrator, drag and drop colors into swatch groups, and manage current and border swatches for quick use.

Save your finished design as an Adobe Illustrator AI file, toggle the bottom layer to invisible for transparency, and export as a DNG at 300 ppi for Merch by Amazon.

Learn to place, resize, and move text in illustrator using quick commands, duplicate text with copy and paste, and adjust font and color for t-shirt designs.

Learn to change text color with swatches and paints, and add a customizable outline using stroke to emphasize typography in apparel designs.

Master the thoughts stacking fonts technique to add depth and a 3-D shadow to t-shirt designs by duplicating and color-changing text, then aligning front and back layers.

Discover easy text manipulation using warp and arc basics in Adobe Illustrator, adjusting arc percentage, centering, and mirroring to create varied t-shirt designs.

Access the paint brush tool to paint freehand on shapes, adjust color and stroke, and zoom to refine imperfect lines into usable vector art for merch design.

Place an image in Adobe Illustrator using file place or open in a separate tab, then resize by holding shift from a corner and position it.

Use the eyedropper tool to sample colors from your artwork and apply them to elements, and copy font attributes like size and color for cohesive typography.