 In today's video I'm going to show you everything that you need to know in order to get started with print on demand using AI. Everything's got AI now. This is the absolute easiest way to get started in the business. Let's make some money then. Now before we get started let me know down in the comments below what your thoughts are on print on demand and starting print on demand with AI. I'd love to hear your thoughts on this. We just recently implemented print on demand onto the AutoDS system so we want to hear what you all have to say about it and what you all think of it. So let me know down in the comments below. Now I do have a quick disclaimer before we get started so for this we are going to need a budget. Unfortunately when it comes to using AI for designs pretty much every single AI model that you use in order to get high quality designs you are going to need to pay a subscription otherwise you're going to get low quality files that are not going to be good for print on demand and most platforms won't even accept them. Now the budget we're going to set aside for this is going to be $20 but that's all that's all we're going to be using and we're not even going to be using everything. Now the biggest chunk of our budget is going to go to the AI system itself which is Kittle. So for this we're going to be using the Kittle website and on here you have access to tons of different design resources. So they have some really cool designs such as these right here and this also this Wolf Gang right here which you can actually click on these and you can edit absolutely everything from this image. So you can edit everything from the text. Let's say we want to change Wolf to I don't know Hound Gang these other elements are all also editable so you can move around the wolf itself these accents over here the eyes literally everything that's on the screen you can edit but that's not what we're here for we're going to be using their AI system but before we go ahead and jump into that this is going to run you $15 monthly that's going to be on their monthly plan if you want to get a discount then you can subscribe to their annual plan but to get started you'll be perfectly fine with their monthly plan. Now the other chunk of the budget is going to go to the AutoDS trial that is going to run you $1 for two weeks. Now the reason for using AutoDS is because they have their print on demand system now on here you have access to tons of different items you have access to hoodies t-shirts phone cases shorts shoes bedding pretty much anything that you can print on you have access to here and you can upload your own designs to them. Now as far as the platform to start selling on my suggestion to you is go with Etsy Etsy right now is number one for print on demand it's probably the best place that you can get started on and all of the different types of print on demand products people go to Etsy looking for these types of items so you already have people going on there looking for what you're going to be offering. Now to get started the first thing we need to do is choose a niche now when it comes to choosing a niche there's two different niches that we need to focus on the first one is going to be our design niche then we're going to focus on our product niche now our product niche is dependent on our design niche so let's say for example we want to niche down on pets we want to start selling items that have to do with pets either funny pet sayings custom pet shirts or personalized items for pets in this case the types of products that you're going to be looking for are going to be your typical t-shirts so t-shirts for people that have to do with anything about pets or anything about let's say dogs or cats you can also offer things like tumblers or coffee mugs that have some funny pet sayings or some funny pet owner sayings you know things along those lines personalized pet beds that's also a huge option and something like personalized dog bowls or cat bowls what you're not going to be offering when it comes to the pet niche is going to be something like a shower curtain or customizable bedding or a bedding set with a pet design on it those products don't necessarily go with the niche you always want to make sure that the products you offer are relevant to the niche that you're in another example is cars let's say you're going to niche down on cars specifically i don't know the tuner culture so you're going to be targeting people that like to modify their cars in this case you're going to be offering items like t-shirts hoodies hats lanyards stickers and a few other things what you're not going to be focusing on is dog bowls so you're not going to be offering customized dog bowls when you're in the car niche you're not going to be selling any household prints on demand goods because again it's not relevant to the niche so always make sure you keep that in mind you niche down for your design and you niche down for relevant products when it comes to choosing your niche i highly suggest that you go with something that you know about or something that you're passionate about specifically because you already have knowledge on that subject or on that topic so going back to the car reference if you're going to be niching down to cars then you're going to have the knowledge that you can niche down to even more specific groups like people who like luxury cars people who are tuners or people that like to modify their cars to make them go faster people that like to compete with their cars in shows for looks so you're going to be mindful of all of the different niches that are sub-niche within your niche if that makes sense i know it's a lot of niching down but pretty much your main niche is going to be cars your sub-niche is going to be tuners or luxury cars or sports cars so let's niche down on cars and let's go ahead and start creating our first design now i'm not very good at coming up with designs so this is what we're going to do we're actually going to ask ai so let's run over to chat gbt and let's ask it to give me a funny design that has to do with sports cars that are tuned just something generic let's see what it comes up with all right so how about a playful design for a fictional tuning shop called turbo tickles garage all while wearing oversized sunglasses and a big grin maybe add some sparkles and speed lines to emphasize the turbo charge excitement tickling horsepower to roaring laughter all right so this is a pretty interesting description if you want to read the whole thing then just go ahead and pause the video or just keep watching and you'll see what ai comes up with so what i'm going to do is i'm actually going to go ahead and take this so sports car all the way down to turbo charge excitement let's go ahead and copy that then let's run over back to kiddle we're going to go to tools and we're going to hit up the ai image generator let's start creating with kiddo ai all right so our previous design is still on here let's just click on my projects and new project now when it comes to our print settings or our design settings this is one thing that you need to know and this is absolutely crucial so pay attention as when it comes to the width and the height and the dpi this is extremely crucial i like to switch this over to inches and i like to keep it at a minimum of 15 by 15 inches or 38 by 38 centimeters now as far as the dpi this never go below 300 anything that's below 300 chances it's not going to be accepted by the system in order to be used for your print on demand product the dpi is pretty much the resolution and it's pretty much in the simplest terms saying how sharp your image is going to be and how high quality it's going to be so you always want to make sure that this is at a minimum of 300 you don't have to go anything above 300 but don't go anything below 300 so we have 15 by 15 300 dpi let's go ahead and create then we're going to choose archival ai down here now here we have a few different options first we have our image generator or a logo generator this is pretty self-explanatory we're going to be using the image generator because we're not looking for a logo the prompt is where we're going to write exactly what we want to create then we have our aspect ratio do we want it to be a square do we want it to be vertical or horizontal and then we have a few different image styles clip art styles and vector styles these are pretty much how the image is going to look or the type of artwork that the design is going to use now the image styles they have digital art they have photography they have anime and they have a few more like acrylic psychedelic synthwave and art deco they also have clip art styles which this is actually what we're going to be going with simply because these are a lot easier to remove the background and when it comes to print on demand most designs that we do we don't want a background on them simply because if we have a background on it it's going to be a very blocky design and a lot of people don't like having just a simple square design on their shirt they like things to be kind of cut out die cut but you'll see what I mean in a second now the clip art style that I'm going to choose is going to be cartoon vector style is pretty much just black and white now a vector is also a file type it's not really too relevant to print on demand so we're not going to go too deep into it but just know that vector art is for the most part going to be single colors or multiple solid colors so something like a photograph cannot be a vector art because it just has too much detail so under the prompt let's go ahead and type in what we copied over so we have a sports car with exaggerated spoilers wide body kit and massive exhaust pipes let's remove all while wearing oversized sunglasses and a big grin let's take off the maybe and let's leave it at sparkles and speed lines to emphasize the turbo charge we don't need excitement keep it at turbo charge and let's see what it comes up with generate image this is going to be fun all right so this is what it gave me and quite frankly it actually looks really cool I think kiddo did a really good job all right so as you can see there's really no background it's just the design itself now let me show you what I was talking about earlier so I'm going to switch this from cartoon to anime I love anime now let's generate the image same prompt and everything except the only thing we're changing is the art style all right so this is the other one that I came out with and while this one is actually really nice I think it came out fantastic as you can see there is a big square around it so when you print this out it's going to print out with that square so you're going to have a square on your shirt or a square on whatever product that it is that you're printing I refer to shirts a lot because shirts are pretty much the primary product when it comes to print on demand it's what everyone sells and it's pretty much what got print on demand started but this is what I'm talking about so you're going to see this versus this on the shirt so this one is just going to have the lines no background this one is going to be a square with the background so we're going to remove this one all right so let's make this as big as we can so let's stretch it out and what we're going to do now is we're going to make a mock-up now what is a mock-up so simply put a mock-up is one of the most important things that you're going to have to do in your print on demand journey and what a mock-up is is simply showing how your product is going to look you're mocking up your product so for this we're going to put it on a shirt so all we have to do is up here click on mock-up and here on the side you have tons of other products that you can choose from in order to mock them up but we're going to start with a shirt and then we'll put it on something else all right so then this is how it's going to look like I like having it oversized I like big designs so that's what we're going to do we have it there I think that looks pretty good let's change the color of this I'm not a huge fan of that gray let's make it white oh wait there's a background okay so I just realized that there's a background here let's move back to the editor let's click on our image and we're going to use the AI background remover so that white background that you saw we're going to get rid of that we really don't want that because as you saw it's going to be a white background on your design and that doesn't look good so let's go ahead and remove it using the AI background remover all right so after we removed it we went back to the mock-up section now let's go ahead and make this a little bit bigger again maybe a little bit smaller all right that looks good let's check out the different colors now so there we go now there's no background now you can make the black shirt you can make it red white blue purple whatever color you want and all you're going to have on there is the design so this looks pretty good now let's see what it looks like on something else we're not going to print this on anything else but let's just see what it looks like so let's say we're going to do a mug let's go with this one and then we can add our mug like that let's say we want to have somebody holding our mug then we have this over here now what I love about the mock-up generator on Kittle is the fact that the image conforms to the product itself so as you can see it looks curved it looks like it's part of it it's not just flat pasted on there if you move it like this you can see it goes under the shadow it goes under the fingers same thing on this side it looks really good all right so those are our two different mock-ups now what I'm going to do is I'm going to put it on a shirt so I'm going to put it on this shirt right here we're going to offer a white one and we're going to download our mock-up let's offer it on a black shirt now too so let's move that a little bit over here let's make this into a black shirt let's download that mock-up and then let's make it on a gray shirt so we're going to put that here let's make this a little bit of a dark gray and let's download that mock-up now we're going to go back to the editor and we're going to download the actual design because without the design we can't really do anything so let's go ahead now and download and remember what I talked about when it comes to the specs so 15 inches by 15 inches or I think it was 38 centimeters by 38 centimeters with a minimum resolution or dpi of 300 also when you go to download you can automatically remove the background simply by just checking this off but since we were going to make a mock-up I removed it on the system itself now when it comes to the file type that we're going to download we're always going to go for png the reason is because with a png you can remove the background and keep it off so it'll be transparent whereas a jpeg or a jpg once you save it any transparent parts will turn back to white so that background that we removed it will be back on there so remember always go with png because it allows you to keep transparent parts in the image so it's time to start making our actual products so since we're going to be using etsy as our marketplace first we're going to need to create an account and become a seller after we do that once we're on the out of the s platform we're simply going to go up here now if you already have an account this is just going to give you this little pencil where you can click on it to add a new account but if you don't have a store yet this is going to tell you to add a store and then on here it'll give you this add a store option and from here we're going to choose whichever one of these we're using two seller items in this case like I said we're going with etsy so let's click on that and then once you click on continue it'll ask you to connect your store to the out of the s platform and then from there you're pretty much good to go you're pretty much good to get started so let's continue so now we're back over at out of the s and I want to offer this t-shirt right here so this is the one that we're going to go with it starts at seven dollars and 25 cents now there's a few different colors to choose from but we're going to do that in the second let's go ahead and edit the product now once we're on here the first thing we're going to have to do is choose whether we want to upload the design to the front of the shirt or the back of the shirt in this case I'm going to leave it in the front so I'm going to upload the design all right so that's what it's going to look like and I think it looks pretty good all right if you want to make smaller all you have to do is click on it and grab these little squares and adjust it and then we can move it around as well so I think that looks pretty good as is now if you're not using kittle and whatever service it is that you're using doesn't offer a mock-up service you can go ahead and preview it and that's what it's going to look like so this image will be automatically uploaded when you upload your product now if you want to choose different colors to be able to offer you can do that over here so we can change this we can go ahead and add let's add cardinal because I think that's a great color I love that one let's also go with Kelly Heather and let's do turquoise now as you can see it didn't change the color but if we click on them the change will be implemented and we have the green and the turquoise actually the turquoise looks really good now the last thing that I want to show you on this page is also one of the most important ones and that's this print quality message up here if you have a low quality file this will say print quality bad and instead of being green it'll be red if that's the case you're not going to be able to upload your image to your product the system will not accept it simply because it's not going to be a good quality print it's not going to be a good quality end product the image is probably going to come out blurry it can come out pixelized and just overall it's not going to look good so what we're looking for is this to be in green and say print quality good or great in this case it's great so it's going to print perfectly fine so now all we have to do is simply click on save so once we do that the item is going to be added to our draft section where we can make any necessary adjustments to the title the images the description and everything else so now what we're going to do is run over to our draft section and we're going to see our product right here the unisex t-shirt so over here on the right hand side let's click to edit and this is where we're going to edit everything that we need to about the product itself so we can change the title we can make something that's relevant to the actual product or design we can change the category which for the most part is always going to be out of filled and it's going to be correct then we can change our tags this is going to be for analytics so these tags can help us keep track of sales and certain products now very important here on the shipping methods you are going to have to select your shipping method personally I always suggest to go with standard because express isn't always going to make a huge difference standard is going to be two to nine business days while express is going to be two to five so standard still has the possibility of getting the product there pretty quick although it's not guaranteed chances are it's going to get there pretty fast maybe within seven to eight business days now everything else down here is going to change depending on what platform you're selling on but let's continue to description and on here is where you're going to be able to change anything that you need to for the description itself then we also have our variance this is going to be the page where you can change all of these different prices so for this you can simply click on this checkbox up here click on edit and then you can change the price either flat out so set a sell price of I don't know $23 or you can add on to your production cost a certain percentage that you want to make profit you can also add on different types of fees so if you know the Etsy fees that are going to get charged you can add that on here as well how many you have of the products or how much profit you just want to make overall so let's say you want to make $10 on each sale just put $10 on here and every single product will be incremented by $10 then running over to images we have all of the different product images here we can go ahead and edit them as well there's a built-in image editor and now once we have everything to our liking and everything optimized all we have to do is simply click on save and import and then the product is going to go live to our store within seconds ready for customers to come and make their first purchase now after this the next thing you need to do is simply start uploading more and more products the more you upload the more chances you're going to have to make a sale but remember always make sure that you stay niche down to your particular niche don't go off niche don't offer irrelevant products to your niche always stay consistent because this is what people are going to look at if you have products all over the place chances are they're probably going to go somewhere else somewhere that specializes in a particular niche or in a particular topic or category now if you want to learn more about the etsy marketplace then just go ahead and check out this video right here in it learon explains absolutely everything that you need to know about starting drop shipping or selling on etsy now the video is about drop shipping but the premise is the same everything that's related to drop shipping aside from the product research is going to be relevant to your print on demand business so make sure you check it out because it can be a huge help what did you think of this video what do you think of print on demand and what do you think about starting print on demand with ai let me know your thoughts down in the comments below i would love to hear what you think about this topic huge thank you turn for watching especially if you made it all the way to the end as always if you made it this far that means you enjoyed the video so make sure you smash that like button hit that subscribe button and ring that little bell notification so you don't miss out on any future videos once again huge thank you turn for watching my name is mario with adult yes and i'll catch you all next time