 We just changed out the background in this image using Photoshop Then we took it into Cricut and did a print and cut larger than nine and a quarter by six and a half And then we sublimated it on a cotton t-shirt Using glitter heat transfer vinyl and we'll show you how we did it right now What is up a welcome back do you like to do a builder make it soda week? And we have a new video each week this week We got a request from a patron Helen wants to know how do you change out the background of an image? Like if there's a pattern and I'm going to show you and her how to do it in Photoshop today Yes, as we've begun our sublimation videos We've got a lot of requests a lot of comments a lot of questions and this was a big one Every time you see these sublimation images they switch them up like that mom life messy bun those aviators sunglasses Switching them up for the seasons or have them say different things We're going to show you how to change out that background and update and change your sublimation image and create your own sublimation image Start fresh. Yeah, make new And this video is chopped full of good information. We're also going to show you how to a slice and Design space so that you can do a print and cut larger than six and a half by nine and a quarter And it's a little restrictive so we'll show you how to go big and We're going to show you how to do some sublimating on cotton t-shirts using Heat transfer vinyl of the glitter kind Step one we're going to gather all of our supplies We needed Photoshop that was one and we also needed some glitter vinyl some butcher paper some high heat tape sublimation paper some cotton tees Then we needed the cricket heat press a sublimation printer and the cricket. I think that's it Yeah, that's it pretty much Step two and now we're going to create our image but not with our hands with Photoshop And I'm sure you can do this Same or similar technique using other graphics applications, but I like Photoshop. Yeah, that's my go to that's just go to it's been using a long time So I'm going to give you a little peek into the kitchen and I'll meet you there All right, I'm going to start with a fresh Photoshop document I already went out to the internet and found this flower PNG that we're going to use to replace the background I'm going to drag that on to our new document a boop. I like Harry Potter My favorite tool is also the magic wand. This is a tool that selects everything based on a color I selected the light gray and now I'm going to go up to the top back to the select menu Similar now this should select everything on the image that is similar to this color Now if we try to delete the background just using our delete button It won't work because this is a smart object and a smart object is not directly editable It's technically linked to this project right now So to get around that we're gonna go over and get our eraser tool and then click on the background Which will bring up a little pop-up that asks us if we want to rasterize the smart object Of course we do because this will embed it into our document and allow us to edit it and change out the background Now I can just hit that delete key and get rid of all the background all of that light gray I'm gonna go up and grab my marquee tool and just click somewhere to deselect the selection Looking good. Let's go get a background to throw behind here. I already found this flag right click a copy image Back over to my favorite tool the magic wand. I'm gonna select the out Whoop, I need to select a layer now. I'm gonna select the outside of the flower Back up top select Inverse this will flip what's actually selected. So now the flower is selected now I'm gonna go up to edit paste paste into now. This actually creates a mask Leaving the image that we just pasted into it untouched. Let's put the frame of the flower back over top of the flag So we have that flower look to it zoom out Let's shrink the flag Looks pretty good. Let's zoom in and tweak this a little bit All right, I want to try to get a little more of the flag Maybe a little bigger. All right. What do you think looks good? Yeah looks good Now when we created the mask it left the original image back there the flag untouched now We can mess with the mask. See here's the image. Here's the mask now If we select the mask piece and go over to the paint brush We can determine how much is shown and how much is hidden. We use the white it shows more now if we flip it to the black It takes it away control Z Now that gives you a lot of leeway you can play with that flag back there and give it a ton of different looks Now it's time to add the little saying Kim gave me a mock-up She drew it up and she gave me these fonts to use Avango and Breathe press so I'm gonna mock this up real quick. I'll speed through this. I'm sure you don't want to watch me do fonts I'm gonna hide the flag so that I can tweak these a little bit Move it around All right, everything looks good now. I'm gonna flatten all of the words and to do that We're gonna hold shift and select all the layers with words on them Go to the layers menu and then merge layers or control E This way we can give everything an outer glow later on and nothing will overlap and look weird back to the wand tool We're gonna select outside of the flower. I want to give this thing a little white bleed to it So when I try to cut it on the cricket, so I'm gonna give myself a new layer I'm gonna drag this layer down underneath everything and Also, let's get rid of that background Oops, let's close that and go back up to edit and we're gonna go down to stroke and I want this bleed to be white so All right, let's make this bleed 20 points. Let's see what that looks like. I need to zoom in Alright, let's see, a little thick, let's Ctrl Z, undo that, back to Edit, Stroke, let's try 15 this time, alright, looks way better. I can't see the text, let's make that stand out a little bit better. Back over to the Marquee Tool, let's click off to unselect everything. Double click on the layer with the words, and let's give this thing an outer glow, make it pop. Alright, looks good. Alright, what do you think? Time to export it. We're just going to export this as a PNG. After looking at this a little bit more, I think it's looking a little dark, so I'm going to lighten up the flag a little bit, try to make it pop when we go to export it. So I'm going to go over to the Move Tool, select the layer that I want to lighten, then I'm going to go up to Image, Adjustments, and then Levels. Then inside Levels, I'm going to use the little white dropper tool and select the darker part of the white in the flag. Bam, look at that popping. Alright, let's re-export this thing. Step three, we're going to import our image that we just created into Design Space, and I'm going to show you how to do the printed cut larger than 6.5x9.25. We're going to be using some slicing tool, huh? So we're going back into the kitchen. Here we are in our Cricut Design Space with our blank canvas. First thing we're going to do is upload the image we just created. We're going to browse and select the PNG file. We'll go ahead and select Complex to be safe, hit Continue. Here there's no modifications needed. We did a great job creating the image, so we'll just hit Continue. And then of course we're doing a Print Then Cut. You would almost always want to bring your images in as a Print Then Cut so that you have the option to cut or to print. So we're going to select Print Then Cut, click Upload. Now we have our image uploaded, so we'll go ahead and select the image, and then over here in the bottom right, Insert Images. And then we'll want to make this the largest size possible that we can for our Print Then Cut. So we're going to go ahead and select the width as 9.24 because we're going to slice this image right across the center here. So let's move this and give us some working space. First thing we're going to do is duplicate the images. Because we're going to slice this, we're going to want an overlap. We're going to create two versions of the image and then we'll create a third version that we'll use for cutting. So we'll duplicate it twice. The back image here, I'll select the bottom layer right here on the right. We're going to go up here to the top left and change that to a cut basic. Now that will be our vinyl layer. We can go ahead and hide that for now. And then we're going to hide one of our image layers. Oh, before we do that, let's go ahead and align them all. Align them. So we're going to select all, Align, Center. So that these images are in the same place and we know we're slicing them correctly. We're going to hide one of them, insert our shapes box. We're going to size this to 9.5. You know it will cover it. We're going to unlock it and make it by six. It's about half. All right. So we're going to slice this in the most inconspicuous place about halfway. So we're going to do this between the word free and between the word because at least as close as we can get. So we're going to put our little box here over free. Again, we're going to want to overlap. So we're going to make this one a little bit bigger and we're going to make the bottom one a little bit bigger. So we have that overlap room. So we're going to drag this down just a little bit right here. And then select all and we'll click slice. And then we'll go ahead and delete the box in the cut area. So we deleted our box or delete our gray cut piece here. We don't need those two pieces and now we have two separate images. So we're going to control Z and then we're going to delete the bottom half because that's the shorter half and we're not going to use that piece of this image. So let's delete that one. So we're going to hide that layer, unhide the other layer and create another shape. So again, we're going to add another square and this time we're going to select the bottom half. So again, we're going to change our image, unlock this and we're going to do nine and a half by six and then we're going to drag this. So this one we want a little bit into the word free. And because we want that overlap, so we're going to do it about right there. We're going to say select all slice right here in the bottom right. We can delete the box, delete the sliced box. And now we have our two images. This is the one we don't need. So we're going to hit delete on this one. So now we're going to unhide both of them. And there we go. We have our full image and we're going to unhide our basic cut. And next step is go ahead and make it. Now because this is a sublimation, you'll want to mirror your image and then both print and cuts will be mirrored as well as the basic cut because that is heat transfer vinyl and you also want to mirror that one. So as you go through, you can select each one and select mirror and then select continue. All right, we'll select our sublimation printer here. So Epson, keep the bleed on and click print. This is our sublimation printer. I had the wrong printer selected. Good thing I caught that and select print. Now we have our images printed. Both of our printing cuts here. This is going to come together like this. And now we're going to put them back on our mats and we're going to do our cut. Now a little tip here. The first thing the crickets going to do is look for this black line so it knows where its box is. And if it's having a hard time finding it, a little tip, put a flashlight in there, give it some extra light so it can find the borders here. That's the first thing it's going to do is scan for that and then it's going to cut out your image. Best tip ever. Now that we've completed our print, we'll want to go ahead and cut our image. So we'll select our base material as notebook paper and then click the flashing go button. Next step, we're going to cut out our glitter vinyl. We're going to lay this face down on our mat so that we can cut out our outline. And for our basic cut for our heat transfer vinyl, we'll want to change the material to glitter iron on. Image is already mirrored and we'll just hit the flashing go button. Alright, we have our sublimation pieces all cut out with our print and cut. We have our glitter outline cut. Everything is mirrored. Now we're going to put it on the t-shirt. Next step, we're going to tape this together. We've got to line up our design. Now all we have to do is use this white piece of paper so I can really see it. You can see through and I'm going to line up. There's a little bit of an overlap in here so I'm just going to line up the lines and make sure they're together. We're going to use scotch tape for this because when we did some tape together for one of the other sublimation videos we just recently did, you could see that the heat didn't transfer through the heat transfer tape. It might have heated up too much. Something, the color was different. I could literally see the piece of tape. Yeah, so we're going to use this and I think it'll hold the heat. So we're going to test that out. Is it all good? I'm going to, let me see. I'm not quite sure yet. We got it lined up pretty good. I don't think anybody will notice. If anybody gets too close, I would be like, whoa! Back up. Private space. It's this famous line. Personal area. Personal space. All right, our next step will be we're going to do a quick press of the glitter HTV to get it on here. We're just going to press it for like 10 seconds. Let's give it a quick press to get all the wrinkles out. Yeah, those things are a mess. Get that any moisture. I had this rolled up on the floor. What? It barely looks like it. It does look like it. It does barely look like it. All right. Here we go. We're just going to get a quick ironing. Just like three to five seconds. Yeah, hold out. This isn't enough to get the moisture out and any wrinkles out. That's, hold on. I see some terrible wrinkles on the inside. You probably should have ironed it before we flipped it. It's fine. It's fine. Yeah, you can give it a quick press now. Give it over here. I don't know why it's so wrinkly. It's wrinkly as shit ever. You saw me take the sticker out of it so it is new. It's not like I pulled it from my drawer. Straight out of the bag. I probably should have pre-washed these. I would pre-wash it in future. Well, a lot of them are already pre-washed, I think. They say they are, but are they, are they? Oh, I guess it doesn't matter if I do this before I... That's really, the paper is going for sublimation, but we're going to start with our HTV. All right, so we're going to fold this and make sure we find the center of our image. And we're going to line that up with the fold on our shirt. Give me your three fingers. Everything. All right, I got it. 385. Oh, do we need a... Yeah. Put your paper. 385 for like 10 seconds, just to get it to stick to the shirt. Right, just a quick pre-press because then we need to sublimate it. 10. Cool down a second. Cool it down. You've got to slow it down. Ooh, cool down. Beautiful use up and made. Cool enough? Yeah. I'm not afraid it might be a little crooked, don't it? You don't know? I'm not a T-shirt friend. Going in. Yet. All right, just lining this up on the glitter vinyl. If all of our calculations were correct, there you go. You want a little heat tape? Yeah. I can't reach it too high. A little bit of heat tape on there. Although it's already starting to stick to it. Just on the edge, just on the edge. Just catch this edge. Take it like if there was weight. Look great. Yeah, you can't move it now. All right, we're in. Now we're going in for a full 385 and a full 60 seconds. Oh, yeah. Mm-mm. It cooled down a little bit. Going in on here. Three, two, one. Shazam. All right. How do you think it turned out? I think it's great. I think it's going to look beautiful. Let's take a peek. Oh, the masking tape stuck to it. Yeah, just pull it. Bam, that came out nice. Look at that. It looks so good. So good. Oh, you want to see? Check it out. Cotton tea sublimation. Pretty cool, huh? The reason that the glitter works is because all these little crystals are polyester crystals. So I don't know if it'll work. Polyacrylic or something? Yeah, there's some kind of polymer. Yeah. A kind of a polymer, which the sublimation dye will bond to. So that's why it works with the glitter HTV. I hope you can see how shiny and cool this looks. It looks, the colors are just so bright. Yes. And they pop so much. This is going to definitely be my fourth of July shirt. I love it. You guys follow it along. Show me what your shirt looks like. Helen, I want you to let us know if you were able to change your background in your mom life image. Show us what you made by changing the background. What did you make in Photoshop? How did your sublimation come out? What does it look like on your heat transfer vinyl that's glitter? Did you try it with rainbow? I bet you would look cool with a different color glitter vinyl. Definitely. And again, a big thanks to our patrons. I love you guys. You guys make it possible to do what we do and come up with new ideas and designs and all kinds of great goodies. But it looks like we're about out of time. So if you're not going to join us over on Patreon for our after show, I will see you next week where we'll do it, build it, make it again. Oh man. Again, we got to stop doing these soft things. I have nothing to balance. Yeah. You're going to balance the heat press. No, balance is hot. I'm just going to balance this glitter. Ooh, can I get a tube? No. Maybe I have to make one more. Let's go eat.