Merch Informer Designer Patterns Added – One Click Merch Patterns

by crissly | Jan 17, 2020 | Merch Informer News

Merch Informer Designer Patterns Added – One Click Merch Patterns

One of the requests we have been receiving lately is adding an EASY way to create patterns in Merch Designs.

Over the last year or so, we have been creating a lot of pattern designs especially for Popsockets that have been working INCREDIBLY well (few hundred sales a month). What bottle necked us though, was that to design these, we had to copy and paste the same layer over and over again and re position those layers so that everything looked right before we could download and upload the design to Merch by Amazon.

For both of those reasons (requests and need to make this easier), today we have released an update to the Merch Informer designer to allow you to create patterns with a single click of a button with any of your design elements!

If you are more of a video watcher, watch this video that we just released that explains how it works.

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For everyone else, follow along! If you do not have a Merch Informer account, you can follow this tutorial after grabbing a 3 day free trial here: https://merchinformer.com/pricing/.

Let’s begin!

Step 1: Log In to Merch Informer

The first step is to obviously have a Merch Informer account. Once you have one, log in and go to the designer in the upper menu here:

Once you click that, you will be prompted to log in to the Merch Designer. Log in with your Merch Informer credentials.

Step 2: Select Your Product

The patterns will work on any product that you select but for this example, we are going to use the PopSocket. This will export the design in the correct dimensions for Merch by Amazon and look pretty good (they sell awesome as well!).

Select Popsockets, and your screen will now look like this:

Step 3: Give Your PopSocket A Background Color

For this to look good, and to follow the Merch by Amazon recommendations, your PopSocket should not have a transparent background.

To add a background, go into shapes in the left hand menu:

Select the circle shape near the bottom and add it to your design!

Drag the circle shape out to the edges of the PopSocket. This should go to about the green circle so that the entire design has a black background. If you want to change the color of the circle, click on the color selector near the top once the layer is selected:

Step 4: Add A Design Element To Turn Into A Pattern

Now that we have a background set up on our PopSocket, it is time to actually add an element that we will turn into the pattern.

Find your design element, go to your images tab in the left hand menu of the Merch designer, and drag and drop your element in. This will upload it to the software.

Once you have it uploaded, click on the image and it will add it to your design. In this case, we are using a rose.

Before you create your pattern, resize the image on your design till you get a size that you like:

Step 5: Create Your Pattern

Now that you have your design element on your design and the LAYER IS SELECTED, you are ready to create your pattern!

With the layer selected, go up into the right hand corner and click on the pattern box:

This will give you different pattern options that you can use:

Select one, and let the software do its magic! I prefer the vertical bricks repeat myself, but feel free to try everything out, spin your image around to different directions and test it out some more!

NOTE: Remember that we used a background black circle for the area that will print on the PopSocket. Nothing in white will actually show up once you upload to Merch by Amazon!

Step 6: Upload to Merch

Now, you simply download your product and upload it to Merch by Amazon.

If you would like to remove the pattern, all you have to do is select the product tab in the left hand menu inside of the Merch Designer and click on the discard pattern button!

Wrapping It Up

Patterns are one of the easiest designs you can create for Pops that ACTUALLY sell. All you have to do is create your own with a button click and some unique artwork and you will have yourself a winner!

If you have any questions, drop them in the comments below. Otherwise, have fun uploading your new patterns on Merch!

Create Scaled Design Variations With The New Merch Informer Designer Update

by crissly | May 15, 2019 | Merch Informer News

Create Scaled Design Variations With The New Merch Informer Designer Update

This post is also available in: German

Bulk designs on Merch by Amazon have been something that we have not talked much about. Sometimes they can do EXTREMELY well while other times they can just fill up your account with lots of shirts that come down and do not sell.

However, if you have taken the time to do your research properly and know what niches a good design variation would do well in, then I have good news for you!

Merch Informer just released a bulk design tool in the Merch Informer Designer!

Previously, it would take a LONG time to go through and edit individual files to change out specific words in a design. Even if you were using Photoshop or Illustrator, this was a huge time sink. You should NOT be wasting your time on small things like this. Instead, you should be spending your time on what makes you the most money, uploading!

Let’s go over the new update and how easy it is to create a lot of Merch by Amazon ready designs in all sorts of variants.

Creating Bulk Designs In The Merch Designer

The first thing you need is a Merch Informer account so that you can access the Merch Informer Designer. If you do not already have an account, make sure to grab a free trial here: https://merchinformer.com/pricing/. Once you start using this new update, it becomes addicting.

Once you have an account, log in and go to the Merch Informer Designer from the upper right hand corner menu. Once you are logged in, you will be met with the product selection page. Select a t-shirt.

If you already have a design that you would like to add variations of text, upload it via the images tab in the right hand menu. If not, go ahead and make your own design. For this example, we will be using a very simple text based design.

In this example, you can see the current design says: Coffee Teach Study Repeat.

However, what if you wanted to change out the word “teach” for other professions? This can be used in so many ways to create 100s of designs with a single click of a button.

Let’s say that we want to switch out the word “teach” with these variants:

• Engineer
• Math
• Science
• Econ
• Physics
• Chemistry
• Reading
• History
• Art

To do this, simply add these to a text file (these will be used to switch out the words on the design) like this:

Add them to a CSV or a TXT file and save it to your computer.

Next, to actually make the magic happen, select the text line that you want to switch out in the Merch Designer:

Once you have the text selected that you want to switch out for different variants, select the text variants button from the top menu:

Upload the file with all the variants that you just saved to your file:

Now that you have your variants uploaded, all you need to do is select download from the top menu:

The designer will then go through and add the different changes to your design and download them all to a single folder. They are then ready to upload to Merch by Amazon!

Wrapping It Up

This can be an excellent way to take your research and artwork and turn it into hundreds of new designs. You can use these designs in NICHED DOWN markets to start creating royalties from work that you did a single time.

Stop wasting your time changing all of these manually and do it with Merch Informer!

To your success!