How To Use Public Domain Images From Books For Print on Demand
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- čas přidán 27. 07. 2024
- One of my favorite resources for selling print-on-demand items on sites like Redbubble, Teepublic and Society6 involves public domain images. You can use great public domain images from old, vintage books. In this video, I highlight two resources (specifically book websites) and I cover the two strategies I use with public domain book images.
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:57 Site #1
03:07 Site #2
05:35 Strategy #1
06:38 Strategy #2
07:35 Bonus Tip!
Links:
www.fromoldbooks.org/
www.oldbookart.com/
#publicdomain
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#printondemand
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Thank you Zen, love your channels and I wish all CZcams channels were as educating as you are , much respect 👍🙏
I’m only 2 minuets in but I really wanted to take a second to say that I appreciate that you took a moment to appreciate the website creators. Most people don’t know the work that goes into creating a website. I’m sure they appreciate it as well.
That being said... THANK YOU! I just discovered you a week or so ago. I love your content. Your voice is calm, soothing, and really easy to listen to.
Awesome. Thank you. Love those old pics.
Love these ideas for Vintage Images!
Thank you . I think the older pictures and artworks have a more expressive or organic feel and look to them. Love the suggestions. I haf the same question as im sitting there at the pc staring at wondering what can i do to an already good piece. Lol.
Your video is full of information and simply put, best kind of video in my opinion. Thank you!
Wow, thank you so much! I appreciate you taking the time to provide this feedback!!
Thank you, very informative as always
Great idea and awesome tips! Thanks!
Zen! This is very useful. Thanks for sharing. Nice of you! Greetings from Sweden!
Thank you. Great video as usual.
An amazing find...thank you...
Oh dam Zen, you the best! Thank you for the information. Such super bonus content for print on demand. I would want to tie some art with a political accent.
Thanks a lot for valuable information 🙏
😍 or taking the time out of your schedule busy schedule to help us learn thank you so much
Thank you very much.
Thanks man :) will use it for my posters :)
Thank you!
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I literally could've never heard of some of the museum and art galleries' websites if not for you talking about them.
Big respect Sir !!!
I appreciate that so much! Thank you!!
Thank you 😊
Thank u very much 👏🏻💐🙏☺️
Thank you for the awesome information. I am on a few POD platforms. I mostly concentrate on apparel. But now you have me thinking about cards, posters mugs, and totes. Are these prints high enough resolution to be used in that manner? how do I convert to png files?
They are definitely good for shirts and cards (cards are pretty small). Posters are always tough because the size could be pretty big. You can use Photoshop or Affinity Photo to create a PNG - Inkscape works too.
@@zenwatercooler Thank you so much for getting back to me, I really appreciate it.
Is PNG good enough for t-shirts?
When I open an SVG in my browser. It's missing a lot of things that's in the PNG.
If I want to change the colors, I just use paint 3d. It seems like that is the only thing that will keep the transparency.
The edges may be messed up and fuzzy when I like zoom in real far.
But would that be enough for a tshirt?
I typically use Inkscape to look at and modify svg files - it's tough to say what you are seeing without a screen shot. Generally, PNG is a good file for a t-shirt (especially because the background is transparent, which looks great on a shirt usually).
@@zenwatercooler Take for instance, My Daughter is totally Army, from creative fabrica.
The SVG and the PNG looks different.
And basically anything that have any color in it, will not upload to spreadshirt.
@@zenwatercooler Does inkscape have an SVG editor. That you don't have to download a github plugin, and than windows defender blocks you from installing it. Like it does with paint net?
@@saulgoodman2018 Inkscape IS an SVG editor.
@@PedroSilva1 I know. Paint net is a little annoying. You have windows within windows. The UI is a mess.
But every SVG that have color that I upload to spreadshirt, always give me errors.
Look at the above file as an example. The SVG and PNG are different.
Than you see what I mean.
Thanks for the great video. At the end of the video you say you can use phrases on other peoples Tshirts for sale. This is legal? If someone comes up with an original joke or saying and puts it on a tshirt it is not copyright?
I would not recommend copying the exact design, but a phrase is just a phrase. If they trademark the phrase, then I would steer clear. But many funny text designs are repeated by many different sellers (just not the exact same design).
@@zenwatercooler I see, thanks a lot for replying. Your videos are super helpful!
hello, Zen kindly let us know. These are public domain for US residents or these are public domain for other countries too ???
Public domain is generally based on the country of publication, but if it is old (like 100 years old) it would be in public domain globally. Usually if it is in the public domain in the U.S., it is generally safe to upload for print on demand (I've never personally had a problem). Hope that helps!
@@zenwatercooler Thank u so much Zen
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just one quick question.... I am a beginner with all of this so, if I use these designs from the old books are the pixels adequate for t-shirt designs (ie.) 300 dpi to prevent pixilation?
The images might be good enough - some are high-quality and some aren't (generally speaking). I typically upscale the images in Photoshop or Inkscape if I want them to be higher quality. There are online resizing options as well (www2.lunapic.com/editor/?action=resize) for example.