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Hey everyone, Rodney here at Kleebz Tech, and
today I'm going to show you how to get accurate
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text on t-shirts on people in your images, like
these. Now, this is not something that works
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perfectly, but it does often do a pretty decent
job. It depends on the image that you're working
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with, and I'm going to make things difficult on
myself by not using easy images to do this. So,
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we're going to try to generate some stuff like
this. I do recommend watching my video I have
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on text already that this is building
upon. This is a little more difficult
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than that, which works very well.
This one's a challenge sometimes,
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but I'm going to give you tips on how you
can try to get better results from it.
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So, why don't we just start and get right
into it? There's no perfect way of doing this,
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and it doesn't always work well with every image
generated. I'm going to show you the system of
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how I do it. Hopefully, these come out well. I've
gotten some to come out well, and others can be
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a challenge. The idea behind this is trying to
generate t-shirts with words on them, sayings,
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or designs with words and getting accurate text.
This is purely about text, but it can also be used
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for other stuff as well. One of the issues is,
a lot of times, if you try to get what you want,
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it's not going to work. If you use in-painting, it
looks copied and pasted. There are other ways of
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doing this sort of stuff. For example, in this one
I did in [__], which I can show at the end of this
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video real quick how I did this. This is useful
for doing it that way if you have a specific
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design you're trying to get on there. It doesn't
always work perfectly, but it is an option.
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Let's say you want to generate one, and you want
to have the text and stuff like that to actually
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work and spell the proper words. Well, that's
what I'm going to show you today. For this one,
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let's go ahead and just start off
with one of these images, but first,
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I'm going to set everything up. I'm using Fooocus;
you should be able to do this in pretty much any
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of the UIs. There's a little bit different on how
they work. I do like the main engine for Fooocus,
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and I personally think it's the best, even if
you just use it for in-painting. We're going to
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check off the input image tab down at the bottom.
We're going to be mostly working in the in-paint,
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out-paint, and the image prompt area down
here. I'm going to check off Advanced as well,
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the advanced tab. We're going to check
off the developer debug mode, and in here,
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we're going to go into the control tab.
We need mixing image prompt and in-paint;
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we need to check that off. Then we're just going
to click on the in-paint tab and have that open.
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A lot of times, if you were just to go ahead
and try to use the image prompts with the
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text that I'm going to show, it's not going to
work properly; things won't line up. But I'll
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show you how to get that to work. If you have
seen my other video on how to get good text,
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this is basically the same idea with some
slight modifications. The basic concept is
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still the same. If you haven't seen that,
I do suggest looking at that one. It works
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well on flat surfaces for signs or anything
like that. The shirts are a little harder,
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as I said. It doesn't always work for every shirt,
doesn't always work for every design. It takes a
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little bit of practice, but once you get used to
it, you can get halfway decent results. They may
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not always look perfect, though; I will warn
you of that. And if you see any flickering or
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anything while I'm doing this, my video card,
I think, is about to die, so hopefully not.
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I'd like to be able to continue recording
videos and not have to put that on pause.
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So, let's start off with this image down here.
Yeah, we'll do this one. Drag it down, then in
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the in-painting area, I'm going to select a larger
mask. If you're not familiar with in-painting,
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I do suggest watching my in-painting tutorial.
Now, what we need to do at this point is we're
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not going to generate anything. It doesn't really
matter; we can get rid of some of these things in
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the prompt. You want to put your text in the
quotes. Now, we're going to be using something
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different for this, but we are going to just
prepare the prompt at the moment. The in-paint
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respective field, that's what we want to pay
attention to first right here. Now, if we go
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all the way to one, when it goes to in-paint, it's
going to use the whole image. It won't upscale,
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won't do anything, but what happens is, at that
point, we're going to be putting some text into
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the image prompt, and when we do that, it's
going to have a hard time keeping that text
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together because it's going to be so small at
that point. So, we need to have the image zoom in,
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and the way to do that is to slide this
down. Normally, it's around six or so,
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but we actually are going to slide this not all
the way down because then it doesn't take any of
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the image around it into effect. And we want
that because it's useful for reference. So,
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I'm going to bring this down a little bit,
probably to about 0.2. We'll give that a shot.
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Now, the first time we generate, we're actually
not going to generate anything. I just need to
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get some numbers, and if you've watched my other
video on text, you'll know why I'm doing this.
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But at this point, once we go ahead and hit
the generate button, we're going to want the
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command window open. Now, my system, when I
go to do this in upscale while I'm recording,
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can have issues. So, I'm going to try to leave
this open to show you exactly what happens. So,
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let's hit generate. Now I'll minimize my window
here and we'll see if it actually does this.
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There's one number you want to pay attention to
here, that's the 425x425, that's the section of
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the image that it's going to be working on.
Now, the other thing I do here as well is,
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for reference, I'm going to take a screenshot
of this. That's just so I have a rough idea of
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what it's working on. So, I'm going to save that.
Now that we have that, we can work on getting our
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text. We don't need this to finish, but I'm
going to let this finish because I do want
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to show something. One of the things to keep in
mind when doing this is, the shirt doesn't look
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right. We're wanting to get more of a faded
look, a worn look. So, this doesn't always
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work well when you try to do the in-painting on
the shirt. I'll show you how to get around that.
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Now we want to get our text. I've already got one
prepared here, but I'm going to change the size
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because I don't have the proper size because I
didn't know. So, we're going to put 425. I'm going
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to resize this. The other thing that I do is I'll
bring in that image, and that's close enough for
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what we're doing here. I've got my text where I
want it. You can use any tool; I do this in Adobe
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Express just because I like the text effects.
Working with text in here works very well. The
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other thing to keep in mind is when you're working
with the text, the font, it's usually best to have
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a thicker, bolder font, and it won't always keep
the same font. We'll go with this one; we're going
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to leave it there. And the background color,
I find you don't want to go with transparent;
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that doesn't work well. I'm still trying to figure
out which colors work the best. I tend to go with
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the same background color. Then we're going to
go ahead and download and save that image. We're
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going to go to our image prompt tab, and then I'm
going to bring in that text that I just created.
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I'm going to put this on CPDS. Pyrocanic can
work as well. Play around to determine the stop
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value, which is when it stops influencing it.
You want that usually pretty high, otherwise,
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the text can start to fall apart. But the higher
you go, it does impact the rest of the generation.
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Now, the other thing is, if you want to do
anything else, like I'm going to drop this image
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in here just as a reference. For the robot, there
we go. Now I have everything set. I have my prompt
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set, I do have the text in the prompt and here, so
that helps influence each other. If you don't put
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the text in the prompt, I find it doesn't work as
well. Now we're not going to touch this in-paint
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respective field at this point because we've
already set this, and if we were to change that,
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it can mess up the image prompt that we're
using. The other thing we need to do is the
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main denoising strength. One of the reasons this
looks kind of fake is because it regenerates
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that whole image right from scratch where
we've masked. So, if we go in and look here,
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that gets completely regenerated. We want
to make the shirt look more like it's worn,
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like the graphics are on the shirt and
to maintain some of those wrinkles and
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things like that and contours that make it
look more believable. We're going to need
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to lower this down. That way, it doesn't
completely destroy what's underneath it;
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it still uses it. Now, a high number
means that it mostly starts from scratch.
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If you bring it way down, it barely will change
anything at all. Actually, if you go down there,
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it's not going to do anything. For the most part,
you're going to need to be at least over 0.5 to
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get any results. Let's try around 0.75. This
really depends on the look you're going for,
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and each image is going to be slightly different.
You're going to have to play with that as you
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start generating it. Let's go ahead and generate
this and see what we start getting for results.
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Okay, let's look at our images we have here.
These actually came out pretty decent. You can
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see the letters do kind of follow some of the
contours. Now, some of these aren't going to
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come out perfect, but we get a pretty good job.
I'm going to lower this down a little bit more.
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I'm going to put that down closer to 0.7. Okay,
let's see if we can change this up a little bit
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and get it a little more faded. A couple of
these actually, this one actually I thought
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came out pretty good. At this point, let's
say we wanted that but didn't like the design;
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we could in-paint just that area of it. Once
you get the text right, you can always work
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around it. Let's go ahead and try another shot.
This came out halfway decent. Now you can adjust
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the CPDS and other things to get better text.
You can also have it zoom in more if you want
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to maintain that structure, especially if you
have smaller text. If you want to really go in,
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you can zoom in even more similar to how I show
in my other video on how to do text. The biggest
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thing here is going to be the denoising strength.
It's the big difference because to keep the shape
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better so it looks more realistic, you need to
turn that down. If you turn it down too much,
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then it also gets more difficult. The other thing
to keep in mind, which I didn't show here, but
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this will work for more than just text. You could
include images to help guide it, logos, whatever
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you want. That's entirely up to you how you do it.
This just gives you the basic idea of how to get
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that. Obviously, once you get the basic design,
you can then go from there and in-paint it.
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Now, I will mention one thing you might want to
do. If you're going to be upscaling your images,
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you can upscale them first and then do this
because you'll be working with a smaller area
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when you do the in-painting and that respective
field. You can do that with an upscaled image
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as well. Okay, so I've decided let's go ahead
and do an upscaled image. I've got this image
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here I generated. It's going to be a little bit
tougher because it's further back. That would
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normally be very difficult if you try doing
it under the normal image prompts without
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adjusting things because your text would
be so small that it wouldn't maintain the
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structure. But we shouldn't have that issue
because we want to do the same technique.
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I've gone ahead and already masked the area,
got that out of the way. In the image prompt,
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I've changed things a little bit. I've put the
robot and everything right on that image. That
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way I can get more influence. I'm going to
increase the weight a little bit. The stop
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value in the image prompt just for the
style, the look, and everything to help
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influence that result. The prompt is all set.
I've got the in-paint denoising strength set.
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Let's go a little bit lower on that. I've measured
everything out, so this should work. Like I said,
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this has been upscaled. This is already an
upscaled image. Don't worry if the eyes are weird.
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I didn't work on any of that yet. I usually do
that after the fact. Let's go ahead and do this.
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Looking at these four, I'd say overall they're not
too bad. This one didn't get the text right, but
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this is a perfect example. Let's say you did like
this but just the text part at the bottom. You
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could just start and mask that area, remeasure,
and figure it out from there. Just continue. This
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one didn't come out that good. This one's not too
bad. I actually like this one the most. What I
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would normally do at this point is, I would mask
this area to remove the text I don't want. This
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one, I am perfectly fine with that text. We'll
clear this out. I'm going to get rid of these
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things now because let's say I just want to
finish touching those things up. I'm going to
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change the denoising strength now because I don't
want that to influence generation. Put that in
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there. I think we're good to go. Let's give this
a shot. So, we've got a couple of images. This
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one's fine. Now we have our images. I'll give
you a couple of bonuses. This should give you a
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good idea of how to get to this point. I didn't do
many image generations; I just wanted to show the
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technique. This gets a lot easier if you're not
trying to do it on images like the ones I'm using
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that are dirty and worn out. If you're putting
it on somebody that's got a smoother shirt,
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it gets easier to get a better result. But I
wanted to show the more difficult situations.
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Now, if you really want to take that to
the next level and make it look phenomenal,
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you can use Magnific AI. This does cost a bit of
money unless you do a lot of upscaling and want
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a lot of detail. I don't necessarily recommend it,
but if you're using it enough, it is worth it. The
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first one I'm going to do is the one I just did.
I'm going to put my prompt in here. Let's go with
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a scaling factor of two. I'm going to keep the
resemblance up. We're going to leave everything
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else fine. Let's go with that. We're going to
go ahead and upscale that. If you're wondering,
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as I mentioned before, about getting a design on
a shirt in GIMP, I can show you how to do that.
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Let's see if I can remember how to do this.
Open as a layer. Let's scale this down. I'm
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not going to go for perfection here. At this
point, you could rotate it or anything like
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that. I'm not going to worry about that right
now. Then I'm just going to change this. If
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we go down to the mode on that layer, and
you can try different ones, but usually,
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I find overlay works pretty good. There we go.
This shirt doesn't look perfect, and you can
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lower the opacity as well. That helps it blend
in. There's a lot of little tweaks you can do,
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but that's pretty much how you would do it in
GIMP. You could change to other modes. Soft
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light will do it as well. Play around
with different ones, and sometimes it
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depends on the image. That's how you can do
something like that in GIMP if you want to.
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Let's check our Magnific upscale. Here we go.
Now, it went a little extreme, but that one
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actually came out really good. There we go. I
will say I really love Magnific; just wish it
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wasn't so expensive. If you really want to up your
game, that's the way to do it. Well, that covers
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everything for this video. As I said, it does take
a little tweaking and practice. It may not always
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work with every image, but it is one of the better
ways I've found. If someone has a better way,
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I'd love to hear it in the comments. I'm always
looking for improvements and better ways of doing
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things. This is not limited to t-shirts and can
be used for other things as well. If you found
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