All language subtitles for Updated Full Kittl Masterclass (Every Feature Explained)

In this video, we're going through a

deep dive of KD. Everything you need to

know from signing up and getting into

your profile to the most advanced

editing features. And we're going to go

through this nice and slow, walk you

through every single bit of it so that

you're not confused. And here's just a

quick itinerary of what we're going to

be going through. We're going to start

with your profile, showing you how your

home dashboard works, and I'll help you

get familiar with your settings and some

core functionality. Then we're going to

be talking about how templates work and

how to open and edit templates as well

as how to start new projects. We'll also

talk about how to add more designs and

templates to one project. Then we're

going to get into the entire overview of

every feature in KD as well as a deep

dive on some of those individual tools.

After that, we'll briefly cover

collaboration and teams accounts. And

then we're going to end our time talking

about some really important shortcuts

that you should be using to help you

with your design workflow. And every

section, by the way, is in a timestamp.

So, if you take your cursor and you

hover over the bar on YouTube down at

the bottom of the video, you can see

these little chapter titles. And so, if

you want to learn something specific,

for example, text effects or how the pen

tool works, you can feel free to just

skip ahead or back and forth wherever

you want to go. Now, if you don't have

KD yet and you just found out about us

or maybe you have seen KD and you've

kind of been on the fence or you're

thinking about it, welcome. I am super

happy that you found this video. My name

is Drew and I'll be walking us through

this. And by the way, KD is free for you

to use. It will be free forever if

that's how you want to use it. And you

can find a link to sign up down in the

description. There's no time limit or

anything on it. If you want a free

account forever, it is yours to use. And

if you ever want to know the differences

between the free and the paid plans we

offer in KD, then I will have that link

for you down in the description as well.

Let's go ahead and get started with your

user dashboard. And we're actually going

to start with what you see before you

sign up. So, here we are on the homepage

of KD. And there's a lot that you can go

ahead and do without even being signed

up. You can go through and you can check

out different features. You can go and

for example click on merchandise

templates and you can sort through all

of our templates which I'm going to show

you when we log in as well. But you can

also go up here and like I mentioned

earlier I will have this page linked for

you down below for you to go and access.

You can see all the differences. You can

see what it would be monthly versus

yearly as well as all the tier accounts.

You can even go down here and compare.

And this is a very very helpful chart

for you when you're trying to decide if

this is a good decision for you or not.

But again, it's free. No harm to you. I

would go ahead and sign up and

definitely check out a lot of the

different things that we have in KD. All

right. So, let's talk a little bit about

what happens when you log in. So, after

you log in, you're going to be going

through an onboarding. You're going to

go through a little survey talking a

little bit about what you want to be

doing because that just helps us best

serve you in terms of the templates or

the learnings or whatever we want to

help you grow in your career or whatever

you might be designing. But once you get

into your home dashboard, your area,

this is what it's going to look like. So

you have your home section. You can see

up here. And just FYI, sometimes we do

like to move the things in the left

panel up and down or around or we may

categorize them a little bit

differently, but you'll always be able

to find these things. So no harm if you

are seeing something a little bit

different or maybe it's worded a little

bit different than what you see in the

video. Generally, the functionality is

going to be the same. So right now we've

got home. At the top here, you can see

your recent projects. I can jump back

into these. You see, I work a lot on

thumbnails. I work a lot on little funny

humor things. I got some templates that

I'm compiling for people uh to get in

and easily uh use, you know, script

fonts and all that kind of stuff. And

then I have some things that are

suggested for me as well as tools. So,

that's a brief overview of the homep.

And sometimes you'll jump back into this

and maybe uh the for you page is a

little bit different or maybe we've

updated a new tool. And you can click on

these. They're going to open up into the

editor. But I'm going to show you all of

that in detail. So, we don't need to do

that right now. Then you have a recent

section where if I go to recents, it's

just going to show me all of the

projects that I have been working on

recently here in my profile. Then, if I

go to shared projects, that's going to

show me everything that I've been

invited to. Now, again, that's for a

later part of the video. Again, you can

find those timestamps. We're going to

talk about sharing and collaboration and

teams later on. Speaking of teams, you

have what's called your space here or

your individual team, which is just you.

It's it's all for you, but you can also

invite people to it. This is where you

would be able to go and check out other

teams that you have created again for a

later part of the video. And then we

have projects, templates, and tools. And

if I click on my projects, I can see all

of my projects here. And I'm going to

show you some of the capabilities so

that you are well aware of how to get

the most out of your profile. So already

you can see I have created some folders

here and I've created lots and lots and

lots of projects. Now there are some

super helpful things that you should

know about. First of all is projects. So

for example, if I know that this says

funny type posters and let's just say I

had already created another I don't know

20 projects and I've kind of lo lost it.

I can just type in funny and then that's

going to show me the project name that

I've been looking for. And I use this a

lot because I have hundreds of projects

in KD at this point. And so a lot of

times I will be like, "Wait, what was

that project?" And I need to use a

search bar to find it. But another thing

that I will use a lot is folders. You

can see I have a couple of different

folders up here. For example, I have

another YouTube channel I like to make

different content for. And so I've

orchestrated all of these specific

projects or thumbnails inside of this

folder. And so just to show you how that

would work, let's say I really like

these monoline script for something I

want to use in the the Clever Ferrets

menu or something like that. If I wanted

to, I could go down here and I could

move it to that folder. So you see these

three dots. You can do a lot of

different things. You can copy a link to

that project. You could duplicate that

project if you wanted to make it again.

Again, we're going to be talking about

making more projects and templates here.

Or you can move it to a folder. And if I

choose to move it to a folder, then I

could just select the one that I've

created and then move it to it. Or I

could add a new one. Maybe I want to

create a brand new folder, which it did

right there. And I've already scrolled

away from it. But I could go in here and

rename it. And maybe this one's going to

be, you know, font favorites, which by

the way is a feature I'll be showing you

later on. But just to show you, for

example, I can also just click this

check. And you see how it says one

project selected. I can go down here,

move to folder, or remember I can

uncheck this and I can go here to move

to folder. Either one. And I'm going to

click this. And then I'm going to find

font favorites. Move to folder. And now

that project has been moved into this

folder. Really useful, really easy for

organizing all of your stuff. If I ever

wanted it to go away, I could just

remove it from this folder. So I'll go

ahead and do that. It's away now. I can

go back and I can even go on here and

just delete this folder. And by the way,

you can do the same thing with deleting

projects. If you find a project or you

accidentally create one or maybe you

started opening up templates that you

don't want anymore or you're just not

really worried about, you can always go

to the three dots and delete that

project just like I showed you how you

can go and you can rename or delete a

folder. All right, before we go into

templates and designing, let me talk a

little bit more about overall settings

and how you would upgrade your account

or do things like that, where you would

find your email preferences and all that

kind of stuff. So, if we start with the

most basic of features, if I go over

here and uh hover over this bell icon,

that's going to be your notification.

So, if I click that, you're going to see

notifications like if someone invited

you to a project or if uh designers,

creators that you follow have added new

templates, which again I'll show you how

to do. whether someone commented on your

design, when someone follows you and

your kind of work and what you do. It's

really helpful, easy access to get to

what you need. And then if you hover

over your avatar, you can find things

like switching over to dark mode, which

I know a lot of you will probably like,

which by the way, let me know in the

comments if you're light or dark mode. I

generally like dark mode. Going to keep

it light for this one, but let me know.

Uh you can also go into your account

settings. You can do things like upload

your profile image. You can change your

name. You can change your email. You can

go over, change your password. You can

also go over and check your email

preferences, which I would always

suggest you're signed up to our

newsletter so you don't miss when

anything new happens, like a new YouTube

video. Now, if you're trying to change

overall important settings like billing

or upgrading or things like that, you

will need to go over into your space

settings. So, remember, this is where

you're going to control if you have

multiple teams. And if I click on this

and drop this down, you're going to see

that I'm in MySpace, uh, where I can

certainly invite members if I want to.

Right here, you says, you see it says

invite members. You can also see which

kind of plan I'm on. And if I want to, I

would go into the team settings. And

what that's going to do is allow me to

change the name, which I like calling

mine Drew Space. I can see the members

that are in my space, which currently is

just me. I don't really need any other

members in my space because what I could

also do is simply just invite members to

a specific project. So I don't

necessarily have to invite anyone to my

entire team, which I'll talk about

later. And then here in plan and

billing, you can see extremely helpful

things like how many credits you have,

how many extra credits you have for AI.

You can go and change your billing

information, and you can go and change

your plan. So, all of that is going to

be over here in the left panel where you

can go and change your team settings.

And you can do this for all of the other

teams that you're a member of. You can

also create a new team if you want to.

All right. So, now let's talk about

templates. Just like I showed you on the

homepage, when you're not signed in, you

have the ability to do that right from

within your profile. So, you don't have

to feel like you need to uh try to go

back to the homepage or log out or

anything like that. It's already here

for you. As well as when you like

something, you'll find all of your liked

templates here right underneath. So,

anytime you like something, it's kind of

like bookmarking it or saving it. You'll

be able to access it immediately. But

let's go back to templates and talk

about the categories and the filters.

So, you see here we have the discover

page, which is everything. You also see

new things that we upload like uh these

whiteboard templates which is really

cool. We have design bundles which are

really neat. So for example, you have a

lot of different elements inside one

bundle, you can use it. And then this is

the feature I was talking about where if

I wanted to follow this creator, which

I'll go ahead and do. I can click

follow. And now I'm following that

creator so that anytime that they upload

or publish something, I will get a

notification that says such and such

uploaded a new design bundle or a new

template or a new whatever it is. I will

get a notification for that. But across

the top here, you can see things like

merchandise, marketing, social

stationary, all this kind of stuff. And

if I click through each one of these,

it's going to show me a variety of

subcategories and then filters. So just

to quickly click through that, we have

merchandise. Here's marketing. Here's

social media posts. Stationary branding

is probably going to be helpful for a

lot of you. Business. But let's go back

to merchandise for a second. And you can

see all of these subcategories, these uh

categories of the product themselves.

And they're different for each one of

these global categories. So, for

example, if I just click on bags, now I

am being shown designs that are

optimized or work best for bags. doesn't

mean that you can't use another design

in another category for a bag. You can

use whatever design you want for a bag

or a hat or a flyer or whatever. It

doesn't matter. Just this just helps you

get down to what the creators were

thinking when they were designing these

templates. And then if I wanted to

filter them, I have all of these really

cool helpful filters. So, for example,

if I want to, let's go to show all and

let's say I want to uh go to something

like travel. If I hit the theme, now I'm

seeing only travel themed templates. And

then I can even go more granular with

the style. So maybe I want to go travel,

but maybe I want to go vintage. And so I

go travel vintage. So I have, look, I

have all these kind of like old rugged.

This one's kind of western. This one's

kind of retro. Uh, this one's kind of

like hatched. This one's like super kind

of lithograph. And then I could get even

more granular and I could go, let's say

I only kind of want like dark brown. And

now it's going to show me this kind of

yellow, dark brown, or anytime that

there's that color in a template. So,

for example, you see it on the highlight

here, you see it in the background here.

And this is a way that you can really

get to the specific design that you want

using these filters. And if you don't

like them, you just go up here and click

the little trash can to get them to go

away. And then you can also click on

this filters button to also make it go

away. You can also sort them by name,

recent, most user trending. So, if you

just want to know, hey, what's the most

used design out of bags for merchandise,

you just go to most used, and now you

can see here, 1,244 likes, 829 likes,

and you can go through and check out

some of the mostused designs in bags.

Again, if I switch to hoodies and

sweatshirts, it's already filtered to

most used. So, you can see here the most

used within this. Now, they're not going

to be filtered by style. They're just

going to be filtered by most used. So

these are the two different category

filters that you can go through and

change on any variety of things. For

example, branding. Maybe we want to go

to recent in the branding category. And

maybe we want to go to let's say brand

kits. And now it's going to show me

recent brand kit uploads like brand

guidelines, brand identity guidelines,

which is really, really neat. And I can

go through and filter it the same way.

Or I can change the filter that way.

Now, before I open up a template or

start a new project, I do just want to

mention that you have your profile and

you have instant access to the blog.

Let's talk about the profile for a

second. So, if I click on that, what

you're going to do is find all of your

specific content that you want people to

see. This means if you were to publish a

design, which I will show you, it's

going to show up on your profile kind of

like a portfolio, and you'll be able to

have a description about yourself.

You'll see who you're following, how

many followers you have. Uh you can put

links in there to your website or your

social media or anything like that. And

you can also go here and edit it. You

can see these are the designs that I

have published which are what people are

able to go and use. So they can go and

use these at any point. You all can go

at any point and check out my profile.

You can open these up and edit them to

your heart's content. And then like I

said, we have the blog here which is

going to be really helpful for you in

learning both principles of design,

tutorials for design and many other

things that you can go up here and let's

say you you're just really interested in

vintage. Okay, great. We have tutorials

and things like that for just vintage.

But let me go back to templates and

we're going to talk about what happens

when you click on one and open it up.

So, let's say we are looking for a

branding design and we want to use let's

say let's go to a uh label. We're going

to be looking at a label. I like this

one. Let's go with this coffee laour.

That looks really cool. Now, I can go

ahead and click use this template. I

could like this template. I can click on

the template to learn more about it. I

can see who made it. Um I can see how

many times it's been used, how many

likes it has. and I can also use it from

here. So, what I'm going to do is go

ahead and click use this template. And

now we're about to get into the portion

of the tutorial where I'm showing you

what's in the editor. So, now I've

clicked on that template from my profile

and it has been opened in the KD editor,

which means I can now click on anything

in this template and we're going to say

KD demo. I would never put that on a

coffee label, but I can I can edit this

to my heart's content. I can do things

like change the background color uh to

anything I want. Maybe we want it to be

kind of like a darker orange or

something like that. I can go and I can

change the texture. I can mock it up.

All these things we're going to go

through step by step. So, no worries.

I'm just giving you an overview of what

happens when you click on a template.

Now, let me go back to my profile for a

second because let's say you just want

to get in and start messing around. You

don't really want to add a template just

yet. I mean, maybe you you clicked on

one and you were like, "Oh, okay. That's

what happens. I don't really want to do

that." There is no worries. You can

absolutely start a brand new project

from scratch. So, if you go up here to

the top right, you can just click new

project. So, I'm going to hit new

project right now. What it's going to do

is provide you with a couple of setting

options. So, you see here, it's going to

ask you, well, what kind of artboard

size would you like to do? You can come

over here and you can input it

independently. So, for example, if I

wanted this to be 2,00 then I can have

it 2,000 x 1200. I can change the pixels

to inches or millimeters. And I can also

change my DPI. Can change my

orientation. I can add margin if I want

to, which we'll talk about as well. Or I

can pick one of the preset templates. So

maybe I want to go to social or maybe I

want to go to marketing or like many of

our users, maybe we're into print on

demand. And so for example, I'm going to

be making a Printful T-shirt. So, I'll

go ahead and select this one. It's

already adjusted it over here. And now I

can just hit create. And so now I've got

a blank project. I didn't open up a

template. And I'm ready to start

editing. I'm ready to start creating.

But let's say that you either did open

up a template or you opened up a new

project by itself and you wanted to

continue browsing. Well, you can see

over here on the left side, we do have a

templates panel. And you can see more

labels that were shown from when I

clicked this because I was in the labels

category, it opened it up in the

project, and then it also opened up the

labels panel. So, if I wanted to do

something similar, like let's say I like

this layout, but I also like this

whiskey one. Well, I can just click on

that whiskey label and it added it to

the board. And so now I've got both of

these in the same board. Just like I did

that here, if I go back to the project

where I just clicked new project, I

didn't click on a template. I can still

go over here in the left side panel and

let's say I really like this bag. I can

click that one and it will add it to my

board. So I can still add templates to

my project without having to go back and

forth between my profile. This is going

to save you so much time. And you can

see these categories up here where if I

wanted to go to social, I can still go

through and I can go through social or

if I wanted to go up here and type in a

specific keyword like minimal, it's

going to show me minimal designs. And

that way I don't have to keep going back

and forth all the way back here to my

profile. I can just go into whatever

project I am in, whether or not I

clicked on a template like this one

where I added it or I started a brand

new project from nothing and I open up

the panel and I start searching and add

it to it. But we're going to go through

all of this step by step right now. All

right, I'm going to go back to this area

and delete this template, which by the

way, I can always grab it by selecting

the name of the artboard and I'm going

to hit backspace. And what I'm going to

do is walk through a couple of core

areas here in the editor to get you

acclimated and then dive into each of

them in more detail. So if you need to

take a second, you need to go refill,

grab a cup of coffee or tea or whatever

you might be drinking, then go ahead and

do that and then come back and let's

dive in. The first area we're going to

talk about is this left side panel where

you're going to see things like your

menu where you can control settings,

your templates panel. I already showed

you our text, elements, brand kits, and

so forth. So, we're going to talk about

that first. Then you see down here at

the bottom, we see our toolbar where we

can select our cursor icon. We can

create new artboards, build shapes, use

the pen tool, zoom in, zoom out, redo.

We're going to go through each of those

step by step as well. And then lastly,

you see over here on the right side,

this is more of your refining section.

So, you think about the left side as

building. Think about the bottom as

creating or editing and then the right

side you think as refining. So changing

different things. You can see right now

all you see are project colors and

tools. But the second I click on

something like text. You have much more

things available to you in terms of

settings. You can transform the size of

the text. You can align the text, change

the color. You can change the actual

font of the text. You can transform it.

You can add shading. We're going to go

through each one of these. So don't

worry. I just don't want anyone to

worry. We are going to go through these.

So don't get overwhelmed just yet. Just

let's go through it a little bit at a

time. But those are the three core

areas. So you got your building area

here on the left. You got your designing

from scratch area here on the bottom.

And then you got your refining or

details area panel over here on the

right. So let's dive in one at a time.

Let's go through the menu. We already

have a we already have a board here

which is going to serve us really well

for showing you what happens. So over

here in the menu I'm going to click on

that. I can start a new project. I can

go back to my projects. I can duplicate

this project or I can do some other

things. What I can do is go and view a

grid which if I select this it will show

me a grid which I then have control

over. And this is really helpful for

aligning things. This is good for

finding how much space you have in

between elements. For example, I know I

have about a square here on the left, a

square here on the right, which really

helps me align these little circles

here. And I can take that off. Or I can

turn on my rulers and my guides. And you

can see a quick key command for that is

shift R. And you can see there are

rulers here. You can see how much space

is being taken up when I have this

selected. And then what's really really

cool about rulers and guides is if I

want to start creating much more robust

grid systems, I can take my cursor up

here and you can see it will change to a

different icon. And if I click and drag,

I will be able to create guides that

will snap to different elements. And I

can do this from the left and the right

side. So all I'm doing is clicking and

dragging from the ruler and I can start

creating a grid. And as you can see, if

I zoom in right now, it's not snapped.

But if I move it and snap it, it snaps

into place against the grid line. Just

like that. You can see that it

highlighted that line when I did that.

And so now it is snapped against this

line. And that's really, really helpful.

And we'll go into more detail about that

later. If you ever don't want them, you

can just click on them and hit delete.

Just like anything else, I can click on

it. I can hit delete. And it's no

worries. Again, that quick command is

shift and R. And you can see the rulers

go away. And if I hit shift and R to

bring them back. Another important thing

to note is that if I do have a guide,

which you can see right here in red, if

I hit shift R, it goes away. So even if

I've created a guide and I just think

they're kind of distracting, I want to

get rid of them, I can just hit shift R,

and then if I need them back, shift R,

bring them back. Or you can go up into

the menu settings, like I said, and go

back to uh view and just turn them off.

Now margin is actually turned on right

now, but we do have to define it. So

right now the project is set for the

margin to exist, but we haven't given it

any details yet. So at least we know

that it's on. That's a great sign. Let

me go over here and click on the

artboard. And then if I click on margin

over here in the right side panel, you

can see this little plus. I'm going to

go ahead and click that. And you can see

the margin has populated. It's this very

light purple color. And you see that

it's defaulted to 54 all around. And I

can also unlink these settings if I

wanted the top to be a little bit more.

If I wanted the left, let's say the

right page of a book, maybe we want the

left margin to be a little bit more

because we have that space that's going

to be going in a book. Now, this is not

for a book, but this is just for an

example. Uh, but if I ever wanted to

link these, for example, I can go to,

let's say, 25 is pretty standard. Uh

this is probably even more than you

would need, but you can see it's about

right where uh the the border, the

margin is there, and this will really

help you. If you're creating more

stationary style stuff, if you ever

don't need it, you can simply just go

and take it off. If you've ever added

margin and you can't see it or find it,

make sure you go up into your menu

settings, your view settings, and make

sure that margin is selected. If it's

not selected, it just means it's hidden

right now. We'll just keep it checked on

for now, even though we don't need it.

And then you'll see here in your

settings, just like when I was creating

a brand new project, you can click

inches, pixels, millimeters. You can go

back down here and you can click dark

mode to turn dark mode back on in the

editor, or you can turn it off. And then

here, you can always click to save,

which I I clicked it just now, which is

now saved. Or you can just hit command

S, which is a pretty standard shortcut

for any design tool to save your

settings. All right, let's move on to

the other things in the left panel. I

already mentioned the templates panel

right here where you can go through and

you can select different categories. You

can search, you can open them up and

save them if you want by liking them.

You can uh add it to the project. You

can open it in a brand new project. You

can also see what kinds of keywords are

flagged and tagged here for this

specific kind. So, if you want to search

more coffee bean templates, it'll search

it for you and they will come up for you

to easily access. Uh, but we already

talked about templates quite a bit. So,

let's go ahead and move on to text. So,

we have a text building panel here where

you're going to find a lot of pre-made

layout. So, for example, if I click this

one right here, which is a nice monogram

style layout. We have a grouped together

form of text where if I doubleclick in,

I'll be able to see what kind of type

face was used, what all the settings

are. I could come in here and I'm just

going to put KD for KD demo. I can

select one of these other ones and let's

say I want to change this to uh

everything you need to know, which is

probably too much text. Yeah, it's a

little bit too much text, but you see I

could change this to whatever I want to.

And we have a bunch of these pre-made

layouts in paragraphs, titles,

decorations, badges, paper letters. We

even have gradient text, which is

really, really cool for specific kinds

of design. We have title pairs, which is

a lot of different font pairings that

work well together. And we even have

different buttons that we have created

that you can go in and easily add or

change the text to. You can also add

text by just clicking the add headline

text right here. Or you can add a

paragraph by doing the same thing, just

clicking it and it will add it. If you

want a really quick and easy way to do

that, by the way, if you just hit the T

button on your keyboard, it instantly

adds text for you. We're going to be

going through more text editing and

shortcuts a little bit later. Let's move

on to our elements panel. You can see

there are a lot of elements here in this

composition which are really, really

neat, including little shapes behind the

numbers. We have little panels behind

the text here. And of course, we have

illustrations. Now, if I open up the

elements panel, the first thing you're

going to notice is we have shapes,

ornaments, illustrations. I'll just

click through some of these. And what

you're going to do is see subcategories

or subgroupings of the overall category.

So shapes, you're going to have a lot of

different things like masks and banners,

badges, complex shapes. Uh in ornaments,

you're going to have ornate lines,

you're going to have Victorian rays,

frames, corners. Uh in illustrations,

you're going to have everything under

the sun from Y2K to quai to anything

else. I mean, there's everything in here

you can find. And then abstract is going

to be some of your more quirky and

interesting uh very, you know, specific

niche elements. But you can always

search for anything. So if I were to

just uh search for, let's say, Y2K

uh yeah, butterfly, why not? And you

know, it'll give me some of these like

grungy butterflies or characters that

have butterflies on them. It'll give you

even give me some like cool

recommendations for like chrome

butterflies that could work in Y2K

aesthetic. And as you keep scrolling,

you're going to see even more intense

stuff like uh pixelated stuff that could

work really, really well. And just a

note on the elements panel, we are

always updating and working on how this

is viewable and how you're going to

easily use it. So don't be alarmed if

you see something that looks a little

bit different than mine. We are working

on making it easily searchable, easily

categorical, and for you to be able to

save and view your sets of stuff that

you like. So don't be alarmed if you see

something that looks a little bit

different than my panel right here.

Functionality, search, adding the

elements that are there, all of that is

the same. Just don't want you to be

alarmed. Now, if I wanted to see

anything more within a specific

category, so for example, Y2K cosmic

abstract, I would just hit show all. And

now I can see everything that's within

this one grouping. Similar to where if I

went to ornaments and I want to see all

the ornate lines, I can simply click

show all. And now I see all of the

ornate lines right here. There's going

to be everything under the sun for you

to explore in elements from the shapes

and illustrations to masks and so much

more that even I haven't discovered. So,

I know you're going to have a lot of fun

with that, especially for designing or

composing different things. We even have

features that make it really easy for

you to replace stuff within your

template. So, for example, let's say if

I typed in vintage coffee because I do

know that the styling of these

illustrations are very similar. Maybe I

want to find one of these. Uh, these are

currently grouped because you can see a

larger bounding box around all of the

individual boxes. So, what I'm going to

do is go ahead and ungroup this. So,

let's say I want this little pod of

beans here to be a different

illustration. Maybe I actually want it

to be a cup. Then I could find one

that's pretty similar like this one. And

you see this little button that says

replace here. I could just hit replace

and it has replaced it to the exact

sizing. and color that is in this

design. So, I didn't have to take this

apart. I didn't have to delete it. I

didn't have to add this illustration

because if I add this right now, it's

going to be bigger. The colors are going

to be different. I'm going to have to

size it down. I'm going to have to put

it over here. And then I'm going to have

to play with all my colors. Whereas, if

I found this one and I wanted to change

it, let's say to this one, I can hit

replace and it's already the correct

size, it's already the correct colors, I

can just work a little bit on my

placement and put it right there. I

actually liked that previous one better.

Well, let's go down and see if we see

something. Maybe this one's actually

pretty cool. So, replace it with this

one. Yeah, that's super cool. Maybe a

little bit hard to see there, but I'm

going to leave it like that for the

moment. So, we have a lot of really cool

features that work in tandem with our

illustrations and our elements panel.

So, be sure to check those out. Now,

we're going to move on to the other

sections, but if you have any specific

questions about elements or how they

work or function or what you're seeing,

drop them down in the comments and I

will answer you as soon as I can. We're

going to talk about brand kits for just

a second. And what you're going to be

able to do with brand kits is save

different styles. So, for example, you

see text styles here, color style,

shadow, and other kind of things. Uh you

even have filter styles for photos if

you like a specific photo. So, if I were

to go to my brand kit right here, which

has six different styles in it. Now, if

you can see, I have one that's already

created. If I drop this down, I have a

couple of different things already

created. So, for example, I have a

headline text, which I have already

defined right here. And if I go to edit

style, you can see here it's black

river. I could go in here. Let's say I

wanted to change it to sign master. I

can click it and hit publish changes.

And now it's changed it here as well.

Now, this I know is a little bit more of

an advanced feature. And I have a

breakdown for brand kits that you can go

and check out on the channel, but I just

want to run through a couple of

different things. For example, if I

wanted to change it to my defined color

of this vintage kind of brown, I can

click it and you can see it has taken

effect. Maybe I want to give it a

specific shadow. Uh, I can do that and

generate the specific shadow on it. I

could click and add a new shadow if I

wanted to. I could add a new shading

style to this headline if I wanted to.

And I could also create and add a filter

to a photo. Now, I don't have everything

necessarily filled out here, but let's

say we go ahead and go to a text shading

style. And if I click new style, you can

see all of these different little

shading effects. And you can see it

previewed right here. Maybe I want to go

with a black shadow. And I want the

offset to be bottom right. And I want

the blur to be like, you know, just a

little bit, not too intense. And I'll

just take the offset pretty far away

just so you can see it. I can add that

style here. And now since I have text

selected, I can hit text shading and it

will take effect just like that. Maybe I

don't want this shading. I can simply go

over here and click the minus to remove

it. Now again, I know this is a lot to

go through just for brand kits and this

is just an overview to show you that we

have this feature. But if you want a

more indepth inspecific tutorial, make

sure you check out that on the YouTube

channel. And just so you're aware,

you're also going to have assets

available for your brand kits. So right

now, brand kits is limited to styling of

your elements or your photos or your

colors, but you're going to have another

section called brand assets, which I'll

preview right here. You'd be able to

save things like your logos or even save

elements that you find in KD and develop

a whole brand asset kit so that you can

rely on them at any given time. Another

important area is, of course, your

uploads panel. And in your upload panel,

you're going to be able to do a lot of

different things. You can obviously

upload PNG, JPEG, SVG, or WEBP files.

You can add and create a folder to help

organize all of your uploads. You'll be

able to find which AI specific images

you generated. So, when we get to AI and

we talk about generating, you're going

to be able to see them in a folder,

whether or not you edited them with AI,

whether you upscaled them, whether you

generated a set, whether you removed the

background, all those kinds of things

you can do with the folders here. And

then, of course, you can just see

anything and everything that you've

uploaded. And if I ever want to add any

of these to a folder, similar to how I

showed you with projects, you can simply

click on the three dots, and you can go

move to folder, just like that. And if

you want to show all of your folders,

you can either click on folders or show

all. And then you're going to see

everything from clipped images. You can

see everything that you mocked up with

the mockup tool. You can see everything

that you generated with an AI set. We

have a really cool AI sets generator,

which is really neat. And anything and

everything AI or clipped or what have

you. Then we have an images panel here.

And you can see up on the left and the

right we have it divided by actual

photos. And then KD AI images photos is

going to be integrated with Unsplash,

which are all commercially free for you

to use for any project, whether that's

free all the way up to paid or a

commission or a project that you have

licensed for anything. These are

copyright free for you to use in any

project. And then you can sort and

search any way you want. So, for

example, if you're looking for a

portrait, uh you can type that in and

it's going to give you really nice

portraits. If I were to go over to KD

AI, you can see that there are different

tags here for images, clip art, and

vector. And what the KD AI library is,

our public library of everyone who's

generated an image and opted to upload

it to the KD library. Whether that means

publishing it in an actual template. So

maybe our template creators were

generating things with AI. They uploaded

it as a publish template. That image

that was generated with AI goes into our

public library. or you opted to write

some prompts and upload them into the

public library. I'm going to show you

how to do that later. And I can sort

these by images, clip art, or vector. Or

I can also just go and type in a

specific keyword like kawaii. It's going

to show me everything under the sun for

that specific keyword. This is going to

be really helpful for adding and finding

different things for your arbor, even

vector specific. So you can see here,

this is actually a vector AI generated

image, which is really neat. I can

endlessly uh scale it up or down. I can

change the colors. I can also just sort

kawaii by filter, by vector filter. And

now I know if anything I put in here is

going to be vector, which is really,

really helpful for if I'm creating a

coloring book or something like that.

And we also have a textures panel where

you can add specific texture to a

design. You can also change the

background of a design. So, if I were to

talk about the textures for just a

second, I'm going to go over here and

use the template that we've already

added. And right now there's already a

texture on it, but let's just say for

the moment that we didn't have one on

there. So I just take away the texture

completely. And now I've got my artboard

selected and I want to find a texture to

put on this. And maybe I want to find a

grain texture. So let's find maybe this

one that we like a lot. I'm going to go

ahead and click this. And as you can see

over here, it has adapted to this

design. And over here on the right, it's

set to color burn, but we actually have

a lot of different ones that you can

preview. So, for example, there's

multiply, overlay, soft light, hard

light. And I would love for you to

experiment with these because it's going

to give you a little bit of a different

kind of style depending on what you

create as well as about how much you are

putting on. So, let's say we had it to

90% instead of 100. And we can also do

things like mask the texture, which if I

click mask, you can see now it is only

going to be factoring in what's on the

artboard. It won't actually mask it to

the entire artboard itself. It's just

masking it specifically to the

illustrations. But if we do want it on

the entire label, I'll just uncclick

mask texture, which is probably what we

would want to do for a label, right?

Because it's going to be a completely

flush item. But maybe you're creating a

t-shirt, and the t-shirt just has like

this text, this illustration, and this

text underneath it, and you just want

the t-shirt to have the texture on it,

very similar to how this t-shirt

actually has a lot of texture on it

here. Then you could click mask and it

would only affect this area of the

design just like this and it wouldn't be

affecting the background which means you

could print it on a t-shirt without any

issues. You can also do things like

release the texture. So if I wanted to

release it, you can see now it's

movable. I can just use it as any old

image. I can now change the blending to

whatever I want. And I could keep on

adding more if I wanted to. I could even

replace it with another texture if I

wanted to. uh which is a really really

helpful feature in adding multiple

textures to your design. Now, let's say

we wanted to add a background. I don't

think you would do this probably for a

label, but just for the sake of

explanation, let's say that we wanted to

change this background to some sort of

paper. So, I'm going to go to the

vintage paper, and I've already got this

artboard selected. And let's say I like

this one. It's kind of wrinkly. I'm

going to go ahead and select that. And

it has replaced the entire background.

Maybe it's a little bit too light. I'm

going to go ahead and select this one.

Now, it's a little bit easier to read.

Uh, but perhaps we need something a

little bit darker. But let's go back and

select one of these black backgrounds.

And maybe we like this one. I'll go

ahead and select that one. And it has

some little texture in the background.

Kind of like a wood grain or a wood

texture. And that's pretty cool. We can

see we can still add different blending

modes if we want, which gives us

different effects. We can release the

image al together, which then gives us

that back to mess around with. It does

look like a wood texture, which is

pretty cool. And I'm just going to go

ahead and delete that for the moment.

But that's how textures and backgrounds

work. If I don't have anything selected

and you were trying to add something, if

I click on one, it's basically just

going to add it to your most recent

artboard. So, there's no fear if you try

to select one, it's basically just going

to adopt or find the most recent

artboard and add it to that. All right,

let's talk about AI a little bit. So, we

have the KD AI panel here on the left.

And if I click that open, you're going

to see a couple of different things.

First thing at the top, you're going to

see your credits, and you're going to

see your plan, your monthly credits, and

any extra credits, and the ability to

buy more credits. If you're ever running

low and you feel like you just need a

lot more to get whatever you need done,

you can always add or buy more. Then you

can see image generator, the sets

generator, the restyle, and the design

generator, which is in beta. in the

image generator, which is most likely

what a lot of people are going to be

using. We actually have a variety of

models in KD. If I go up here, you're

going to see turbo and you're going to

see advanced. Turbo is going to be great

for when you want to generate something

very quickly. It's not going to use as

much intensity in generating an image.

It's going to try to do something really

fast, which is really great for these

clip art styles, as well as all of these

other styles that I've got down here for

you already. These are already preset

styles that are going to help attribute

keywords and characters to the end of

your prompt to give it a much more

specific style. Or you can save your own

style. As you see right here, I've got a

bunch of different styles saved. And

I'll show you how to do that. You can

either upload an image or you can

actually find and rightclick to save an

image as a preset. And then I mentioned

already we have different modes for

public and private. Private mean it's

only going to be yours. you're not under

any risk of other people using it.

Anything you generate is just private or

you can set it to public which means it

will go up into the KD library. Other

people can access it. They can find it,

use it, what have you. Now, in advanced,

we actually have more models for you to

choose from. Right here, you can see

Dolly 3, Flux, and idiogram. And we're

going to be adding more, but I'll let

you guess down in the comments which

ones you think we're going to be adding

next to our AI models. So, for example,

if you wanted to hit flux, you can type

in your prompt right here. You can

change the aspect ratio to decide

whether or not you want it for yourself

or to upload it to the public. And then

you can select a style. I really like

the raw setting for Flux because it

gives me much more of a realistic thing.

Then you would type in your prompt, come

down here, and you would hit generate

image, and that would do it for you just

like any other AI works. If I were to go

back, I can go and also create a set.

So, for example, if I wanted to create

butterfly, a car, a cabin, a blooming

flower, and a playful kitten, or

whatever have you in the same style, I

can insert all of these prompts one at a

time. And then I can go and I can find

something like, let's say, yeah. So,

let's say we wanted to do pixel art. And

I'll go ahead and just generate this as

an example. And it's going to show me

all of the images here that will be

generated in the same style. So, I've

already done a video on the character

sets, which you can check out on the

channel, which will be super helpful for

you. But this is a really great way to

get things in the same style. As you can

see, I uploaded that pixel image, and

now it has used that to give me all of

these prompts: colorful butterfly, a

vintage car, cozy cabin, mountain, cat,

and a blooming flower. I don't know why

you would necessarily use those prompts

with a pixel image, but that's what I

had to show you for this example. feel

free to go through and add other

references. Now, let's go back and let's

talk about image restyle. So, restyle

would allow you to take an image and

change it into something else. I've

already done a video for that as well.

All of these are going to be down in the

descriptions, by the way. That way, you

can get a much more in-depth and more

specific detailed process on how to use

it. For example, if I were to add, let's

say, uh this photo over here, uh I could

go down to image restyle. You can see

it's currently selected. So, it's

selected right here. Or you could upload

a photo if you want. You can decide how

strong you want the strength to be. Uh

we could say we want this in a different

style or we could use one of the

community styles. So, maybe we want to

go down here and we want to say we do it

in classical. So, we've got it. I'm

going to go ahead and click hi. We have

the image that we want and then we want

to see it in a classical version. I'm

going to go ahead and generate. and it

is going to suggest us an image in the

same style, which can be really helpful

if you're trying to take something you

really like, but you just want it to be

in a little bit of a different

style. All right. And so what it did was

it took it and created a more kind of

art nuvo or a classical neocclassical

art style, which is really, really cool.

It g it retained the overall

composition, but it changed the

clothing. Again, I have videos on this

that you can go check out on the

channel. They're all linked down in the

description, but you could have also

just generated one by typing it or

anything else. So, let me go ahead and

grab those and get them out of the way.

But that's how the image restyle works.

All right, the last thing I'm going to

go through on the left side before we

start jumping into more editing specific

things, I'm going to go through the

layers panel here. And this is great

because we already have an artboard

here. So, you see I have this artboard

and if I select it or if I use the

little drop- down carrot, you can see

all of the different things that are on

my artboard. And this is going to be

really helpful for organization. It's

going to be helpful for finding stuff.

It's going to be helpful for hiding or

showing different things as well as just

naming different things so that you can

find it easier. So, for example, if I

have this steaming cup illustration, I

can drop this down to see all of the

different paths within it because it is

a vector path. Won't talk so much about

that yet. But let's say I just wanted to

hide it for whatever reason. I can

simply hide it with the little eye icon

there. Or I could show it. Or if I

wanted to lock it, that means now I

can't actually grab it, but I can use my

cursor to grab something else and I

won't be accidentally grabbing this

coffee cup because I've locked it. But

I'm going to go ahead and unlock that.

It's as simple as simply clicking on it

if I want to. Or maybe let's say I

wanted the barrel to be in front of this

coffee cup. So you see right here, this

says illustration. I'm actually going to

double click on it. I'm going to change

this to say barrel. So that way I can

find it a lot easier. And let's say I

want it to be in front of the coffee

cup. So you see here, steaming cup

illustration. Here I have the barrel.

Well, what I could do is just grab my

barrel and then in my layers panel here,

I can just drag it up above the steaming

cup. And so now the barrel is above the

steaming cup and there it is. Easy for

me to see where things are in the layers

panel. I can also do that from the board

view as well. I can just click on this

cup right here and I can go to the three

dots or I can rightclick and then I can

just bring it to the front. I can also

bring it forward one at a time or I can

just bring it all the way to the front

which then shows the steaming cup at the

very top and the barrel is back down

here underneath it. So, this is a

really, really great way to find

different things in your layers panel

because you're going to be able to

easily sort through. You're going to be

able to doubleclick in and change the

names of layer. You can even grab

different things together and group

them. So, for example, let's say we need

to take the illustration of the plant

here, the illustration of the beans

here, and the barrel and the coffee cup.

Well, what we could do is we can take

and maybe also this line. So, we can

take this right here. I'm going to hold

the shift key and go all the way up

through the steaming cup. And then what

I'm going to do is now that I have these

all together, you can see they're all

selected. I just did that by holding the

shift key. I'm going to go over here to

more options. And then I can hit group.

And now you can see right here, this is

an entire group that if I take away, all

of the elements that are surrounding the

text, including the illustrations, have

now gone away. And so maybe I want to

call this main graphics. And then I can

still go in and edit any one of them if

I want to. I can just drop it down. I

can see everything that's contained

within that group. So you have a lot of

versatility and flexibility with your

layers panel. Another reason that we

have the layers panel over here on the

left is so that you can continue to edit

in free form over here on the right. So

you can always see, for example, if I

hit KD demo, I know that I have KD demo

selected and I can go over here and

maybe I want to be changing some of my

colors or I want to change these to milk

store or whatever kind of font. And I

can still see it all here over on the

left side. And I can, you know, quickly

find something like, okay, I need to

find, let's see, I need to find

handcrafted. Okay, great. I got

handcrafted right here. Maybe I also

want that to be milk store or whatever.

And so you can easily sort through and

find stuff, especially as you add more

stuff to the artboard. The layers panel

is going to become one of your best

friends. All right, how are we doing at

this point? I know we've already covered

a lot so far and we've only gone through

one panel, so don't give up. We have a

lot more to go through, but I know this

is going to be super helpful for you. We

have the bottom building menu left as

well as the right side panel to go

through few more other things and then

you're going to be on your way to

becoming a KD

master. So, with this bottom menu, I

like to call it the building menu or the

creating menu. We have our selection

tool. We have our artboard tool. We have

our rectangle or shape tool. We have our

pen tool. We have a commenting feature.

We have the ability to undo, the ability

to redo, and then we can zoom out or

zoom in. And each one of these has a

special key command. I'm going to teach

you right now. So, for the cursor, your

command is V. It's the letter V. If

you're ever in other modes and you need

to get back to your cursor, you can

always hit the V key or you can come

down here into the panel and you can

click on the move key. The artboard tool

is A. So, right now I have my cursor

over here on the board. If I hit A, now

you can see my cursor has changed to a

plus and I'm ready to start clicking and

dragging a new artboard. If I ever want

to get back to the selection key, it

will give it to me after I've created an

artboard. If I ever want to go back to

create new artboards, I can hit the A

key. If I don't want that, I'll just go

back to the V key. To the right of that,

we have the shape tool. And if I click

on this little carrot right here, you're

going to see a rectangle, which is R,

and ellipse, which is O. And then you're

also going to have polygon and star.

Rectangle and ellipse are two of the

most common ones to use. Polygon and

star are definitely used, just not as

often. So, we gave you a command for R

and for O. So over here, if I'm on the

board and I click R, now I'm going to be

in the shape builder for the rectangle.

So if I drag this out, it's going to

show me a rectangle. If I hit O, it's

going to give me a circle. Now, if you

start clicking and dragging a circle,

uh, it's kind of probably going to be

wonky, but if I hit the shift key, it's

going to create a perfect circle. So if

I hold the shift, click and drag, it's

going to give me a perfect circle. If I

go back to the R tool, if I click and

hold shift and drag, it's going to give

me a perfect square. If I do not hold

shift, now I can give it any kind of,

you know, distortion or length or

anything that I want. Really easy, as

simple as that. Same thing for the

polygon like this. If I don't hold

shift, it's going to give me any kind of

perspective. If I hold shift, it's going

to give me a perfect triangle, as well

as the star tool. So, if I were to click

and drag, it's going to give me a really

weird kind of stretched. But, if I hold

the shift key, it's going to give me a

perfectly proportion star. So, let me go

ahead and get these out of the way for

just a second. And now, let's talk about

the pen tool. So, I'm going to move this

artboard up right here. And I'll show

you some more features about the

artboards. But, let's go to the pen tool

for just a second. If I click on P, it

goes to the pen tool. Or I can simply

just click it right here. And then with

the pen tool, which many of you might be

familiar with, but many of you won't,

you can start clicking and making

different paths with the pen tool. And

maybe you want to make this cool little

crown. And if I want to close it, I can

zoom in and I can hover over and I can

click these little dots right here. And

then boom, now I've got this kind of

wonky little crown. I can still move all

of my points to get it maybe a little

bit more, you know, specific, maybe a

little bit more nuanced of a crown here.

And that's the way you can use the pin

tool. I am going to give you a little

bit more of a demo in just a second, but

let's go ahead and get that out of the

way. And then you have a commenting

feature where if I were to enter

comment, you can see my cursor has

changed to a comment where I could go up

and I can make a little comment. So, for

example, if I click on the here, I could

say, let's try a different font. And

this would be really helpful if I was

working with a colleague or a client or

or wanting to give feedback or something

like that. Now, you can see I have a

little comment right here where someone

could go to and they could mark it as

red. They could reply to it if I were to

invite someone to this artboard or I can

simply just take the comments away. Um,

and then yeah, you would be back into

your normal editing mode. You do have to

go into the comment mode, which is C, or

you can click on that little icon down

here. And that is how you would be able

to add more comments. You can either uh

resolve them, you can rename them, you

can reply to them. I'm going to go ahead

and resolve this comment so that it goes

away. Uh, and then I'm going to go ahead

and click back into my selection tool.

But that is how the commenting works.

Really helpful for when you're using

collaboration and working on a team. And

then of course we have our undo, redo,

and our zooming in and zooming out. I

don't use these much for zooming in and

zooming out because what I'll do is I'll

just hit the plus or the minus key. You

don't have to hit command or shift or

anything. You just hit the plus and that

will zoom you in. And if I hit the

minus, minus will zoom me out. And you

can see it's changing there. 50, 100,

200. And another way I like to zoom a

lot is by holding the command key and

then using my scroll wheel to zoom in

and zoom out just like this. This is how

I get usually get specific accuracy with

where I want to zoom. I just hold the

command or the alt key and I can just

zoom in and out like this with my scroll

wheel. Now, I know not everybody's

necessarily going to have that. You can

also do that with the trackpad. If you

have a Mac or or a laptop with a

trackpad, I can do the two fingers in,

two fingers out. Or if you're using an

iPad or something, you can pinch in,

pinch out, and that will give you

zooming in and zooming out. Let's go

back to artboards for just a second

before we go into how to use the pen

tool and some shape building things. If

I wanted to have this artboard here, and

I wanted to create a second one just

like it. Really quickly, what I can do

is hit add new artboard. So, if I click

this little plus, it's going to add

another artboard in the same exact

proportions. And I can move it around.

You can see these little guides, these

little bars showing up. That means that

it's in line. And if I hold shift, that

means that I won't be moving. I can move

it as freely as I want to, but I'm

holding shift so it's keeping it

organized. I know I know a lot of people

sometimes have uh struggles getting them

all in order. If I hold shift, it means

it's going to keep it right in line.

Now, another way that I like to

duplicate artboards really, really

easily is I like to hold the alt or the

option key. So, I'm going to hold the

alt or the option key right now. Now,

I'm going to click and I'm going to

drag. So, I'm holding it and I'm just

clicking and I'm dragging. And what

that's done is created a brand new

artboard. I'll just do the same thing

really quick. I'll hold the alt or the

option key, click and drag. And so I can

just easily and quickly duplicate my

artboards just like that. I can also

select my artboard. I can go command or

control C, command or controlV, and it

generates another artboard right there,

ready for me to use or manipulate. I

could also do the same thing if I wanted

to duplicate an entire design. I could

hold the alt or the option key, click

and drag. And so now I've duplicated the

entire template here. And let's say this

is really helpful for if I wanted to

check out a different color palette. And

let's say I like this ocean blue. And

this is a really great way, easy way to

quickly duplicate your designs. Maybe

show multiple options and colors to your

client or or for your business. If

you're making merch or something like

that, you can really quickly and easily

duplicate your artboards with command or

control C and V or with optionclick and

drag. That's one of the easiest and best

ways I have found to change my

artboards. Now, let's say you do have an

artboard and you want to change your

sizing. There's multiple ways to do

this. You can do it over here in the

right side. Right now, this is unlin,

unlocked. So, what I'm going to do is

lock the proportions. And let's say I

want the width to be a,000 pixels for

whatever reason. And if I click out,

it's going to adjust the height

accordingly. So, that's one way you

could do it. You can also see your pixel

dimensions, your size down here. I can

also click from the sides and drag it in

or out. I can click from the left or

right side and make it longer or wider

or what have you. Or I can simply go up

here into the artboard size custom

template area and I can click standard

square. I can click on a t-shirt and let

me zoom out so you see these taking

effect. I could click on a Instagram

post or I could go down and click on

anything else. I could click on a

YouTube thumbnail or what have you. And

you can change this to be however you

want to depending on what you want to be

designing. Now, another really cool

thing about the artboards, which I'll go

ahead and delete this, is that we have

something called auto resize enabled at

all times. That means if I were to maybe

duplicate this design, which again is

alt or option and drag, maybe I need a

much smaller version of this or maybe I

need a much bigger version of this. This

is really great for viewing it at a

digital setting size because 680 x 1200

is pretty small. But let's say I need to

go ahead and size this up. If I grab it

from the corner, you can see that it's

going to automatically update everything

that's on the board. So I now can make

it the size that I might need for a

coffee packaging label or maybe a can or

something else. So I can drag it easily

from the corner and it is going to

automatically resize it to keep

everything in place. That was a highly

requested feature from people and I'm so

happy to tell you that we have it now.

So now you could duplicate your designs.

You could have a sticker size, a hat

size, a merch size, a label size. You

can have all these different kinds of

sizes by just simply grabbing the corner

and uh getting them about roughly where

they would need to be. And then you can

simply go over here into the settings

and say, "Okay, I actually need this to

be 2,000 width." And then it will adjust

it accordingly. And you can have so many

different sizes easily whenever you want

to. Now, I mentioned this a little bit

earlier, but let's say you do want to

change the color of your artboard, just

like you can change anything. You'll do

it over in the right side panel. So, now

I've got this artboard selected, which I

did by selecting the text here. And if I

wanted to change the color to be a

little bit different, like I showed you

earlier, I can do that really easily by

just opening the little color swatch

here. And now it opens up the color

panel for me to go in and change it to

my heart's content. I can also see my

document colors down here, which I can

change them to any and everything that I

want to. So maybe I want to go ahead and

change it to this dark color. And that

looks a lot more cohesive to me. And

that was what I did by simply grabbing

the text here, which is the entire

artboard, and then going over here to

the color and changing it. All right. I

mentioned that we were going to go into

some pin tool and shape building and

we're definitely going to be getting

there. But since that's a little bit

more advanced, the first thing we're

going to talk about is element editing

and text editing. And we already have a

really nice template here to get started

with. So, let me talk a little bit about

the different settings for elements and

for text. So, remember I showed you how

you can search and find and add

different elements from the left side

over here onto your template. So, for

example, you've got this one right here.

You know, this could have worked for

down here at the bottom or whatever have

you. So, you started building on the

left side, or maybe you opened up a

template and you started editing it, but

now you really need to get into the

nitty-gritty and you need to start

editing specific illustrations. So, here

I'm going to go ahead and ungroup this,

which you can do by holding command or

control G, or you can go up in here and

hit group or ungroup. When you have

multiple items selected, you can go to

the the three dots here. You can group.

I just ungrouped these so it was easier.

But let's say you need to edit different

illustrations. On the right side panel,

you're going to see a lot of different

options available to you. You can very

specifically create a size for your

elements, which is probably most easy

for like, you know, a business card or

something that you needed to be really

exact. Most of the time, you probably

don't need to worry so much about the

size of an element, but it is there for

you to do. Uh what most people will

probably be doing is illustration color.

So, for example, if I wanted to change

this illustration color, and I'm trying

to see if there's a different color

besides cream that I like, uh maybe I

want it to be a little bit more on the

brighter side like this. I can do that

by adjusting the color of the

illustration. You see right here, it

says illustration color. Now, I could

also browse color palettes to see which

one I want to use, but right now, I'm

really just worried about changing the

individual colors. I can change the

opacity of this illustration, which I

wouldn't do for this label. But if you

ever needed to orchestrate different

elements in maybe a surrealist style, or

maybe you have textures and you want to,

you know, lower or raise the opacity on

them, that's there for you. Maybe I want

to add a thicker border to this. And you

see right here, we've had the black

added here. And I can increase the

border like this. And maybe we want to

make that the same color. I can go to

the border color and I can select this

same color as the background here. And

you can see it kind of like faux cuts

out of the other illustrations without

being super distracting. I'm going to go

ahead and take that off. Or maybe I

wanted to add a shadow. I can do the

same thing by changing the offset. Can

change the angle of the offset. Can

change the color uh to something else if

I wanted to. I can change the blur or I

can make it sharper. Again, offset. All

of these kinds of things are available

to you over in the right side settings.

I probably wouldn't do that for this

label. So, I'm going to go ahead and

turn that off. Now, you might notice

shape builder right here. And we're

going to be getting to that when I talk

more about shape building and the pin

tool. So, just hold on a little bit and

I'll show you exactly how this works

alignment wise. Right now, we're

probably in the center or we weren't

actually. So, now we're in the center.

And we can select any of our

illustrations and make sure that they're

right in the center of our artboard. If

we ever wanted to align them left, then

I could do that. Maybe I want to align

it to the left of the artboard. Or maybe

I do want to align it back to the

center. I can also select multiple

objects. So, I'm going to hold shift.

Now, I have these two options selected

together. And I can align them together.

I can align them left. I can align them

to the top. I can align them to the

right. Or again, I can align them center

and in the middle. Depends on how you

want to do it. But most of the time I

would I would probably opt for optical

in a illustration pattern like this

where we have multiple different things.

But it's also really really helpful for

text. For example, I can click both

pieces of text here and I can make sure

that they're aligned or I can align them

left, align them right, or again like I

said, align them center. It's really

good for helping keep all of your

elements in a row. So for example, if I

needed all of this, including the text,

I can make sure they're all in alignment

together. Now, of course, you can edit

your color. You can add border, your

opacity, all of that kind of stuff. You

can also just simply change the size of

your elements by grabbing the corner and

making it bigger or smaller. Now,

remember, we have undo and redo down

here. So, let's say I accidentally made

it way too big. Well, I don't want that.

So, I'm going to go down here. I'm going

to click undo. I'm going to click undo

again. And it's back to its original

size. You can also do that by holding

and clicking command or control Z. If I

wanted to go back forward, so further

ahead in what I just did. So I wanted to

go redo back to what I did. I can also

hit commandshift Z and that will make it

go back to bigger. And then if I wanted

to go back, I can hit command Z. And you

can do that as many times as you edit

something. So let's say you tried a

couple different variations, you hate

all of them, just command- z. Or you can

go down here, go and click redo or undo

or whatever you want to do. So, another

really neat thing that you can do, I'm

going to go ahead and switch this

illustration color back so that it

doesn't look so weird, is you can

vectorit specific nodes within a

illustration. So, for example, if I

start with something simple like these

little kind of tag looking elements, if

I wanted to go in here and edit the way

that this looks, I'm going to zoom in

here and I'm just going to show you how

to access this. I already did a video

showing you this. It's linked down in

the description for vector editing. But

if I double click in, you can see all of

these different points right here. And

if I click one of these points and drag

them, I can create new and different or

existing shapes to get a really wonky or

interesting, you know, development

together. And that's called vector

editing or vector node edit editing,

which allows me to go in and customize

anything I want to be exactly how I need

it to be. Now, this works with so many

different illustrations that are vector.

So, for example, if I go over here, I'm

going to go to illustration. Then, what

I'm going to do is I'm going to go and

let's say we want to edit one of these

illustrations. I'm not sure. Let's say

we go with So, let's say we go with this

flower. So, I'm going to add this flower

over here. So, this illustration, for

example, is actually two different

shapes that we can vector edit. So, you

have the pink, but then you also have

the path that is brown, which is the

outline. What I'm going to do is double

click on the pink. And if I double click

on the pink, it's going to show me all

of the nodes where I can adjust them.

Here you can see I'm adjusting the pink

here. I have different handles that I

can play with. And if I were to go back,

I can actually go and double click on

the brown. And so you can see all of

these different nodes. Maybe I want

these all to be like a little bit

thicker of a shadow on all of these

flowers. I can go and find all of the

nodes that I would need and I can do

something like that. And now I have a

little bit more depth, a little bit more

shadow to my illustration. Now again, I

know this is a little bit more advanced.

I'm just kind of showing you the the

capabilities how to get in and edit this

kind of stuff, and we're going to go

into way more detail in videos where we

break these things down. But just so you

know, the vector editing is available to

you with any shape that is vector. So,

for example, this heart is also going to

be vector. So I can go double click. Now

I can see all of the points in here. I

can move them all around. Just note that

occasionally you are going to get an

illustration that is not vector. It's

going to be something like clip art. So

for example, if I type in watercolor and

I want to grab this B, uh this B is

actually an image. And we're going to

talk about image editing later. So I

can't doubleclick in to vector edit it.

The only thing I can do would be

doubleclick in and uh crop it. So, I'd

be able to crop it, but I can't double

click in and vector edit it because it's

a clip art. It's a, you know, it's an

image. So, just be aware that you're not

going to be able to vectoredit

everything. You will only be able to

vector edit what is a vector, a scalable

vector graphic. Now, one thing I do want

to show you before we move on to text is

with illustrations or shapes. We have

something called merging shapes together

or shape building. And you can do this

with really cool and advanced things.

So, for example, let's go into our

elements panel. Let's go into shapes.

You can do this with so many different

things, but let's say we wanted to go

and we wanted to find this organic

shape. Maybe we like uh maybe we like

this kind of like wacky one right here.

So, this is a little bit of a wacky

oval. Remember, I just showed you we can

go in and change the path. If I double

click, it shows me the paths here. So, I

can go and I can change all my little

angles and things like that. Or I can

hit command- Z and go back to where it

was. But let's say I also wanted to

combine this with another shape. So

let's say we also like this one right

here. And I I could like keep these

together. You know, I could group them.

And you know, I'm not sure what I might

be using this for. Uh but I like that

this creates a full shape. Well, I could

group them, but what's better is if I go

over here on the right side and I just

shape build them. I can just union them

together. So, if I do that, now it's one

shape. So, I don't have to select both

of them together. I've just done this

with one shape. And you could keep on

doing this. You could duplicate this,

turn it. Maybe we want to create, you

know, I don't know, this kind of shape.

Uh, and so now I can hit union again.

And so now this is its own uh a shape

right here. Or maybe I want to grab this

and I want it to be cut out from the

middle of this shape for whatever

reason. I'm going to select both of

these. And then what I can do is just

subtract it. So now I've subtracted it

and maybe I want to put some text or

something like that. Uh it really

depends, but you can also do this with

some other really really neat things

like text. So you can merge and build

shapes together by using that shape

builder tool over here in the right

side. So for example, I'm going to hit T

and then let's say we're going to go

with K because this is a KD demo. I'm

going to scale this up just like this.

Let's go find a really cool font like

yeah like sign master or something. And

then if I select both of these together,

I can go over here to subtract. And now

that K is cut out from the inside of the

shape and I can change this to anything

I want. So maybe I want this to be like

a cool cream color. And anything I

change the background to uh I have this

now customized avatar. Uh and this is

really really cool. There are so many

different things you can do with the

shape building from extracting things,

subtracting things. There's a really,

really in-depth tutorial where I show

you this. You can go check that out down

in the description. But I just wanted to

make sure that you know that you have

that available to you over in the right

side. You can also do this to create

some really, really cool elements. So,

for example, if I have these two

circles, so where this intersects in the

middle here, I can actually go ahead and

click intersect and it's going to give

me that one little piece that's here in

the middle. Or if I wanted to grab both

of these and exclude the intersection, I

can come out with some really, really

neat icons, some illustrations. I can do

so many cool things with the shape

building tool. And so, just make sure

that you experiment. It's how you're

going to be able to get a lot more

customizable things when you're creating

your designs. All right, let's move on

to text editing because there's a lot to

cover when it comes to text editing. So,

I have a lot of different things here on

the board. You're going to notice that

you have arched text. You're going to

notice you have circle text. You're

going to notice you have straight text,

you script text, all this kind of stuff.

So, if I were to click on this main one

right here, I already showed you how I

edited it. You can simply just click in,

grab everything, and then you can type

in whatever you want. And then if you

click out, it's going to follow the same

path that has been added as a

transformation over here in the right

side. If I ever don't want a

transformation on, I can always just

click the minus and it will take it back

to a normal straight text. I'm going to

click command or control- Z to make that

go back and follow the path because I've

already got some text down here that is

straight. Just like I showed you, you

could duplicate artboards or

illustrations or anything else. I can

hold the alt or the option key. Click

and drag to duplicate text. And just so

you can see, I'm going to make this

darker over here off to the side. And to

demonstrate a couple of things that you

see over here on the right side, we have

things like color, which we can change,

which I already showed you just a second

ago. We have different fonts that you

can go up and you can type uh different

keywords and different elements to find

what you want. So I type in vintage and

now all these different kinds of vintage

fonts come up for me to use for whatever

I need. You can also upload your own

fonts which is really really nifty. It's

a super easy process. You simply just

click upload, choose your fonts through

your library and then you can give them

names, you can give them weights,

anything that you want. You can do that

really easily here. You can also sort

through the different kinds of styles,

script, variable, sanss, serif, all this

kind of stuff. It's really, really easy

for you to do. So, let's go ahead and go

back to Sign Master Pro for a second.

I'm going to click out of this. We also

have our font sizes, our letter spacing,

which for the moment I'm going to back

that down to about 50. And then we also

have the space, the line height that's

within a paragraph. So, for example, if

I go over here and add the paragraph, we

can see that this paragraph currently

has a line spacing of 40. But let's say

I increased it to 100. You can see that

all the line spacing inside now opens up

to 100. Or if I wanted it to be zero, I

can simply type in zero, hit enter, and

now there's barely any line spacing in

it between. You can also go down. You

can use the arrow keys to go up and

down. So, I'm using my up and down arrow

keys. I can also hold shift and that

will increase it in increments of 15. So

you can go really really tight or or

really far ahead, whatever you want to.

You can also do this with your letter

spacing. So I can hold shift and go up

or down and it will increase it in

increments of 10 so that your letter

spacing is higher or lower. Then you

have your justification settings. I can

justify them left which means it

justifies left over here to the right of

the space. I can justify it right. I can

justify it completely which means it

will individually spread it out across

the entire text box or I can put it back

in the center where it was before. Now

we get into transformation shading and

decoration where you see some of the

things over here are using. If I open up

the transformation panel you can see we

have angle where we can angle our text

in any sort of way if we want to. The

circle transformation which you can also

take and move all the way around. You

can expand it to be uh bigger or

smaller. You can also make it wider or

or more condensed depending on how you

want it. Uh and you can simply move it

around as well. If you ever click out of

it by any reason for any reason. Uh you

can always go back and adjust the angle

by clicking here on edit text. If you

click edit text now, you can still

increase or decrease. You can change the

rotation, the path. Any of this stuff is

super easy by clicking on it and going

to edit text. I can also do that by

clicking on any text that it's already

been transformed. So, for example, if I

click edit text now, I can still do the

same thing that I just showed you within

a template. We also have the distort

feature, which allows you to go in and

and actually distort it quite a bit. So,

actually, however you want to distort

it, you can do some really, really cool

wonky stuff with text, including

changing the the arms here to get some

really, really, really cool text effects

depending on what you want to be

creating. So you can conform this to

things like banners, flags, shapes,

elements. You can do all this kind of

stuff with the distort feature. The

custom feature allows you to go in and

change the points anywhere you want.

Every point is going to have a handle

that you can see it's kind of moving

around and you can drag it in or out

depending on where you need to go. The

arch effect will do just that. It will

create it in an arch which you can make

higher or lower or left or right. The

rise effect will also do what it says.

It basically creates a subtle rise where

the bottom of the text is creating this

wave effect. We also have a proper wave

effect where it will basically arch a

little bit up and to the right. You can

also adjust it to create any kind of

effect that you want. And the flag

effect will go ahead and put it into a

preset where it is creating this kind of

wavy flag effect. And you can use all of

these little angles in these nodes to

get it a little bit more refined or a

little bit close together. It just

depends on what is going to work for

your use case. You can also go over here

into the slider and it will make it more

or less intense depending on how it's

going to fit your template. You can also

always reset it to its optimal settings

at the beginning which you can see here

is 80. You can confirm or you can take

it off by hitting the minus key. Then we

have what's called text shading. So, we

can add text shading to this. And we

have a couple of different options for

you down here in the right side so that

you can see it. I'm going to make this

red so that it's extremely obvious. So,

right now the offset is pretty low, but

I'm going to increase the offset quite a

bit so that you can see it taking place

over here. And I'm going to make this a

little bit bigger so that you can see

exactly what's happening. So, the offset

as you move it will go further away or

closer to the text. The angle will

determine where on the text path it

goes. So up, down, left, right, or

around. And then the blur will of course

increase the intensity of the blur or

make it sharper if you take it all the

way down. But we also have some really

cool effects like line shadow. So for

example, now you can see that there is a

shadow on this text. And I'm going to go

ahead and type in sh ha. So shadow. So

that way we can make this a little bit

bigger for you. And you can see that

there is a shadow effect, a line shadow

effect on the text already. This is a

highly sought after effect that takes

you quite a bit of time to do in other

tools. We've gone ahead and added it as

a preset because we know that a lot of

people use it. We can also use our

offset to make it farther away or closer

depending on what you want. Uh, and we

can also change the angle around just

like I showed you for the other one. And

what's really nice about this is

depending on what I change the

background to. So, I'm going to go ahead

and create this rectangle, right click,

and send it to the back. And if I make

this light, you can see that it's

already cut out from this text. So no

matter what I make it, the shadow that

I've given it, which is red, and the

text will remain the same, but anything

that I change the background color to is

perfectly cut out, which is really,

really difficult to do in other

programs. But we've already basically

coded this to work exactly the way that

it's supposed to work just for you. So,

let me go to the next one, which is

block shadow, which kind of does the

same thing, but it fills in that gap. We

can still use our settings to make it

really, really long, which gives you

some really, really cool effects. We can

use our angle still to determine where

we want the shadow to go. And then we

actually have an extra category called

outline width. And if I were to start

increasing the outline width, you can

see it creates an extra border around

it, which is going to be extremely

helpful for things like stickers or

designs where you need to cut text into

a design. Even if I take the offset all

the way down, I can still add this

outline width to fill in all the way

just for, you know, maybe a kiss cut

sticker or a decal or anything I want.

And of course, I can always go and I can

change my outline color to anything I

want. Now, I'm going to go ahead and

take the text shading off for the moment

and talk about text decoration. So, we

have a couple of different options here.

I'm going to go back and choose that

nice light pink. And we have one that's

called horizontal lines where we can

change the weight and the distance of

these lines to be more or less intense.

We have what's called color cut, which

will take and divide the text into two

pieces. We can also choose how far or

how much we want to show using this

distance slider. We also have oblique

lines, which is the same as the

horizontal one, but we've just angled

them to the side. You can still increase

or decrease your weight and your

distance. Then we also have fading color

cut, which kind of combines the two and

gives you a more or less weight as well

as the distance to go up and down

depending on how you want to do it. And

at any point you can still always go and

change your colors. And you can always

change the base color of your text to

something that you want to get some

really, really cool effects. Now, you

might be asking at this point, can we

use decoration and shading and

transformation all at the same time? And

the answer is yes. So, if we want to go

ahead back to text shading, I could put

this on and maybe I want to do the line

shadow. And I want the offset to be

pretty far and I want it to be to the

bottom right. I'm going to go ahead and

grab that darker green. And so now we

have this nice uh faux shadow here on

the side. And so now we've got text

decoration. Now we've got text shading.

And now we're going to do text

transformation. And so maybe I want to

click this one. And I want to put it on

an angle. And so you can see here you

can of course add all three of these.

And you're going to find a lot of

templates where this is also commonly

the case. And just in a matter of

seconds with a few text effects, I have

a really, really beautiful piece of text

that I can use for a variety of

different reasons. And as you can see

over here in the right side, you can

create beautiful templates just like

this one. Now, another really, really

neat feature that we recently introduced

was being able to save fonts. So, let's

say you found a template like this one

and you click on it and you really

really like this adventurer font right

here. Well, what you can do is you can

go to the adventurer font. You can hover

over it. And then right here on the

right side, you see this little bookmark

flag. And if I click that, now it's been

added to my bookmarks panel, which is up

here in the top part of it. And if I

click on the carrot, it will expand it

and it will show me all of the different

fonts. So, if I need to get back to one

that I like a lot, like accelerator or

maybe like fake sif or whatever it is,

or put it back to adventurer, I can do

that with my bookmarked settings. So,

this is a really, really, really easy

way to make sure that you find and

always have access to the fonts that you

love cuz we're expanding our font

library all the time. There are so many

different fonts to go through,

especially if you start uploading your

own. So, you're going to want to make

use of this bookmarked feature where you

can go in and bookmark your fonts

easily. Another couple of cool things

about the type settings and finding

fonts is the ability to type in a style

or a mood. So, for example, surrealism

is a really trending graphic design

style right now. We have a lot of

tutorials for this. And if I were to

type in the word surreal, we have some

really, really cool fonts that have to

do with that category. So, for example,

you see this one has a lot of different

characters in it. I'm going to go ahead

and click this and drag it off to the

side so that you can see it. I'm going

to make this a little bit easier. I'm

going to zoom in on this. You see

there's all these little different

characters for the font. And I just got

there simply by typing in surreal. We

also have another really cool style

called modular. And if I type in

modular, you can see all of these

different conformed fonts that have been

made from the same pattern, the same

shape over and over and over again. So,

I encourage you to go and find different

keywords. I have a list of them that I

can share with you to show you all of

the different things that you can search

in our fonts panel that will show you a

variety of different fonts. But I'd love

for you to get creative and see what

kind of fonts come up when you type in a

certain keyword or a holiday or a style.

The last feature I'm going to show you

for text is also a recent one that has

to do with vector editing, and it's one

that I love and use all of the time. So,

I'm going to go back to our little piece

of text right here. And I'm going to

take some of these things off because

we're not going to need them for what

I'm about to show you. So, let's say

that we have this awesome piece of text

right here. And it's really nice, but I

kind of want to do some interesting

things with it. Let's say I wanted to

punch it out from this block. Well, I

showed you how you could do that before.

I could select both of these things. I

could go over to the shape builder, and

I could subtract it. So now that text is

subtracted from this block, but I can't

really edit it anymore, right? Let's say

I wanted this D to be longer or if I

wanted the, you know, the W to be wider.

Well, we have a feature now called

outline text, which is going to convert

it to outlines. So up here in the more

options panel, I'm going to click on

this. I'm going to go to outline text.

If I click outline text, now what you're

going to see is that each of these

individual pieces is now a shape. It's

no longer editable. You don't see any

text settings over here. You don't see

any way to access the font panel,

anything like that. So, I would

recommend you always duplicate your text

before you do this because now

everything is a shape. So, I am able to

double click in here and you can see all

of these nodes, right? So now I could

make this we a lot thicker. Or maybe I

wanted to make this one a lot taller. Or

like I was saying, maybe I want to grab

all of these pieces, which you can do,

by the way, by holding the shift key.

And we want these to kind of go off of

the page here uh with that W. And so now

we've done that. Maybe we could do the

same thing with the S. And so the way

that you do that, like I said, you go to

the more options and you outline text.

Right now all of these are individual

pieces that have been grouped together.

You can also easily make these together

by hitting the unite the union uh one.

And so now they're all together and you

can double click in easily and see all

of the points at the same time. Whereas

before I was only seeing the W points,

now I can see all of the points at the

same time and I can do some really

really neat things. Another reason that

this is extremely helpful is because

maybe you want to grab certain elements.

So for example, I'm going to go ahead

and type in uh let's say a crow. And we

want to uh we want to grab this one

right here. And let's say I wanted it to

go in the middle of this O. Right now,

what I'm going to do is take all of

these points away. I'm going to grab

these points and delete them, which you

can do individually. Really easy. So,

I'm just going to grab these. I'm going

to go ahead and hit the shift, hold the

shift key, grab all of these points, uh

all of these white dots. I'm going to

hit backspace. And now I basically just

have a circle shape. But now what I can

do is go in here and I can grab this,

put this crow here in the middle. And

then I can hold shift, select the text

and the crow. And then I'm going to

subtract this crow. And so now it's been

taken out of the middle of that shape.

Now I would probably want to work a

little bit more to get a illustration

that would work for the letter O, but I

could have done that in the, you know, a

letter R or an A or a D or something

like that. But this is how you can get

really cool and intricate designs by

outlining your text. I can still double

click in and change any of these. So

maybe I wanted to do something very

similar with the A and I want to get rid

of all of the points in the middle of

the A. And maybe I want to find a

different crow uh like this guy and put

him right here in the middle like this.

And I can grab both of them, subtract

it. So now a little crow out of the A

and I got a little crow out of the the

the O or what have you. It depends on

what you're kind of creating. I can

still go in and add things like border.

Uh I can add things like shadow. I can

still do things to it. You just can't

edit it anymore. So it it's a very

powerful feature, but you need to make

sure that maybe if you are going to

change your text around at any point,

you're duplicating uh your text before

you go in and you start outlining it

like I just showed you. All right, let's

talk about image editing. We do have

some image editing capabilities here in

KD that I want to talk to you about. So,

over in the images panel, I'm going to

bring back one of these portraits. So,

let's bring this one back right over

here. Make this a little bit bigger. And

let's talk about a couple of image

editing capabilities. Uh, the first and

easiest one to talk about is our photo

filters panel down here at the bottom

right. And if I hit add photo filter,

what I can do is start adjusting my

photo. So, I can make it brighter. I can

make it darker. I can increase or

decrease the contrast, saturation, or

the vibrance or the hue. Uh, and I can

also make it blurry or make it sharper.

I can add noise to this. Can even

pixelate it if I want. So, you can do

kind of your standard normal photo

filters. And if I ever don't like

anything, I can simply just remove it

and it goes back to its original state.

Another thing I can do is add shadow.

So, I could add shadow to this. And

similar to how I was showing you with

the text effects, I can still change the

angle, uh the blur, uh I can change the

color to anything I want to. Or if I

don't want it at all, I can take it

away. I also can add border to my photo

where if I need to do something

specific, I can go and I can change uh

let's say I wanted to color drop the hat

here to make it the same orange as the

beanie there. And now I have this really

cool border around my image. And yes,

you can add shadow. And yes, you can add

photo filters at the same time. Maybe I

want to make the saturation a little bit

more. And you can get a lot of really

cool edit editability with our photos.

We are adding more features every month.

So right now, yes, at photo editing is a

little bit more basic, but you can still

get done what you need to get done.

Another thing you can do, uh, I'm going

to go ahead and take these off. Another

thing you can do is crop your image. So

I can double click in or I can go up

into the the more dots right here, the

more options, and I can go to crop,

which is right here. I can flip my

photo, by the way. I can bring it

forward. I can do all the different

things that I was mentioning. Uh, but I

can also just enter the crop setting.

And what I can do is go over here and

just change any of these angles, these

points on the side. I can also make it

smaller, larger. I can bring it in,

extend it out. And then if I click exit

cropping mode, or if I click done, it's

now cropped that image. I can always hit

command- Z to bring the entire photo

back from where I cropped it up above.

Now, let's say I wanted to remove the

background from this image. I can simply

do that over here with the remove

background tool. So, I just go ahead and

click that. It's going to take a second

to identify the subject. And boom, just

like that, I have a perfect cutout of my

image. Now, I can still do things like

add border, which is still going to add

a border to the bounding box. So, be

careful there. We can add shadow and we

can still adjust photo filters on the

specific image itself. We also have a

new feature called refframe, which is

right here on the right side panel. And

let's say I wanted to extend this photo

here to the left because I want to add

some text. You also see you have

different aspect ratios for your photo.

I just went ahead and dragged it over

here. And you can see all of these

transparent blocks are what are going to

be filled in. I'm going to go ahead and

hit refframe. And using AI, it is going

to determine what it should autofill or

autogenerate contentaware fill this

photo. Sometimes this will take a minute

just depending on how complex your image

is and how long you want to fill it in

with. Sometimes you do have to give it

just a little bit of time to give you

something accurate. All right. And just

like that, it went ahead and filled this

in. So now I could do something like uh

run a little sales event right here. And

maybe I grab this text and I again grab

the orange of the of the beanie there.

And maybe I would want to fill this text

in specifically like with some uh white

or something like that. And so now I

have like a summer sales event uh that I

can put here into the left. And maybe I

would want to like yeah make this a

little bit more easy to see or something

like that. But you could you could see

how this would be really really helpful

with your images using the refframe tool

because you're going to be able to

create a lot more different things. I

use this all the time for mockups. For

example, I might find a mockup that I

love but it's a square and I'd rather it

be horizontal or I'd rather it be

portrait. Well, I can use refframe and I

can just extend it to be exactly where I

want it to be. Now, we also have the

vectorzer tool, which is really helpful

for when you're generating AI. And you

can also go to the images panel, go to

KD AI, and we can vectorize certain

things. So, if I were to go to all and

let's say that I really really liked uh

let's say let's say I really like maybe

I go over to the AI images here and

let's say that we really like this

apple. Okay, right now you can tell that

it was a clip art generated images

because it still has a background. So,

let me go ahead and remove the

background from this and let's say I

really like all of the colors in here,

but I want to change them. Right now I

can't change them because this is just a

flat, you know, PNG image. Well, if I go

to vectorize, I can add colors to this

so that it will vectorize it and I can

change it. So, I'm going to count my

colors really quick. I see 1 2 3 4 five

six. So, let's go ahead and select six

colors. Sometimes I'm right, sometimes

I'm wrong. I'm going to go ahead and

vectorize. And what that's going to do

is give me all of these colors, but now

they're editable. So, maybe I want this

shade of red to be a little bit lighter

or a little bit darker. Uh, let's go

ahead and see all. And I want this one

to be a little bit more pink. And maybe

I want the green to be a little bit more

vibrant. And I don't want the black to

be so sharp. I want it to be kind of off

black. And now I have a much more

customized illustration. All because I

vectorized it. I can still add a border

to this if I want to. I can still add

shadow to this if I want to. I could

still combine this with other elements

if I wanted to using the shape builder

tool. So, we have a lot of image editing

tools at your disposal for you to play

around with. Let's say that you were to

generate something specific like this

one. You could even upscale it using the

upscale tool right here, which will

upscale it to

4,69 pixels on the largest size. I have

a video for that as well showing you

before and after examples of what I

generated with AI and then how I used

the upscaler in KD to make it a lot

sharper. All right, we've talked quite a

bit about editing capability and there

is always more to cover, but I just want

to give you a second here. If you need

to pause the video, get a refill on your

drink or if you need to go down into the

comments, go ahead and ask some

questions or, you know, open up and

follow along. whatever you need to do,

want to give you the time to do that

before we go into the rest of it. And

just to tell you what we have going on

for the rest, we have some mockups. We

have some core editing features left to

do. We have collaboration and teams to

talk about. And then we're going to end

our time talking about some shortcuts

and things like that that I think are

going to help build your workflow out.

All right. Now, we're going to talk

about mockups. So, we have a lot of

mockups already in KD so that you don't

have to go somewhere else or download

your design and upload it to another

platform or you have to keep going and

downloading from a subscription or

something. We have generated a ton of

mockups. And the way that you would get

there, you can see over here on the

right side it says tools, says mockups.

I don't have anything selected right

now. So, if I were to go ahead and click

mockup, what it'll do is it'll ask me,

hey, which art board do you want to use?

And right now I'm going to use this one

that says chasing freedom. So I'm going

to click on this and then I'm going to

hit create mockup. And what that will do

is it will open up our mockup editor,

our mockup generator. And now I'm able

to move this design around on this

t-shirt to see what it would look like.

And then I can go over here and

basically find any kind of mockup that I

would want. So maybe I want to do a

Bella Canvas shirt and this really

amazing shot of, you know, out in this

alleyway right here. Um, or maybe I want

to use one of these in the cloud mockups

with the sweater here and I want to see

what it looks like there. Or maybe I

want to go down and find something uh,

yeah, a little bit more street wear like

and see what it would look like on the

back of a t-shirt here and make this

just a little bit bigger and kind of

like going down off the bottom. Uh, or

maybe I would want to see it on, I don't

know, maybe a sweater. Uh, let's see.

Uh, maybe I want to see it, yeah, maybe

a little bit more like like a jersey

kind of thing on the back of like a a

jersey mockup here. And I can move this

and put it position it here on the back.

And what's really really cool about

this, let me make this just a little bit

smaller, is in the mockups, I can change

the mockup color, meaning the background

color, to anything I want. So if I want

it to be lighter or if I want it to be

more orange or if I want it to be a

completely different color, I have the

ability to go and change the hex code. I

can change the RGB number. I can even go

and I can find color drop picker of you

know something in the in the

illustration there and I can uh easily

get it like that. You can also browse

mockups. So for example, if I was

looking for a brand like comfort colors,

uh I have comfort colors right here. I

can select that and then it'll take a

second and it'll load in all of the

models that are comfort colors here. So,

for example, I can click on this one and

then I know that this t-shirt is

accurately showing what a long sleeve

comfort color t-shirt would look like.

And so now I know that if I download

this and maybe I'm going to put it on my

shop or my store where I'm selling

comfort colors, then I will be

confident, hey, this is actually a

comfort colors shirt showing on this

model. I can also search other things.

So for example, if I wanted to search

laptop, I could search laptop and we

have some really really cool laptops for

that. Maybe I want to type in poster and

I find a really really cool poster uh

that fits this aesthetic. Maybe

something more like Yeah, maybe

something more rugged that fits this. I

can expand this and this looks really,

really cool as a poster mockup in this,

you know, abandoned warehouse or

something like that. Now, you can export

mockups and upload mock-ups. I'm going

to show you both. So, if I go here to

download mockup, I'll go ahead and just

click that. And there's nothing else I

have to do. It's downloaded it as a

large JPEG to my downloads folder. And

now I can access it. But I can also

upload it back to KD. And maybe I want

to do this because I'm creating a brand

board or a mood board or I just want to

keep everything in my project the same

in the same space. So I can just click

save to uploads, which I'm going to do

right now. And it'll take a second. Yep.

Save image save to uploads. And if I go

back to the editor, what I'm going to do

is go over into my uploads panel. And

then I'm going to be able to see in my

mockups folder. So over here in the

folders category, I see mockups. If I

click on mockups, then I can see it.

Boom. Right here. I can add it to my

artboard. And then I can keep on going.

Maybe I want to use this for a social

post. I want to put some text underneath

it, uh, like come to the Freedom Show or

whatever. I can start doing that. And

it's all here in my uploads panel

because I uploaded it straight from the

mockups feature. So, that's really cool.

I don't have to drag it in or upload it

from anywhere else. I just did it right

from the mockups panel. Now, like I

mentioned, we're always uploading more

to the mockups capability and the

mockups panel. So, comment down below

with a style or a scene or a specific

item or something that you want to see

in the mockups panel. If you comment, we

will definitely see it and catalog it

and enough people talk about it. It

raises the priority so that we can add

it. We actually went over to our

corporate office in Berlin and a lot of

our co-workers signed up to be in some

of our product shots. So, you can see of

them, some of them right here. We had

some amazing people come forward, real

KD employees that were wearing real

garments, everything from comfort

colors. We actually did a video on this.

You can go back and check, but that's

our dedication to the quality of the

mockup. So, let us know what you want to

see down in the comments and then we'll

do our best to make that happen. Another

thing I want to mention is that at some

point we will make the mockup editor a

lot more robust. Right now, it's quite

limited in the position. You can't

necessarily rotate it or put something

on the front or the back or the sleeve.

It's limited to one design. But we will

be making it more robust. We will also

be making it a little bit easier for you

to use live time. So, at some point, the

mockup editor might come into the actual

editor itself. And while you'll still be

able to see and peruse and browse the

mockups, just note that what I just

showed you here in the video may look a

bit different farther down the road. So,

don't be alarmed if what I just showed

you looks a little bit different. Just

go and check for the most recent mockup

tutorial video on the KD channel. All

right, I want to talk about some more

core editing features cuz I jumped

around a little bit. I did my best to

kind of show all the way down the left

panel, all the way on the bottom, all

the way on the right panel, but I want

to dive in and talk a little bit more of

some core editing features. One of the

easiest and most valuable, I think, is

our color palettes feature. So, I can

grab this artboard, very similar like I

showed you before. And if I go down here

to browse color palettes, I can either

use a brand kit color palette that I

made over in the brand kits over here,

or I can go down and select a palette

that I see that might work really well.

And so, I could do this and keep

duplicating. Like, for example, I really

like this one. I could keep duplicating

my project over and over again. I'll

make it just a little bit smaller. Then,

I'm going to duplicate it down here

below. go back to browse color palettes

and then I could use an ocean blue one

or I could use this cold forest or I

could go down to a ocean sun and I can

get a lot of different variants of my

design by using the color palettes tool.

Now we also have an eraser tool which

you can do a couple different things

with. Now to access it you can hit the

eraser here from the contextual menu or

you can hit E. If I hit E, I am in the

eraser tool. And now there's a couple

things that you want to know. Right now,

I don't have anything specific on the

settings turned on. So, if I just start

clicking and dragging, it's just erasing

it so that it's just gone. It's

completely transparent. And this can be

helpful if you're trying to delete

little pieces from something you

generated with AI. Maybe it was vector

and like, you know, there were some

little specks or some sparkles or

something and you can just delete it and

get it away. But for an image like this,

I think a context that's even better to

show you would be what we call the erase

and fill. So over here in the top right,

if I select this turned on erase and

fill, now what's going to happen is when

I take my cursor, click and drag across

an area, what this is going to do is

very similar to refframe, it's going to

autoaware fill and fill in the

background. Clean just like that. And so

now I can just basically do this as many

times over. And what it's going to do is

clean up this mockup, for example, and

make it exactly the same color as the

background so that I can go in and put

whatever I want on top of it. And this

is a really cool way that you can fill

in whatever you need. And you can also

exit it. You can make the eraser bigger

uh or smaller. You can exit. You can

take it off. Um anything you want. You

can again go back to the E for eraser.

Or remember if you click V, it goes back

to the selection tool like that pretty

quickly. Just a few other things about

the contextual panel right here. You can

duplicate the object right here, which

makes a duplicate. You can crop it uh by

going into the crop mode really easily.

You can delete it immediately, but

again, you can hit command Z or go down

here into the redo uh undo uh panel and

click undo. Uh or you can quick export.

And this is a really really helpful

feature where if you click on the quick

export panel, you're going to see your

format options that you can choose from

and then your sizing options where you

can go and you can select one, two, or

three times the pixel size. Three will

obviously give you a very large image

and you can instantly export it. But

what's really neat about the export

panel is that that doesn't just apply to

photos. It actually applies to anything.

So here in this template, this chasing

freedom one, if I just select this text,

I can actually just export this text. I

don't have to select everything and I

can even export it as an SVG and export

it just like that. And then I can

continue working on it in a completely

different platform if I want to. Now,

another really cool thing is maybe I

want to export these two things

together. I can just select them and

group them together if I want. And I can

just export them as well. Oh, I can

export it as a PNG, a JPEG or an SVG.

And this is a really, really helpful

timesaving feature where if maybe you

were doing this as a merch sale or a

poster sale and you wanted to animate

these little specs in a little video,

you could easily go in and grab them and

export them really quickly uh to do

something in a video editing tool or

whatever. And it saves you so much time

than having to go over into your layers

panel and start turning different stuff

off and then like downloading it one at

a time. This quick export feature is so

so nifty. Now, another thing that you'll

want to explore is how many different

things we have in the more options

panel. We have copy and we have paste.

We have a copy link to this specific

selection. We have copy and paste style

which I'll show you in just a second.

You can launch the co-pilot, which right

now we will cover in a separate video.

You can actually go ahead and go watch

it already. It's already out about the

co-pilot. You can quick export right

from the rightclick settings. I can

outline this text because I've selected

text. Obviously, if I selected an image,

there would be no outline text there. I

can enter the erase mode. I can lock it

from here, meaning I wouldn't be able to

move it. I can flip it the other

direction. I can flip it vertical, so I

can flip it upside down if I want to.

And I could do this with an image or an

illustration or anything else. I can

bring it to the front. Bringing it

forward and bringing it all the way to

the front are a little bit different. I

I brought it forward just now, but it

didn't do anything because it's already

far enough behind this person. But if I

hit bring to front, you see how it goes

in front of that person in the template.

Uh I can send it to the back or I can

send it backward. And you see there are

bracket keys or shift brackets. These

are your bracket keys that are just

under and to the left of your backspace

keyboard button. And these are a couple

of different actions that you can take

in the more options. Now, if I were to

select this illustration and click this,

you see that outline text is gone. But

the replace feature has now come into

fruition. So, and I can also save it as

an image style. And that's what I was

showing you earlier where if I click

save as image style uh in the image

generator, you can see here it's

generating itself as a style where if I

wanted to use it as a reference photo

for AI now it's there for me to always

use. I can type in my prompt, select

silhouette, and it's going to give me

something similar. We have a ton of

videos on how to use KD AI in the

different models. So you can check those

videos out on the channel as well. Now,

to show you how the replace feature is

going to function, if I click replace,

what it'll essentially do is open up the

elements panel, and then I could do

something like type cowboy. So, then I

can replace it with an illustration.

Maybe I want to go a little bit

different. Maybe I don't want to do

necessarily a vector illustration. Maybe

I want to do something like one of these

watercolor things like this pair of

boots or something. And then I can hit

replace. And then what it will do is

replace it with these boots. Now,

obviously, I would have to go in and

these boots were a little bit bigger

than that illustration. I'd have to

change it a little bit. Actually looks

kind of cool, but I'm not sure if I

would use that for this specific thing,

but you can see what happens when I hit

the replace button. I'm going to go

ahead and hit undo to go back to my

illustration. And then, of course, you

can do things like flip it, or you can

you can go back to bring it to the front

or bring it to the back. Now, what's

really neat that I use a lot is the copy

style feature. So, let's say that we had

a variety of these photos and let's say

I was working with this photo right here

and you know I gave it a border and it's

about right there and I gave it a shadow

and the shadow was like you know a very

similar green that's in here and I had

it you know I had it somewhere where I

wanted it. Okay, so I had something like

this and you know I I was like man I

really want all of these photos to have

the same thing. What I could do is I can

go up here into more options and I can

go over and I could just copy the entire

style. I could copy the shadow if I

want, but I'm just going to copy the

entire style. Now, what I can do is

select each one of these. I'm going to

hold shift and select each one of these.

And then I can go in here to more

options and I can go to paste style. And

then now you can see the border and the

shadow has been applied. Now, you might

notice that the the border on this one

is thinner and the border on this one is

thicker. It's because this image is

bigger and this image is smaller. So, I

should have probably made these all the

same size. But, I could easily go in and

simply just put this to what I want.

Let's say it's 30. And then I can go in

and I can change any of these to 30. A

lot of times I use this mostly with the

shadow. I think the shadow and the

coloring is usually the best thing that

I use it for, but it is there for you to

check out. It's a really cool feature

that I use all the time. Copy and paste

layer style. Again, if you rightclick or

hit the more options panel, you can go

to copy and copy paste, paste style,

copy shadow. And you can do that amongst

anything. So, for example, if this one

had a shadow, I could go over to copy uh

copy style. Come down to this one. More

options. Paste paste style. Now, that

one's got it. It's also turned it to the

green. It's also turned to the shadow.

Now, I do want to just briefly go over

some tips for the pen tool. Now, I have

a full demo on the channel about the pen

tool and the ins and outs, but let's say

I just found a cool image of this word

called listen, but you could upload a

sketch. Uh you could go and check out

any any other photo or or maybe you drew

something or what have you. It doesn't

have to be lettering. It could be an

illustration or anything. But with the

pen tool, you have a lot of flexibility

and availability to this. The first

thing I would probably do actually is

grab this and like turn it down so that

I I can easily start editing over top of

it. I want to show you just a couple

ways that you can get curves. One way

that I might tackle something with the

pen tool is just adding all my points.

So, I wouldn't worry about curving

anything. I would just go click here,

click here, and I would go all the way

around this letter like this. It's just

basically really basic points all the

way up until the point where I would

lock it. And to lock it or close it, uh,

you have to hover over the ending point

that you want to be. And you can see

this little black dot there. If I click

that little black dot, now it is

connected. I'm going to hit V to go back

to my selection tool. Now, this doesn't

look very good, and it's very, very kind

of rough, but a quick way to do this is

by going around and double clicking on

each point, which will turn it into a

curve. And so now what I can do is I can

double click on all of these points so

that they're not so sharp. Double click

on this one. Actually, I might leave

that one the same. Double click on this

one. Or I might Let's see. I may leave

that one the same. Double click on this

one. Double click on this one. Double

click on this one. Probably leave this

one the same. Double click on this one.

Same here. And maybe I'll add one here.

And if I want to add a point, I can

double click. And now I can have much

more flexibility. And as you see, when I

click any of these nodes, these handles

pop up. And so now I have a lot more

flexibility with the exact curvature

that I want on my letter. So for

example, if I want this to be a little

bit more curved like that, then I can

come up and I can work on this top part

right here. Maybe just bring this in.

Maybe expand this one in a little bit.

And before you know it, you have got a

custom letter that you outlined with the

pen tool. And so I could grab this. I

can go and give it a color. And so now

we've got a fully custom L that you drew

with the pen tool. Now that was me going

around and roughly adding all of of the

nodes and then double clicking to do

them. But you don't have to do it that

way. If I click the pen tool again, I

can add curves really easily by clicking

and dragging. So let's say this is a

point right here and this is a point

right here and there's a curve here.

Well, I can click right here and I can

drag this point. And then what I can do

is you see how it continues to curve

around. But if I want it to just go back

to being straight, I can just come back

here and hit the black dot. And then now

it's going to be straight. So maybe I

want to come right here. And then maybe

there's a little bit of a curve here. So

I can click here and drag. And so now

I've got a little bit of a curve here.

And then I'm going to click back on this

dot. Click about right here. Click and

drag. So anytime you click and drag,

you're going to have this curve motif.

Now I'm going to go right here. Click

and drag. Come right here. Click. Click.

And then maybe I'll come right here.

Click and drag. Right here. And then, as

you see, I'm creating a little bit of a

different effect here. Maybe we want to

do like this. And then we'll come back

and just for the sake of it, we'll click

and drag right here. So that these are

two different ways. I'm going to go

ahead and add the color here. These are

two different ways that you can go about

drawing something, whether it's letters

or whether it's an illustration. And I

would probably have more more points

right here uh that I could use to be a

little bit more flexible. And yeah, I

would probably add more points to this,

which I go over a little bit in the the

pin tool demo. So, definitely go and

check that out. Obviously, this is not

optimized, but I wanted to show you a

couple of tips on how you can use the

pen tool. And if you want more advice or

help, let me know down in the comments

so that I can help you with that because

it does take a little bit of getting

used to with the pen tool because

there's a lot of different tools at your

disposal because you can combine them

with things like the shape builder tool

I showed you earlier. You can combine it

with text where you draw something

around text. You could draw something

around an illustration. And so for those

of you who are trying to get a little

bit more advanced with your design or

with your vector editing, you have these

tools at your disposal that you can use

to create more unique things where you

don't necessarily want to rely on a a a

stock element or a template or things

like that. So if you want to grow fast

with that, make sure you check out some

of those other demos as well as some of

the more advanced tutorials we have

coming up. All right, we're coming to

the end. We're getting close, but

there's still more exciting things to

talk about. One of them being

collaboration and teams. Now, I

mentioned how to set up a team in your

profile already. You can always create a

new team or you can simply invite people

into your space, into your team. That

will allow them to see your projects.

They'll be able to click in. You guys

will be able to be on the same canvas at

the same time. We already have videos

showcasing that

already. But let's say I've been working

on this one right here and I want to

share this project with people so they

can get in here and edit it or whatever.

If I go up into the share panel right

here, you're going to see immediately

that you have the ability to type in

email addresses. You also have the

ability to just immediately copy the

link so that anybody can view the

project. Now, right now you see anyone

with link is currently switched to no

access. If I were to switch this to can

view, now I can simply just click this

link and I could even give it to you all

and you could immediately open this and

view it. You wouldn't be able to edit

it, but you would be able to view it.

Now, I can also type in an email

address. We could say

someonegmail.com and I can give them

actually the ability to edit and then if

I invited them to this project, they

would be able to get in here, edit it,

change it, you know, duplicate it,

comment on it, any kind of thing like

that. And then you'd be able to see

right here uh another person. So you

would see, you know, someone whatever

their their avatar, you would be able to

see that they're in the space. And we'll

show you what that looks like obviously

right here. Now, that's the way that you

can easily collaborate on a project

without having to rely on another tool,

without having to ever leave or export

your design and put it in another

design. You can design and collaborate

all in the same place. You can even set

up a full team so that they can always

get in to your projects at the same

time. Now, while we're in the share

panel here, I want to show you how to

access your download settings. So, you

can obviously share like I just showed

you. You can download the project. So,

if I click download, it's a much more

robust version of the quick export

feature. So, you see right here, I have

all the artboards selected, but let's

say I just want artboard one. Can simply

just take this one off, take this one

off, and now I only have artboard one. I

can select what file format, PNG, JPEG,

SVG, or PDF. I can change the size right

here. I can change the DVI right here

from in the export settings. I could

remove the background, which will remove

this entire tan area and just give me

the transparent image, which is exactly

what I would need for something like

print on demand or merch design where I

just need the design. I don't need the

color of the background with it. And

then if I was going to do something like

a brochure or a or a big, you know,

flyer or a banner, I would hit optimize

quality, which is going to give the

browser a little bit more time to smooth

out pixels, which helps when printing.

Now, I do want to point out that if I

were to go to PDF and select multiple

artboards, so for example, if I wanted

both of these artboards together, I

could also hit combine the artboards

into one file. And that will combine

them into one easy file for you to

access andor share with a client or a

colleague or maybe a print shop or

anything else. And then I can simply

just hit download and it'll go right to

your downloads folder. Now, a couple

other things that you can do is if you

were to publish this project, I'm going

to go to publish. And then what's going

to happen here is you have the ability

to send a copy of your project. You can

email or share the project on your

social medias as you see down here. Or

you can go to publish your project. And

what publishing means is that it goes

live on your profile, which I showed you

earlier where I showed you my profile

with all of my published templates,

meaning you can go and access them at

any time. You can open them, you can

edit them, you can duplicate them,

change them. But if you were to work on

a project and publish it, make sure you

know that now everyone has access to

find it and utilize it. So, if there's

something you're working on private or

for a client or something like that,

please don't publish it because not

everyone needs access to that.

Publishing a template is only for if you

want the KD community to also access it.

It's also a really great idea for

growing followers and things like that,

but otherwise, you can keep your

projects to yourself. You don't

necessarily have to publish them if you

don't want to. Now, another really neat

thing I want to show you is going to be

really helpful for when you're

presenting your work or maybe you need

to get feedback on work. Let's say I

were to go up here to the presentation

icon and I can hit view presentation.

So, right now, if I hit view

presentation, this is going to do its

best to formulate all of the artboards

into a presentation. Now, down here on

the bottom, you can see slides and right

now it has the coffee one, it has the

two freedom ones. And what I'm going to

do is I'm just going to remove the

coffee one from the entire board. Okay.

And why this is so helpful is because

you can share this project. Again, you

can invite someone to collaborate or you

can simply just share the link. Anyone

with the link can view and then you can

copy this. And let's say that you wanted

to get people's opinion. Maybe it's a

client for this merch design and you

want to get their opinion. Well, now you

don't have to export a PDF. you can just

send them the link to this live

presentation where they can simply go

back and forth and look at the two

options. And then not only that, they

could also take the comment tool and

they could go over and they could

comment and say, "This is really cool.

Maybe a

cowboy sitting on a I don't know what

cowboys sit on like like a you know, I

don't know, a hay barrel or something

like that." And maybe they Yeah. So

anyway, the the client or whoever could

comment and now you can see it and then

they could go and they could uh reply

and then you can have a full

conversation without ever having to go

to your email, right? Because you shared

it straight from your KD project. And

then anytime you're ready, you just go

back to the editor and then now you can

continue editing. You can see the

comment right there, which is really,

really, really helpful. You can see the

comments from your colleagues or your

clients or whatever. And you can go in

and adjust it. you can respond and say,

"Great, I'll get on it." You can refresh

it and then you can ask your client or

colleague to refresh. And if you were to

change it, then it'll update in your

presentation. And they would say,

"You're good to go. That's more money,

more time for you saved and ready to

go." And then after you've seen a

comment and resolved it, by the way, you

can always hit resolve and it'll go away

just like that. Now, if you need more

information on how teams and

collaborations work specifically, please

check out the links down in the

description. It's really easy to get set

up, but perhaps it sounds a little bit

confusing and maybe you're also

wondering how much money it might be to

add more teams or add more seats to your

team. I've got information for you to

check out down in the description.

Please do go and if you have any

questions, you can always go down into

the comments to let me know or you can

join our Discord and you can pop in some

questions there and someone will help

you. All right, the last thing that

we're going to talk about is some

shortcuts. I know a lot of you that

might be coming over from another design

tool are wondering what kind of

shortcuts do you have available? And I

already went through a couple. For

example, if you hover over any kind of

tool, you'll see the shortcuts. So you

have V, A, R, P, C for all of these

different kind of basic things, but you

also have some really, really helpful

shortcuts for improving and increasing

your workflow. So for example, shift R

will show you your rulers and it will

allow you to make guides all over the

place depending on what you want to do.

If you ever want to get rid of the

guides, you can hit shift R and they'll

disappear. And then you can keep hitting

it, shift R to bring them back. Another

one I use a lot is if I ever

accidentally get away from my artboard

because my artboard is, you know, my

canvas is endless and now I've

accidentally forgotten where I'm

supposed to be, I can always hit shift 2

and it will take me back to my original

artboard that I was working on. And if I

hit shift one, it will take me to a view

of all of my boards. So, for example,

let's say I was trying to do something

and then oops, I accidentally went all

the way, I scrolled, I have no idea

what's happening. I can hit shift one

and it takes me to an overview of my

projects. If I ever want to move around

the board freely and you don't have a

scroll wheel on your mouse, you can hold

the space bar and you see a little hand

comes up. I can click and drag and now I

can move around my spacebar. And now I

can move around my canvas just like this

by clicking and dragging and moving

around just like that. I mentioned

earlier a helpful command I use a lot is

holding the command button and scrolling

in or scrolling out with my scroll wheel

which allows me to zoom and then I can

move around by holding the space bar and

I can get exactly where I want to get by

using some of those commands together

just like that. I mentioned always

command Z is one of the helpful command

or control-z where occasionally you may

accidentally do something like shift

something way out of the way and you

just need to hit command Z to go back to

where you were. You can also go down and

hit the undo button if you ever need.

Now, sometimes you'll be editing quite a

bit of text or you'll have a word that's

quite a bit of letters. And if I wanted

to edit all of this at the same time,

another helpful command I use is command

or control A. And what that will do is

it will basically select every single

letter and then I can just type in a new

word like fighter. I don't know why I

would do that for this specific one, but

you can do that. And if I were to hit

command A right now, it selects

everything on the artboard and I can

move it all around at the same time. So,

for example, if I just wanted to move it

over here to the left, I hit command A,

command A, and now everything on the

artboard is selected. I mentioned

earlier that hitting T adds text really,

really quickly so that you can keep

adding your little elements or your text

effects as quickly as you want to. And

if you ever want to outline text quickly

without having to go up into the

rightclick menu and outline text, what

you can do is you can hit command,

shift, and O. And that will outline your

text where you can double click in and

see all of the points just like that.

Now, there are so many other shortcuts

that you need to know about. And what's

really helpful is that you can go down

here into this bottom help section in

the left panel. Click on that and then

you're going to see shortcuts. If you

click on shortcuts, a full panel menu of

all the different shortcuts will come up

for you. You see all the ones for shift,

command A, command C, the brackets,

shift apostrophe for showing or hiding

guides. You can always find this by

going down to the question mark and then

clicking shortcuts and that will open up

your keyboard's shortcut panel. A couple

of other things that are super helpful

in that menu are things like the feature

request. And if I were to open up the

feature request panel, that will bring

you to our Cany feature request board

where you can go and you can find a

bunch of different things that people

are asking for and you can upvote them.

So, for example, uh ability to rotate a

design on a mockup or font coloring or

borders on masks. You can simply click

to upvote them or you can go in and add

one of your own. So, for example, if I

were to go in and type in something like

masking, what that's going to do is

actually sort the suggested post so that

I can go and upvote one if I want to.

So, I don't necessarily have to add a

second one, but I could upvote another

one. So, this is a really helpful tool

for you to go and check the feature

requests as well as provide feedback for

us about what you want to see in KD. And

if you ever want to see the road map of

what's currently being worked on, you

can see things that are planned, things

that are in progress and things that we

already have available to you in KD. So

that'll be linked for you down below,

but you can also always access it by

going to the question mark and going to

feature requests. If you ever need help,

we have a help center for you to get

quick and detailed explanations of a

certain feature or an element. Or if you

want to chat with our support, you can

simply hit the chat and it will open up

a panel where we will get you situated

with one of our customer support reps to

help you get you what you need. All

right, before you go, I want to give you

three helpful places to go to learn more

so that you can become a KD master

faster. The first of which is here on

the YouTube. I have over 800 something

videos that go into extensive detail on

certain elements or features or tools or

design styles that will help you achieve

what you're looking for. And if you

don't see something, you can always go

into a video and check out the

timestamps. And if that doesn't help,

you can always comment on a video and

we'll add it to the queue to help you

get what you need. The second place is

our blog. We have a blog where you can

go and find detailed explanations. For

those of you who are more of a reader

and you want to read a little bit, stop,

go and experiment with something and

then come back and keep reading the

blog. We have that sectioned out for

you. And we're also building a brand new

learning tutorial section on KD so that

you can go step by step for certain

actions depending on a use case you

might be using for, I don't know,

branding or merch design or anything

else. The third place I mentioned

earlier would be the Discord. We have so

many members in the Discord. So many

creators and designers doing thousands

of different things, including our

world-class template creators. We have

so many of our amazing template creators

in there who are willing and able to

help you with whatever you need. you

need feedback, you have a question, we

have a ton of amazing reps and power

users in our Discord channel that are

just waiting to help you become a better

designer. And one last thing I would ask

before you go is if you found value in

this and you enjoy KD, I hope that you

would share KD with a friend, a family

member, a colleague, or someone that

would find this helpful because that's

probably the best thing you can do for

KD is by sharing it because that allows

more people to get in, access it, find

different things that could be improved.

That gives us way more feedback and in

turn helps build a better product. So, I

would encourage you if you're finding

value in KD and especially in these

videos and trainings, definitely share

them with other people that could

benefit from this. Now, again, if you

have questions, please don't hesitate to

comment down below because I read every

single comment. Sometimes it does take

me a while to get to them and answer it

cuz there are so many. But trust me, I

am looking at them every single morning.

I check out the comments and so if

there's something specific, I always add

it to a queue. I want to get in there

and make sure that you have exactly what

you need. Don't forget to subscribe to

the channel. Thank you so much for going

through this whole demo with me. I

appreciate you and we will see you in

the next video.

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