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How to Make an NFT for Beginners
Hey everyone. I recently made a video, explaining what NFTs are and exactly how to buy or how to sell your own NFTs that you make and a lot of people were actually asking me, well, how do I actually create that NFD? How do I make the digital art that I could sell on these marketplaces that sell NFTs?
Well, there's a bunch of different ways you could make NFTs because NFTs are just digital collectibles, right? So. For example, in this video that I'm making right now after I'm done making it, I could export it from my editing software. I could put it on those marketplaces and I could sell it as an NFT. Okay, so there's a bunch of ways you can make NFTs any digital file from a song to a text, to a picture, to something you create using Photoshop could be sold as an NFT. There were really two reasons I wanted to make this video real quick. One was, I want to show you a couple of different software and different websites.
You could actually make NFTs or digital art, really easy if you don't have any experience with art or creating anything. But the second reason, and the main reason I'm wanting to make this is 99% of people that are doing this. They're just wasting money because they're creating these NFTs or turning whatever digital assets they have, like pictures into NFTs.
Putting it in these marketplaces and he just doesn't sell. They're just like, oh, let me just put something on these NFT marketplaces and see what happens. Well, that will be great if this process was free, but people are, for some reason to spending a lot of money just to see if it works. Well, make sure you make something really nice and make sure you see what's selling before you create it.
I'll show you how to do that in a second. But basically what ends up happening is to sell an NFT. You have to first buy Ethereum, and if you don't have that, and you're using U.S. dollars, for example, to buy the theory, I'm on one of those marketplaces that sell cryptocurrencies. When you do that, you pay a fee, but that's not the only pay fee you pay.
When you post on those NFT websites, something to sell you also pays what's called a gas fee. When I make the previous video to just buy $20 of Ethereum, for example, I had to spend a few bucks there and then the gas fee, just to enter the blockchain to sell. Was like $160. Now, the gas fee changes all the time.
The gas fee is just a fee that you have to pay in order to sell on the blockchain. There is no getting away from paying that, but if you're just dabbling with this, what's the point of buying Ethereum, paying the fee and then paying the gas fee, and then paying a commission once you sell too. So if you spend $160, plus the other fees, like $130 in total, To sell something and he ends up selling for 20 hours and you pay a commission on top of that.
You're just losing money and I see like 99% of people doing this losing money. Okay, so I just want to warn you. Don't just try it out to see if it works. If you can make anything worthwhile that might sell. So let me show you that right now, this is the biggest marketplace. When it comes to selling NFTs, it's called open.
See, this is the video I made before, and you basically could browse anything here to see if you want to buy something and you could easily press create to sell something to, again, I covered that in the other video. So watch that if you want to get to that step, this is more about. Finding out what's selling and then seeing if you could create something like that, I'll show you a couple of options.
This is what you do. Go to NFT marketplace, open C and press Explo right here on this page and you'll see everything that's for sale in different categories, but I typically press this option. It has offered Demi somebody put it up for sale and other people are betting on it and there's a limited time left on it.
Okay, and some of the easiest ones are these collectibles here. Okay, if you go to collectibles, you'll see. That these collectibles are really, really simple to create. So there are these things, these are called eight-bit art. Okay, they kind of look like this. They kind of look like they're designed for the eighties or nineties here and some of them are in GIF format. That means they're animated and some are just in JPEG format. That means they're. Kind of still like this, they're just an image. So how do you make these? Well, if you just look up how to make big eight-bit art, this website pops up, make eight-bit art.com you could literally make with just really simple here.
Just kind of make your own eight-bit art, just like this. Okay, and then when you're done, all you have to do is download this file right here, press saves and then you choose a destination and it saves as a PNG, which is considered one of those NFT file formats, JPEG, a PNG. Those are just image formats, the two most popular JPEGs at PNG, and then you save them.
So the reason why I brought this up first is that this is what sells the most, these types of arts. Now, to make it into a gift format, it's a little bit more involved. I don't think he could do it on this website, but there's a software called Adobe illustrator. Now, let me show you some other software and so the most common software views to make NFTs. Our Adobe illustrator. So you could Google this and learn more about it. I'll put a link to some of this software into the description. They all have a free trial too, so you could download them with the pretrial. See if it's something you could learn and if it's not just find something online, like make a bit of art. So there's an Adobe illustrator desk for designing graphics. There's Adobe Photoshop. You probably heard of Photoshop before, but Photoshop basically that you create any type of image file. So I use this every single day. Then for video, there is something called Adobe premiere.
Now, Adobe premiere is designed for video. So you could turn a video into NFTE. I use this for that and then there is Adobe after effects. So some of the animations, like these type of animations that you see, those are most likely created in Adobe after effects, which is pretty advanced right here. This is Adobe after effects, but it's one of the advanced software that they use for movies and things like that for 3d and animation.
There'll also have all these basically come in one, a bundle called Adobe creative cloud. So I basically learn all these over time, but you could use any one of those, even Adobe InDesign, you could use Adobe character animator, all those could be learned. And they used to create NFTs that actually have a chance of selling. So usually jump into the open sea or any marketplace like this and see what has offers and what's trending. And whenever you're watching this video and see, what's trending, try to make something that's training at the time and try to make a collection of them, maybe alum that looked like this guy, right?
If I scroll down, you could see almost all of them are these kinds of designs under the collectible tab. Obviously, this is not the only tab. There are many other tabs. Like you could literally sell domain names or virtual worlds. You can make it. These in Minecraft, for example, I sell these like that or on the art.
If you know how to draw, you could literally, draw something on a piece of paper or on a computer program and then scan it out or put it over here and export it as a JPEG. Also, have canva.com here. You could create videos, really simple to make. You could literally make a graphic. Like a presentation or infographic or a poster and sell it as an NFT, you could make YouTube thumbnails, for example, use it on YouTube and sell it as an NFT.
Any one of these could be created really, really easy. I have a link to Canva and a full tutorial on it that I'll link below as well. So you can make your NFT here if you don't want to learn all that Doby or any of the Adobe software, but Photoshop is pretty easy to figure out. But some of the other ones, like after-effects, are a bit more involved, but some of them and if teas that are actually sold are created with those more advanced platforms. So those are a handful of different softwares that you could learn to make digital arts. If you don't know how to make them any other way, like drawing them or recording a video. Those could be just done on your phone or your computer, depending on what you're trying to do, but really don't just put whatever digital asset you have on your computer, on these websites to see if it sells it, won't sell 99% of people are losing money doing this.
Only 1% of people that are making what's could be considered art and what other people are willing to pay for it are actually making all the money. Okay, so just want to warn you don't throw things up there just to see if they sell, learn design. Then create something worth buying that someone else is willing to pay for.
I hope you found this useful again, make sure you check out the resources below, including the other video on how to actually sell the NFT. Once you're ready, talking about a theory and the digital wallet that you need to get everything else involved. Thanks so much for watching. I'll see you next time.