Patriot Prayer Tees’ first shirt graphic was courtesy of Christian Apologetics Community on X (click here for external link). The owner of the group gave me the design based on a post I made. The post was jokingly suggesting ‘Is This A Table Jesus Would Flip?’ ITATJWF could be the next WWJD vibes with a twist. It was during Lent and the Christian Apologetics Community was studying Matthew 21:12-13. His shared design started the path of Patriot Prayer Tees and encouraged the whole enterprise. Thank you Opi. To everyone else, if you’re looking for an engaging group of Christian to discuss the Scriptures, then the Christian Apologetics Community on X (click here for external link) is for you.

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Next it came time to made some graphics on my own. My two main research “employees” are Grok and ChatGPT. (I don’t have employees at this point.) As a fresh starting business, tools are very cost sensitive (ain’t got $719.88 a year, billed in one lump sum to use all Adobe cloud apps, sorry Adobe). Graphic tools reviewed are on the budget friendly side.

Here’s a summary based on what I asked the two bots. The main questions are 1) do I own what is created and 2) are these restrictions to use.

Using Microsoft (PointPoint, Visio, Publisher, etc) the research bots said:

If you create something in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Publisher, etc.:
✅ The work you personally create (like your own slogans, designs you draw with shapes, your own layout)
➡️ You own it. You can sell it.

BUT ⚠️ you have to be very careful about: Microsoft Clipart (even old stuff), Stock images bundled with Office, Icons and templates that came with Office, Fonts that are licensed for “personal use only”. Those elements are not automatically cleared for commercial use.

Next, I looked into Cavna, Kettl, multiple AI’s, and a few others, but things usually came back to if you use their templates, their clip art and you’re in a free or lower level member, then you can’t sell the images on your products without proper attribution or following some restrictions. If you made something from scratch, then it was usually yours. Along that path, the next designs were using a Pro membership on Kettl, being sure I have the rights to sell what’s created. Kettl Pro is $15 per month as of this post.

I may not continue with Kettl. I know $15/month doesn’t seem like much, but that’s $180 a year (might be a bit lower paying in lump sum). Still, this enterprise is starting out I don’t feel the need to generate a ton of shirt designs right now. I have six total and need to see how those sell, what are people looking for, etc.

I downloaded Inkscapce, but haven’t tried it yet. Bonus, it is free. Here’s the ChagGPT review:

Can you use Inkscape for free to create graphics for tees?
✅ YES.

Inkscape itself is completely free under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

That means you can use it for personal OR commercial work — no fees, no royalties, no catch.

You fully own anything you create from scratch inside Inkscape.

But — a small important warning:
If you import or use: Stock images (even free ones), Fonts (especially if downloaded separately), Clipart or templates from somewhere else 👉 You still have to make sure those assets are cleared for commercial use.

Inkscape itself gives you no ownership problems — but what you put into it matters.

That’s my graphic design journey so far. Thank you for reading! – Patriot Prayer Tees

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