Charley Pangus – Master Merch Design

Curriculum (Google Drive Proof)

“Charley Pangus – Master Merch Design” is a comprehensive merch design course that teaches you how to create professional apparel graphics in Photoshop, from fundamentals to advanced texturing, so you can sell your own merch or work with clients. Hosted on TSCourses – The Best Place to Learn Online Courses – it is a strong fit for designers, brand owners, and beginners who want a complete, step‑by‑step system instead of random tutorials.​

What Master Merch Design teaches
The course starts with mastering Photoshop for merch: keyboard shortcuts, document setup, custom workspaces, menu systems, and essential tools such as the Pen tool, shapes, type, layer styles, masks, and clipping masks. You then learn core design principles including grid systems and visual hierarchy so your layouts read clearly and look professional on a shirt.​

Next, Charley covers font basics—finding and installing fonts, understanding licenses, pairing type, and customizing lettering with warps and layer styles—followed by practical projects like designing badges, type‑driven layouts, and vector‑based graphics for apparel.​

Texturing and realism
A major focus of Master Merch Design is texturing, which makes flat designs look like real, printed merch. You learn multiple methods: using custom brushes, images with blend modes, displacement maps, and specialized vintage plastisol brush sets in collaboration lessons with Zac Shiffer. The course includes downloadable JPG textures and other resources so you can follow along and reuse them in your own projects.​

By the end, you understand how to take a clean design and give it depth, wear, and character suitable for streetwear, band tees, gaming merch, and more.​

Structure, resources, and community
Master Merch Design includes around 33 lessons with hours of on‑demand video, lifetime access to current and future updates, and entry to the Merch Design Academy community on Discord. The curriculum is grouped into sections: academy welcome and keys to success, mockups, Photoshop mastery, design principles, fonts, graphics projects, and texturing.​

Students also receive design resources such as mockups, textures, and discounts on additional tools, making it easier to build a professional‑looking portfolio and product previews quickly. The course is explicitly designed to work for all skill levels, including complete beginners who have never used Photoshop or Illustrator, as long as they bring determination and the required software.​

Who this course is for and outcomes
This course is ideal for:

Brand owners and creators who want to design their own merch instead of outsourcing.​

Freelancers who want to specialize in apparel and merch design as a premium service.​

Beginners who want a guided path to go from zero Photoshop skills to portfolio‑ready merch designs.​

By implementing the lessons, students can expect to move from basic edits to full, print‑ready designs, build convincing mockups, and develop a repeatable workflow that allows them to create concepts in under an hour. On TSCourses, “Master Merch Design” pairs naturally with courses on branding, e‑commerce, and print‑on‑demand, giving learners both the creative and business sides needed to turn merch design into a real income stream.​​