Press Your Design! (Sublimation)

Once you’ve designed something and you want to show it off, you could potentially press your design onto a variety of materials/objects.

You always need approval and assistance before putting a design onto anything, so make sure that you’ve run your design by me and completed any previous assignments/steps first.

You also need to make sure that your parents have paid the course fee if you wish to use school materials.

Your designs can be created in pretty much any program, but for most of these, the finished file needs to be the right size and resolution, and needs to be dropped off in the correct format.

The big thing is that you make sure you are allowed to make something, I approve your design, and you follow the correct instructions.

T-Shirt design:

Set up your file to be 8.5 x 11 inches, resolution 300 pixels/inch.

You can decide how big your actual design is. A design on a small shirt would be smaller than on my XL shirt. Get a shirt and MEASURE how big you want your design to be.

Transfering your design is MUCH easier on a white shirt than it is on a black shirt.

Your finished file can be dropped off in almost any format. (.psd, .png, .ai, etc.)

Shopping Bag:

By far, the easiest is a basic white bag. Those are pretty big. I’d recommend setting up your file to be 8.5 x 11 inches, 300 pixels/inch. If you want something bigger, you could go as big as 11 x 14 inches, resolution 300 pixels/inch.

If you wanted a different colour or size of bag, I do have some, but things are more complicated.

If you wanted, you could put something on the front and back.

Your finished file can be dropped off in almost any format. (.psd, .png, .ai, etc.)

Mouse Pad

9.5 inches by 8 inches (outer edges will be cut off), ideal resolution 300 pixels/inch