The Smart (and Easy) Way to Learn Design Software

Learn it all. Learn it fast. Learn it now.

One of the most important aspects of garment or hard object personalization is design. Whether you’re a newbie to design programs or a professional graphic artist, you’ll inevitably have questions on how to create a certain look or image and free internet tutorials can’t necessarily help you learn design software. Because of this, Coastal has teamed up with Lynda.com – an online training library that is the perfect way for novices and experts to expand their knowledge on almost any design program available. Continue reading “The Smart (and Easy) Way to Learn Design Software”

Working with High Resolution Photographs

While I was attending photography classes in college one of the many important aspects of our assignments was resolution. In my assignments this was achieved with my DLSR camera and in my personal life I used my little point and shoot camera. Even now I can make high resolution images with my iPhone!

 

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Garbage In = Garbage Out

High quality sublimation starts with high quality images, but somewhere along the way, that message seems to get lost.

However,  it’s really a  simple equation: garbage in = garbage out

As great as the sublimation process is at printing high resolution, finely detailed, full color images, it can’t convert bad images into good ones.  So what is the ideal resolution?  That’s a tricky question, as resolution is tied to image size. Continue reading “Garbage In = Garbage Out”