By Steve Spence One of the most common questions from people who are new to sublimation is, “what kind of software should I use for sublimation?”. The short answer is CorelDRAW. Although many people think they should be using PhotoShop, PhotoShop is a terrible program for what we normally do in sublimation. I use PhotoShop and I use CorelDraw along with other programs and I can assure you, CorelDRAW is the ticket for s...
Continue readingBy Steve Spence Have you seen it? It’s pretty cool. Nifty, if you know what I mean. Slick. I’m talking about the new on-line sublimation products catalog by Conde. It goes right along with something I have been experimenting with – but more about that in a minute. The catalog can be called up from any computer, tablet...
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By Steve Spence There is so much to learn about text when using CorelDRAW, I’m not sure one would ever really learn it all. Part Two of our video adventure (CondeTV), includes using Paragraph Text, kerning and most important of all; how to lay out a plaque. As su...
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By Steve Spence Learning text is easy in CorelDRAW. For the most part, it works like any word processor but then it doesn’t. For one thing, we demand a lot more from text when doing sublimation that we do in a word processing situation. There are times when we need shadows, multiple colors, justified ...
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By Steve Spence This is one in a series of blogs (and videos) about learning the very basics in CorelDRAW: So often, we use a program every day and think we know about it but then learn something brand new – some little trick that makes our task easier – or – for newc...
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By Steve Spence Have you noticed that covers for the latest Samsung Galaxy phones have been slow coming? Conde has released their sublimatable cover for the S5 after a long wait The reason? The Galaxy design is such that you can’t put a piece of metal on the back of the phone. The antenna design won’t...
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By Steve Spence I just finished making 2 dozen mugs. I haven’t made any mugs for a while now and it was refreshing to see how well each mug turned out. Color was great, backgrounds were clean and except for the one I printed upside down, each one came out perfectly. (Oops, I’m bad) I like using the mug wraps in an oven I purchased just f...
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By Steve Spence PowerClip – the most exciting and useful tool I know of. It’s not found anywhere else – only in CorelDRAW and I use it almost every day.? If you haven’t found it yet, please check out the new CondeTV video on YouTube called, “PowerClip”. This easy to use tool is under the “Effects” menu and allows you...
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By Steve Spence Working with bitmaps is perhaps the most difficult thing one has to learn when learning sublimation. They are confusing, highly varied as to quality and type and all in all, just a pain in the neck. Yet, we obviously need to work with bitmaps and learn how to manipulate them to obtain our goals. To do this, it is vital that we have a clear understanding of what a bitmap is, how CorelDRAW deals with it; what CorelDRAW can and...
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