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Hi folks, I'm just starting out with my sublimation business & just starting slowly printing mugs. I purchased everything this week other than graphic design software. Instead, I downloaded GIMP which is free & apparently it is very similar to photoshop but I don't know much about it, I'd really appreciate any help & advice on how to use images off my laptop to produce mug wraps. Thanks.

If you are considering this as a business, rather than a hobby. I would suggest you get familiar with Photoshop. You can rent it for about £20 ish a month. I wasnt formally art trained and did it the hard way ie hours and hours of watching/reading tutorials and playing with images in photoshop. I dont want to come across as negative but you just have to put the hours in. Good luck.

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We also recommend Photoshop CC and renting it for £8.57 a month (photography plan). You seriously cannot get better in the industry.
https://creative.adobe.com/plans

if you have never used either photoshop OR Gimp, - you face a very large learning curve on either

Photoshop is industry standard, - so what you learn on PS will be usefull and relevant universally, - but at a cost
GIMP is equally powerful, - and also a challenge to learn, - but is concidered the poor underdog. there will be less resources available to use or learn from, and you will have second class citizen status, - but it is free.
Choose 1 and stick with it, - while they are both very powerful, they are very different and crossover requires fresh learning

Or - use COREL DRAW !

logobear;113048 wrote:Or - use COREL DRAW !

Second that!

froggy;113029 wrote:If you are considering this as a business, rather than a hobby. I would suggest you get familiar with Photoshop. You can rent it for about £20 ish a month. I wasnt formally art trained and did it the hard way ie hours and hours of watching/reading tutorials and playing with images in photoshop. I dont want to come across as negative but you just have to put the hours in. Good luck.

You can download and use PhotoShop CS2 free of charge and if you're just started out then this version would be ideal. A google search will get this and the user license code. All legal and legit.

Already mentioned in above post.

First of all what would you class your computer skill level as? Complete beginner/novice etc?

Are you using Windows or Mac?

bms;113052 wrote:You can download and use PhotoShop CS2 free of charge and if you're just started out then this version would be ideal. A google search will get this and the user license code. All legal and legit.

Not strictly true. They closed down the activation server for CS2 and a few other products, the download/serial is only intended for people who had already bought CS2

"Adobe strongly advises against running unsupported and outdated software. Only customers who legitimately purchased CS2 or Acrobat 7 and need to maintain their current use of these products may use the serial numbers provided during the download."

How they can enforce that Im not quite sure