Designing for Sublimation
Exclaim’s Online Designer gives you full creative control over your sublimated products. Use real-time previews, apply your brand’s color palette, add logos, and publish designs directly—without ever opening Photoshop or Illustrator.
How the Online Designer Works
Our Online Designer was built to handle sublimation-specific needs. You can select product styles, drag and drop logos, change garment colorways, preview designs live, and save your creations instantly. The editor even handles safe zones, bleed, and centering automatically.
Using Color Swatches
With integrated brand and default palettes, you can quickly assign background and design colors. The swatch system is real-time—click to preview instantly across the full design, and save your favorite combinations for later reuse.
Working from Templates
Use our professional template library to create polished designs in minutes. Start with a pre-built style, then swap logos, change colors, and tweak layouts to fit your team. Every template is fully editable and optimized for production—what you see is exactly what you’ll get. While many templates begin with high complexity, they’re designed to be simplified by selecting the same color multiple times. This flexibility allows you to scale the design up or down to match your taste—and it gives teams the power to generate millions of variations from a single base design, creating a unique identity without paying for custom artwork.
Uploading Your Logo
Upload PNG, SVG, or high-res JPG files. Vector or transparent PNGs are best. Once uploaded, you can resize, duplicate, or align your logo using built-in tools that preserve quality and proportion across all garments.
Resolution & File Format
If you’re designing outside our platform and uploading your own print file, use 300 DPI resolution with 0.5” bleed and RGB color profile. PDF, PNG, and AI formats are accepted. Avoid screenshots or compressed files.
Common Mistakes
- Not using templates or safe zones
- Designing with low-resolution files
- Leaving backgrounds transparent by accident
- Ignoring color contrast on polyester
- Skipping previews before publishing