Tutorial: Create a Personalized Coffee Mug

Personalize the coffee mug by placing graphic images (i.e. photos or clipart). You can draw shapes from scratch, fill them with color, and apply color effects i.e. gradients, shadows, bevels, etc.

Let's place a photo over the background color.

From the File Menu, browse for the file you want and click Open the file.

Important! The height of the image must be at least 3.0" (or 3.5" for a 15 oz. coffee mug), which is the maximum height of the coffee mug artwork. The resolution (dots or pixels per inch or dpi) must be at least 175.

If necessary, reduce the height of the image size to 3.0" (or 3.5" for a 15 oz. coffee mug).

From the Image Menu, click Image size... Enter the height: 3.0
Click OK.

Press Ctrl+C to copy the image.
 Click the first file with the background color.
 Press Ctrl+L to paste the image. The image automatically becomes a new layer.
 Rename the new layer: Double-click the new layer in the Layer Manager and change the
   name to something that will easily identify the contents of the layer i.e. sunset.

The pasted image above will appear on the back of the coffee mug. Click the Move Tool to move it to a different place within the artwork.