PURPOSE:To improve the brightness and saturation of an image by forming a sublimation transfer image receiving material by providing an image receiving layer based on a polymer on a support having a metal layer showing mirror surface reflectivity or second-class diffusion reflectivity. CONSTITUTION:A thin metal layer having mirror surface reflectivity is formed on a support such as synthetic paper, fine paper or art paper by vacuum vapor deposition or sputtering or patterning is applied to the surface of the thin metal layer having the mirror surface reflectivity at the time of rolling to form a thin metal layer having second-class diffusion reflectivity. A polymer having an ester bond or a polymer having an urethane bond or a polyamide bond is dissolved or dispersed in water or an organic solvent to prepare a coating solution. This coating solution is applied to a support having the aforementioned thin metal layer and dried to form an image receiving layer to obtain a sublimation transfer image receiving material.