How To Make A BUSINESS CARD with Photoshop CC !!!

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either what are the best ways to promote your digital artwork
is to create a business card having a business card will make it really easy How To Make A BUSINESS CARD with Photoshop CC !!! to network with people because you can hand out your Cardinal have all of your
services
a sample if your artwork and your contact information and a link to your
portfolio
you can hand these out people are you can leave in places
that's a really good way to hear just kinda get your name out there
unfortunately the it's not
printing page something that you can do I'm with curl painter and a lot of my videos
are curl painter videos but this would be
pretty much you'd be pulling your hair out trying to do any the stuff in
cropping or even though there is a text to learn everything
it's just a real pain so I wouldn't suggest using Photoshop for this
you can get a free 30-day trial Photoshop from Adobe's website
if you go to the download link and product trials
it's like Photoshop also quite affordable to you just
rented on a monthly basis with their Creative Cloud Service
you can check that out to you or go back to Photoshop
and so we have an example here just a quick car that I mean on
first thing that you're going to want to do is you gonna need to pick a place
to print your cards from any you can print them yourself
or you can have them printed to an online service I'm not really gonna
suggest
anybody specifically by it a meet some cards for somebody the other day when I
my clients and they went with this website here
and their specs where a product size 3.5 inches by two inches with a bleed such
as a

by
inches so essentially what that means is
the card is going to get rimmed off for this dotted line is
anything that's outside of that dotted line
is probably going to get cut off so if you had a background that you wanted to
bleed to the edge
which is a printing term if you want the Inc to go all the way off the edge of
the paper
so there's not a white border anything then you have to have it
go past the paper in the treatment of so
there's a a certain margin you have to account for when you make your cards
some web sites might not have this it might not matter and you can just upload
your image as is but
it's good to check and see it'll save you a lot of time anyone have to
redesign the card after you finish it
also note some things that they want specific
file types and specific
resolution DPI and
for the backside they want you to rotate the image
degrees
so basically they want you to flip it upside down so that Prince properly
so you could have to watch out for some stuff like that but most spring web
sites will have
specs or they'll have a template which is a file you can download
to open in Photoshop once you have the
crack specs you can even use the specs here go ahead and move forward
so we know our products as gonna be 3.5 by
and we want this plead size to be what they have listed here
there's a few different ways we can do this I find that the easiest way for me
Estes make a new document and
will make it the size that we want to
eventually trailers which is
by 2 inches so we're gonna change her with
from inches from pixels to inches
suffering a
inches by two inches
and will serve as resolution to
and their color mood
Ferguson CMYK so that's the kind of color mode you have to use when you're
printing
you can use RGB also it kinda really doesn't matter too much but
which is can use proper green principles here
and will neighbor card for community thing wont go okay
and I recommend going and just saving your card right now
I just so you don't have to really worry about messing anything up
you know where it is so that
next thing that will do is we're going to make sure that you can see rulers
so what you have to do this you have to go to the
View menu and then select rulers
are you could get control or a new keyboard all had revealed these rulers
appear
so to have a ruler you can click on the ruler
and drag with your mouse to drag down
guy when you release your mouse you really should guide
you hover over it when you get this little
icon you can adjusted sort these guys will be useful
this kind of latest set some reference marks
know we're going to want to do this for gonna make sure that we step to this
edge
here edge if the document if that's not happening
monitor the View menu and make sure snaps enabled
in a snap to menu make sure that
snap to you document bounds or guides is enabled
and go ahead and just read another going down to the bottom
and do the two sides so we've got guides that
surround our car here now will go to the Image menu
in with the Kansas its we're gonna change the size or Candace which is good
we're going to make ur
card bigger but archives against and the same place that where guides will be
representative where the card will be trained
so will change this to you

and Tripoli
because that's going to be our
believe dimensions that were required by the printer
and was fun make sure that this gold dots in the center here so that
everything experience from
the senator howard click OK know you go now we've had this bleed area and that's
exactly what we need
snow we want to make sure that when we're designing a card that we don't
my anything go outside at this line that we don't want to get cut off
so it's okay if color or a background pattern gets cut off because that means
to bleed off the page
but anything else like your information you don't want to go
even anywhere near this line here if you're just gonna have a white
background
you have to worry about anything at all speak sure that everything stays in the
center here
so louisiana just a little bit
Curtis cards going into creating small so we don't really look at it
to big and when I recommend doing
is making a folder I'm to store your
card Photoshop file in and within that folder
you could also store some assets if you already have them Lake
artwork or graphics or your logo
things that you might want to use or photograph anything you want to put on
the card just get all that stuff together
and put it in the same folder let's just good design practice for everything I
think
so here's the folder I have here and it's got a
my logo it's pretty good sized version of it that way
you know I can credit in a high-resolution
and I've ca just a piece of artwork you going through my card
I recommend the if you're an artist me making a business card for yourself you
should put a piece of artwork on I wouldn't go crazy and good

pieces of art you know it's gonna be a small card
but just pick one thing that kinda stands alone nicely
and this piece in particular has a white background already so
I can kinda place it anywhere in work text around it
and once you've got your image it's going to make it a lot easier to pick
colors
things you so
on the Select these few images and the way I like to do my layouts for pretty
much anything that I do
graphic design related is a generally like to put the images in first
and then do the text after that because generally speaking the text ends up
falling around the images
so really quickly to put images into your Photoshop document
it's just select whichever images you
images or files you wanna you can hold control on your keyboard click
on multiple files to select different files here
and I'm going to drag it down to my taskbar
when Windows taskbar and hover over the Photoshop icon
in Photoshop or open and when
still while holding down the mouse go over to the Photoshop on it that's now
open
and is going to release my mouse and that's gonna place these files into the
document
and then if I don't want to resize them at all which in this case and only want
to do right now
I was gonna click the checkbox to commit to that placement
do the same for this one and these
to image assets are added as their own separate layers in Photoshop
there's a special icon here that indicates that the user smart layers
so if I skill them up or down they're not going to degrade
in image quality
so that these images here in here we can can play around with them a little bit
if you find that your images are coming in too small
for this resolution is
DPI
I recommend fining wait either enlarge the images
or pick a different image because you might need to
a pretty big image here to work with this type of resolution reason why we're
working with
DPI eyes because it just makes for a nicer print
so now we can use the
black arrow to hear to move these layers around wherever we want them to be
and if we want it change the hors d'oeuvres layers the way that they're
stacked we can drag himself I wanna put the logo on top of them are of
a click and drag in
I can move on top of the other if we want to change the size at them
scale them you can hit control T
or you can go to at it
Free Transform I was going to use the shortcuts though
and it'll give you these transform handles
now if you just drag love them you're gonna squashing image
what you probably don't want to do so what you gonna want to do to correct
that is full shift
while you're driving in shift or constrain it
in proportion if you also hold
alt while holding SHIFT it will scale from the central constraining so that
can be helpful if you very pleased something
you can keep it in the same place but you can just make it bigger smaller
sonamy
I love about this big click the checkbox to commit to that change
and then I'm going to just drag it over to the side here
if you want to drug something in constrained to an Access
like the horizontal axis here and what I mean by that is
and moving it but I can't move up or down even if I move my mouse afternoon
this is happening because I'm holding SHIFT so as I was dragging a story
holding shift in a constrained
to the sexes I wanted to constrain it vertically
it started raining vertically hold SHIFT
now you can see that I can't move it to the left to the right
sons gonna put it right about here and resize my mom of
again I'm gonna do you control team to transform it and in a skillet from the
center while constraining
by holding shift and alt
it's making about this big
right here Beach
keyboard shortcuts really important because makes it faster to do things if
you don't have to keep
repositioning everything so if you can kinda just keep things
online from the beginning it's going to make it easier to work with later
so now one thing we should look into before we start
really placing tax and everything you gonna wanna find some way to divide up
the scarred
and make it look nice and
you have to kind of account for what you have in your so I know I have the logo
on it to be about this big and i won
there to be a lot of hard work because it's going to be a small card my
you know look something like this: so really want artwork to stand out
in the text just has to be readable just gonna be some information
so if we wanna know where to place things just to make them look good
you can use something that's called the rule of thirds
and if you imagine that you can this is
divided up into
grid and give you an example here
this is a agreed it's a rule of thirds great so everything's divided into
3 call rose three four columns so what i recommend doing
is placing year image assets for your text
within these areas so
I'll ogres within this
column in this role here my artwork is mostly
taking a these two hear than everything else can kinda just
you know flow around but that generally makes it easy to
to do a layout if you just kinda do everything with them relive thirds
your layouts you can look good ninety-nine percent of the time
the E I pulled up that good by going to the crop tool here
and you can just click and you have to be careful because if you change this
box at all its gonna trim awesome if your image so be careful not to do that
you can use it just to get a visual
so I think tomorrow the place for the stuff I was gonna tidy up some things
here
in a double click on these layer names and I'm gonna name them
just to make it look nicer
and now we can go ahead and add some text so we can take the textile
here you can get to you on your keyboard for the textile
and was gonna click and we can start typing syntax
now I recommend
picking a fart thats readable
and in New York pick something that's obviously not too big into small
depending on if you're going to have a line to the left or right or center you
might want to take that first
on a pic center because I want my text here to be centered
fans can go ahead and type in my name
okay to commit to that you really have to worry too much about the font size
because you can transform text like you can with an image
doing control T on your keyboard and surrounded in
you know hunt around with the spot sizes here trying to pick the right side of
the scale it down and then
go ahead in rounded off to a nice even
point size here
works pretty well for that
I would say for the card for business card be published in grozny smaller than
about
a and six would even be pushing it because it's not going to be very
readable for the average person
free font size really want sorry between nineteen

miss you gonna have just a really big piece a text or something or a logo you
could do that pretty big
but really it's up to you how you want to design this you have to do everything
horizontally to do vertically you can make a bigger wider Carter
skinny fit her car your the really anything you want this is kind of
the principles is making a card slot you know
I'm not telling you that you have to do everything and the way I'm doing here
design wise so as I mentioned earlier
about keeping alignment to just to save you time
isn't another neat little trick so if we're gonna want more tax
that's going to be the same font size
an ally and at the same way that this is here rather than going to the type tool
and placing other PC type and then having to constantly realigned
all the pieces a type that you had it's easier just to clone what you have
so the way the on some things you hold down alt when you have the air tool
selected
and your icon will change to this double arrow see there's a black and white one
and anytime that you click can you drag with the icon your clone
a new layer into that position
so if you clone and you hold SHIFT
know you can come now you can constrain your clothes to an axis so
if we constrain it now to this vertical axis
we get a copy that's aligned we don't have to line it later rates are deep
realigned
and since we picked I center alignment
ahead of time when we go to change this text that will stay aligned
if we didn't do that it would possibly be left the line and then we'd have to
go through in
do an extra step up having to realign everything so
thinking and really helps when you're working with this kinda stuff
you can be yourself whatever kinda I tell you what
misconceived visual artist but sometimes I use Illustrator
artist for hire you know want two different things
or click the checkbox to commit to that text
and again if we wanted to and more text with the where we want to clone selected
down open the keyboard drag
shift while holding on dragging
and holding with your mouse still and then release your mouse and shifting all
together when you want to just
leave it somewhere there if we want to change the texts like the text tool and
we can change it
you could put in you know phone number
could give you my phone number here but you need to put in your
phone number if you want thus all those text you can place for everyone
in if you decide you don't like it where it is you know of course you can move it
somewhere else
goes for any other stuff if you wanted to do something as a group and keep it
all together
you know maybe I wanted me this logo and this text
together I can hold down SHIFT
and click on the lower layer to select contiguous layers
or to select independently a signal down control
and just pick different layers here with the loose
selected that they can do a control G to group them
from in a committed group here that I can manipulate
so with this group selected no can move the entire group
I wanna move independent objects within the group
you can select them right move them again holding shift to keep things
constrained you can also use the arrow keys on your keyboard
up and down left and right she hold SHIFT while using their keys you can not
things in larger increments
if you wanna kinda finding something that's pretty easy to do
and again you just go back to the group if you want to meet with the group as a
whole
no centering things
and aligning things it's pretty easy to do in Photoshop
would say we want to make sure that this whole group here is perfectly centered
with the entire card here so we can you something as a reference to center upon
which is the card background because it takes up the whole document so anything
that we choose to center with will get centered
just basically in the senate the document so with background selected
that's this white background
we can home controller keyboard and select the info layer which is this year
and we'll get some alignment options and we'll go with this option here which is
aligned vertical senators
so now we know that this
piece of info is more or less perfectly centered
this doesn't always get it right now does most of the time but you might find
that
even if it is perfectly centered by what Photoshop thinks is centered
statically it doesn't look right to die
so I would still recommend adjusting things
until you feel that their senator there where you think they should be
so and then move the server and a little bit
using their Okies and then by my office think is
pretty good work on it let's add some more texts on and go back this
in full they ran on a clone summer this text here by holding alt
my keyboard
and let's put some more contact info
it's good to let people know
how to get a hold the view
if you have a website a that's even better to put on your card
you can also put it your Facebook page or your twitter feed
you know pretty much anything that you would use to contact people scape
I recommend if you have a really long complicated web site name like idea
and smoked for words you can use caps here because it doesn't matter if people
take them in with the cancer without the caps it's still going to your website
and I feel that makes it easier to read you don't have to put in the WWW
you know of but in the HTTP semi colon slash slash all that junk
it's really up to you what you want to use here
you go something like that sometimes it just depends on your design
so I see that this is too big to fit within
my safe area here so we're gonna change the font size a bit
to you
man will work
maybe about here its clone this again holding alt
and shift to keep it aligned while cloning
and let's put in some info about what we do you anticipate will get a good idea
he have multiple mediums that you work in or you offer multiple services
but that kinda stuff and then people get step quick glimpse into what you're
capable of doing
I'm using you said pay characters here which is a
you get them by holding shift in the backslash key
to divide my day free my own
all keywords: here but you could use anything you more really he could use
you know dashes if you're you
not gonna too much detail here
just babies about and
a lot of times I just do things by I'm not gonna get to
you know crazy about this amount of space universe is this myspace here if
it looks good to me
visually and I have to say that that's probably good enough
analysts that this line here isn't centered so we're gonna center that
on a click on this line text and also hold control and click on the back
earlier
wanna make sure that centered do the same thing with
in for the top here
make sure that centered know for sure it's looking pretty good
zoom out a little bit because you can overlook your card
and approximately the size that's going to be printed
and that's going to vary depending on how close you are to your screen and
what size your screen is
I'm working on a
everything generally looks really really huge in after really likes him out
I find that
percent to
percent somewhere in that range
is generally if i holed a print up to the screen
that's about what size it is but perceptually I think
percent so good
view to look at something as it's gonna create
if you're working and
PPI
so that would be in my opinion a pretty satisfactory card if you want to change
the background
that's pretty easy to you you can
but if he said artwork if you wanted to you or you could just throw a solid
color
recommend making a new layer and is calling it BG for background
and you can use the pay packet to pick a color
will use yellow and we ran into a wall
issue here where this graphic
has a white background
few different ways we can get rid a
weak and trembling notable apply
which works really well for backgrounds away it pretty much makes the bat
whole background go away
as we'll see if we move the more flair here
in person kind it almost looks like it's going behind the lair
you get rid of that white background whereas if we put it on or more than you
can see it covers everything
that's one way
for no usable in
multiply and we can do secret trick here where we double
click
rate between where it says the name of the layer and thus alike on
if we drag the slider here we can knock out some other background
you basically just keep dragging to the background goes away
so this is doing is it's essentially hiding everything that's white
and you know so on up until this point
so if there's a long way in your image that's gonna disappear to
so you not gonna watch out for that ideally you want to use images that
don't have backgrounds if you don't want the background to interfere with your
layout
in this case that works and if I wanted to do that with my logo to you I could
do that
to city centre more pliable and
no have a nice yellow background for my card
skip this my of back somewhere
looking at it kinda close I'm seeing still some friends on here
someone to go back in C&C it starts to remove the light colors
if the kinda want to can also try this:
trick here I'm gonna send it back to normal
you can try to use them magic Wand Tool
to a selection and remove the background
whatever recommend doing is instead of trying to delete the pixels
which you won't be able to do if you have a smart lawyer enabled here is just
use a mask
just click on the mask year and
good and very here in your Properties panel
true masks Nov
you know some varying
success here this doesn't work only because I put a drop shadow
on my artwork so ultimately what i think im gonna do them was gonna set the blend
mode
to multiply because I don't think that looks cuban
miss the Precor I want to change my background
rather than filling again with the paint bucket tool
I recommend using a live affect here color overlay
if you click on the swatch here you will get some different
color options for your background in the pink sky frightened pecan find something
that looks good
looks kinda cool click OK
me ago you can see
easy to change the background if we want to change the colors of our farts
of course you can you know discover the swatch here when you have to
on selected that you want to change
selling change the color the the
my name here change that way
order what can be faster sometimes
is again to use one of these effects here
clear overlay pick something like Wat
okay and if you right click on the Slayer now
you can go to copy layer style and that will copy this
effect that you put on the lair and you can select
all the other layers that you want to make way right click on them
and UK sleeve style: there you go
if you wanna play to drop shadow on some others text to help it stand now
double click on affects
drop shadow acquitting this checkbox
click on the drop shadow to change so the settings
again if you want to capitalist-style
by right-clicking you can do that its like the North Pole layers that you want
to apply the style to
right click and EP sleeve style: Mingo
of course I don't like this background being orange
and now the drop shadow doesn't work at all
notice the color overlay so went to school and is
turn off the effects for all this and put it back to normal how we had
of course you will want to make a backside for your card
more than likely so when I recommend doing
is grouping together all your layers from your front side
because you could make two separate documents but there's kinda really no
reason to not just
be more than after for you have to work between two documents so
I've got my friend here you can duplicate it by right clicking on it and
couldn't duplicate group
call it back had the front where
now we're looking at the back and
want to
go to some other stuff you like the logo on them off
maybe
on pat on the back where
and still eats more the stuff you let's just keep
I contact info
just for example sick this will be a backside
but you could really do whatever you want you could have a piece of artwork
we could have some additional information
and will want to speak a different color go and make this orange color so we can
distinguish between the two
so for her backside front side
so now what you gonna want to do is as we were looking at earlier
with their design specs this particular
printing service once eight if GOP your GPS
if you're working with Victor R which were not in this case because we're
working in Photoshop
when I can be exporting an EPS file
JK would degrade the image quality a little bit and possibly change the color
so we don't want to use such a pig
so we're going to lift if that's the best option here
used to fill our for printing
IRS artwork so what you want to do is you want to hide in revealed this back
in this from depending on
what you want to say if gonna file and save as
select if from the format
I don't wanna say with layers so uncheck this box
gonna call her different recommend not using spaces and using a high finish
unit
try to represent a space save this
shoes LZW compression that'll just make the file smaller but it's not going to
hurt the image quality
and again make sure that there is no layers miss the settings you can just
leave it there
click OK and they have a file
to file that you can create for the front of your card
and I will do the same for the backside will head the front layer
reveal the back clear go to File
say about us she's the to format
unchecked the layers box and will save it
has card back
enough we take a look at our in Asia assets folder
you can see that we've got a a card back in a card front that we can upload to
our website a
I'm and check it to see if it will print properly
you want to ensure that not have your text is getting cut off by the
bleed or any of that boundary guys that they have
set up for you and if they are say for instance
maybe some medicine for like this info appears too close to the edge
you can just move it adjusted down using a row keys on your keyboard
and do the same thing with their email down here at the bottom
discuss good things around to get looking the way or
I'm I recommend printing
a test batch of cards you know print
quite a few don't order you know like two thousand cards
because that there's something wrong with them maybe that the fight you chose
is an
readable or the colors then turn out the way you wanted to
or something cut off even though you didn't think it would
you know it's always good to test friends first that way if
something's messed up you can fix it and when it's finally looking the way you
want it to you
credit wise thing you can you know and a whole bunch in
I regarding farts
I ninety-nine percent the time I think I just use
myriad pro I'm I like san serif fonts
for text that needs to be readable sensor if
is the typeof found that doesn't have a bunch of
fancy I'm embellishments on it like for instance
Georgia if we use that see out the in Zavala
these letters there's this little hooks
and all these little extra little bits as they're called seraphs
and they make the font possibly harder to read even though they make the font
look nicer
I'm some fonts you know
have serious that are still readable but I for the most part feel that
it's just better to have the farby is readable as possible especially if it's
going to be small
so I just goes something like a myriad pro you could also use for gay and
there to Homer aerial me those fonts are all pretty much the same
but I recommend using something really really wacky
for all your texts cousin might look cool but people are going to be able to
read it and people just go into your cart away
if they can't read it and get me useful information on it
first paper goes be careful what kind of paper you print on because if you print
on colored paper
or unnatural paper it might change the colors
I'm some have your artwork when it blends
with the paper color in yourself to watch out for those white background
there's a little white background around some view image
you have to watch out for that because it might end up hurting so
on sometimes it's just easier just to work with a white background because at
that
and if you run into the issue now you know how to fix it
so there you go now you can make your own business cards
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