How To Create a Print Ready Business Card Design !!!

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Hello everyone this is Chris from Spoon Graphics back with another video tutorial. Today I'm
going to run through the process of designing a business card and talk about some of the
important things to consider when designing for print. How To Create a Print Ready Business Card Design !!! It's super important that you get things like bleed, color mode and resolution right when
you're creating your artwork, otherwise you might end up having your files rejected by
the printer, having to start again from scratch or even worse, receiving hundreds of prints
back that look nothing like your design!
So hopefully this guide will cover each step and ensure your print projects go smoothly.
Business cards are a common printed product that are fairly simple to design, but before
you start, make sure you receive specific artwork instructions from the printer you're
online print shops going to use. Every company has their own preferences, so the settings I'm using in
this tutorial might not match up exactly to what your printer wants, but at least you'll
know what they're referring to when they say stuff like trim size and bleed size.
We're going to use a mix of Illustrator and Photoshop to make the most of each application's
strengths. The overall design will be composited in Illustrator, so we'll start there.
Create a new document and enter the dimensions of the business card in the artboard size
settings. A common business card size is 88x55mm, but again, make sure you check with your printer
first on their exact product specs. If you're in the US, you'll probably find the measurements
are in inches as opposed to millimeters.
The print firms I've used required 3mm bleed, so enter
press Tab to apply it to all sides. Bleed is basically some padding around the edge
of the design which is cut off during the printing process. It ensures that you don't
end up with tiny slithers of white paper along the edge of your prints if the machine isn't
lined up exactly.
We're designing for print, so select the CMYK color mode so we're working in Cyan, Magenta,
Yellow and Black inks as opposed to RGB light. Then most business cards are double sided,
so increase the number of artboards to
The main white area of the artboard is the finished business card size, also known as
the trim size. The red outline indicates the bleed area which any backgrounds will need
to extend to.
It's also wise to highlight a safe area within your document. This not only makes sure your
important elements like a name or logo aren't too close to the trim area that they risk
being chopped off, it also helps balance your design by applying some margin around the
edge.
The size of the safe zone is entirely up to you but
enough to look neat. You can highlight this area using guides, or draw a rectangle then
right click and select Make Guides.
I want a black background for my card design, so I'll grab the rectangle tool and draw a
shape that covers the entire bleed area, clearing out the stroke to leave just the fill colour.
A black background sounds simple enough, but there's a whole plethora of different blacks
in print design. If you move the colour picker to black you'll notice it's made up

in RGB, which means there's no light so it's as dark as you can get, but look over at the
CMYK values and they're all over the place, totalling at
to be printed when you consider the general limit is around
There's a basic 100% K black, which uses just the black ink from the standard CMYK process
colours. This is good for text because just using one ink out of the four CMYK colours
means you'll get the sharpest possible print, but when it's applied to a large area it can
look a bit washed out.
Rich black is the term used for mixes of Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black that result in a
deeper black. A common one on 50, 40, 40,
four CMYK colours you set in your software and the amount of ink printed with each plate.
The trouble is, this particular colour mix uses all four plates, so it has a high risk
of misregistration which can cause fuzzy text, often seen on cheap newspaper prints.
A couple more common blacks are warm black and cool black, which mix
Cyan or Magenta. These two recipes only use two plates so it's much safer to use with
small text while still darkening the black. The difference between them, as their names
suggest, is one has more of a cooler blue tone, whereas the other has a warmer browny
red tone.
I'm going to use blue elsewhere in my design so I'll go with cool black to complement it.
Set up the colour manually by entering the relevant percentages in the CMYK values.
You can now begin building your business card design by bringing in a logo. Scale it to
size and align it to the safe zone guides.
There's no white ink in printing, unless it's a super specialist print. Giving something
a white fill in your software will translate to the other elements being knocked out to
allow the paper to show through.
When entering the text for your print design,
A business card is held up close so you can get away with generally smaller type, but
be careful if you're using elegant fonts with high contrast, there's a point where fine
lines become unprintable. The slab-serif Achille font I'm using is pretty robust so it can
handle
One thing to keep in mind when designing for print is the paper stock forms a large part
of the final design, which you don't get to see on screen. A lot of people try to add
gradients and drop shadows to make their designs more interesting, but these often just muddy
the final print. An area of flat colour might look boring on screen, but when its printed
you'll see the texture of the paper with a matte or glossy finish.
In my design I'm enclosing the main name and contact info in a white box, which needs extending
up to the bleed area. The text within this area needs to be black. I could keep using
cool black with 50% Cyan, but there's not really any point seeing as the text isn't
a large enough area to see the difference. All it does is risk misregistration, so instead
normal
For the other side of my business card design I'm going to leave the background white but
make use of a photo, so Photoshop comes into play here to use its strengths as an image
editor.
We need to recreate the business card document size in PSD format, so create a new document
and change the dimensions to millimeters. Photoshop doesn't have a separate bleed setting
so we need to calculate the total dimensions.
likewise 55+3+3=61mm. All print work needs to be
the resolution to
pixels per inch, then set the color mode to CMYK.
We can't see where the actual trim line is but setting the safe zone up using guides
will make sure the elements are laid out nicely. A quick way to do this is to set the size
of a marquee then snap the guides to it.
I want to have the logo and a tagline on this side of the card so I'll paste in the logo
graphic from Illustrator and type out the text with the relevant font. Usually it's
advised to add all your text in Illustrator because it's made in crisp vectors rather
than fuzzy pixels, but I'm going to overlay a photo, so Photoshop is the best option in
this scenario.
I've downloaded this space scene from Shutterstock. Pasting it into the document will automatically
convert it to CMYK and reformat it to 300ppi. This is a nice high resolution stock photo
so I've actually got to scale it down a lot. You don't want to try and use small images
from the web because they'll only be the size of a postage stamp in print terms, unless
you upscale them, which will make them look totally ugly.
The effect I'm looking for can be created using a layer mask. Filling it with black
hides the entire photo, then the areas I want visible can be selected and filled white.
Use Photoshop any time you're working with textures and images as part of your print
designs, then add text and logos in vector format over the top in Illustrator. When you're
done, save the file as a JPG using the normal Save As command so it retains the resolution
and colour mode.
Back in Illustrator this background can be placed onto the artboard for the other side
of the business card.
Before exporting the final print file it's wise to outline your fonts by pressing CMD+A
to Select All, then CMD+Shift+O to Create Outlines. This eliminates any chance of your
font not being picked up when it's opened on the printer's computer and defaulting to
something boring.
Go to File > Save As and select PDF. There's some options to add printer's marks but unless
your printer has specifically asked for them just leave them off. There's also a PDF setting
here that might be required.
This file now contains both business card sides in one print ready document. You can
give the file a quick check over by opening it in Adobe Acrobat.
Look for the Output Preview tool and toggle the various plates to see how the design will
be printed using the 4 process colours. In my design you can see Magenta and Yellow aren't
used at all on the first side and just black is used on the name area.
On the other side, the photo is made up of various percentages of all four colours.
If you're new to print design this video might have bombarded you with loads of information,
but hopefully it was a comprehensive guide to the things you need to consider when setting
up a print file. If you did find the video useful a thumbs up to help spread the word
would be really appreciated and if you want to stick around for more, remember to hit
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Business Card Tutorial - Create Your Own - Photoshop !!!

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dollar everyone and Tony Richardson with gun expert dot com
in today I'm gonna show you how to create your own business card now Business Card Tutorial - Create Your Own - Photoshop !!! the template I'm using is a three and a half inch by two-inch
business card and this is pretty standard if you've noticed subsection
everything out into zones the green
area green on an is a safe zone
anything that's printed or tighter you know put in this area
is safe it worked be clipped or trend the red is where their machines will
actually trend SAP you
printing documents online uploaded to this or copper on the few
go to their web sites here's best could have business cards and see all business
cards you can get some ideas so
what it's going to look like arm got print this is the
you can go to got print acecomm samples you samples online
and then you can see pew examples here's one right here
just a nice logo on a white background some information
of a simple so I'll show you how I do it
and I'm gonna upload this template on my site so you'll be able to download it
and
each one of these is layered so you can now basic or shut the text of
shut these two of them will have our safe area here
and I'll create a new layer will rename that
background and then I will bill at where
white shift f5 will do it or you can just command you like it
now let's go and drop in a logo and I created a logo just before doing this
but say here's a logo now this is just a made up name it doesn't exist but
I'm if you do have a logo PC I knew resizing in just whole shift
enable constrain proportions and world keep your risk you in the logo
and I'll put it up the top left which here is where you see a demo slogans and
business cards
now we need to put a little bit attacks than so
of just that type my name Richardson
and click OK and then no

paper project
manager quick okay
now grab both these layers and will hold this
select all in a long line them on
or clicks like to to have this mean you come up now one thing I'm gonna wanna do
is this gonna change the
callers hear to



alright so that we can stay consistent and project manager
want to go ahead where between


so it's a little bit liar click OK on
we should be a row and then I'm gonna him down just a bit
will double click on my name make clear that

maybe and double click on this one it looks like it's a six already so
leave it at that but I'm gonna dropping down just a bit
all right now let's go ahead and with quiet
me week but some import here or
we could just maybe this could be the company information this
area here can be my information or
we can do it to spend anywhere you will just go ahead pay some tax in here
some where broder this would be in Lansing
Michigan and poor
and then
I'm I quick doubt must-see area
let's go ahead but it phone number by
on to work by
sounds good and call me there
on a promise i walking answer right away
actually I want because remember
but term you probably knew that we're gonna grab I'm
I'm gonna put a line here so I'm getting used to the our vector tools here
and miss you man so I can get just a few pixels wide
something like like Diana surrounds you
looks yeah my back I am
may want to put a you know I'm I'm I like corporate clean so maybe we'll just
put
something like a website down here BWW that
expert dot com click OK
me we can align it with a rectangle tool by
crap select sooner than and
looking pretty good might be a upon this

somewhere over just a bit just a match
okay so looks pretty good now
there's a few other things we can do we do you see this safe zone
so before you upload this year gonna shut that layer of
and then you'll do a Save ass I your grammar PDF
great here um in then you'll use the
US web kool aid their operation to
so I've already had that saved in your
mode here so when they change the print profile
so it should be fine if you use my template one thing though you may want
to do if you won desperation
this up just a bit with the something Mike I was talking about the bleeding
edge
earlier if you have graphics that go of the adage
that believe it is basically so we'll make our
they don't have any artifacts or white gaps on the edge
from communing sample I just have right here
just the logo itself for this made up company
mine and I'll just pull this
all the page where we can still see a
actually I tell you what let's drop it all the way below everything else
then ok duplicate it by just dragging it down
creamy layer and then walk grab it and will pour
all the way up to the top gray hair
okay now arm that's a little busy so what we'll do is work re
a hue and saturation adjustment layer above it
will let's just are well actually ran percent reaction up a bit
and I'll Drive the lightness just so I can keep the colors cuz I pulled a
saturation
down won't be able quite the difference in colors here it looks like we're
losing a bit anyway so
but for a watermark this come about where we may war
this could be arm together looks pretty good
it's pretty sharp so just give me a little bit of an idea of some other
things you can do
arm you know you can put more information right here if you want it
with this at the top you may not want too much going on here you may not want
any information maybe a
phone number something for the company this is your cell
but you can you know you can't assign this anywhere you are this is a nice
corporate clean crisp
look so you'd make sure all your layers are off you cannot look
that you're safe zone this is where cut zone is so
let's say you wanted peace I am be circles here
to to actually show up one thing you're definitely gonna wanna do
is on I'm plants around one so
grab it gonna pull bows and because this red area
that's where it's going to be cut probably between the red and the great
so that was important to you too for branding purposes or something like that
to get a few these outside circle center
you may wanna pull that in just a bit not just make sure that when it's Kat
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Design a Business Card Using Canva !!!

hey everybody this is Mark from PC classes online dot com I'm so glad that
you're with me today because
I'm gonna teach you how to make a business card using camera dot com Design a Business Card Using Canva !!! now if you've never used camber than I suggest that you push pas on this video
and you watchin this one instead because this
video will teach you the basics of how to get in an out in using the tools
that are built in the can for but if you're kinda familiar with how to use it
then let's jump right in because I'm gonna show you how to design
a vertical business card using camber in
what'd redesign one that I made in the past for a great client name Andre
best printing company Ballard his
a great guy a lot of fun to work with and these cards came out really nice let
me show you what the end result gonna look like
this is what the card looks like this was actually a
card he would use at book signings because he just finished his first book
a few months ago
and he did to have a particular tool to given
to put into people's hands hard to remind them who he was and how to get in
touch with them
and that kinda thing so on one side has a picture was booking on the other side
has
little bit details about him in some contact information so
that's what we're gonna make today so without any further ado let's jump
right into it the first thing you want to do is you want to log in the camber
dot com
hopefully not to do that by now and then when it comes up to this page the page
you always start with
and ask you to create design ordered shoes
a template they're going to use for your design
and normally you would click this big plus button right here
it would open up its gonna show you all the different choices they have built in
right here is business card and typically if your gonna do a horizontal
business card this is a perfect place to start
but we're gonna do it vertical card instead of horizontal
and right now thus far as I know camera doesn't have a
vertical card template built-in so we're gonna have to put in
our dimensions manually and a standard business card size
here in the US is three and a half inches by
two inches now I don't know the conversion to centimeters
or whatever so someone's gonna have to help me with that one but what we're
doing
does we're gonna go up here to the top we're gonna click used
custom dimensions and we're going to change this from pixels to
inches and then we're going to put in the size that we need now
because a business card specifically is going to be printed
a good printer is gonna need what's called bleed area
or extra area outside the regular
size so they can trim it and have color all the way to the edges
so instead of putting three and a half by two we're gonna have to put a little
bit have a different number
and this is a standard number four any good printer
so for the width love this card we're gonna say two point

box keys me will have a two-point
one
and then for the height
were gonna say

slut
just gives a little bit %uh extra room for bleed
dahmer click design when it comes back up its gonna how
our campus ready four straight here ever gonna do a two-sided cards I'm gonna go
ahead right away and I'm a click add a new page
because we're gonna have two pages right here the front and the back
homers zoom in just a little bit so that we can see what we're doing
fatal zips article too far and then
the first thing I'm gonna do is we're gonna work on the front of the car let
me just a reminder at the front looks like
the front is gonna be rate you're going to have those background with the books
at Nana
and then the Barnes and Noble logo and the doesn't amazon dot com logo right
here
the front can actually be really easy to make the back to be a little more
complicated so we'll jump into that pretty quickly
such a back over here the first thing we need to do is put our background in
there
some legal right up here too uploads kinda party got my pieces in here and
here's my background
so quick that popped right in there just need to make a little bigger to
fill the space by grab in the corners they're going up the background and then
here's the book that we have already cut out as a
transparent PNG cyclic not there's our book
resize it just a little bit remember that this card is gonna be trimmed at
the printer so you don't have things really close to the edge
because I'll get rimmed of
so we'll do something like that my move down a little bit
by the way little triggers if you're trying to drag it with your mouse that
works too but it seems to pop to places you don't really want sometimes
so if you just click it once and then use your eros
arrow keys to move around a little give you are smaller movements
so that's about right the money to put the Amazon and Barnes & Noble locals and
there's a lot going click
Barnes and Noble
and that's pretty much
we need for the front that's pretty easy plus job to the back here
now on the back again let's go back and look at what we're trying to make
we have a circle with Andres picture on it and you notice it also has a white
circle and the yellow circle there
that's gonna be important as we work through sees got a wooden background
which is the same one that's right here
I just closer there we've got all the details about him
and some pictures the bottom along with the chalkboard
on back on here that's inside a large circle frame that goes all the way out
here
an enormous that it also has a yellow circle behind it
so that's where we're headed let's go back over here
and at some point to the video hell I'm gonna go ahead and stop talkin speeded
up a little bit so that you can keep up but
I'll stop and give you details when they're necessary as we go
so I think the first thing we're gonna put in here's the background so
here's my background comic a little bigger just so it
make sure you cover the background their move it up to a private here
someone here I'm not going to worry about the fact that it's not
are covering the whole back on because it's going to cover by that large circle
down here
next thing a man do summer put in a circle frame input Andres face in it
there
from this picture so what I need to do for circle frame is go to layouts
I'm sorry excuse me search and then frames
then go down and grab the
circle frame which is right here and we're gonna make a little smaller
something probably like that
and you see it automatically pops to the center did make a center which is great
this is drag a photo in here or upload your own we're gonna drag a photo from
my uploads
to drag it over there when we get to reset that circle
to pop it into the circle together let go
and then if we had crop we can with him down a little bit Serina click crop
can move down until his face in their work should be
and then click the check mark right here that's pretty good
and now we need to put to other circles under there a white circle
and
and a kinda yellow sir
and the next thing we need to do is put the text in here
and then there's four pictures across the bottom and in the very last piece
for the news that large
arc that goes through here and the reason we're doing the are cool last
is because whenever you use a frame
in this case is circle frame and you drop something in it putting things on
top a bit is impossible because
if you'd put if you try to put extra thing on top
I'll the framer the circle in this case I wanna be a drag something over there
automatically get sucked into that circle into the frame and it's very hard
to deal with we're going to the frame last and then move it back was behind
everything
so let's do mom our bottom pictures will do that next
hammer go back up to frames I'm gonna drag
out just a standard little a rectangle frame here
we're gonna make it smaller discoduck on a high ball what size it might be
let's do something like that and then gonna drop it here
when a cop in a couple times
and now all I need to do is drag def
Schurz into those frames let me go back up to my uploads
an ominous to start dragon pictures into those frames
and normally I would mess around with AUB cropping them and moving them to
different sizes but I'm not to do it for this illustration just for a second time
and then will do are taxed
all rights on now we're going to put in the last thing and that's that large
circle frame with the chalkboard background in this all gonna look
like it's coming together so what we want to do is wanna go up to search
again
when I got two frames and then we're gonna go and find a circle frame again
this one right here
I'm gonna drag
out quite large make a little bigger than our
right there
there were gonna go to our uploads and grab the background and drop it into
their
send back all the way behind everything
there is no
a number almost done all we need is another couple circles back there
and there we are we've got the front and the back
Ave great lookin business card
well as always thank you so much for watching
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and you honestly realize that you need some new business cards
but you'd rather pay someone else to design them for you I'd be happy to give
you a hand
in addition to working with David PC classes online I also own a graphic
design company called big blue designs
and you're seeing a few of the cards with design scrolling by right now
you can contact me through my website bigger designs dot com
and you can see more about work there as well thanks again so much for watching
class dismissed *** ***