I want to show you guys a cool and easy way to design an amazing binder cover
Hey guys, my name is Ed Tchoi. Thank you for joining me today. If you're new to my channel, please consider subscribing. In my channel
I talk about everything to do with the office and today, well, I'm going to be talking about how to design a
awesome customized binder using this quick fit binder tool
So as you can see
I'm in this program called quickfitbinders.com and
before we get into that if you haven't seen my last video on how to choose a three-ring binder
click on the link right above me and I'll walk you through the process on choosing the right binder for your application
And I'm always a huge proponent of having the right tool for the right job
So once you've done that one of the things that really kind of bothers me is on traditional binders
I'm sure you guys have all kind of experienced before where you've got a little
label that you're trying to put down the spine of a binder and often times
it's even hard just even get the label started and actually I'm having a hard time
just getting this going over here
so really we're not going to be talking about these type of binders because if you're into labeling, it's um,
It's just really difficult and cumbersome. So let's get rid of that binder
Now what I have today is a QuickFit binder
Now this is made by the Davis Group that are based Canadian based
manufacturer out in the Toronto area and they've been making binders for a long time and one of the cool things that they do is
they create binders with this open spine design and as you can see the whole spine is open and in it
you'll see this lovely label that comes with the binder
And it's just on an 8 1/2 inch by 11 inch sheet of paper. And what makes this really neat
Is that to label your binder
all you have to do is open up the spine because it's all open
you just slip in a piece of paper and it becomes super easy. So especially when you're labeling lots of binders
this becomes a really effective tool to use. Now full disclosure
I am working with the Davis Group to create this video, but I'm doing this because I love their binders
It's just an awesome tool and I wanna share this with you today
So first things what you want to do is go to quickfitbinders.com once you get there you're going to
want to register yourself now, this is all free and once you do that you can start designing. You can see here
I'm logged in I'm actually going to go right to the beginning to my design area and
The very first thing that you need to do is select your binder. Now if you're not sure
which binder you have
there is a product code on the back of your binder and you can input it right here on
the right hand side under quick code whether it be the product code or the UPC code
You can put in there, press submit and boom you're done. But in my case, I know what I'm working with
I'm working with a View binder. So I'm gonna go click Next
I know it's a one inch view binder and I'm gonna go click Next and today
I'm going to be working with an 8 1/2 x 11 inch sheet of paper for my binder cover
So I'm gonna go ahead and do that
So this is where all the fun begins! Now we can start actually just use their stock images for backgrounds
They've got tons of cool images. So if you want to click an image like this, for example, look at that
It's beautiful its stock. It's easy to use
If for some reason you need to get rid of it, just click on the backgrounds again, and you'll see in annex
Where you selected that image
so
Press on the X and I kind of had to fiddle around and find this because I was trying to delete it
Right on the image itself. So this is a really quick tip for you
So if I press X now, I'm back to my clean slate
so what I like to do is actually
Use my own image for just the customized things because it's nice to have something a little bit custom
so what I'm gonna do here is add my image and
I'm gonna go to my downloads and I already have an image saved here
So I'm going to open that up and once it's uploaded boom nice lovely picture
The first thing I want to do is actually size it for my binder cover
and what I like to do is just take this orange tab right here and
Click and drag it right to the top of my screen and there you go
If for some reason you need to get rid of this you just press the X button and that'll get rid of that image
But as you can see now that I brought in the image, it's covering the text boxes
So, how do you bring the text boxes forward super easy on the right hand side here?
You have a whole bunch of tools. So here I'm going to go send backwards
So I want actually my image to be on the background. So I'm there
once and boom on the left-hand side
You'll see my text appears and if I press it one more time
The other text appears which is on the face of the binder cover now from here. I want to and we're almost done
This is amazing. It's like so quick on how we can do this here
We're gonna want to customize our text and as you can see just like a Word document you can choose the different types of fonts
Font size font colors. I'm gonna go a little bit fun and go white because it's I like to bold by text
So I'm going to bold it over here and let's do something different here
I'm gonna go to the Courier font over here and I'm gonna bring this up as you can see
It's a little my text is a little bit smushed. I'm gonna actually first write what I'm gonna write here
office products
101 and I'm gonna click this orange bar drag it all the way down and
That looks pretty good and actually I'm going to Center it a little bit here
I'm gonna do the same thing for my binder cover make that a little bit bigger
And actually we're gonna move it right to the top
That's it no binder covers like it's so quick and easy, it's awesome
so what I'm gonna do now I can just if I feel confident just print it if I want I can preview the design as
Well, so from there I can go ahead and print it and of course I can save this to my design
So if I'm doing a series of binders or if I want to go back to this design
I can save it and once it's printed I have to have a printed piece right over here
So this is what my printed by under cover looks like now and this is the fun part. I'm going to insert
This right into my binder
It's not like it's so quick and easy and look at that it's beautiful
It's all customized the spines
Nice and labeled and just looks super professional and it's fun
If you're in the market for a binder check out the QuickFit Binders
Especially if you need to label a lot of binders if you're in the medical field
working a law firm
Educational fields like anywhere we're using lots of binders, especially this quick fit binder will save your life
It's just fun and customizable right? So thanks for watching
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Thanks guys, and I'll see you guys next time