in today's InDesign tutorial on how to design a business card I'm going to show
you some cool techniques that you can add an image into text or shapes perfect
for this neat business card that you can see on the screen right now
in today's InDesign business card to toriel I'm going to walk you guys
through parts of the design process but the main thing today is to show you some
neat tricks on how to place images inside of text and custom shapes for
your business card design first however we need an InDesign document for a
business card design go up to file and choose a new document today's business
car is going to be portrait and so use millimeter measurements of 55
millimeters by 85 millimeters which is a pretty standard size for business cards
we want to have two pages obviously because the business card is
double-sided and we also want to adjust a margin to something like 8 millimeter
if you click the link icon is going to add that measurement around all four
sides more importantly you want to add a three millimeter bleed so the printers
can effectively cut out your design without the important information being
cut away so when you're ready click OK to generate the InDesign document for
your business card design when we import imagery into InDesign we want to make
sure the imagery is high quality and to do this we need to make a Photoshop
document beforehand we're not going to design the business card in Photoshop
but we just need to make sure the image itself is going to be high quality make
a new Photoshop document and make it the same size as your business card plus the
3 millimeter bleed so you're gonna have six millimeters more height and 6
millimeters more width which equates to 61 millimeters by 91 millimeters make
sure the resolution is 300 PPI and the CMYK is the color mode for print
this is going to be the image that I use my design in this business cotta cereal
and I want to show you how to do interesting things in InDesign next but
finally however we need to save the image as a high quality JPEG in
Photoshop first
so back even in design take the rectangle frame tool and carefully draw
a box around the edges right up to the bleeds like so you can then take the
selection tool and place the image in place by heading up to file place and
locating the image that you just saved in Photoshop it should fit perfectly if
you made the Photoshop document correctly including a three millimeter
bleed also make sure your View mode in design
is set to high quality because sometimes it can be set a typical display by
default for the front of my business card design I wanted to add some
contemporary type using my name and to do this I took the type tool from the
tool bar and then I draw a box I will copy this type of the command or ctrl C
because I want to use it later I'm using a phone called lemon milk in
case you want to know now on this section or business card
things are very standard but I'm gonna show you some neat tricks using the side
below in its business card you toriel if you look at the bottom left on your
screen you'll notice two boxes color the color palettes which are quite similar
to the ones in straighter to make a white background for the second side of
the business card take the rectangle tool and draw a box over the entire page
make sure you have a white field with no stroke we can lock this shape down in
place so it doesn't move around whilst we finish the business card design
pressing command or control V will paste the copied text in place and then select
the text and change its color like so
I'm going to show you how to place an image within this text something you can
apply to your very own business card design using Adobe InDesign first resize
and reposition your text and then press command or control T for the type window
we need to first outline the type which you can do like so and it works similar
to how we do in the administrator then simply go up to file and place and then
make sure you have the play selected item box and the very bottom selected
from here you can use the selection tools to move the image around within
the text this effect can be also menus correctly for a business card design
today's InDesign tutorial is a way to show you some tricks and techniques for
business card design and then you go away and use your own creativity for
your variants before we export the business card for print and Adobe
InDesign we're going to explore one more technique you're going to find the pen
tool in the tool bar and with this tool you can actually draw out custom shapes
much like you would in Photoshop Illustrator
once you have your custom shape you can then go through the same process that we
did just now and that is to go up to file in place and look at your image of
your design
the image is going to be plated in the shape as a kind of frame and again this
technique is awesome for print business card designs and when using Adobe
InDesign in general
when you do have your business card ready for prints you need to select all
the text boxes by holding down shift on your keyboard and clicking each one at a
time then as you would do an illustrator outline the text we do this for the
print to have no issues recognizing the fonts when the business card is printed
the best file format for print when using InDesign is PDF I feel say locate
PDF in the export window like so use the most recent version of Acrobat and I'm
gonna use a two up facing style layouts
the compression should be fine by default and I use the printer max here
but make sure you use the document bleed settings the other settings for the most
part are going to be fine by default
and any warnings you have will be flagged here as you can see I have none
so once you've exported it you can review your business card design in
Acrobat and you're gonna notice these lines in the corner these are the
printer marks they represent the bleed and the crop the printer will use these
to cut away the excess of your design so there is today's business car to toriel
in InDesign brought to you by cetera graphics I hope you found these
techniques useful for your very own business card designs I would like to
remind you all that I have a recent custom fun ready for download on my
portfolio website it's a custom handmade font in a script kind of style
so if you want to download it and help out the channel as well as having a
unique and custom font head over to my website via the card in the top right
corner also I mentioned last week that I'm working on my in death course and
vectors website that's going to be launching in July and this is how is
looking at the moment obviously there's a lot of work still to be done on it but
it's getting there slowly but surely I'm going to have courses for all kinds of
designers on there as well as vectors another designs were download so stay
tuned for news on that and of course we did like today's video drop a like and a
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on Wednesday but because this week I've got so little time on my hands
typography Tuesday would have to wait off for a bit but once this website is
finished everything is going to get back to normal here on YouTube store graphics
until next time guys design your future today
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