hey whats up youtube hope you're doing well today i have a tutorial on
designing a business card. i'm going to run through how you set up your document
firstly in Photoshop and then how to design the artwork in Photoshop for your
business card from there i will show you how to set up your printer document in
indesign and how to explore the business card and the artwork from Photoshop to
indesign ready for print
the first thing you need to establish with your client or if this is your
business card established with yourself are the dimensions
I've put a link in the description below or various dimensions used in the
industry around the world summer portrait in summer landscape i
personally prefer to use portrait designs as you can see here for my most
reason business card design here is a design preprint and then again
afterwards you can see have changed it slightly but i'm really proud of how
this came out and this is a design for myself
however the most generic and most common dimensions used that I've been counted
when designing a business card is 85 millimeters by 55 millimetres landscape
once you have the dimensions established we need to set up your document in
Photoshop you must understand that in the printing industry and the design
industry there is something known as a bleed I bleed is a term that is used to
describe a document which has images of elements that touch the edge of the page
extending beyond the trim edge leaving no white margin when a document has a
bleed it must be printed on a larger sheet of paper and then trim down
I think I bleed is professional and helps the printer cut down your design
effectively
I and many other designers use three millimeter bleed around the entire
design business cards so let's set up your document and photoshop rest
here's a quick tip or hack for you guys go to new document and put in dimensions
so 85 millimeters by 55 millimeters and you want to use 300ppi which will give
the best quality for something this size this right now has no blade so drag for
guides and down to each edge of the canvas
then give up to image canvas size and add six millimeters too both
measurements you had six and not three because you want three millimeters
around the entire canvas there will be six millimeters in total in height and
width if that makes sense so the document will be 91 millimeters by 61
millimeters in total which would include a three millimeter bleed around the
entire design from here you can go and design your artwork remembering that
anything outside of these guys will be cut out and throw away the printing
process to keep your most important information such as contact info etc
within these margins the artwork side of this is going to be completely up to you
of course and your design spec just remember that anything outside of these
margins will be cut away and decided i have here a designer did back in $MONTH
2015 for fashion label I had to design the logo and the business cards as part
of the full branding project i'm going to use this for the purposes of this
video but once you have you outwork you need to save the jpeg but it's best to
flatten this beforehand to go to layer flatten image
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now open up in design and create a new document make sure print is selected and
then click two pages you want to use the measures we did back in photoshop so 85
millimeters by 55 millimeters and then click three millimeters for the bleed
and select this icon right here to spread across the entire canvas you can
preview your canvas by clicking here or just go ahead and generate it and you
should have something that looks like this
go ahead and select the box tool here and create a new box over the entire
page including a bleed
once you've done that select the white arrow tool here and highlight the bugs
edited file and then place find your image and click it
it should fit perfectly if you used the right measurements if the quantity looks
bad like this its most likely because they're humaid on your desktop not set
high quality to change that go to view screen display performance and then
high-quality never repeat this for the other side and your business card is
almost print-ready
make sure to save your document before you go and exports once you have saved
it go to file export you want to select Adobe PDF or print make sure to select
the most recent version of acrobat either for the layout when printing
business cards to choose to a continuous facing an impression you should have
these values marks and bleeds and select printer marks or printer monks and for
the output no color conversion after that the export and you have it finished
you can check the quality of your work in acrobat reader you can check for any
anomalies or any issues that have arisen and of course your client can check it
to your business card is now print-ready I want to hear your comments on your
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design your future today peace
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