8 Steps to make your own Business Card
As a Corporate Identity, Business Card plays a central role to promote an Individual or Company Information. Smart corporations are using Business Cards in branding and advertisement. The more cool and creative the corporate business card design, the more it will attract consumer’s attention.
This tutorial shows you how to make a business card using Adobe Photoshop. After learning this you’ll be able to create/design your own business card that is very easy but professional like. I’ve used here my type of design, but you are free to choose your own design. Sounds incredible, huh? Let’s start the corporate ID tutorial.
1. Create a new document in Photoshop by clicking File > New…Set the width and height to either 85x55mm or 3.5:2inch, (or something else) and set the Resolution to 600 pixels per inch. Then press OK. Make sure the color mode is on RGB mode.
(Remember, in the US, standard business card dimensions are 2:3.5inch, while in most of Europe, business card sizes vary, but the standard is 85x55mm.With a printed business card (or anything printed), you need a much higher resolution than for on-screen images. 300+ is normal).
2. Use Paint Bucket Tool (G) to fill the white background with a light blue color. (I used 00C0FF here. It contrasts well with both black and white.)
3. Create a new layer from the layers palette. We’ll work on this new layer.
4. With your foreground color set to white, use the Elliptical Marquee Tool to create a circular area. Yes, we are going to create bubbles in the business card.
To keep a perfect circular selection Hold down Shift while selecting. Then press Alt+Backspace to fill the area with white. Repeat this process until your business card template has a fair number of white bubbles on it. You should draw a few large and some smaller circles.
5. Import your photo into Photoshop. Use the Move Tool to drag it into the window where you are working with. In the Layers palette, make sure the layer of your personal portrait is directly above the layer 1.
Go to the layer option above and click ‘Create Clipping Mask’. (A layer that’s clipping masked can’t go outside the layer below it. That is your portrait won’t extend outside the big bubble underneath it).
6. Well! Bring Transform Tool by pressing Ctrl+T to resize your picture so that it is placed right on the biggest bubble.
7. Now, create a new layer. In the Layers palette, move it down, so that it is only above the layer 0. Here again create some different sized bubbles like before and paint them white.
Reduce the Opacity of this layer to 50% from the layers palette. We are near to finish!
8. Finally take the Type Tool to type in some text, in both black and white. Try to integrate the text into the motif by having your text go inside or around the bubbles.
Voila! You have now your own business card. It’s simple but fashionable.
The Graphics Design & Content courtesy goes to Tradexcel Graphics Limited (http://www.tradexcegraphics.com). You can order business cards online from tradexcel.
