How to Design A Business Card in Photoshop

Put Photoshop to work for you by creating your own business cards.

When you exchange business cards with a potential client or contact, you have a world of opportunity in your hands. To make sure that opportunity gets into the right hands, create a batch of business cards using Adobe Photoshop. Photoshop combines graphic design, typesetting and desktop publishing tools to let you become your own promoter, creating a card for networking, leave-behinds, direct mail and exchanges. Photoshop also provides the ability to customize your card for your organization.

Instructions

1. Open Adobe Photoshop. Click the "File" menu. Click "New." Enter "MyCard" into the "Name" field. Type "3.5" into the "Width" box. Type "2" into the "Height" box. Select "Inches" from each drop-down menu. Click "White" from the "Background Contents" menu and click the "OK" button. When the small card canvas opens on the screen, pull down the "View" menu and select "Fit on Screen" to expand your work area.

2. Click the "T" icon on the "Tools" pane to open the type toolbar at the top of the screen. Select a font for the main card text from the font menu. Arial is the default font, but you may want to choose your business' preferred font, where applicable, or something resembling your organization, such as a script for a wedding planning company.

3. Choose a font size. Click into the unnamed colored box on the toolbar and select a font color, such as one of the organization's preferred colors. Click the "OK" button.

4. Click the top-left corner of the card. Type the cardholder's name. Optionally, add a comma and type the cardholder's job title. Press the "Enter" key to drop to a new line and type the business name.

5. Click lower on the card. Reduce the font size slightly so the name and company stand out. Type contact information such as an address, phone number, email address and website.

6. Change text's appearance by highlighting that line or portion of the text and clicking the options on the toolbar, for example, clicking the center align button to align the cardholder's name and job title while leaving everything else left-justified by default.

7. Add a logo to the business card by clicking the "File" menu. Click "Open." Navigate to the digital logo and double-click the file. When it opens, click the "Select" menu and click "All." Click the "Edit" menu and click "Copy." Close the logo. Click the "MyCard" box, click the "Edit" menu and choose "Paste." Drag the logo into place, such as the top-right corner of the card. To shrink the logo to fit the card, click the "Edit" menu and select "Transform." Click "Scale." Press and hold the "Shift" key, click a corner of the card and drag towards the middle to shrink it. This step is optional.

8. Click the "File" menu and click the "Save" option to save the business card.

References

• Dimensions Guide: Business Card Sizes
• University of Washington: Type Tool

Resources

• Read this Article in Spanish