How to Make Your Own Business Cards in Photoshop Cs2
Business cards are an easy way to advertise yourself or your business to potential contacts, but business cards can be an expensive investment for a new company or a small solo business. Adobe Photoshop CS2 includes several tools and filters that allow you to make an attractive business card that can be printed on sheets of card stock at home and then cut out for distribution. While making your own business cards may take a bit of artistic and graphical skill, creating these cards in Photoshop CS2 does not require extensive experience with the application.
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Instructions
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Create a new document in Photoshop CS2 by clicking on the "File" menu and choosing "New." Set the width to 3.5 inches, the height to 2 inches and the resolution to 300 pixels per inch. Your background should be white. Click "OK."
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Access the "Select" menu and choose "Modify" and then "Border." Enter a value of 5 pixels in the pop up window and press "OK." This will create a 5 pixel selection around the border of your card.
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Choose the "Paint bucket" tool and set your foreground color to black by picking the black swatch from the color selection tab. You can also press the D key on your keyboard to automatically set your foreground to black.
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Click in the selection at the border of your card to fill the area with black. This will define the edges of your business card so that it may easily be cut out later.
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Design your card, including your company's name, phone number and physical address. Include your own name, position with the company and email address. The "Horizontal Text Type" tool will allow you to insert text in boxes that can be moved around the business card by clicking and dragging. You can further customize the appearance of your text by using the options in the toolbar at the top of the window.
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Access the "Select" menu and choose the "All" option. Then, open the "Edit" menu and choose "Copy Merged." This will copy the entirety of your business card, even if the elements of the card appear on different layers.
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Create another new image, and set the dimensions of the new image to seven inches by 10 inches with dots per inch set at 300.
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Paste your business card by accessing the "Edit" menu and choosing "Paste." You can also use the shortcut key Ctrl+V on a Windows PC or Cmd+V on Mac OS X. Click and drag the business card to the top, left corner of the new image file. Repeat this process ten times and organize the business cards so that you have two columns and five rows of cards.
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Print a sheet of business cards by accessing the "File" menu and choosing "Print." Photoshop will automatically center the image on the paper. Press "Print" to print a sheet of ten business cards.
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Tips & Warnings
Print a sample sheet of cards on regular printer paper to ensure that the cards print properly and that you are satisfied with their design and layout. Once you are sure the cards will print properly, print the cards onto card stock and cut them out by following the borders around each card.
