How to Create Business Cards in Photoshop

Video Transcript

"Okay. Now, we are going to learn how to make a business card in Photoshop. So what we need to do here is go up to File, Start New Document. I already had the settings in here. As you can see, I have the width at 85 millimeters, and the height is 53 millimeter. We want the resolution to be 300 dpi -- that's dots per inch or pixels per inch. And the color mode is set for CMYK -- that's a...meant for printing your... There's a whole bunch of stuff you can learn about that. I'm not going to go through it right now, but yeah, just Google it if you need to learn more about that. But going to click okay. So we have our nice business card shape here. Just going to drag it out a bit. So firstly, what we want to do is draw in a couple of rulers in here just to make sure we don't go to close to the edge with our text or logos because when they cut the business cards, they can tend to cut off some of the text if the cutting isn't very clean. So now, we're going to write. We probably want to go about halfway down. You can drag the ruler down, and it should click when it's exactly middle of the card like that. And see how it kind of snaps in like that. So we've got to have four areas of the card, and so we want our...your name down here. Just going to put that on left align. Name here. Return. Cell phone. And email. So we'd have our text like that. You can, you know, position that wherever you want. If you want it over there or here. So we import a logo. I'm just going to draw a circle. You could have your logo up here like that. You know, you could drag that down or you can put this over here if you want your business name on this side. You kind of want to make sure everything's lined up so it looks nice. I'm going to snap that to there and snap that there. You know, obviously, you want to...you can spruce it up, put some more graphics in there or whatever you want. You can make your business name larger by going to transform tool. Maybe you want to put that into this frame here. There's a whole bunch of stuff you could do, really. It's up to you. You're the creative genius, so get it all looking nice. But let's make sure when you save it, it is saved. Let's go to Save As, and you want to save it as a PDF file or an EPS file, but generally, you want to make sure it's a print...meant for printing, not a jpeg or a gif. They're not a...they're not meant for printing at all. So there you..."