A business card connects you with your potential consumers or clients. It identifies you in connection with your business. Business cards should not have an entire story printed on them, a well-designed business card always should be precis in conveying the image of your business. But making that possible doesn’t always come so easy.
How are you suppose to make a 2 by 3 inches paper convey the overall image of your business? Your business card is not a thing that should have tell your company’s entire story.
A unique and professional business card should contain an image or symbol that people can remember along with the color, wording and texture of the card. These factors have a lot to do with conveying your company’s image and with people remembering it.
A unique and professional business card should contain an image or symbol that people can remember along with the color, wording and texture of the card. These factors have a lot to do with conveying your company’s image and with people remembering it.
You remember how many business opportunities you lost at these conferences, seminars and exhibitions because you didn’t have a business card. Now is the time to make a good one for your company. If you search online, you will see many ads selling cheap business card designs that can be used for your business card design. It is not recommended that you use them for your official business card. If these designs are available online, you’re not the only smart browser, and it’s likely that other people will have to download and use similar designs to design their organization’s business cards. Look for a few more blank business cards online and choose a card you like in terms of background color and quality.
Better yet, hire a few professionals to do the selection for you. They are your best choice when it comes to designing professional business cards because they have been in business for years and know how to design and print the perfect business cards to decorate your wallet. You can choose a plain white card, or what they call an ivory card, for your business card. If you wish, you can also choose those colorful business cards which are popular among all these days. During your stay, you may also meet with a business card maker. These programs are helpful when you need to print a limited number of business cards at once.
How to Make Business Card in Photoshop
Let us tell you a few steps that’ll be beneficial in designing own business card in photoshop;
Step 1
First of all open a new photoshop document file on your computer. Select the CMYK color mode and 300 dpi minimum. Set the size to 3.75 inches by 5.25 inches wide. This the size that every basic business card is made. Add some extra space on the edges incase the printer need to cut bits off the side, commonly known as a bleed.
Step 2
Strat with building the background for your card. Decide with the color you think goes best with the nature of your business. When you’re done with the color selection. Work on the foreground and background color as you like the gradient to be. Now select the option ‘foreground to background’, as shown in picture. This way you can easily drag the gradient across the canvas.
Step 3
Work on giving your background some texture. Fill it with some elements or shapes that you think best goes with your business image. You can also work on adding layers to it.
Step 4
When your done with the background, textures and layering now move on to the toolbar and click on the “Type” tool. Click inside the document and type in your full name, address, website, phone number and an email address. Write it on separate lines and adjust it on whichever side of the card you think suits best. Now select the text and click the “character” tab window and change the font to the font you think suits the card better. You can change the alignment of the text by clicking on the “Paragraph” window.
Step 5
To open a new file for browsing the image file from your computer click “CTRL+O” and upload your company logo. Press the “Open” tab to display the logo inside the photoshop window. Now drag and adjust the logo to the desired position where you want it to be.
Step 6
Now move on to the “Type” tool back again just to add a new block of text. Type in your company’s slogan or tagline to best describes your business. Adjust the text again by using the “character” or “Paragraph” window.
Step 7
Now the final step. Click on “CTRL+S” and save the designed file. Make sure to save a copy of your designed file as JPEG, PDF or TIF format. These formats are usually printer friendly.
Now that your business cards are print and ready to be dispatched to the office. Don’t forget to request them to put it or store your cards in corrugated card boxes.
