
There are many different ways to attack a business card design. Clean & corporate is always nice. But why not get a little wild? This tutorial will walk you through setting up a vertical grungy business card template, front to back and ready to print.


| The outside line represents the cut line. Anything printed beyond this line will be cut. The inside line is our safe area. Keep all of your text inside this area. Download the PSD template to see the blank business card template set up with guides. | ![]() |
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Next, grab your type tool and start populating this card with your info. Make your name nice and big, and add your important contact information underneath -- don't forget your website URL too. It's a good idea to keep your smallest font size under 7pt to remain legible. For this example, I've used a clean san-serif font DIN, and set the name in 12pt, the title in 8pt, and the rest 7pt.
Let's add some dividers. Create a small white line beneath your text and extend it to the edge of the document. Blend it in by changing the opacity to 30%. Now duplicate this layer as many times as needed, position them between your text lines, and use your eraser tool with a low opacity to randomly fade out parts, creating a worn look.



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I've been designing for over 10 years now. I've had hundreds of projects sent to offset printers. And I agree usually text should be set in AI, Indesign, or Quark BUT...
Photoshop in versions CS1-CS3 (maybe earlier) provide the Photoshop PDF format. If you save as such, your text will remain vector. The downside is that it creates much larger files than preparing text in the other programs but the point is that it's doable. For smaller jobs, I do this all the time. The end piece retains the sharp text characteristics you'll find from saving to PDF from Ill, Indesign, or Quark.
As far as converting to CMYK screwing up the layer look achieved by layer modes, realize that some styles aren't easily achieved by starting out in CMYK. In those cases, I'll simply keep my working file in RGB. Once everything is good to go, I'll duplicate the file and flatten any layers that shift when converting to CMYK. I then convert to CMYK and adjust hue, saturation or anything else to bring it back to some resemblance of the RGB file.NotImpressedWithTheBitching
What is all the bitching about? I have sent numerous business cards in this format to my printing company and the outcome was exactly as I have designed it. If you are a professional printing company, then go bitch to your employees and rather give accolades to this design. mr.dottedline
nice business card but what is everyone talking about with the text RGB to CMYK
you're wrong. Saturating the image won't fix it. Try downloading the zip file, then converting it to CMYK. The blend modes and everything change. You need to start in CMYK. SHAME!!!!Greg
How did you get the final product, assuming the picture is of the actual cards? You can't send it to print as RGB, and if you convert your PSD file to CMYK, it gets fucked.
oh, the other thing is that you never want to assume what the bleed is, always ask the printer. Typically it's 1/4, not 1/8... but it depends how many they lay out per cut. Nice design, but you know nothing about print.NICE, but
I agree with the NO NO guy. Do the background and design in PS, but don't ever send text to a printer with Photoshop. Always send it to Illustrator or Indesign, and if you can't provide the font to the printer then "create outlines" in AI. He's a bit arrogant, but that's the biz. I too would fire someone if the sent in a print project through PS. Likewise, I would be horrified when the font came back from the printer all messed up. 












