making a business card

[wagonwheel]

I want to make a 3.5 X 2 inch business card. I have the image I want to use. I want to print it on the business card paper available at any office supply store. The cards come on an 8.5 X 11 inch sheet, after they are printed the cards can be “punched” out. Has anyone done this in PSE 3.0? If so what was your workflow and do you have any tips> Thanks in advance for your help.

[Carbone]

You need to know the printable area of your printer (top and bottom, left and right margins, areas on which the printer doesn't print). Then you need to measure the distance where the card is printed (from the top and left margin).

Knowing that, you can make a document which contain both the space between the top and left margin and your business card.

Hope this helps!

Ray

[skstarkiller]

I have designed cards in PSE at the appropriate size, save them as Tiffs and then imported them into MS Publisher and used their business card template to print out those sheets.

[TonyW]

I've done it lots of times but by doing the design of the card in Elements and then pasting it into Word using the appropriate business card template. It's a lot easier that way although if you really wanted to you could do the whole thing in Elements by creating a new document the right size and using the grid to position the images in the right places. If you have Word or a similar program that has the Averyt business card template built in then that's by far the easiest way to do it.

Tony

[ME100FINN]

If you want to do the whole thing in Elements, check out the print options you can create from this thread:
http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7405

if you peek in other directories onyour drive, you will see the preset Avery txt files too -- have at it!!

[PaulH]

I want to make a 3.5 X 2 inch business card. I have the image I want to use. I want to print it on the business card paper available at any office supply store. The cards come on an 8.5 X 11 inch sheet, after they are printed the cards can be “punched” out. Has anyone done this in PSE 3.0? If so what was your workflow and do you have any tips> Thanks in advance for your help.


Avery has a great FREEEEE program you can download that takes all the work out of it.

Design any graphics - or even the entire card in PSE and just drop the graphic on the card.

Some of Avery's text stuff is actually easier to use (for me) than PSE.

Works for all the Avery labels-Business Cards- Greeting Cards - any of their stock.

[bjorg]

I just did a business card for my husband. I did all of it in PSE4. Saved it as a JPEG and then went to Publisher and used the Avery template. Worded great. He was soooo impressed and heck we saved a bunch of money not having to get hundreds printed out at a print shop.
BJ

[TonyW]

Just found yet another way. You can use Word to create the template, put a border round each of the cells and use the Microsoft Image Writer to print to a TIF file (they provide this for generating faxes). Open the TIF file in Elements and you have a template that's the right size with a border marking the areas to drop the images onto. Should work for any Word template so an easy way to do business cards, postcards, labels etc. Very quick, very easy :)

Tony

[bjorg]

Tony,
Wow! loved the potato bug! What kind of camera are you using? Wonderful!
BJ

[TonyW]

They are pretty neat - and I'm told taste just like green tomatoes which is really not too surprising. I used a Fuji S7000 - ideal for close ups like that because you get a lot of depth of field (compared to a DSLR).

Tony

[wagonwheel]

Thank you all so much for the tips. I had planned to attempt it by making the graphics/text in PSE3.0 then bringing it over to word and using the business card template. I am glad to see that suggestion—I believe I am on the right track. It will be a few days before I get around to it, but I will let you know how it turns out. Thanks again for the advice.

David

[jhester]

31/2inx2in9(8.9CMX5.1CM this is the size of the cardsYou need to know the printable area of your printer (top and bottom, left and right margins, areas on which the printer doesn't print). Then you need to measure the distance where the card is printed (from the top and left margin).

Knowing that, you can make a document which contain both the space between the top and left margin and your business card.

Hope this helps!

Ray