Hello everyone, now GraphicTutz will explain the tutorial
about business card. In this tutorial, I will create a retro style business card in Adobe Photoshop. To create this retro
style business card design, you will need the following stuff:
Font:
- Dancing Script
- Quicksand
- Blue Highway
Pattern: Doofy
Design Patterns Set
That’s all things
you need. Now, this is the final result of Retro Style Business Card that I’ve
designed before.
Final Result
Now, it’s time to
go to the tutorial. Let’s start:
Tutorial Retro Style Business Card Using Photoshop
First, create a
new document in Photoshop. In this tutorial, I will use the European Business
Card size so I choose the size of document into 3.5 inches of width and 2.0
inches of height. But, if you want to create the print ready design, you must
include bleed guidelines. So, I will add additional size to this bleeds. I will
create 2 guidelines for trim line and safety margin. The final size include the
bleeds are 3.75x2.25 inch, 0.125 inch for trim line and 0.125 inch for safety
margin. Then I use 300 pixels/inch and CMYK colors.
Then, you can
create new guidelines to the document. Click View > New Guide and choose the
horizontal or vertical guideline, then fill the position of guideline for the
document to 0,125 inch for each guideline. In this tutorial, I use 8 guidelines
that have position like the following detail:
Vertical: 0.125,
0.25, 3.5, 3.625
Horizontal:
0.125, 0.25, 2.0, 2.125
Create a new
layer, then pick the retro color for the background of business card. In this
tutorial, I choose #eae59c for the color background. Press Alt+Backspace to
apply the color to the layer.
Now, it’s time to
create the logo. Choose custom shape tool, and then click the seal from panel
option.
Before you create
the logo from the shape, you should choose the color. You can choose the dark
color for this, but in this tutorial I choose #222222. The result will be like
this.
Now duplicate the
shape, hit Ctrl + J. Then chage the position just a little bit, and the result
will look like this:
Create a text
layer by click the text tool. Use the Dancing Script font, then put the text to
the center of the shape layer.
After that,
choose ellipse tool and create ellipse shape. We will warp this shape, so click
Edit > Transform > Warp. Change the ellipse so will be like this image:
Now we have the
logo. Next step, we will create the dotted line.
Create a new
layer, then drag the layer below the logo. Click brush tool and set the size to
5px and Hard round. Click Window > Brush and then set the spacing into 200%.
Brush
horizontally and you must have the result like this:
Duplicate the dotted
line layer, and move it down. Create new layer, and then with text tool, choose
Quicksand font and write look like this:
Create new layer,
then please make 2 horizontal lines. Make a new text layer, and use the Blue
Highway font for the name of business card. You can give 4 or 5 space to have
this result.
Duplicate the
text layer, and then move some pixel to left. Double click to the layer, and
then give pattern overlay effect. You can choose the pattern from the pattern
you’ve downloaded before. So, the result will like this:
Now, I will
create a banner for phone number. Choose custom shape tool and then click the
banner1.
Add the phone
number by create new text layer and move the text to the banner. This is the
result:
Duplicate the
dotted line layer, then move to the bottom of the document. I will create
optional contact info to the business card. I will add email address, website
address, and twitter username. The result will be like this:
Conclusion: Now,
you can create a retro style business card using Adobe Photoshop. You can add
some optional effect to the text or another element of the document.