Business Card design with Photoshop CC - for beginners

Name: Business Card design with Photoshop CC - for beginners
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An easy step by step guide on how to design a professional business card on Photoshop CC for complete beginners

Created bySyed Rahman

Last updated 10/2018

English

What you'll learn

Design a business card using your own creative ideas. Use the design for yourself or even sell them in various market places online to make money.

Course content

2 sections • 13 lectures • 1h 7m total length

Introduction1:19
Meet me, the instructor and lets get started.
A brief overview of Photoshop CC3:45
Welcome to Photoshop CC: Easy Business card design for Beginners.
On the first lecture I want to get you comfortable with Photoshop before we begin. We are going to look at some basic tools and shortcuts on Photoshop CC. We will be focusing on the tools that are required to design a business card. You may skip this lecture if you have some basic ideas about Photoshop and not a complete beginner.

So lets get started.

Setting up the document6:04
So lets get started without business card.
In this lecture we'll learn how to setup bleeds and safety margin for our document.Which is a required document setup if you want to sell your designs online.

I will be adding a template of the business card with the margins added, which means you may skip this lecture if you want to go straight to designing the business card. Although it is recommended that you learn how to set the margins up first.
Document measurements
Gathering ideas7:03
On this lecture, we are going to roam around the world wide web to look for some existing business card design to get ourselves inspired. So lets get to it.
Fonts and icons3:12
On this lecture, we are gonna get familiar with fonts and icons. On the resources I have added some basic icons and fonts that we are going to use on our design for the course.
Fonts and icons placement11:35
Lets get familiar with placing the icons on the business card that really brighten ups our design and how to use the text tool to put in our information.
Designing with shapes5:37
Now comes the most fun part. On this lecture we are gonna let our creativity flow and use the pen tool, use shapes and manipulate shapes to design our card. So lets get to it.
Textures and blending options4:58
Designing the back of the card5:05
Now that we are done with front of the card, lets look at the back of the card. Back of the card can be used as a new canvas to express our design a bit more and give our card some edge.
Designing a business card mock up9:34
On this lecture we are gonna learn how to make our card presentable. Through a mock up we can show how the design will look like once its printed out.
Introduction to printing effects4:09
On this lecture we are going to look at some printing effects such as spot uv, die cut, emboss/deboss etc to make our card look more fancy.
Finalizing and exporting4:04
Congratulations, you have reached the end of the course. Hope you had fun and learnt a new skill.

As a thank you, I have added some business cards templates that I have designed during my early years of graphic designing to help you out. You may experiment with these templates and have fun with them.

Thanks and I will see you on my next course.

Syed R.
BONUS - New free business card mock up template!1:02
Hey guys! Thank you for taking the course. I am adding a free business mock up template for you guys to use in order to show case your designs. The video explains how to use the card. Hope you find it useful.

Thanks.

Requirements

Students will only need to have Photoshop. No previous experience needed as all basic details are shown in detail throughout the lectures.

Description

So you want to make a business card, boost up your networking game and you want to make sure your elements scream your image and personality? or
you just want to let your creativity flow and design amazing business cards and sell them to make some cash? And you just don't know where to get started?

The course covers everything that is needed to design a print ready business card template on Photoshop CC. All the basic template measurement required to sell the design online are also covered through out the lectures. Enroll in this course with no prior experience in design or Photoshop and leave with the skills to design amazing print ready business card is just an hour.

WHAT STUDENTS ARE SAYING ABOUT THIS COURSE:

"It's awesome and interactive. I've learned a lot " - Benjamin-Whyss Olumide

"What I liked about your course was some of the links that you shared. I like watching your process of making it all come together. I picked up on some tips and tricks that seemed useful. I liked your use of simple objects to make a well presentable business card." - Maggie A

WHY TAKE THIS COURSE?

I am a professional graphic designer with over 5 years of experience, with experience as an In-house graphics designer for two of the largest MNCs in the world, including Uber. Allot of my design involved around print design and developing motion graphics, corporate brand identity. I have built this course for anyone from any background to easily understand the process and elements required to design a business card easily in the shortest amount of time. I believe if you are a serious learner, within just a few minutes, you'll be designing your own business cards after taking this course. This course covers the basic fundamentals for you to understand what goes behind designing a professional business card.

SUMMARY

The course is for complete beginners. The student requires no prior experience with any sort of software. Anyone with a few minutes can learn the skill through this course. From the skill learnt from this course, students can easily make a business card, use for themselves or sell them on various online marketplaces to earn money right away.

Also, there are tons of FREEBIES as you go along the course. Students will receive various resources to help them out through out the lectures. The final lecture will have two business card templates for students to experiment with.

Who this course is for:

Absolutely anyone who can spare a few minutes to gain a new skill, which can also be used to make money.

Business Card design with Photoshop CC - for beginners

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Course content

Introduction to the course2 lectures • 5min

Designing the business card11 lectures • 1hr 2min

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