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1. Introduction: Hey, there. Are you wondering how
to take your art and make it into greeting
cards like this? Well, you've come
to the right place. I'm going to show you
step-by-step how to make your digital files
into printed copies. Get your Photoshop
ready, and let's go
2. Preparing the Image: Okay, everyone, so
let's get started. I'm going to show you how you take the photograph that you've your digital file of photograph you've taken of your artwork, or maybe you just have a photograph you want to
put on a greeting card, then you don't have to
necessarily do this step. But we're going to take what was maybe you've taken a
photo of a canvas or paper and how we're
going to make it into a greeting card. How do we do that? So we're going to have a blank, empty greeting card, but the front and the back are
going to have stuff on it. How do we do that? Let's get started. So first of all, you're
enough to find the file. So we're going to open
up, we're in Photoshop, use whatever photo editing
software you have. It's going to be
easiest to follow this class if you
have Photoshop, but you can adapt it. You just might have to
find different tools. Maybe they're in
different places. We're going to press Open and we're going to
select an image. So why don't we choose this
one here for it to load. I'm just going to open it. I'm going to skip
that automated. But you can edit
things in there, which is fantastic too. But I'm just going to skip that. And I'm going to rotate
the image first of all, because it's not the way
I want it to be yet. This is counterclockwise 90
degrees to get us in place. I'm going to now crop. You know what, Actually
before I crop, I want to make it a bit, make it a bit closer in
there so I can see better. Let's go to not just
a regular crop tool, but the perspective
crop tool because I don't think I got it
exactly straight on. So I want to make
sure you can see it's tilted a little bit. So I want to make sure
I get it correct. So I'm gonna get
close to that corner. Close to this corner. Click on each quarter
so as you click, you don't have to
click and hold. You just click on it. And click. Okay, if you think
you're satisfied with that, click on the check. And then let's center
this out of it. I also want to remove
my signature and then we can place something
else on it afterwards. Maybe a cohesive
signature look for. Maybe if I'm doing a lot of
different greeting cards, I can create my own signature that will be the right size
to the greeting cards. So if you've already
signed your painting or drawing and you're like, Oh, it's gonna be too small or it
looks too big for the card, or just doesn't look quite right for what I'm doing or
some of it's cut off, then you can do this method that I'm just about
to do right now. So I wanna go into Zoom. You can use your
quick keys as well. That's a little too much
Alt to get back a bit. There we go. And we're going to clone. Or using the clone stamp, you make sure it's clicked
on the clone stamp tool. And first we need to select something that we want
it to clone from. So because I have all
these other kind of flower grass sections that
it can blend right into. I'm going to select that also, depending on whether it's a
really strong color or not. I mean, you could
have just deleted it depending on if there's
a lot of background, but because of what
I've got going on here, I want to select a soft round so that the edges are harsh, creating a strong, solid circle. So I've got that and
opacities at 100%. And I'm just gonna go in. Okay, so see how it's
creating that line. That means I need to select
something up a bit higher. Okay, Now we need to check whether that's
going to be right. So Control Zero takes us back and we feel
like that's okay. It's not going to draw too
much attention to be edited. Okay. We'll leave it. I think it's just fine as it is. We might crop it anyways
once we get to the actual putting it into a
greeting card card form. So just I think this
works just fine. The other thing is, is
it the right color? So what you need to do is
verify that it's matching. Now, if you're an artist looking to make your art into cards, you're going to want to
keep that pretty true to the actual painting
as much as you can. So I just want to make
a few changes here. So I'm gonna go to adjustments
and brightness contrast. I'm going to brighten
this up a bit. And keep in mind we're
looking at a screen so the screen already
brightens things more. So it might look even
darker in-person, whether I want to
remove a bit of contrast or add contrast, totally depends on
what you're going for. I find, if I have too much contrast in a
painting with detail, sometimes it remove some of the detail in
the darker areas. So sometimes removing a little contrast
can be beneficial. I'm going to click Okay, and I also want to add
a little vibrancy. Vibrancy. So in our vibrancy
you can do saturation. So let me show you why I
don't choose saturation. Saturation, look when you go
really high in saturation, it messes with the
color really badly. So I'm just going to go
to zero right there. But vibrancy, I've
gone up pretty high. And look, it hasn't
really messed with the actual hues of, of everything like
the whole look of it. It's quite nice so you can add a little
vibrancy and it's not going to blow
things out the same way that saturation seems to do. So just try to find
what's true to your work. Assuming that you're an
artist, if it's photography, you already have your photo ready and you probably
can stop this, skip this step unless
there's things you need to edit from your photo
for the garden. So then we just need
to save this file. By the way, I didn't
use any layers we could have if you're worried
about making changes, but I'm not making changes
to the original file type, so I'm not really
worried about that. I'm going to export as a JPEG. And I'm pretty much going
to leave all of that as is an export and then
save it as a tester. Okay? Just make sure that, you know, if you have a bunch of layers in here and that kind of
thing you might want to save to make sure that you can go back and make some changes. And then it's a lot easier. So we've already saved it. So that is it for this
step of the lesson. So let's see how
you do with that. And then we can move forward because we have our image ready. Let's go to the next step, which is finding the right printing. Which can be a challenge
with you. There
3. Printing Companies: So your next task is going to be finding the right
printing company. So this could take a
little bit of time and really will differ
depending on where you live and what you
have access to. So if you have no idea, I need to do a little
bit of research. Maybe ask somebody who already makes cards that can
be really helpful. And so I have found, I've used a couple of
different companies. One I was using in
the United States, their prices can
change and it takes a long time for where
they are to get to me. And I really want
to support local. So I found a company
that is within my city. And so see if there's something you can
find that's local. For one, supporting
locals, great. The other thing is, you're not, your carbon footprint
is a lot shorter and you're gonna get your
products a lot sooner. So that is, there's
some pluses there. So my product should be
arriving really quick. And I'm really excited that I was able to find this company. And it was referred to me through another
friend that uses them. And also pricing
is going to matter to probably for me it does at, especially because I'm
using them to sell. And so I want to find a company
that's going to give me the best bang for
my buck and be able to provide quality prints. You could find a company that
can do for really cheap, but you want quality to write. What's the point of
printing a nice, nice artwork onto
a card if it's not going to really do much
for you in the end. So Little Rock printing
company is based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and I
do believe they will. You'll be able to
ship to other places, but just double-check that they shipped to your area before you get too deep into
the whole process. So few things to also look for is look for the
products you want. So we're looking
at greeting cards. So we're gonna go
to greeting cards. Also, you want to find out is, do they fold the cards? Do they prefer hold the cards? Because I have ordered from a place before
where they didn't. And that's a lot of extra work
to fold a bunch of cards, especially if you're
ordering hundreds of hearts. The other thing
is do they supply envelopes with the cards? Some places do,
some places don't. So be aware of that and put
that into your cost as well. So they have envelopes separate. So you order your envelopes
separate from your cards. So just make sure that when
you're placing an order, especially if you're paying for shipping that you
do that as well. Keep that in mind. So this is really cool because
it's going to give you an estimate on what cost
you're dealing with two. So if you're
concerned about that, if you're trying to do this as a business to sell your cards, those costs you're going
to want to keep in mind. So here we want to see first
of all, our finished size, What's cool is it shows us what our minimum and maximum
width and height can be. You want to look at
the finished size of the card like
once it's folded. So not like flat out. I wanted five by seven, so I'll show you guys how
to do it five by seven. You can take whatever
size you want to do and make your cards
work with that size. Make sure your envelopes work with a particular
size point, how you're going to
be displaying them, will they fit into what
you're displaying? Are you going to be
shipping them out? Make sure they fit into shipping boxes and
things like that. So those are all some things that you do want to consider. And also if you want to
put a plastic sheet, there's like little plastic
sleeves that you can put them in to protect
them individually. If you want to do that, make sure you know what sizes are available to you out there. And that would be probably
a different company that you're going to
get those products. So anyways, we're not gonna be worrying
about that in this. But I'm just gonna go
with a five by seven. It is a good standard
size for a card. It's a really nice size. You can go a bit
smaller as well, but I like a five by seven. It gives me enough room to write it as someone's selling
them at markets. It's a nice size. So if you're not sure, five by seven is a
really good size. If you want to go
smaller, you can. The bigger you can do that too. But five by seven is your
typical, typical size. So here your paper types. I really liked that
this company describes each type and gives
you the idea at all, also automatically selects
the one that they recommend. So the 13 point uncoated cover has been automatically selected. But if you want a higher-quality,
thicker products, you just go for a higher
point and it will tell you which one
might work for you. Then you can select whether you want single or double-sided. So single-sided must
be more popular. As you can see, it's Already automatically selected. One thing it is a bit hard
for me to see on the site. I think in a way which
one is selected. It's not as clear
as it could be, but it's nonetheless, I can still see that and
I'm not really judging the site right now. Just make sure you
have the correct one. Selected. Double-sided is if you want to, maybe you're doing your
own Hallmark thing and you're having written
words inside the card. If you want stuff on the
back of the current, that's still one-sided, right? That's still printing
on the one side, the company's
printing on one side. So I choose single-sided if you have any special
instructions. For instance, if you
have, I don't know, maybe you have certain number
of cards you want printed. Like you're ordering
ten different styles of cards and you mostly want five of them print like you need to stipulate that make it obvious, make it your file that you're saving it and make all
those things evident and clear so that there's not confusion for the team
that's putting it together. But I think these people are pretty savvy when it
comes to these things. The next thing you can look at which I love this is
the predicted price. And they give you some leeway. You can go for a less expensive if you don't need
it in a rush period of time, but you can get it
done in a day two. So that is really exciting too. If you want to pay a
little bit extra per item, you can get it done quicker. And depending on
how many you order, usually when you order more, it doesn't cost as much per item or 1,000 of them to
see whatever works for you. I'm just totally depends on
what you're doing this for. It's just for yourself
or for its others. Just keep in mind, whenever
you're doing five by seven, you could do ten
different styles of cards and get ten of each card, and then you have 100. So you can select 100 and get ten of different styles as long as you're maintaining
the same criteria of five by seven, same paper type. As long as those
things are the same, you can upload multiple
different files. So that is really, really cool. I love that they do that. So once you've selected
your custom amount, you add that custom quantity. And you go from there. Now, knowing that
it's a five by seven, we're going to move forward. This is just a little, I
know you might not be using this site to order, but this just gives you
an idea of the process. Sometimes they have
templates that you can use, but I'm going to
show you how you can make your own template. So it doesn't matter
what site you're using. You can probably use this. I'm saying probably
because they might have their own specific requirements. But you can follow
what I'm about to share from probably most of the sites for what
we're going to create as we put our greeting
card together so we can upload the
files on the site. Alright, this one, if
you're using this one, you would add to cart, if you have the
correct selection, even shows you at the top
how much the total would be if that's what you were going for you and just add it
to your cart, don't worry. It's not like a seal deal. You're not stuck at
this point. Okay? The other cool
thing is you might want to consider
either ordering, ordering a proof of
what you've created. So if you're going
to be ordering 1,000 of something
you might want to consider and you have
time to get a proof. Then you can order a free proof with this company,
which is really great. And they also often have sample packs of the
varying card types, paper types, and
stuff like that, so that you know what
you want to order. So I really love that and I encourage you to
consider doing that. And I believe you can add
that to your order two. So with this, I
would then just add, click there and add the files. But we don't have the files yet, so we need to get
working on those next up
4. How to Create a Template: Okay, so in this
lesson we're going to create a template of our own. And that way we can
take greeting cards. We can keep making greeting
cards in the future. And we don't necessarily
have to keep doing this. So what we're gonna do is we're going to create a new
file in Photoshop. So go to New File. And depending on which
way your card is opening, is it opening sideways? They know when the
card is closed. Dependent on your image
with your image of vertical image or was your
image a horizontal image? If your image was a
horizontal image like mine, then you're going to want to choose because imagine
it not folded. Okay. That's, that's what
we're going for. A, we want this as our PDF. Okay? So what we want is
when this is closed, this is a seven by five, or five by seven when
it's raised flat out, because that's how they're
going to print it. We want seven width in inches and ten in height if we're
doing a five by seven. So that's what we
want to go with. We want to choose a
higher resolution. And this will also depend on
what the printing company says about the product. So if you have any questions, usually they have FAQ section or you can even just chat with somebody directly
on their website, like little printing company,
Little Rock printing. They have somebody
you can chat with right on their site,
which is really helpful. So CMYK is typical for
printing projects, so I'm gonna go right
into that and create. Now what we wanna do is create some guides so that we know where certain
things are on our image. So one thing I wanna
do now you can either drag guides from the Ruler section or
you can add them in. So View Guides and you
can create a new guide. So if I want a guide that is
telling me where this line, this bold line is going to be. So we know that's
the exact middle. And if this is 10 ", so much easier when it's easy,
easy math there. So what kind of
guideline am I making? A horizontal one? And I want it at 5 "? Then you can choose the
color you want it to be too. Because it's a fold line, maybe I'll choose a light gray. We'll see how that is. You can always go backwards. I like that it's not too in your face because it's
just the fold line, It's not the bleed. So like the cut zone where things are
going to be cut off. So the other thing is
when they're printing, you have a choice depending
on where you're printing out. This isn't the same company. The one I'm printing
out with Little Rock is gonna go right over the edge. So keep that in mind. Sometimes you'll get
ones where they have this white border like,
like I have here. That will make a difference on what kind of guides
you're going to make. So I'm going to create
a guide layout. And its already automatically
popped up what I used last. But what you do is you
can set a custom one. And I've selected red because
that's the bleed line. So I chose read for that reason. And you can add in columns and rows or not depending
on what you need. And this one, I'm
creating a margin. I want 0.125 which is pretty
typical for bleed size. So 0.125 ". So 0.125 ". So I selected that
on each of these. So I selected negative because I wanted to go off the page. And so when I'm
putting my image on, I want my image to go out to those lines so that when they're doing
the printing process, it's not perfect
to the very line. So you want to have
that excess line, excess content going
outside of that line so that when they do
cut the papers, that it's not going to show any white, that kind of thing. And that's just, it's gonna be much better
if you do it this way. Alright, So I would say, okay, the other thing is I
want to keep all of my most important
content if I have any text or putting my
little signature with in a range that
doesn't get cut off. That range we, we need
to add in as well. So I'm going to add a new guide. And it's going to be at the 0.01 to five
or just put 0.125. And let's make it we can keep gray if we want.
Let's do with gray. I think I like the look of the gray and see how it's
created a line there. And then I'm going to want
one again that's horizontal. That goes almost to the end, like the edge here. And that's basically
ten minus the 0.125. And if you don't
know what that is, you could just use a calculator. So then we go View
Guide, new guide, 9.875. There we go. Then to the edges. So sometimes
I just use this as, okay, I know not to go to that edge, but if you have really
important content that you don't want cutoff, This is really helpful. So let's add one at
the 0.125 vertical. Then we're going to add one. Now this one is 6.875. Okay? It should make sense when
you look at it. Okay. Let's just double-check that our middle line
is at five, okay? Sometimes if you
bring it down from the ruler and you hold Shift, it will give you, it will hold. Just like when you're
trying to make a square, it will find some
of these lines. You can do it a bit
quicker sometimes, right? Controls and to get
to go back a step. So there we have our template. So then from here you can
actually start making, start designing your card, and then save that as
a Photoshop project. So that when you go
to do the next card, all you have to do is
hide the image from view. I'm going to show you how
to do this, don't worry. And keep the back if the content on the back is
always going to be the same, you're going to keep that and
it's gonna be super easy. So let's see how you do with that step and move
on onto actually designing our card
in the next lesson.
5. Designing the Front: Alright, so let's start
designing our card. And I realized that my head is in the way of some
of the stuff here. So let's move you over here. So that I'm not in the
way of the layers. Because this is, as
we started designing, it's going to matter more. What we have four layers. So imagine your card. Again, if you're
doing it this way, it's gonna be very similar
what you're doing, just make sure you're doing
things vertical and make sure that you're imagining
the card flat like this. If you need to actually
take a piece of paper and plan out your card just so you know
that you're putting things in the right position,
you can do that. So we need our
image at the front, like on the base of this. Okay, and it's gonna
be right-side-up. And I want it to go right
up to the fold line. So I'm going to find, so I'm gonna go File Open. I'm going to find my edits. And these are bunch of paintings that
I've edited already. So I have a few different
testers in here. Okay, Let's choose
this test or image. So I'm going to open it,
but it's going to take it into its own little tab here. So I'm going to click on it. Oh no, I'm going to
click on the image. I have this selection tool. Click on it, hold, click and drag, and drag
it into this section. So did you see how I did that? Let me go back and show
you how I did that again. So I click and hold, and then I'm pulling
it over to this tab. And then I drop it. So you can see how
I can move it, but it's not quite
the right size yet, so we need to resize it. So we're gonna go Control T. And that's going to
allow us to transform. And if you drag just
the corner here, then it's going to maintain
the correct proportions. So I see how we're
using these guides now. I don't want my lines to go just to the gray because I might get a
bit of strip of white there. I want my lines to
go over the red. Okay? And even at the base
here, I want them to go. So right now they're
already surpassed that. I just want to make
sure I can get as much of my images I want as I want without anything
getting spliced off. But then I also look how
it's above that gray. So what we can do is if you don't want to
pull it down like that, if you want to keep it as
close to that as you can. And you can use
the arrow keys to shift just one pixel at a time, which can be really
helpful in the situation. So what you can do is you
can actually just erase, like cut that out. So I'm going to take
the Selection Tool, rectangular marquee
tool, so you can click the M key to get
directly to that. And I'm just going to create selection of anything
above that gray line. Where's our half point? Because they don't
want it to fold over onto the back side. And then I'm going to click on the Color Fill and just click White because
this is already white. I'm going to de-select. There you have it. Now it looks like there's
something showing there. So I just wanted to double-check
that it's not actually, it just does that
sometimes Control Zero. I don t think there's
actually anything there. If you were concerned
about something being there, you could erase, like use the eraser tool and just race in case
you're worried, go back to selection
tool, control zero. Okay, so now we have the image. If we want to double-check
that the image, click on it, control T. Make sure it's lining up to those bleed lines that we have that are outside
of the art zone. You can see that we
have a background layer and layer number one. Okay? So I'm happy with how that is right now and
I'm going to lock, press the lock button
to lock that layer and place Kiva where it is. And let's rotate this 180. So we can work on this side of the canvas that it's right-side-up because
it's upside-down, it'd be a little confusing. So here you can decide
what you want to put on the back side of things. So let's do that in
the next lesson. Figure out what to put
on the back of our cards
6. Designing the Back: Okay, So let's design
the back of our card. It's really one-sided still, but we just have this backside of our card that we want
to design and this is an opportunity to market your
business or whatever it is. Maybe this is a
special collection, maybe there's a story. Maybe you have a QR code
you can put on there. This is where you can do that. So this is where we
can add some text. So maybe we want to add a text. Okay? Maybe it's just your name. You can figure out what font you want to use, all of that, just make sure you keep all of your content within
those grid lines. If you have a logo or image, maybe you created
something in Illustrator, that kind of thing,
or you have a logo, you can add that in. I'm above here. I have the back of my business
card you can add in. So if we open let me see the back side. This is the backside
of my business cards. I keep them super simple. Just so there's not
a lot of confusion. I have a lot of
different things with my business that I have. So I just have my QR code and my link just to make
things simple for people. So this is basically an image. So we're going to click and drag this to this section here. And we can play around with
the size and the layer. So I'm going to move it behind. If you click and drag
your layer underneath, this is the priorities. So what's going to
show in front of what? These are your layers, right? What do you want on front? Just imagine the layers
on top, like a cake. Okay, what's on top? The
icing and then you have this, you don't want the cake on top of the icing, you
know, kinda thing. So something's cutting
something off, you might need to maneuver it. And so I do have
these smart guides are telling me where the
center of things are. So I recommend
that you research, look at some other
greeting cards, look at a ton of
other greeting cards. What do you like about them? And also what information
is relevant for you. I know some of them have
bar codes and things like that that might not be
relevant for your purposes. You want to put your website. Do you want to put is it a
special edition type of card? Maybe you want to indicate
the title of the, of the art piece or
something or give it, maybe do a copyright with the year so that people know what year this
card was. Like. Certain things like that can be useful and things like that. So you can decide what
you want to design it like by looking at other
cards is really helpful. Um, and if you
don't have a logo, that's not a problem, just use your business name,
that kind of thing. So play around with
it. Do what you like. This is if you're already
printing the front and color, go ahead and add color
if you want color. If we want to add, make the
font colorful, we can add, we can make it a color
from the card, right? Making a bold yellow from the
car and make it a purple. You can decide. And it can
be cohesive with that. It can stay the same
on every single card. It won't make a
difference because you're already paying for
printed, like color. If you're paying for
color on the front, it's already, that's not
going to be a problem. So choose a color, have some fun with it, and play around with
the fonts and make a cohesive design that
you're going to want to carry on with the all
of your other cards. That makes it easy for any additional greeting
cards that you want to make. And yeah
7. Signature and Saving: So now you have
the back designed. The other thing we wanna
do is I'm going to rotate one AD again. So see how it'd be
kind of confusing looking at it upside
down to create the back. So what you can do is also
add a little signature. So what we can do is we can duplicate texts
that's already there. Or if it's the last
texts that you used, just go to the Text
button and it's going to automatically select
that type of text. Like the same kind of style. So what do you want
to use as your want a signature on there to kind of show this is
something you created, whether your photographer,
artist, that kind of thing. And you can decide
to keep the same. Like I said, it showed the
same text as up for my back, the backside, and choose
the color that you want. I like to go with something that maybe is cohesive throughout, or are you creating a theme
amongst other greeting cards? Make decision based on that. And what you think looks good. Sometimes it's, sometimes you want something
contrasting something. Sometimes you want it to
be more subtle so that it's not like taking away
from the art at all. I like to find an in-between
where it's still visible, but it's not distracting. I don't want it to take away from the image that
someone's purchasing. So I hope that helps you with
the design of your cart. So it's really exciting.
Now what do we do? Now when we have a cartilage?
Say we're finished. So this is ready to go. We want to go File and Save As. And whether you're
going to save it on your computer or
the Creative Cloud, that's totally up to you. Okay, so make sure you're
saving it in the right place. I have a section for
greeting cards somewhere. Okay. So I'm going to put tester. And this is because I'm
saving this as the PDF. This is the actual greeting
card file that you're going to send to the
company, the printers. So I'm going to say
tester and then the name of this piece,
just writing together. If you want to have different
sizes that you'll be using, you could say five by seven, you could say horizontal like whatever makes
sense for your, um, for what you're doing. So I can see that
it's saving as a PDF. That's what I want. Safe. I have to click OK, Save PDF. Yes. Okay. The other thing I want you to do is look at all these layers. We have a few different
things going on in layers, not tons, but a few things. Go to File. Once you click Save As. And then instead of this, we're gonna say tester. You guys don't need
to say tester. This is just because I'm
creating a class here. But because you could
say greeting card writing together like
you see my other ones here, that's a greeting card. So what I could say is
template five by seven. Okay, so then we're
going to save it as a PSD of Photoshop product. That's going to allow us
to keep those layers. Save it. Okay? It's going to allow us to
keep those layers so that next time you want to
make a greeting card, you already have those
layers in there. Then the next lesson
I'm going to show you how to quickly make multiple different
cards once you have those digital
files all created
8. Making more cards: Alright, so let's
continue with our lesson. This next lesson is
going to teach you how to take the card
template that you made and continue using the same
template to make lots of different cards without having to exit out and create a new
file, that kind of thing. So what we're gonna do is open up our template that we created. So you might have it
in your recent files, or you might have to
open and find the file. You're looking for a PSD file. We saved it as a
Photoshop document. So that's what PSD stands for. So I'm just going
to click on recent. If it was the most recent thing, you can just click on that
and then you're set to go. So what we're going to do
is we're going to open up the other images that
we want to work on. And I just also wanted
to show you guys the cards that did come in
that I did this method with. So see how they're again
standing vertically like this, but it is a horizontal card. Okay, So if you're doing
a card that was vertical, you would just do this
process but have it laid out horizontally
if that makes sense. So if you have any questions, you can reach out to me as well. And you can see on the back I have something similar to
what we created there, but this one has a title. Here are some other
ones as well. And you can see that I've put in a little signature stamp
that's on all of these ones. So you can create your own, your very own cards
and have a lot of fun gifting and selling whatever
you wanna do with it. So let's continue forward. So what we need to do is find a new image that we need
to go to file open. And we're going to find
the art digitized artwork. That's what I want. Now, if it's already set to go, I'm going to find
ones that are already cropped and edited ready to go. Okay, so we're just
going to choose one. Choose this first one. Why not? We're going to open it. It's going to open up
in a separate tab. We're going to
click on the image, drag it over, pop it down there. So it's going to come
on top of everything. Okay, what I'm gonna do is go over to our
Layers tab section. And I'm going to cover up, I'm going to hide the
previous image that we had. And I'm also going
to click and drag this below that signature. It doesn't have, it
doesn't have to be below the other texts because we're
going to move this around. If you wanted to, you can move it
below those things, but just keep that
in mind if you want them to be closer to the other these other
ones, that's fine. Okay. So even though see
how that one was locked, but you can still
hide it from view. So when we save it, it
will be hidden from view. So that makes it faster. So what we're gonna do is
click on the Image control T. And this is for PC users. If you're on a Mac, you'll have different
fast controls. I'm going to line it up to
the red lines everywhere. Then decide what is best. Do I want to just slide it down? I think I do because I'd rather have some of that sky
showing this one. I'm just going to line
it right up to that, that gray line that marks
our middle section. Then I'm going to click on. You can either go to
your layers panel and click on the signature. And then maybe change the
color because that might not be the right color for
this particular project. So find a color that works depending on how bold
you want it to be. Okay. And from there, if
you need to change, if you had a title up
above on the backside, you need to switch that out. I don't. So all I have to do is file if I'm happy
with how things look. Also just let's just double-check
that this control T, just make sure it's passed. All of those red lines. Good, good, good,
or right on it. It's fine too. Let's go. Click away. So when you click
into the gray zone, you're kinda
de-selecting things. So I'm gonna go File and
I'm going to Save As. And then we're going to
put it in the folder. You save it as now, right now it's selected
Photoshop because that was the last
thing that I saved as. Instead, I'm going
to save it as a PDF. Okay. Give it a name. Save PDF. Click all through that,
just yes, yes, yes. Unless you've done
some weird alterations to those sections?
9. Practice: Alright, so now you
know how to do it. Let's practice a few times. Let's do it. Followed me. I think when you see
something a few times, it really helps to really stick. So I'm looking for an art
piece to add to this. I've already done all my edits, so now I'm just
going to add items. If you want, you could
actually add a number of them. So maybe I wanna do all of them right now.
But I want to do that. I will just click. And then if they're all
in different places, I'll have to use Control button. If your PC user, you can use that same
button to unclick as well. And then you can open
a bunch of them. And then as soon as
I finished with one, I just cross out, exited out, and then I
move on to the next one. So let's take this one
or let's go closer. Click and drag. We can hide that other layer. Control T. Make it smaller, make
it quite a bit smaller. It's good on that side. Just a bit smaller
on the side. Good. I like how it's sitting
right along the line. I'll do another one where
we had to cut out that white and go to Save As now we have it set to Photoshop PDF,
which is what we want. So saved, Click OK. Save PDF. Yes. Okay. That one we can exit out of. Let's continue clicking through this one we'll bring over. The beautiful thing is look, we still have these
other ones there. If we needed to make a change, we forgot to do something. We can quick we can open
this file backup and make that change and not be stressed
out about all of that. So Control T to transform,
transform the file. Transform the image. Don't forget to pull
it below what I didn't do, see below that. So what I can do if I
forgot the previous one. So we'll go file.
Before we do that, let's put that one in front. Pull it below that. I have my signature because I have everything
saved previously. I can just say that it
says already exists, but I've updated it and
I want this one instead. So I said yes. Okay. Save it. Correct. Alright, so now I
can hide that one. And we can do this one. Don't forget to pull
it in front of it. Pull it below any content that you need to
see on the image, like I did there. Alright, we'll give this
a different name. Waves. Okay, so you get the point, but let's find one that
needs to be clipped. Let's see if one of these
will need to be clipped. Maybe this one. See now this one's
a bit smaller. So what you're going to have issues with is if you take
an image that's too small, then you could have
printing issues. So I highly recommend making sure you have
a quality image. So this one we are
going to clip, it's going to work for
the purposes of showing again how to how to do clip, cut off that top strip. Remember we pull it
below the signature. This one I would
have to go in and edit to take out that as well. So I would do that
before I move it over that when we finished. Okay. So let's hide that one. So just to remind you
about how to slip up, cut off that strip there. So what we do is we do remember, find the selection tool. You can make sure
it's the square one. If you start outside
of the area, it will select just
within that area. Okay. And then we're gonna go make sure we're selected
on the correct layer. So it wasn't allowing
me to do anything because I hadn't
selected layer six, which is the one that I'm
working on currently. Click this little
bucket and go white. Unless you have a
different color background for the backside, then you choose something else. Now we de-select and we're good. So you file, save as
abstract foliage. Alright, we save it. And there you go. You have all of these various
ones that you've created. Now they're ready to upload to the website for wherever
you're getting them printed
10. Conclusion: Well, congratulations on making it to the end of this class. Thank you so much for
taking classes with me. It's always a pleasure to
bring my skills to you guys and help you get over those hurdles bit
quicker than it took me. If you want to follow
my other happenings, check out my Instagram. Tiktok. I do a lot of fun
stuff on TikTok or YouTube and all those
types of things. I've even got Facebook style, so you can check that out too. I would love to know what
you thought of this class. So if you could please
take a quick minute to leave a review. And I really hope
that it exceeded your expectations or
at least met them. Let me know how I
can improve and what you liked the
most about this class. And do you feel like you're able now to make your own cards? The hard part is going to be waiting for those
prints to arrive. And when they do,
you're going to have so much joy opening of
that box and seeing those prints that you made with your own logo and
everything on the back, and how much money will that be? So thank you so much and we'll see you in the
next class. Bye now
Kristina (Moyor) Choy, fine artist
