Here, Take My Card

With the emergence of Vistaprint and other printing websites, many people aren't creating the template for their own business cards. Truthfully, I've seen many people use generic, bland templates from these websites. And with the pandemic, I'm not sure if they'll be needed much longer. However, working with InDesign allows users to create custom documents that look unique, business cards or not. Bleeds have been difficult for me to understand in the past. When I designed my own grad card back in 2018, then I sent it off to our local printer, she asked for a bleed line. I was really confused, and ended up scratching it since I couldn't accommodate her. Bleed is most often used in print, from my experience.

I decided to change my card up a little from less of a professional photo, to more of a headshot with my website logo to show more of a relaxed and cool vibe. I even added color text with the same watch as the sky in the photo. I've never created a business card in InDesign before, so this project taught me a lot. For starters, I learned that the bleed for business cards has to be .12 for the width and height (Vistaprint). Honestly, the hardest part of this project was when I tried to move my photo and scale it correctly since I had already forgotten from class. To move my picture to the side, I used the content grabber, which allows you to select the content within the frame (Wood, 2018). I moved the photo to extend to the three bleed lines. 

Something I've used in the past when I first learned Adobe Creative Cloud software was the place tool. It's much easier for me to click and drag my photos to scale them. With place, you're able to drag the image to your desired size (Wood, 2018). This feature lets the user have more control when inserting an image, and makes things a lot easier.

Citations

Wood, B. (n.d.). Work with graphics and images in InDesign. Retrieved February 05, 2021, from https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/how-to/add-work-with-graphics.html

Wood, B. (n.d.). Get started with InDesign. Retrieved February 05, 2021, from https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/how-to/get-started-indesign.html

Vistaprint.com. (n.d.). Retrieved February 05, 2021, from https://www.vistaprint.com/vp/ns/propath/UploadResources.aspx?pfid=F2W