MOO | Custom Business Cards, MiniCards, Postcards and more... Ecocard™ Cardboard And Torn Paper Business Card. Step 1 Start with a new document, mine is 540×350 at 72ppi. If your document is a different size or DPI some of the filters may need to be adjusted accordingly to get the desired result. Standard business card size is 2.25" x 3.75", so I’m going to constrain my Rectangular Marquee tool to 3.75px and 2.25px, then I’ll drag out a nice sized selection and fill it with my foreground color which is #AAA494. Take this time to set the background color to #685b48 as well. Step 2 Add some tonal variation to the card while the selection is still made by selecting Filter>Render>Clouds.
Step 3 Now lets add some texture with noise by choosing Filter>Noise>Add Noise with the settings of 4/Gaussian/Monochromatic as shown below. Step 4 Now choose Filter>Blur>Motion blur with the Angle set at 90 and the Distance at 8. Step 5 Now that we’ve got a bit of texture and variance in the card, lets add a few layer styles to add another level of effects. Step 6 Step 7 Step 8 Step 9 Step 10 Step 11 Step 12 Step 13 Step 14 Step 15.
Effektive Studio. +44 (0)141 221 5070. Crowdsourcing in My Face. I recently had an experience that brought home the crowdsourcing nightmare currently infecting the design world. For those unfamiliar with this plague, crowdsourcing design is where you go to a site advertising logos or web sites for ridiculously low prices by setting up a “bidding” or “contest” situation.
It’s the latest form of working on spec, something no self-respecting designer does. A client who had hired me to create a logo stumbled on a crowdsourcing site and sent a very unhappy email. I have been asked to share the experience on my blog. It’s going to be long - sorry. Here's a shortened version of the initial email, abridged to protect the client’s privacy: Sorry that I haven't gotten back to you sooner. So I am going to sit down and sort this out over the weekend . . . Here is my response: I am very sorry about your dissatisfaction with our work on your (original) logo. (Crowdsourcing site) is a design crowdsourcing site, of which there are many. Regards, Laurel Whew! Timbas Type & Logo Dept.