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Designing Professional Business Cards

Nicki HartLessons: 22Length: 2.2 hours
Graphic Design Adobe InDesign
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7.1 Save PDF

Now that you have your designs all finished, it’s time to prepare them for print. We’ll use my go-to PDF preset that makes exporting PDFs easy and effective. (Preset included in source files.)

1.Introduction
1 lesson, 02:21

1.1
Course Overview
02:21

2.Content
2 lessons, 05:29

2.1
Contact Info
02:38

2.2
Logos & Taglines
02:51

3.Design Components
4 lessons, 20:38

3.1
Size
04:37

3.2
Print Quality & Card Thickness
04:18

3.3
Text Layout Options
07:08

3.4
Using Color
04:35

4.Designing Vertical Business Cards
4 lessons, 31:30

4.1
Vertical Style Part One
08:02

4.2
Vertical Style Part Two
07:53

4.3
Alternate Vertical Style Part One
06:02

4.4
Alternate Vertical Style Part Two
09:33

5.Designing Horizontal Business Cards
4 lessons, 31:37

5.1
Horizontal Style Part One
06:12

5.2
Horizontal Style Part Two
09:19

5.3
Alternate Horizontal Style Part One
07:12

5.4
Alternate Horizontal Style Part Two
08:54

6.Designing Square Business Cards
4 lessons, 24:53

6.1
Square Style Part One
06:55

6.2
Square Style Part Two
05:31

6.3
Alternate Square Style Part One
05:01

6.4
Alternate Square Style Part Two
07:26

7.Exporting & Printing
2 lessons, 15:14

7.1
Save PDF
06:32

7.2
Printing Options
08:42

8.Conclusion
1 lesson, 01:02

8.1
Final Thoughts
01:02

Nicki Hart
Nicki Hart
Nicki is Owner/Creative Director of Multi-Designs. She works with clients on web, print, photography and new media projects specializing in complete marketing campaigns for authors. She currently works with clients all over the world. She shares design tips and tutorials through Digital Hart Studios’s latest venture, Design Like a Pro, on Youtube and Tuts+ .
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