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diggdug39
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January 4, 2017
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editing a business card

  • January 4, 2017
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Hello fellow photoshoppers,

                      I am working on making business cards for my employer and I have run into a problem getting the colors of the logo (separate image file) and the colors of the text to be the same color. I have two files open on my canvas and one is the original business card and the other image is the logo for the business card. How can I copy the one file image of the logo into the file for the original cards background and still be able to get the logo to show up good quality and size without making the logo to small? Another problem I had when I thought that the business card was good to print was the fact that after I pasted the full business card jpg including logo the size of the image got smaller and now when I compare the file size with the original jpg of the business card the file size is slightly smaller. If anyone can tackle this problem I would greatly appreciate it.I have crossed out personal info and that is why there are black marks.

Win 10 OS, Photo Shop Ver CC2017

                                                                                                                                          Thank you

below is the original size of the card. The Wanted should be bold as well as the phone number.

This is the card that I edited. The size is much smaller. The Wanted is bolder but not the phone number. Both cards should be a different color closer to orange.

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    Correct answer Nancy OShea

    How can I make this in Illustrator?


    Photoshop is great for image editing & painting.  But it's not ideal for creating sharp, print-ready artwork.

    For CMYK logos and business cards, you will get much better results with Illustrator & InDesign.  See tutorial below.

    Create and print business cards in Adobe InDesign | Adobe InDesign CC tutorials

    Nancy

    3 replies

    Trevor.Dennis
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    January 4, 2017

    With a brand name as massive as HD, you just know there will be a vector download.  Yep.  It's an eps file which is not good for Photoshop, but I just opened it in Illustrator; copied it to a CC Library, and I now have it as a vector object in Photoshop.  The resat of it is plain sailing, as they say.  I guess I am saying the same as Brad and Mylenium.  It would be unthinkable to do this as an image file.

    Harley-Davidson | Brands of the World™ | Download vector logos and logotypes

    I didn't look too closely at your fonts because of the low IQ, but I used Arial Black and Arial Bold and sampled the orange from the HD logo.

    diggdug39
    diggdug39Author
    Known Participant
    January 4, 2017

    Hey I really like what you did there with the logo colors. I was given a separate image of the HD logo to work with and incorporate it into the business card. When I resized the logo it looked so pixelated and the words were really scrunched up after it printed. It looked good with color and quality when I was making it on screen but printing it didn't look so good. How would I make this from scratch? I am still new to photoshop.

    melissapiccone
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    January 4, 2017

    Make it in Illustrator! if you have Illustrator, use it.

    If not, you need to start with a 300ppi file in PS.

    Melissa Piccone | Adobe Trainer | Online Courses Author | Fine Artist
    Mylenium
    Legend
    January 4, 2017

    I have to agree with Brad. The quality of your original is so poor, it's not worth putting up with. Rebuild it from scratch.

    Mylenium

    Brad Lawryk
    Legend
    January 4, 2017

    Not sure what you are asking? Editing a .jpg is never a good idea for a business card.

    Since there is really nothing more than text and a logo here it would be so much easier to just build it from scratch rather than trying to match colours and text exactly on the existing card. The reason you are likely having two different sizes is that they were perhaps scanned each at two different resolutions? Do they print out the same size?