Tuesday 10 July 2007

Down to business


Nothing wrong with this card? Well , look closely - all the information is wrong! Fax doesn't even exist anymore. So we needed to print a new one. So after touching it up on photoshop (otherwise it would have been a bad quality, crooked image which looks like it's been scanned on to the card^^), and rewriting the address, we set out to find a website to print our new card. Last time we went to the printing shop in town, they were rubbish! When you don't know how to work the software used in the shop, you're not going to get very far...

Anyway, the site we found was VistaPrint. A site that actually delivered to France... Very useful. Unfortunately their cards aren't the same dimensions as our original (our dimensions were better) and there's all this crap about bleed lines, safe area, trim lines etc. to avoid the design having a white border or half of the design cut off. After fiddling around with the text position, and changing the dimensions, we got a non-stretched design which seemed to fit into the safe area, trim lines, etc..

Enough talking, here's what we ended up with. It doesn't actually look that different after all that effort I put into it.




We got the cards now, and thankfully we're not missing half the design. Phew...
Mind you, on the screen, it shows a light green and the actual card is a dark green. Anyone got an explanation?

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