Autograph received in person on June 24th 2011 at the blue Jackets Draft Party.
I made this custom card for Blue Jackets Matt Calvert. Calvert was called up during the season and was a pleasant surprise for Columbus fans. Since his rookie card was not released at the time I made a custom card showing his great breakaway goal on Chicago's Corey Crawford.
Here is a video of the goal.
Cool custom! I've always wanted to be able to print my designs, how did you go about doing that?
ReplyDeleteIts quite simple actually. First what you need to do is find a large scale image of whatever player you want to make a card of. then you open the image in photoshop or a any similar program. Then, if you found the image on the web, you are going to want to change dpi (dots per inch) from 72 to 300. 72 dpi is used for web based images while 300dpi is used for printing press qaulity images. After that you need to change the color profile of the image. Web-based images are in the RBG color profile whereas printed images are CMYK. Change it to CMYK. Making the image CMYK and at 300dpi will insure maximum image quality. After you do that, you can edit and resize the card as you wish in photoshop and make sure you save a copy of it as .TIF file. After that, I usually create the rest of the card graphics in adobe illustrator, which is a vector graphics program. After you are done creating your graphics in illustrator, you go to File "place". Choose your .tif image and place position it in the desired area. Save the illustrator file as a pdf and use the pdf file as the source for your hardcopy.
ReplyDeleteFor printing, I usually go my local Fedex office and have them print it. Make sure you have the custom card itself printed on cardstock paper. Also, since I print customs that are double sided, I usually print out each side on their own and use a product called STUDIO TAC to put them together. Putting them together adds a nice wieght to the card and Studio Tac is great because unlike a glue stick, it is not messy. My advice would be to not use glue. Fedex office is nice too because they have good cutting boards there that will give you an accurate cut. Hopes this helps.
Thanks for the info Tim. I'll have to try that out.
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