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hello and welcome to yet another tutorial by Davies media design my name is Michael Davies and in today's tutorial I'm going to show you how to design and print your own greeting cards using the free program [Music] [Music] so greeting cards nowadays can run you a decent amount of money especially if they are well designed and unique and that's why I decided for today's tutorial I'm going to show you guys how to design your own greeting card using 2.10 point six and your own personal printer and whatever card paper you want to use I happen to be using hemp recycled paper this is a seventy-five percent post-consumer content and 25 percent hemp it's a pretty thick card and I think a card like this would probably run you somewhere between 599 and 999 as crazy as that sounds so this is a card that has an outside here and then it's got an inside message and then on the back we've also got a graphic this is just like a made-up greeting card company I made and so this is gonna print directly from your personal printer and I'm gonna show you the entire process from start to finish on how to make this card but of course before we get into all that I want to direct you guys over to my website at Davies media design.com as always we have tons of video and text tutorials on here as well as project translate you can watch one of our playlists support us on patreon or view our poll the week results so definitely check that out you can also enroll in our photo editing course from beginner to pro photo retoucher on udemy and you can support our channel on patreon and help us grow by becoming a patron and you'll get some really cool rewards in return I'll include a link to this as well as all the relevant links from this tutorial in the description of the video so here is the original design within as you can see it's a pretty simple design the reason I did it this way is because when you're using a personal printer you don't really want to have gigantic areas of ink really across the page so you can see that my final design here has a lot of negative space and this translates very well especially on a personal printer to the cardstock you'll see that there's not a lot of like sogginess on here it's not flimsy and there's not a lot of blotching going on with the ink so I just recommend when you create your designs using a personal printer that you have a decent amount of negative space in the design so this design here is the outside cover and so this is the front and this is the back you always want to have the back on the left side in the front on the right side that's just the way it's going to print and then over here this is the inside of the card I have the left side blank just like a traditional greeting car and then the right side I have just with a little bit of text and again there's a lot of negative space on here you don't want to overdo this by cluttering it full of graphics and here's actually the present and I did design this in and so I'm going to show you guys also how to design this vector looking present box so for starters you're going to want to create a new document in the size of the card you're using again I'm using a hemp card type of paper it happens to be a 5 by 7 piece of paper but when you unfold it of course it's a 10 by 7 so what I want to do is create my design composition to be 10 by 7 so to do that I'll go to file new and I'm going to change the width and height to inches and I'm gonna change the width to 10 and the height to 7 and I'm gonna click on my Advanced Options here and you'll see my X&Y resolution are set to 300 so if you really want a nice crisp graphic or you just want there to basically be as high quality of a print job as possible you can do up to 600 dpi at least if you're using an HP 6520 printer like I'm using and most of you probably are using HP printers you might be using a different kind of printer it's kind of vary based on your printer but just for the sake of this tutorial I'm gonna stick with 300 by 300 and I'm gonna click OK and I'm gonna fill this in with white I want my background to be white my printer is going to ignore the white and basically print this as transparent so you'll see that this 10 by 7 inch composition is going to translate to 3000 by 2,100 pixels and if your numbers are different it may be because you used a different dpi setting which stands for dots per inch so before you start creating your designs and using certain colors you're gonna want to make sure that you have this set up to CMYK soft proofing and I have an entire tutorial on how to set this up but basically this allows you to preview what your colors are actually going to look like when printed on paper because the color spaces between and your printer are gonna be different uses an RGB color space and your printers gonna use a CMYK color space so once you have everything set up and again watch that tutorial I have on how to set that up you're going to want to go to view color management proof colors and that is going to allow you to soft proof your colors in CMYK so once you've done that we now want split up our compositions so we know which side is going to be the back of the card which again is going to be on the left side and then which side is going to be on the front of the car which is going to be on our right side so I'm going to do that by going to image guides new guide by percent and I'm going to change the direction to vertical and I'm going to keep the position set to 50% and click OK and so now we have a guide going down the exact middle of our image and this tells us that this is basically going to be where the creases on our card once I've done that I can add my text and I'm going to want to first choose a color so I'm going to come over here to my foreground color and I've already pre selected a nice red here and you can copy the HTML notation for this so just choose your colors based on the holiday and I'm gonna go with this red here and then I'm going to choose my text tool and my font is set to Westphalia and that is actually a free font that I downloaded and here's the website where I downloaded this font you guys are free to download this just make sure you scan it with your virus scanner you have to enter your first and last name and your email in order to download this and then you click download here and that will download your font I have an entire article dedicated to how to install fonts and games so check that out if you're not sure once you have this font which by the way the Westphalia font happens to only work when you have the caps lock key on or when all of your letters are capitalized but I'm going to go ahead and click on my image here and type my first line of text and you'll see here I have my font size set to 245 it's also over here and I have my justify set to Center that way the text is nice and centered when I type and now that we have our text on here we want to align this but we only want to align to the right side of the page there's a few ways to do this but the way that I did it for this composition was I created a new layer and I'll just name this front cover and instead of making the width and height the same as the overall composition I'll change this over to inches and I'm gonna make the width 5 so that it's only half of the width and then I'm gonna offset this so I'm gonna change the offset unit to inches and I'm gonna offset this by 5 inches so basically this is going to offset this layer so that it starts 5 inches from the left and that's going to allow this layer to only cover the right side of our composition I'm gonna fill it with transparency because I don't need a background color for this and I'll click OK and now you'll see that the layer boundary only covers the right half of the image and I'm gonna move this text layer above that front cover layer and now I'm going to grab my alignment tool and I'm gonna align relative to the active layer and I'm gonna click on my text and you'll know that the text is now selected with the alignment tool because there's these boxes in the corner and I'm gonna select the front cover as my active layer and then I can just hit this align the center button there and you'll see now this is aligned to the center of the right side of our composition alright so now I'm going to move on to the left side of my composition or the back part of my card and I'm gonna do this by creating a new layer and I'll just name this one back cover and I'm gonna change the width to inches I'm going to change the unit here to inches and change the width to 5 I'm not gonna set an offset this time because I do want this being all the way to the left of our composition but I'll set the fill with still the transparency and click OK so now we have a left side of our composition and now I'm going to design the fictitious logo for my card company so I'll start by creating a new layer and I'll just name this logo rectangle and hit enter and I'm going to grab my ellipse select tool or sorry my rectangle select tool I'm just gonna draw a small rectangle here go with something like that and then I'll grab my bucket fill tool and make sure I still my red color selected and I'll just fill that in and then I'll hit control shift a that'll deselect that or select none and now I want to shrink the size of my layer here for my logo rectangle to just the size of this rectangle that's going to help us align this to the left side of our composition so I'll go to layer crop to content and that will crop that down and now I can grab my alignment tool click on that rectangle come over to my back cover layer and make that my active layer because we still have this set to active layer over here and then I'm just going to align this to the center of target now I'll grab my text tool and just type the name of your fictitious card company and then grab your move tool and just move this into place and I'm actually gonna drag this above the logo rectangle layer and I'll grab my text tool again and I'm just going to select my text change the color of it to white and click OK and then I'm going to just decrease the size of this text it doesn't have to be as large and then I'm just going to move this into place and then I'll grab my alignment tool click on that text and click on my logo rectangle layer and then go ahead and align this to that rectangle and then I'm going to create the lower part of this logo so I'll grab my text tool again and I'll click to create a new text layer and this part I just typed card company I'm actually going to change the font though so I'll click on this until all of the text is selected and I change the font to wild youth which is another font I downloaded for free and I'll include a link to that in the description and this one doesn't have to be all caps so actually let me redo this oh card company and I'm going to select all of this and just decrease the size to 99 and hit enter and then I'm actually going to change the color of this to a green color again you can copy my HTML notation and I'll click OK and then I'll use my move tool to move this into place here and again you can grab your alignment tool click on that layer click on your logo rectangle layer and then you can align this relative to that rectangle alright so we have the front and back part of the card done in terms of the text portion so now what I'm going to do is show you guys how to design the vector gift box or the vector present and so to do that I'm just going to create a new composition so go to file new and I'll change the unit here to inches and we know that the gift box is going to be a lot smaller than our original composition because it's only going in this portion right here so I can change the width we know it can be less than 5 so let's just go with 4 for now and then we could change the height as well we know the height is going to be less than half of this height so it'll be less than three and a half inches let's just go with 3 inches and I'll click OK and for now I'm going to make this background white so I'll change my color here to white and then grab my bucket fill tool and fill that in we're not going to need the background in the end we're gonna hide it but now it's just going to make it a little bit easier to design with the background so here was our design again so I have a top part of the box here or top part of the present and then here's the lower part and then I have sort of a ribbon going on here and then the ribbon looks like it's tied at the top so I'll come back over here to our composition and I'll create a new layer I'm going to name this gift box top and hit enter and then I'll grab my rectangle select tool and I'm gonna draw a rectangle so this is our top of our box and to help us align everything I'm actually gonna go to image guides new guide by percent and I'll keep this at 50 and click OK that'll give us a center guide and then I can align this right angle to the center of that guide you'll see there's a little plus sign in the center of our rectangle select box and I'll just place that next I'll grab my bucket fill tool and I did sort of a lighter blue for the top portion of our box so I'll just grab this light blue here you could copy my HTML notation and I'll click OK and then I'll fill in this rectangle with that lighter blue and now I'm gonna grab the rectangle again and I'm gonna draw the lower half of the rectangle so I will create a new layer and I'll name this gift box bottom and click OK and I'm just gonna draw this so that it's a little bit thinner than the top portion and then I'll just expand this rectangle like so and by the way I have these guides here within my rectangle selected because of this setting right here so you can have no guides inside or center lines or you can have like I have which is the diagonal lines once you have this set in the location you want it in choose the color you want to fill this with so in our case we're gonna go with a darker blue and I'll click OK then grab your bucket fill tool and fill that in with the darker blue and now you want to move the gift box bottom below the gift box top layer and that allows the top of the box to overlap with the bottom so I'll hit control shift 8 to deselect that so now I want to draw the ribbon and there's a few steps to this so I'll create a new layer I'll just name this main ribbon because this will be the main part of our ribbon and I'll click OK I'm gonna drag this to the very top because this is gonna overlap with both of our gift box layers and now I'm gonna grab my rectangle select tool again this time I'm going to draw a rectangle starting from the top of the box and going to the bottom if you want this to be more exact you can drag a guide and just place it right wherever your box ends you can hold control and use your mouse wheel to zoom in to make this guy a little bit more accurate so I'll grab my move tool and just move this guide up and then I'll zoom out with my mouse wheel zoom in over here grab my guide and place it right there you can grab your rectangle select tool again click within that rectangle and then just drag that until it matches up so come over here drag the bottom until it matches up there and then you can click inside of here and just make sure the ribbon is nice and centered up on your box and now we can fill this in with our color so I use this sort of neon greenish looking color and here's the HTML notation I'll click OK grab my bucket fill tool and fill that in so next I'm gonna grab a guide from our ruler over here and just drag it over this is going to allow us to know where the center of our side ribbon is gonna be then I'll grab the rectangle select tool again and click on this existing rectangle we drew and then I'll click and drag this over until that center part clicks with the center guide that we just created or this right guide I should say and now I'm going to click and drag the bottom of this up a little bit and I'm gonna leave some room between the top of the box and the bottom here because we want to cut out a nice triangle so now I'm going to grab my bucket fill tool and fill this in with that same color so I'll fill this in with that green but now I want to create a triangle to cut out at the bottom of the ribbon here so grab my lasso tool and I'm gonna zoom in a little bit and we can actually grab another guide so that we know that both of these points are ending in the same spot and so now I'm going to zoom in a bit more and I'm actually going to make sure the mode here is set to subtract from the current selection and I'll just zoom in a bit more so now we're going to click and we basically want the lines that we're creating here to intersect with the bottom corners and then we're gonna connect these lines by clicking on the last node we drew there or the first node and then I can zoom in using the mouse wheel in the control key and I'm gonna click and drag this so that it intersects better with the corner there and once I've done that I'll hit the enter key and now you'll see a nice triangle has been cut out of the shape and you can hit control I that'll select everything outside of the area and then hit the Delete key and that will delete that triangle shape there so I'll zoom out now we have a nice ribbon with a triangle cut out at the end so it looks like the end of the ribbon and I'll hit ctrl shift a to deselect that alright so now before we're finished with the ribbon we need to draw the designs that are gonna go here so I'm gonna create a new layer and we'll just name this ribbon pattern and I'll hit enter and for this all I did I'm gonna zoom in a bit I created a random shape so I'm still using my lasso tool I'm gonna switch the mode over to replace the current selection and then I'm going to just draw some random shapes here these are basically going to be like diagonal shapes and they aren't perfect as you could see but it's gonna look good enough and I'll hit the Enter key to create a selection area from that then I'm going to grab my bucket fill tool change my color to white click OK and then fill this in with white and I'm gonna decrease the opacity of this a little bit because I don't want it to be completely opaque so go with about there so I'll click off of the opacity bar and hit control shift a to select none and then I can go to layer crop to content and that will crop everything down the next thing I want to do is duplicate this ribbon pattern layer a few times so I'm gonna click the duplicate icon once and using my move tool I'm going to be looking down here at the measurements as I move and I just want to make sure that I move all these down the same amount and so I'm gonna move these down until it says point five and then I'll release and then I can just do the same with this one so I'll duplicate this and move this one down by 0.5 again and just do that until these patterns basically fill up the entire ribbon alright once I've done that I'm going to merge all of these layers together so I'll right-click and go to merge down and I'll just do that until all of the ribbon patterns are on the same layer and now they're all on this ribbon pattern layer but obviously we need to make these strips fit within the actual ribbon so I'm gonna alt click on the ribbon so I alt clicked on the main ribbon layer you'll see that now the ribbon shape has been selected I'm gonna hit ctrl I to select the inverse of that so it's going to select everything outside of that shape and I'm still on my ribbon pattern layer right now and I'm gonna hit the Delete key and that will delete everything that's outside of our ribbon and I'll hey ctrl shift a and then I'll select none then I can just hit the duplicate icon to duplicate the ribbon pattern and with my move tool still selected I'll just click and drag holding ctrl and you'll see I can just drag this ribbon pattern until it is hovered over this layer that we created you could zoom in to make sure that's aligned properly and now we just need to delete all the pattern that's outside of the ribbon on this portion so again I will hold ctrl and click on the side ribbon layer and then I'll hit ctrl I and making sure I'm on this ribbon pattern copy layer I'll hit the Delete key and that will delete everything outside our ribbon shape I'll hit ctrl shift a to deselect that so now we have our present with our ribbon and our ribbon has a nice pattern in it so I didn't leave a ton of room at the top for the bow of our ribbon so what I can do is grab my crop tool and I can click allow' growing and now I'm just going to draw a crop so that there's a little bit more Headroom on this and I'm gonna make this the previous shape that we had it so the previous size there in terms of the width or at least close to it and then again just adding a little bit of headroom to this and I'll double click to crop you'll see that I'll add some extra room up top here you could hide that background layer because again we don't really need it so now I'm going to scroll in with my mouse while holding the ctrl key and now I'll grab my Ken Brewer path tool which is named after our Diamond patreon supporter Ken Brewer and I'm gonna create a new layer and I'm just going to name this ribbon bow click okay and now what I'll do is I'm going to draw this shape using the path tool so I'm going to click and create what's called an anchor point and then I'll come up here and just click and drag to create a curved anchor point here it's a little hard to see on the checkerboard background but I'm gonna hold ctrl and create a union between the first anchor point we drew in the last one and if you want to be able to see this path you're drawing you can just unhide the white part and you can even click and drag the move tool that'll cause your path to disappear but you can just come over to the paths dialog box here which you can get to by going to windows dockable dialogs paths unhide this path and there is the path you just drew I have an entire tutorial dedicated to mastering the path tool so if you're not familiar with that and you would like to know more about it just check out that tutorial on our YouTube channel so I'm gonna grab my pass tool again and click on that path we drew and now I can click on this anchor point here I'll hold ctrl and click and drag and that allows me to create a handle right here which allows me to make some adjustments to our curve and basically what you want to do is just position this until you get the exact curve you want which allows you to have the shape of the bow that you want so I'll go with that right there now we want to stroke this but we want to make sure that we are on our ribbon bow layer and we also want to change the color of this to that same green we've been using over here so click OK then just come over here in a stroke path and under stroke line select solid color and then anti-aliasing just ensures that the curves in your path are going to be nice and smooth and then I set my line width to 20 pixels and I'll click stroke and now we have a stroke right here that creates this nice ribbon bow so I'll grab the move tool and let me come over to my pass and hide the path you'll see that our bow has a little bit of a hard edge here or a little bit of an angled edge so you just want to try to work that out until basically you get a nice smooth edge here just for the sake of time I'm gonna leave that as is then I'll come back over here to my layers I'm going to duplicate this bow I'll grab my flip tool and click once to flip it and now we have this bow mirrored to the other side so we have a nice even bow and I'll hold ctrl and zoom out a bit hide that background layer and there's our finished vector gift box so now we can bring this into our composition by going to edit copy visible and we'll come back over here to our greeting card and hit ctrl V to paste it and that'll put it on its own floating selection layer I'll just click to create a new layer and we can rename this gift box and hit enter and I'm gonna move this to the very top of the stacking order and now I'm gonna grab my move tool and just move this gift over a little bit so this is a little bit too large so I'll grab the scale tool and scale this down make sure you have interpolation sets of no halo by the way and then I'm just going to move this into place so go with about right there and I'll click scale and then I'll go to layer crop to content and that I'll crop it down and now I can grab my alignment tool click on that gift box make sure I'm clicked on the front cover as my active layer and then I'll click to align this to the center and I'll grab my move tool and click and hold ctrl to beam straight lie mode and just move this down a little bit and so now we have our finished front cover next I'm going to move on to the back cover which is pretty easy it's just a bunch of text and so this will only take us a minute and then we're going to move on to how to print this on your printer so that it comes out looking nice and professional so to create the back part I'm going to go to file new and we're going to use the same settings here so ten by seven and we're also going to do 300 by 300 and I'll click OK and that used our background color that we have set right now which is this blue color I'm going to grab my bucket fill tool and I'm going to change this color to white and then just fill this in with white all right so now I'm going to add a center guide to this by going to image guides new guy by a percent keep this set 250 and click OK so again we have a center guide here so I'll create a new layer now and I'll just name this inside main and I'm gonna do the same thing I did with the right side of our composition from before so I'll change this to inches set this to 5 and then I'm going to change the offset unit to inches and also set this to 5 and click OK so now the area where our text is going to go has its own area on the right side here it has its own layer and we can align things to this layer now so now we're going to create the text for the inside of our card here so I'll grab my text tool and I'm going to change the font back to our Westfalia font I'll change the size to 125 and I'm going to keep the color set to green and now I'm just going to click on our composition here and with the caps lock key on I'll type our inside text you know hit enter to put this on another line and this card is obviously meant to be a joke but what I'm going to do is grab my alignment tool and click on our text to make sure that text box is selected click on our inside main layer here and then just click the alignment button and that align that to the center and actually let me make sure I fix this typo here real quick and then once again grab my Lima tool and align this to Center and then I created some text below this so I grab my text tool again and I'll click on here and change this back to wild youth and I'm gonna change the color to our red color again and click OK and I'm going to turn my caps lock key off and type happy holidays now I'm gonna grab my alignment tool and click on this text box here click on the inside main layer once again and then just click to align this relative to the center of our layer so once you finish the design portion of your car you're gonna want to print this obviously but you're going to want to save it to the right file type in order to get the best quality print so I recommend saving this as a tiff file and I'll show you how to do this right now so we're going to have to save both the front and back of our car two separate files so I'll start with the front so I'll go to file export as and I'll just name this greeting card front cover and you'll see I already have the tiff file type selected here but I'll go to select file type and just scroll down and these are all in alphabetical order but you'll see right here we have TIFF and I'll click export and for compression I'll just keep this set to none and I'll click export again and then I'll do the same thing here for the inside of our card so I'm going to go to file export as and just name this greeting card inside and I'll just name this inside too since I already save this once and I'm gonna come down here again to select file type by extension if you need to and choose the TIFF file type and then I'll click export and again click export so the next portion of this tutorial might differ for you depending on the operating system and printer type you're using I'm using the Windows operating system along with an HP 6520 photo series printer I think this is a pretty common operating system in printer combination but even if you do not have this exact combination at your home I think it's worth following this part of the tutorial anyway just because you could see sort of how I came about properly printing these cards on the 5 by 7 paper for starters I'll need to open the TIFF file I just say for the front and back of my card so I'll come over to the file folder where I save this and here we've got two different designs since I did do this design earlier but what I'll do is double click to open this up and in Windows it's going to give you this preview window of your photo and now you'll go to print and choose print again make sure you have your printer properly set up I'm not going to go through that you can Google how to do that if you're sure but under paper size I selected b5 you can click on this drop down if you want to select a different type so letter is going to be your standard eight-and-a-half by 11 you can click on more if you don't see the file type you want to use here and I just looked up with all of these men and b5 ISO and then b5j is where both the closest to 7 by 10 they're both a little bit off just by you know a fraction of an inch but this one I went with just because it's super close the quality will just be set to automatic in my case it won't let me change this and then I have this setting here set to full page photo before I print this I do have to load my paper so I'm gonna grab my card paper that I want to use here and again this is 5 by 7 but it's actually 10 by 7 because this is 5 by 7 here when you fold it out it's a full 10 by 7 and what you want to do is you want to load this into the printer so that the inside of the card is facing up and this might depend on your printer but most printers are going to grab the paper and flip it around and then print on this side as the main side that you're trying to print or the main photo you're trying to print so you always want to put the paper so that the inside is facing up and I have my printer set up right here so I've gone ahead and pulled the bottom tray out and I'm going to slide this paper in here and then just adjust this so that the paper fits nice and snug in here and then I'm going to push the bottom tray all the way in and I went ahead and took out all of the regular paper that was in my printer because the printer might try to grab that regular paper instead of the card stock that you put in there so now that you have the card paper in there go ahead and hit print all right so there is the printed card and you'll see that it printed pretty nicely on here even though the size that I selected the b5 paper size is fractions of an inch off from what this should be and my printer is making a bunch of noise right now of course but so here you can see we've got a pretty nice-looking front cover and a pretty nice-looking back cover now we need to print the part that's going to go on the inside so to do this we're going to minimize the front design and then double-click on the inside design so the most important part of this step is making sure that your card is oriented properly when you put it back in the printer because you do want the design to print on the right part of your card so remember that we put the photo in facing up like this and it came out it curved the paper like this and it printed the left part of our design first so that being said it's going to print the left part of our design first which is going to be the blank part so when we put this in the printer we want to put this so that the part of the design with the gift box on it is going to go in first and it's going to be facing upwards so that way when it comes in printed it's going to print the blank part on here and then it's going to print the words on here so go ahead and put this in and also the logo here is facing that way on the printer and now go to print and hit print again and we'll make sure our settings are all the same and then we'll hit print alright so there we have it the inside design correctly printed on this side of our card so there we have the original front cover back cover and then there is our inside text there alright so that's it for this tutorial hopefully you guys liked it if you did please subscribe to our YouTube channel at youtube.com slash Davies media design you can also visit our website at Davies media design.com you can enroll in our game photo editing course from beginner to pro photo retoucher on udemy and you can support our channel on patreon and help us grow and get some cool rewards in return and of course I'll include a link to that as well as all the relevant links from this tutorial in the description of the video so thanks for watching and we'll see you next time