subject: Design Integration Tips For Business Cards [print this page] Piecing together the different aspects of the design of business cards does have its difficulties. Many custom business cards do suffer from bad fitting images, wrong color combinations and a general incoherent color business card design. If you are having problems like this in your business card printing, then you have come to the right place.
Below are a few design integration tips that you might want to adopt to make sure that your designs for your business cards look more integrated. Just try these out and see how it can benefit you and your color business cards.
All inserted images should be in high resolution. One very basic thing you must know is that all inserted images in your business card design should always be in high resolution. High resolution images will always look crisp and clear when inserted and manipulated within a business card design. There will be no fuzzy portions or pixels in your business card image when you do use high-res images. This can be a very big part of your design integration since you do not want your business card images to look pasted on into your business cards. It must be an integral and clear part in the design.
Mind your scaling. It is also important to mind the scaling of your images and graphics. Many amateur designers make the mistake in scaling down their images the wrong way for business cards. Some get the dimensions and size ratios off while scaling the images, resulting in bad and malformed graphics in the business card design. That is why it is important that you lock the dimensions when you scale your images for business cards. This will help a lot in maintaining the realism and design integration of your business cards, making them look better as a whole.
Mind your cropping. Another important issue for design integration is cropping. No one wants to see extra pixels that look like bad clippings on the edges of an image inserted within a business card design. True business card printing professionals crop very closely through the lines of the images so that the image seamlessly blends in with the business card background. For better design integration, you should really pay attention to cropping since this will determine how truly the image can integrate itself to the overall design. So be serious about cropping or have a professional do the precise cropping for your images.
Make sure you match colors. It is also important that you match the colors of your text and your images well for that good and coherent design integration. I suggest that you use the so called eye dropper tool in most design applications to pick up the dominant color in your images or text and apply that particular color to other parts of your business card design. This should help you form a more coherent and precise color scheme that should integrate the whole design together quite properly. So always try to make sure that you match color values from your different business card design elements.
With these tips, it should now be a little bit easier to integrate all your design elements for your business cards.
