QuietCompany
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Hi, I never write these but think it's necessary here in order to get direction to the right forum and the right tutorials.
Anyways, I finally decided to open up Photoshop to design custom hockey cards. I like to get the base cards of the notable players plus the retired ones each season but noticed the problem that cards are never printed for retired players after their last season in most cases and they never show all their career stats so thought it'd be cool to do. I've found the program a bit tough so far and not as intuitive as I would have hoped but I've been using it for a couple weeks now and have improved a bit. I realize that I should have maybe gotten Illustrator because it's better at making designs but I feel this also serves my purpose and has a bigger community of course.
Anyways, I'd eventually like to make more complicated looking designs. There are quite a few people making these but a shocking lack of tutorials on the design aspect. The other difficulty I have is with printing and cutting these and making them look good, there's one tutorial available but it only shows putting them together when only the front is designed.
This is partly what I've done so far, inspired partly by old hockey cards and partly by my own ideas. Mainly recently retired players.:
The first one was designed using the only detailed tutorial I've found so far:
Designed this one with Photoscape:
Anyways, I finally decided to open up Photoshop to design custom hockey cards. I like to get the base cards of the notable players plus the retired ones each season but noticed the problem that cards are never printed for retired players after their last season in most cases and they never show all their career stats so thought it'd be cool to do. I've found the program a bit tough so far and not as intuitive as I would have hoped but I've been using it for a couple weeks now and have improved a bit. I realize that I should have maybe gotten Illustrator because it's better at making designs but I feel this also serves my purpose and has a bigger community of course.
Anyways, I'd eventually like to make more complicated looking designs. There are quite a few people making these but a shocking lack of tutorials on the design aspect. The other difficulty I have is with printing and cutting these and making them look good, there's one tutorial available but it only shows putting them together when only the front is designed.
This is partly what I've done so far, inspired partly by old hockey cards and partly by my own ideas. Mainly recently retired players.:
The first one was designed using the only detailed tutorial I've found so far:
Designed this one with Photoscape: