Found your video tutorial when I searched for business card design... glad I did... your method of lining up and getting the spacing correct complete with trim marks make my day. Love it. LIKED!!
Didn't find this a 'boring' tutorial at all, it is really helpful and I'm very glad I've stumbled upon your channel! You explain it all so clearly, so thank you!
thank you so much! I went step by step with you through this. Im using a MacBook and am not an expert in it yet since I'm not an apple product woman. But I managed, and I wanted to say thank you! Normally I don't EVER write comments, but you deserve it.
Wow! This is amazing. I did not want to watch the video to the end, but it's interesting nature made me stay till the end. I have learned a lot and won't hesitate to watch this powerful video when I need it. Keep up the great work.
Found your videos today and watched all of them - you are just amazing... I'm planing to make my wedding invitations by myself and this tutorials are really helpful! Big thank you from Europe! :)
thank u thank u thank u for such a great tut.... itsss awsome nd i have lot of things from it nd that bonus too its solved lot of my problems ,...... thanks again Teela u r best teacher .....
I really like Teelas tutorials but I'm still waiting for the day when US joins the metric system (their military and some other areas is already there). Seriously, "half of an quarter of an inch" that's also our standard bleed but we call it 3mm. ^^
Gustav Holmström haha I hear you! Can't help what I grew up with/what I'm surrounded by every day. I hate that I can't think in metric enough to do it on the fly - I'll make an effort to come more prepared with my measurements - thanks for the 3mm head's up!
Teela Cunningham I certainly can't do inches, yards and feet on the fly either (not that I have to too often) but when I need it; google has a pretty handy built in conversion function :)
Thanks, Teela! Question though: when you lasso select the trim marks, how do you make it so that you don't select the guide lines also? I have to select it all, then shift + click each guide line so that I don't copy and drag them as well.
ok this was awesome!! would be great to have a you created. would make it so much easier lol like with a download, that might be considered a bonus. MAN wouldn't that be awesome *cough cough* *hint hint*
Loved the tutorial. Quick question, I created business cards for my mom (who doesn't have Illustrator) and now, I'd like to send them to her so she can print them herself. How do you recommend doing so, i.e. would sending them as a PDF work? Or must these be printed from Illustrator?
Teela Cunningham Sure, if you look at the third row, you have the horizontal cutting line for the top of the card and the guide for bleeding. The cutting line is right, but the guide for bleeding is below the cutting line. Should be on top right? :)
Julian Schnaars is correct the third row of cards the top bleed is inside the crop mark and all the others are outside. Crop being you little tick marks on the sides and top.
This is all fine and dandy but if you're ever in a rush to print I would skip the lines and just use Step and Repeat to populate the page. Then you only have to link once and repeat the Step and Repeat.
Anyone watching know how to properly cut these out? I have tried several different ways and keep cutting my lines off. I'm guessing I have to get out a pencil and ruler?
There's got to be a faster way to do this, like in CorelDraw with print preview, there's got to be something similar in illustrator, this just takes to much time....
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