Blog 2: Business Card

 

Business Cards in InDesign

How to format documents in Adobe InDesign

With all of the various websites out there to help with document design, not many of us see ourselves designing our own documents from scratch. In particular, business cards are often ones that we use previous formats and designs for because it saves us the trouble. Working with InDesign is a fun way to create your own business cards and other documents. The biggest thing for me to understand was the bleeds and placing the image so that it will print the correct part of that image. Because the focus was not as much on the content but how to get there I did the best I could to show that work. 

Because I am currently the Chairman of College Republicans here on campus I decided to create a business card that represents that. I learned many things about setting up a business card, first of which was the bleed which for business cards is supposed to be .12 on both the width and height. (Vistaprint) This was an easy task as in InDesign there is an option to set the bleed before you create the document itself. One of my biggest challenges while trying to get my photos in the correct place would be the content grabber which is there to select the content within the frame. (Wood, 2018) Adobe confused me with this feature until I began to play with it and it actually came in handy on this project. I was able to move my portrait around to stay within the bleed and margins while framing it correctly. 

Another important feature that I learned from playing around was the place feature. From this feature you are able to drag the image and make it the size that you want. (Wood, 2018) This was a feature I was unaware with because previously I would try to drag the image or simply import the image. The place feature allows for more control when inserting an image and I will certainly use this in the future. 

Sources

https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/how-to/add-work-with-graphics.html

https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/how-to/get-started-indesign.html