Trading Cards Project
You have been hired as a graphic designer by From the Sidelines Productions. They want you to design trading cards for their clients.
Quality graphic designers understand depth and product relationship. Depth provides that extra pop to your design. Somewhere you often find creative depth design is in trading cards. Create 4 trading cards for a sports team, athlete, car, band, television show, or movie that use image within image depth or product relationship depth. Create a name for your card company (i.e. Upper Deck), and design a logo and look (i.e. borders or symbols) that will appear on each card the same way in the same place. Remember to make use of company or product colors.
Each card must have the same look and feel. You must cut the objects out cleanly and use multiple layers. You cannot use a plain photograph with background as your image. Experiment with different font styles until you find the one that fits just right with your product. Look at examples online to get ideas. Have fun with this project. Experiment with opacity and layer styles to give your design that extra pop. Look up tutorials online for creating different text effects in Photoshop for even more creative work.
For this project we will work in inches, not pixels. Your image size should be the actual size of a trading card - Width 2.5 inches, Height 3.5 inches. Make sure to change from pixels to inches! You will also have to change your resolution to 300! You can flip the dimensions to make horizontal if you like. Save the images as lastname+firstinitial+card1 and lastname+firstinitial+card2, etc.
Save as a PSD and JPEG. Submit only the JPEG version on Edmodo.
Quality graphic designers understand depth and product relationship. Depth provides that extra pop to your design. Somewhere you often find creative depth design is in trading cards. Create 4 trading cards for a sports team, athlete, car, band, television show, or movie that use image within image depth or product relationship depth. Create a name for your card company (i.e. Upper Deck), and design a logo and look (i.e. borders or symbols) that will appear on each card the same way in the same place. Remember to make use of company or product colors.
Each card must have the same look and feel. You must cut the objects out cleanly and use multiple layers. You cannot use a plain photograph with background as your image. Experiment with different font styles until you find the one that fits just right with your product. Look at examples online to get ideas. Have fun with this project. Experiment with opacity and layer styles to give your design that extra pop. Look up tutorials online for creating different text effects in Photoshop for even more creative work.
For this project we will work in inches, not pixels. Your image size should be the actual size of a trading card - Width 2.5 inches, Height 3.5 inches. Make sure to change from pixels to inches! You will also have to change your resolution to 300! You can flip the dimensions to make horizontal if you like. Save the images as lastname+firstinitial+card1 and lastname+firstinitial+card2, etc.
Save as a PSD and JPEG. Submit only the JPEG version on Edmodo.