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Post by kealios on Oct 22, 2011 20:58:19 GMT -5
So I've seen some stellar examples of profile cards, and I kind of want to make my own. No, I REALLY want to make my own.
How do you do it?
I assume you just modify the official one, using Adobe Acrobat and a pic of whatever you want to add?
I'm really curious.
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Post by inrepose on Oct 24, 2011 11:49:52 GMT -5
The official ones are a combination of an Adobe Illustrator design, which is dropped into Adobe Indesign for the text layers. There are several other variations appearing in the Yahoo group where people have uploaded some nice larger cards.
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Post by puddingwrestler on Oct 26, 2011 17:43:21 GMT -5
I have made things which look very similar to the official ones (and I will upload them eventually - keep forgetting) using Inkscape. Inkscape is basically a sort of open-source illustraitor clone, and is pretty damnably nifty. Also free. And nifty.
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Post by millsy on Nov 11, 2011 3:50:26 GMT -5
I'm doing mine in Adobe InDesign in much the same way Robin does his I imagine. I've done cards for a number of games I play and I quite enjoy it.
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Post by fjodin on Nov 11, 2011 5:53:16 GMT -5
Adobe Photoshop.
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Post by comstar on Nov 11, 2011 19:50:33 GMT -5
Mine are simple excel doc  quick and easy but not as good looking as any of yours  Here is one i just produced for a big Marine Commander! (next time ill click the curser off the screen before taking a screen shot! Doh)  |
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Post by millsy on Nov 12, 2011 16:55:46 GMT -5
There's nothing wrong with those mate. I like em. Clean, easy to read and I'll bet a lot quicker than my ones  |
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Post by comstar on Nov 12, 2011 19:18:57 GMT -5
There's nothing wrong with those mate. I like em. Clean, easy to read and I'll bet a lot quicker than my ones Very quick once set up took about five minutes with the help of the excel builder for points and construction If any one wants a copy just PM me your email and ill buzz them off to you |
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Post by golan2072 on Dec 11, 2011 5:40:43 GMT -5
I think I'll do mine in Paint.NET, which is a free graphics program. All I need are recommended card sizes in inches/cm/pixels and I'll do them.
After I print them, I assume I just glue the printout to cardboard and cut out the cards, right?
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Post by comstar on Dec 11, 2011 7:34:11 GMT -5
I print them as a sheet and when finalized I'll laminate them |
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Post by zombie4prophet on Dec 11, 2011 8:39:38 GMT -5
I print mine on labels and stick them to excess Mana which I have in the thousands.
I like the index card idea and wouldn't mind "re-scaling" to 3.5 " x 5" for some things.
I'll have to give that some thought.
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Post by golan2072 on Dec 11, 2011 8:46:20 GMT -5
Good idea! |
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Post by zombie4prophet on Dec 11, 2011 11:40:43 GMT -5
Yes, the labels on mana means it's easy to do Card-driven activation and shuffle them for a random draw.
Of course, some cards look better with both sides labelled, so I generally just do the meat of the Card on one label for activation deck and the double label for the playing card. Thus why I am thinking about an Index card which is about twice the size of a M:tG card.
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quick and easy but not as good looking as any of yours 
