Business Card

I can confidently say that after completing this assignment, making and designing a business card is harder than I initially thought. 

Once I looked at the dimensions of a business card and shaped my card on Adobe InDesign, it was time for me to look at the rest of the directions on what to put onto my card. I decided that a good idea would be to put my school email and phone number on the card because that would probably be what would be on a regular card.

I Googled myself and found a photo that my internship used for my feature on their website, so I copied that image and placed it on to the left of the text. 

Editing

It was weirdly dark, so I figured I had to change all the overall brightness of the photo by dragging the "gray Input Levels slider." (Kabili, 2018) 

For the transparent image that we had to put somewhere on the card, I chose to go with my astrological sign, which is a Gemini. I'm not usually good at coming up with symbols to represent myself so I decided a while ago that if I ever needed to, I would use the twins symbol. 

It was difficult for me to get the spacing and everything correct, but I am glad that, when moving pictures and text, the alignment lines show up which can help me place things parallel to each other. 

Moving

I kept forgetting how to move an entire image. I would try dragging it but it would only shift the photo within the confines of the originally placed box. Looking back at the reading though, I realized I had to "keep the link icon highlighted to preserve proportions." (Kabili, 2017)

The Adobe articles said that "almost every photo benefit from sharpening" (Kabili, 2018), but I had to make sure that I didn't over-sharpen the image. 

Centering

The centering of the photo and the text is really important because if something is even slightly off centered, it can be so obvious when previewing it. So having every thing in line and perfect is a really big part of creating an aesthetically pleasing card. 

Aesthetic

I think it's important that people understand how much thought needs to go into creating a business card. One thing that I focused on was the font, because I learned last year that certain fonts are more pleasing to the eye than others. 

So I chose a font that had the dashes at the tops and bottoms. I did, though, have to change the number that was in my email. It's a number 1, but in that particular font it looks like an I. So I decided to change the font of just the number so to it looked more like a 1, but I kept it similar to the original font.