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25 Useful Business Card Tutorials, Templates

Nothing feels better than having a business card that you designed yourself. Since your business card reflects your business or personality, a stylish and well-designed business card therefore is important to the success of a business or a freelance career. Here are 25 easy-to-follow design tutorials that could help you just in case you are planing to design your own business cards. Each of these design tutorials comes with a source file where you can use as template to design your own version. Be very creative and we hope you

1: Create a Slick Business Card Design with Stunning Typography
Whatever profession you’re in, there will come a time when you’ll need your own business card. This graphic design tutorial will show you a way to create a standard two-sided business card design in Adobe Photoshop that you can take to your printer.

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2: Business Card Design Project Walkthrough
This is an easy-to-follow Photoshop tutorial from designer Chris Spooner. The tutorial discusses the step-by-step process for creating a business card design project for a client.  To benefit from this tutorial, you should have at least some basic skills in using Adobe Illustrator.

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3: How To Create Print Ready Standard Size Business Cards
Designing business cards is a fun process. And you can create them really fast, because they are generally simple things. In this tutorial you will learn how to create print ready standard size business cards with Photoshop. If you follow these guidelines you’ll soon be able to create your own business cards.

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4: How To Create A Sweet Bokeh Business Card In Photoshop
In this Photoshop tutorial, you are going to learn how to create a double-sided business card that features Bokeh and abstract effects. You will also learn to create many different color schemes for it.

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5: Create a Fun Print-Ready Doodled Business Card Design
There is nothing more unique to your creative talent than a series of your own doodles and sketches. This tutorial will let you use the good old doodle to represent your design services by combining quick and fun doodles with a print ready business card design. Doodles will be drawn directly in Illustrator, and using the application’s print abilities to set up your business card document with the correct margins and bleed to build a complete print-ready PDF document.

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6: Cardboard and Torn Paper Business Card
In this Advanced Photoshop tutorial, you will be able to create a nice cardboard effect and play with a neat torn edge effect. Please note that this is an advanced tutorial and certain assumptions have been made about your ability to get around inside the Photoshop interface.

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7: Making a Print-Ready Business Card Using Only Photoshop
This tutorial shows you how to design a simple business card in Photoshop and get it ready for print with crop marks and bleed. Normally you would do some of this with a tool like Adobe InDesign, but it is in fact possible to get by with just our trusty old Photoshop.

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8: Design a Print Ready Business Card for Designers
Follow this step-by-step process  in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign to create your own double sided business card design, resulting in a print-ready file to send to your preferred print firm.

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9 :D esign a Clean Striped Business Card in Illustrator
In this tutorial we’re going to be creating a sleek striped business card from scratch in Illustrator CS4, using various tools and techniques. As well as creating this business card yourself, you can also download the business card for free along with a corresponding letterhead.

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10: Making a Grungy Business Card
There are many different ways to attack a business card design. Clean & corporate is always nice. But why not get a little wild? This tutorial will walk you through setting up a vertical grungy business card template, front to back and ready to print.

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11: Simple business card in Photoshop
This tutorial shows you how to design a simple business card in Photoshop. If you do not know how to use Photoshop, you can download the PSD template file by making a donation.

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12: Design a Cool Grunge Business Card
Grunge designs are now the latest trend for print and web. In this tutorial, you will learn how to make a cool grungy business card using Photoshop.

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13: How to Design an Abstract Business Card in Photoshop
In this tutorial, you will learn how to design an abstract business card using a combination of Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. You will be using Photoshop as a base for your business card, all whilst using Illustrator to create some clean, abstract shapes to use in your abstract business cards.

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14: Make Swiss Design Inspired Business Cards in 30 Minutes
In this print design tutorial, you will witness a process for creating Swiss Style themed business cards using Adobe Illustrator and some tools and items that you can easily obtain from your your local office supply store (or online). We’re going to go through setting up Illustrator for designing a business card template, as well as how to print the template on business card stock.

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15: Creating a new business card
This tutorial shows you how to design a simple business card in Photoshop from scratch. Essentially, this tutorial shows you how to condense your business to a size of a business card.

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16: Professional Business Card.
In this 4 page in-depth instructional tutorial you’ll learn the basic creation of business cards. This will be made in Adobe Illustrator but can easily be adapted to Photoshop.

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17: Designing a Professional Business Card in Photoshop
A professional business card is vital to successfully representing your business. PSD Nation has created an easy-to-follow tutorial showing the steps to create a fantastic business card.

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18: Professional Business Card.
In this 4 page in-depth instructional tutorial you’ll learn the basic creation of business cards. This will be made in Adobe Illustrator but can easily be adapted to Photoshop.

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19: Ideas for Business Card Layouts
Designing business cards can sometimes be tough especially seeing as you often need to cram in a whole lot of information including name, company title, address along with a person’s contact details, which can sometimes limit your creativity. Hopefully the following design templates will give you some ideas for arranging all of this information in your next business card designs.

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20: Designing an all purpose sleek business card
This tutorial shows you how to design a super sleek business card that you can use for any purpose.

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21: Unusual Presentation For Your Business Card
Here is special useful tutorial how to create unusual presentation for your business card.

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22:Creating a Colorful Vibrant Business Card
This tutorial shows you how to design a super sleek business card that you can use for any purpose.

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23: Design a cool and original jeans style Business Card in Photoshop
This tutorial will guide you through the process of designing a professional jeans style business card. The tutorial features some great techniques, effects and layer styles in which you can use over and over for future projects.

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24: Making a beautiful Business card
There are many different ways to attack a business card design. Clean & corporate is always nice. But why not get a little wild? This tutorial will walk you through setting up a horizontal beautiful business card.

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25: Business cards are a useful resource for any business. Follow this business card tutorial in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign to create your own double sided business card design, resulting in a print-ready file to send to a print company of your choice.

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3 Comments

  1. A nice collection of business card tutorials. I know most of them already, but there are three (#14, #23 and #25) I haven’t seen before. Thanks for sharing.

  2. Useful post. Thanks for collecting all these tutorials. Will have to look through all of them one by one.

  3. This is very useful! Thanks for sharing.

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