Craig Stroupe | University of Minnesota Duluth
Credit-Card Sized Document
What to do
How to do it
Open a new
Photoshop document:
make it 400 x 400
pixels
Choose File > New
On a new layer,
create a rectangular
selection the size and
shape of a credit
card: 3.375” x 2.125”
At the bottom of the Layers Palette, click the “New Layers”
icon (looks like a page with the corner turned up).
Be sure that new layer is then selected in the Layers Palette.
From the Tool Palette, choose the Marquee tool, and then, in
the Properties Palette, set the “Style” to fixed size, and the
Width and Height measurements.
Make the corners of
the selection rounded
like a credit card
Then drag the Marquee Tool in the document window to make
the selection.
With the selection still active, choose Select > Modify >
Smooth, and set the radius to 5 pix
Stroke the selection
with a 1 pixel grey
line for trimming
after printing
Choose Edit > Stroke
Enter pixel width of stroke selection, and click the color box to
select the color.
Open another image,
resize it, and crop it
using the Marquee
Tool set at the same
size.
File > Open
Image > Image Size
Tip: if the sharpness and quality of the image is important (lots
of important tiny detail, or small text and numbers, uncheck
“Resample Image.”)
Move the image onto
its own layer in the
credit card document
Create a new layer in the credit card document
On a new layer, add
some text
Create a new layer in the credit card document
Use the Move Tool to drag the image onto this new layer
Choose the Text Tool
In the Properties Palette, choose the font, color, style
If necessary, re-stack
the layers to make the
trim line layer
visible.
In the Layers Palette, drag the trim line layer to the top.