Inkscape Tutorial: Print Ready Business Card Design

[@dingloc]

You're the best designer, Nick, greetings from Mexico !

[@LogosByNick]

Thank you!

[@karipundai4725]

Very true. Keep it up Nick.

[@flyingsquirrel3271]

Awesome Tutorials, thanks a lot! Here is one tipp from me: To get a perfectly aligned 5-edged star, you can just draw it standing on one edge (using the control key) and then flip it vertically. That way you don't have to eyeball the alignment of the two bottom edges and it will be perfectly precise every time.

[@loganholdaway769]

Thanks for the video. Always learn something. Here's something else: When exporting to PDF its helpful to tick the box convert text to paths. That way if you want to go back and make a change you don't have to recreate the block of text you need to change, its still a font instead of a path.

[@LogosByNick]

Interesting. Did not know that. Thanks for the tip.

[@98Eduardo98]

That's assuming you didn't convert the text to a path prior to exporting it...

[@mauriciogarrido9093]

I'm creating a card design using Inkscape, and this video is of great help! Thank you very much.

[@timcozad6125]

Nick, thank you so much for making these videos! You have a natural talent at describing quickly and concisely. You're the best man, thanks!

[@GongaDuck]

Thanks for this, Nick. We're at a point where we want to create business cards for our business, so this will come in very handy.

[@LogosByNick]

Good luck!

[@tubetubepleasure]

Wonderful tutorial. Really enjoy watching all along the precedure and each step, you make it so precise to make it simple and clear.

[@strange210]

Thanks dear Nick for this awesome explaining.

[@toquocat6806]

Thanks Nick for guiding me through this

[@smiskenbrewery]

Truly amazing stuff Nick! Simplicity to the core! I love this...Thanx for sharing all your great tutorials...

[@romano_9]

Thanks for your awesome tutorials! Very helpful! And thanks for sharing those icons, they look awesome! Keep up the good work man!

[@LogosByNick]

Thank you!

[@90snative66]

yea they did!!

[@oneness00]

Providing crazy value, wishing you much success Nick!

[@andyshort4876]

You have taught me so much in 24 hours, holy...

[@sgttoxiiczz]

Loving the channel, Nick. I'm, pretty, new to Inkscape, and I have learnt so much because of your channel. Thanks.

[@etalo834]

Thanks alot, Nick! I manage to finish doing the business card and logo by learning from you. Your tutorials are so clear and useful! I would give you more likes if possible! =)

[@prestomike7562]

Great tutorial and explanation, Nick! You made some difficult concepts seem very easy to follow and implement.

[@MadaraUchiha-tf3im]

I never knew about converting a font into a path first! Oh no, good thing I included the font file during handovers. Thank you so much for this tutorial, stay awesome!

[@FlyhmTheBones]

Thanks for the tutorial, it was a big help designing the card for my step-dad's remodelling business! I'll try to remember to post a link to the final product in a reply to this comment once it's finished!

[@richgutierrez5085]

Great video. Thanks for what you do!

[@dakaloka]

Thank you, this is very helpfull video, and you explain it nice, like a teacher.

[@sophia-pv3en]

can't believe you did it in 25 minutes. i spent am hour on this

[@johnspartan481]

Yr the bomb brother ! Yr way of teaching is very easy to follow man . Thank u !

[@Nickpva]

Another great video. Thanks for sharing Nick!

[@TechTins_Projects]

Thanks Nick. Great model this is. You get to do nice designs and showcase your skills and earn via patreon and youtube and we all get to learn your amazing tricks. Win win situation, this is the way to use youtube. I have just built the curved arrows and afterwards made sure I subscribed. Superb

[@lydinearriola2250]

Awesome tutorial! Can you do one showing how we can create multiple business cards on one page that's ready to print at home. I am having a hard time trying to get it right and as well as double sided printing. Can't find any videos to help with that and since watching your videos has been a great help!

[@bohill8889]

looks a little different nowadays but was still able to follow along thankyou

[@ReddSand247]

I love your videos!!! Thanks!!!

[@arvindh13]

Please upload some more tutorials' ,i learned to make logos using your tutorials and i'm very much thankful, if u could upload more tutorials for Business Cards making in INKSCAPE ,it would be really helpful.

[@ricardoalejandretrigo1238]

Great tutorials, love watching them, great job thank you.

[@GrumpyStoic]

Thanks Nick. Hey question from 2023 here using Inkscape version 1.3. When saving as PDF there is a default recommended option for 'rounding compensation'. From the hover text explanation it sounds like something that's better to turn off, but yet it recommends it being used. Thoughts?

[@matthewhart8904]

Thanks Nick... you have helped us immeasurably. Your's are the best tutorials. Clear, easy to follow and can actully hear you well... thanks; "IDEA Africa Inc" - Matt

[@musahiddris7337]

I have no regret for subscribing to your channel, please how do you get the shadow?

[@kevinchumley7870]

Hey Nick how are you getting the rectangle and square box you put over the document to stay in place do you have to combine them?

[@sonalihebbar8519]

Your tutorials are great nick. I have a question....Even though I see all the tutorials...still when I sit to do any design by myself....I fail as I just don't know how to do that particular thing what I want in my design. Any Suggestions??

[@sanjeebsenapati5208]

Superb work nick !!

[@rizkyms47]

Thanks for content and the icon😁

[@ozmosize]

Great tutorial, sooooooo helpful. Thank you!

[@whipcream6409]

Thank you! I learned so much from this~

[@dhosquet]

Will the final PDF you created be in RGB? Will the printer not require CMYK?

[@travismcfarland3068]

Thank you, Nick! Your tutorials have been such a blessing to my learning process. Much appreciated.

[@nalindoesmotion]

You are the best bro From India

[@litmol]

Hi Nick Thank you for another great video! Two questions: Don't you need to assign a CMYK profile in order to assure that printed colors would be the same as those seen on screen? After turning text to path (Object to Path), is there an option to go back to text?

[@millergael7665]

instablaster.

[@luyxabc]

Hello, nice tutorial, I did a Business Card following every step, the problem I got its that when I save it as a PDF file the shapes in black disappear, and the BC shows wrong, what em I missing? thanx, I hope you could help me with my issue

[@sofianedouak3160]

Thanks very much for your helfull tutorials plz can i download all your tutoriel and why not create then others free tutoriel in french if you agree

[@digitaleddie777]

awesome!!! how did you get the curve effect on the card for your thumbnail?

[@BaxterBrew]

thanks for the uploads!

[@ayakuman3450]

I'm still beginer and I need this to become expert thankyou

[@fahimalislam108]

Great tutorial! Thanks a lot for the setup. Best of luck :)

[@RG-pv2wx]

How do print shops align and cut the piece without the bleed line or a crop line/cut line? Is having a bleed margin applicable for customers printing at home? Like birthday cards and whatnot. Could I export to PNG first and then convert it to PDF, to keep the SVG file as is, without having to convert all text to paths? All this is confusing for a newbie 😆

[@vamankumarpatel2652]

sir some tools n ui is not perfect in my laptop what should i do...? i deleted and install then also same problem ? please tell

[@vinr]

Excellent tutorial

[@helderalmeida9291]

hello, i love your tutorials and just learned a lot of stuff... i was trying to do something similar but i can't pass the step with the bezier pen to draw the small triangle.. i do it but only color the stroke and not fill the thing... i did it and redid it but i can't figure out what i'm doing wrong...

[@andreazevedodesign]

Hello Nick, Congratulations on the videos, I would like to know if there is any plugin or script to do page imposition in Inkscape

[@w.limoke1790]

'Would like to know how to make a portfolio/Magazine Layout with Inkscape. Do you have a tutorial or does someone know a good one? thank you:)

[@renelle6733]

HI Nick can you or anyone else give some me assistance with this issue I'm having please? I created a flyer in Inkscape at 8.5x11 transparent background I applied the crop, bleed and position to it. I saved it to both png & pdf when I opened the pdf version to print I am continously seeing this white background behind the entire flyer longer as well. I have exhausted all the options I know of. Advise needed ASAP THANKS.

[@jpkardozo]

muito bom seus vídeos

[@futurexavierfx4749]

This is great, and so useful. Thank You, Nick! A quick question: When you say print-ready, does it mean that it doesnt matter if its not cmyk (since inkscape is rgb)? im on a windows, not linux pc.

[@LogosByNick]

Yes, depending on where you have it printed. Most large online print shops (like Vistaprint and Gotprint) do color conversions themselves and RGB files end up printing fine. I've printed many RGB documents with Vistaprint in the past and it always comes out great. Gotprint too. It's the smaller mom & pop print shops where you need to be careful about the color profiles.

[@onurazorqs9516]

Thanks for the nice Tutorial! But you didnt mention the problem with the CMYK Color problem while exporting the PDF File. Inkscapes uses RGB Colors by default, so the colors will appear differently after printing.

[@Raad_Abderrahmane]

How can I solve this problem?

[@rapplug139]

Nick pleeeeass make a video how to make a label for product I done a logo two tutorials I done , but we don’t know how to make back round etc for label I’ll try to do it with this but when I over lap my logo the square blocks it

[@amdsj89]

do you make different propositions of a business card for a client like you do for logos ?

[@excraz]

This helpt me so much! Thanks mate!

[@reneejuhl524]

Thank you! Much appreciated.

[@katiejackson1749]

nick, I love watching your videos... I am currently trying to do an invitation and have watercoloring effect. When I save it has a pdf to print it does not keep the watercolor effect. What can I do?

[@omarayub347]

very very helpful

[@eugenechernov837]

Great content! Thanks a lot!

[@sanjeebsenapati5208]

Could you please upload some video on creating catalogues ?

[@austinpierson4010]

I kind of skipped to the end of the video and wasn't sure if you mentioned RGB to CMYK conversion. Do you still have to go to scribus to convert the pdf file into CMYK or does inkscape support CMYK now? great video by the way.

[@loganholdaway769]

After creating something for print using inkscape I always run the following command and it outputs a new file called side1_cmyk.pdf or whatever you call it. It's like magic! gs -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOCACHE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sColorConversionStrategy=CMYK -dProcessColorModel=/DeviceCMYK -sOutputFile=side1_cmyk.pdf side1.pdf

[@OlegTeplyakov]

Logan Holdaway does it work well? that is cool if it does. Black texts go to 100k in cmyk? and cmy is 0? is it that smart?

[@austinpierson4010]

Oleg Teplyakov Yeah I'd be interested to see how that turns out

[@loganholdaway769]

Oleg Teplyakov, I've not checked the exactness but I always run it and never had a problem.

[@OlegTeplyakov]

Logan Holdaway thank you, That is what I am going to do. I have not tried the comand operations yet though. Or it was saving the file with that name ?

[@_isaac_muniz_]

Thank you.

[@anikdast1613]

Nice,thanks

[@argenisjimenez8118]

Now that I think on it. Isn't there a way to make the canvas' background show the transparency? I mean instead of being white, appear with that Checkboard like background that the pngs use.

[@LogosByNick]

Yes, if you go to Document Properties (control + shift + d) there's a check box for it.

[@ranjeetmishra3778]

nice, thank you

[@kurru_kamiz3458]

heey im from 2020 the futur and tnx dude this is very helpful

[@Glasspiperunner]

Nick how do you do a double sided business card?

[@shater1164]

Double side Business Card needs two(02) to four(04) slides/layers design AFAIK

[@mazaya4adve]

thanks, what' s the PDF app do you use

[@cocomaria7170]

thank you!

[@helvymarkus3917]

well done

[@jayo6162]

hey man, i appreciate your tutorials. For some reason, I can't open my Inkscape SVG files. Can you please send me a link to where you downloaded your Inkscape and how you did it. I use quartz 11 with my Inkscape on my mac. Thanks.

[@DeroJojo]

I wan ask u why used HSLA don't use cmyk?

[@nurettinozturk3110]

Thanks!

[@AnuragKumar380]

Great video..very helpful!

[@itamarpaiva4646]

how to create an interactive digital business card? Obrigado pleo vídeo!

[@foxie134]

How did you create the drop shadow in the final PNG file? With Inkscape?

[@victorsandoval7]

Thanks Nick! I just learned how to use inkscape :) can you upload a tutorial on how to make logos? Id appreciate it (y) keep up the good work

[@LogosByNick]

Hi Victor, yes I have a logo design playlist on my channel page

[@victorsandoval7]

Awesome! I'll check it out :D

[@lakshyagautam6763]

Hey nick...the link is not properly working...plz resolve the issue

[@nickramirez4707]

Subbed. Thanks so much.

[@Rm-Werbung]

how to print it if there are two sides , back and Front for print wich tampelate do you use, Front site Logo back side the data

[@LogosByNick]

Just make two different designs. Upload one of them as the front, and the other as the back. They get uploaded as separate files.

[@misty82]

What about once finish how would i use the logo then for a website or as a profile pic ,avatar etc?

[@kezjc2553]

Thanks Nick!

[@erickahill6736]

Can you print preview, prior to printing when using this software for ex after alterations are made to an image?

[@clonboymusic]

thank you nick for another great tutorial. one question about tablets: would u use like a wacom intuos tablet for your work? i mean a lot of people who draw digitally have one, so i was asking myself what YOU would think about that and logo designs. thank you. 2. is there another way to buy your logo design kit then paypal?

[@LogosByNick]

I haven't tried a tablet yet, but if it made for a more efficient workflow I would definitely go for it. I was actually considering buying one a while back but forgot and it slipped my mind. I should probably look into again. I've seen designers using them on KZbin. It looks like it's best for freehand drawing, which I don't do much of. As for the logo design kit, yeah I can accept other payment methods. Just send me an email: [e-mail] Thanks!

[@khanetor]

What does "object to path" do? I'm new to vector graphics so I wonder what this function does and why you did it in your business card design.

[@arsom5552]

It convert the grometric objects like square and triangle to editable path. The geometric objects can be edited but limited.

[@geno166]

Hey do you have to convert it to cmyk first ?

[@kasranourani2098]

Hey thanks! :)

[@CyberCrowBR]

Great !! You´re the best !

[@boy3m]

Amazing

[@GailWhimsy]

You are awesome!

[@xiaolili2765]

Hi, Nick. You're awesome designer and I admire your works. I started to learn graphic through all your videos. I have a question to ask. I can't untick the show border shadow since I'm using old Lenovo S10 notebook (WinXP 32bit) and Inkscape 0.92. Is there any other solution so that I can untick it as on this tutorial? Or can it (Document Properties) be set as scrollable or something? By the way, I'm your admirer from Malaysia.

[@LogosByNick]

That's a good question. I'm not sure to be honest, sorry I couldn't help. I would see about maybe making your screen's resolution larger if possible

[@xiaolili2765]

Thank you.I try the option that you suggest then :) Thank you again

[@raihanakmalharun]

what application was used to record?

[@sjdesign1474]

What about CMYK colours

[@govtfeed6816]

my inkscape settings has been changed how to change my default settings when i draw any shape object then after i was select the object, selecting areas too long not only particular shape object. please give me suggestion what i do