Made Trader Card Templates

Ann McRae

Next weekend I am doing T & I for a community program with 11 teams - mostly minimites, U6 and U8. I have been told all teams will have orange jerseys, black shorts.
I made templates for trader cards - suspect that it will be the parents of little guys wanting them. I will put name, maybe team name on each, and info on the back if I can figure out that step. Let me know what ou think of these:

1. Simple - for the older ones? Or is it too plain?

?can't make this link work?

2. Gradient - this one might be finicky and not easy to manipulate en masse:



3.



I am open to full critique here.

ann

W.W. Webster

Ann McRae wrote:

I am open to full critique here.

I have no idea what a 'trader card' is but the in-and-out alignment of the vertical text looks unsightly due to the variable width of the individual letters. I suggest these are aligned centrally, rather than left-justified.

Ann McRae

Thanks - I was thinking along those lines too - maybe a different font - I'll work on that.

A 'trader card' is a novelty item that imitate baseball cards or comic book cards - collector things.

ann

W.W. Webster wrote:

I have no idea what a 'trader card' is but the in-and-out alignment of the vertical text looks unsightly due to the variable width of the individual letters. I suggest these are aligned centrally, rather than left-justified.

W.W. Webster

Ann McRae wrote:

A 'trader card' is a novelty item that imitate baseball cards or comic book cards - collector things.

Ah-ha!

scwalter

I'm not really a fan of either of those because I don't think they look enough like the real thing. HP has some very nice Topps templates (in Word format, but you can cut/paste the graphics into PS). I think the kids and parents would be more impressed with one that looks more like a real card:

http://www.hp.com/united-states/homefun/fun_with_sports.html

-Scott

Ann McRae

Thanks, Scott. I've had a look at those templates (and a bunch of others -
www.mpix.com
www.millerslab.com
http://www.colorincprolab.com/ser_cards.html
and a few others - I will try to come up with the links) and seen everything from really elaborate to really simple. The Topps ones are quite simple. I can do that, too. I'll give it a shot.

Any other feedback? BTW, I've implemented WW's thoughts on centering the text, and it works better.

ann

scwalter wrote:

I'm not really a fan of either of those because I don't think they look enough like the real thing. HP has some very nice Topps templates (in Word format, but you can cut/paste the graphics into PS). I think the kids and parents would be more impressed with one that looks more like a real card:

http://www.hp.com/united-states/homefun/fun_with_sports.html

-Scott

Ann McRae

Look atthe templates here too:

http://www.millerslab.com/services/pic%5Fa%5Fpac/

Of course I'd include player number and name to fill up the blank space - any more feedback?

ann