Printing your cards and making them look nicer/real photoshop.

[yus4eel]

Ok this is my first tut.

 

I kinda figured this out on my own and what i do makes the images and text look alot clearer on printout.

 

1) Find the image of your card( make sure they are commons because printing holos/rares is nearly impossible)

 

2) You should go to yugioh.wikia.com

 

3) When you find a good card save the image to your desktop.

 

4)Now open photoshop with your image and resize the image to 5.9cm by 8.6cm. Make sure to uncheck constrain proportions.

 

5) Now use the rectangle tool and select the name of your monster, then right click and press sharpen. you can also go to Filter>Sharpen and then choose how you want to sharpen the area.

 

6) Repeat step 5 but highlight the description, the copyright, the serial thingy, and the element symbol. You can also sharpen the image if you want, but make sure to do everything seperatly.

 

7)When you finish adjusting the images sharpness zoom the image until you can see the individual pixels on the writing. Select the brush tool and make it black. Then try to make the letters as dark as possible but keep the letters from getting blended together. Do this for all text on your card.

 

8 ) Now select File>New and under Preset choose U.S Paper if you use 8.5x11 inch paper and International if you use A3,A4 etc. You can also select photo if you use like 4x6 paper or something. Then choose size and pick your paper type.

 

9)now deselect anything on your card and then choose the Move Tool (the first tool with the 4 arrows)

 

10) Drag the card onto the new page you just made and then drop it there.

 

11) depending on the paper size you can put maybe 23 cards maximum (A4) on one sheet.

 

12) Press print when you've fit all cards (or your one card)

 

13) then make sure that the preview has the cards right, make sure you have color and highest quality printing on settings and then print.

 

14) if everything goes well you should have nice clear images.

 

15) Now take a few common crappy cards (with good condition card) and you may realize that the yugiooh cards are seperated into layers. you can seperate the picture from the back with an exacto knife or your fingernails.

 

16) depending on the type of paper if it is thicker try to peel away for layers on the picture part and leave less for the backing and vice-versa.

 

17) Then take a glue stick and position the card as perfectly as possible on the backing. if the card is a tiny bit bigger or smaller try to even it oout with scissors, but this shouldnt be a problem.

 

18 ) Press out any air bubbles and then put the card under a stack of textbooks or anything flatbottomed and heavy.

 

19) Leave it there a few minutes until it looks and feels dry.

 

20) Then you can now use them to battle or whatever you want!

 

UPDATE!!

 

21) After step 20 u can spray the card with hig loss spray if you didnt use photopaper or if you want it really smooth.

buy from wal-mart

then spray on about 6 or seven coats, allowing each one to dry

u should get a glossy look and feel

o yeah u dont have to do it 6 or 7 but until it looks and feels nice

:D:D:lol:8)

[OCG]

Great tutorial this should help out a lot of people :) I am a little bummed tho cuz my printer's not color :(

[Cloco 30]

AH DARN IT OUT OF INK

[daisyallen]

I agree with OCG . Here provided information is very vast and use full all most all the step include in it . This provides great assistance to those who have no knowledge about it and who are new to this field.

[yus4eel]

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