One of the things I have been working on lately is coming up with fun templates for custom cards. I really love the look of vintage designs. One of my favorite card designs is the 1977 card. Now when using Photoshop or GIMP, it’s easy to pull a picture off the web, crop out the player and put a new player in. That’s been done, what I have been trying out is coming up with a modren twist to an old design. Kind of like my version of the 1971 cards that I am using for the draft picks this year. So with an example of a 1977 card by my side, I decided to come up with a template, using former Cubs first round pick Josh Vitters as my guinea pig. Here is what I came up with:
It’s a very simple design, but I really like the way it came out. I am going to work on the future star pat a little more. I am curious to find out what everyone things. Leave a comment as to how you would tweek it. Here is a very rough version of a 1979 remake:
I like the design. I’d have the drop shadow on the CUBS and the pennant in the same direction. As if the light source was coming from the same spot.
It is a nice, clean design. Good work.
Mark that is an excellent call, I didn’t even think about that when I was making the card.
Those are sharp looking. I’d buy a pack or two…