Home Brew'd Item Cards
Wow. Fantastic job!!
Thanks! It cost one of our guys about $60-70 in printing materials to get these all out on a thick card stock at Kinko's. I'd recommend anyone else do this themselves with a home printer and cheaper/thinner card stock.
Edited by SPARTAN VIThat's very expensive.
I also make my onwn equipment and action card for WFRP3, but I print them on an online professionnal printer ( printer's studio ); that's less then 10$ for 54 cards and the quality is very good. Use bridge size, 310gsm custom cards, it's doesn't feel different than official cards.
That's very expensive.
I also make my onwn equipment and action card for WFRP3, but I print them on an online professionnal printer ( printer's studio ); that's less then 10$ for 54 cards and the quality is very good. Use bridge size, 310gsm custom cards, it's doesn't feel different than official cards.
Do you use Strange Eons or your own photoshop template? The cards I've created in strange eons use the icons for weight. Did you use those icons for your cards, and if so did the fact that they partially fall between the "safe" area and "cut" area of the template cause any of them to have problems?
Do you use Strange Eons or your own photoshop template? The cards I've created in strange eons use the icons for weight. Did you use those icons for your cards, and if so did the fact that they partially fall between the "safe" area and "cut" area of the template cause any of them to have problems?
Yep, personnaly I use strange eons and the template from liber fanatica.
You can find them here (sorry, they're in french):
Before uploading Strange eons images to printers studio, you have to resize them and add a black border to respect the 'cut' area of the template. I use imagemagick (a open-source tool), here are the command lines to do the modifications to all the images in the folder (use 600dpi images) :
mogrify -resize 1350x2100! *.png
then:
mogrify.exe -background black -extent 1494x2244 -gravity center *.png
Do you use Strange Eons or your own photoshop template? The cards I've created in strange eons use the icons for weight. Did you use those icons for your cards, and if so did the fact that they partially fall between the "safe" area and "cut" area of the template cause any of them to have problems?
Yep, personnaly I use strange eons and the template from liber fanatica.
You can find them here (sorry, they're in french):
Before uploading Strange eons images to printers studio, you have to resize them and add a black border to respect the 'cut' area of the template. I use imagemagick (a open-source tool), here are the command lines to do the modifications to all the images in the folder (use 600dpi images) :
mogrify -resize 1350x2100! *.png
then:
mogrify.exe -background black -extent 1494x2244 -gravity center *.png
Hmm, I've tried testing this out, but whatever I downloaded for imagemagick doesn't have a Command line for me to enter those into. I have Windows 7 64-bit and downloaded the first file from the index of binaries, then installed the .exe. http://www.imagemagick.org/download/binaries/ Did I do something wrong?
Should be all right, althought you'd rather get ImageMagick-6.9.0-0-Q16-x64-dll.exe
then install it
then open windows command-line interface (cmd)
change to your image dir : cd whatever-your-dir-is
the command line should be
"C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-6.9.0-Q16\mogrify.exe" -resize 1350x2100! *.png
Should be all right, althought you'd rather get ImageMagick-6.9.0-0-Q16-x64-dll.exe
then install it
then open windows command-line interface (cmd)
change to your image dir : cd whatever-your-dir-is
the command line should be
"C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-6.9.0-Q16\mogrify.exe" -resize 1350x2100! *.png
I managed to figure it out! I had to look up how to use a command line, as I almost never use it. Another question about the print service you used. It lists a "safe area," "cut area," and "bleed area." On the template, it says that the Safe Area should contain all of the important text. Did you have any text or special detail in the "cut area," and if so, did it turn out okay? Or do you think I should reduce the dimensions down further and create a visible border area to guarantee that the text will show?
Also, do you have a source for the images used in your item cards?
Edited by Nimsim
Should be all right, althought you'd rather get ImageMagick-6.9.0-0-Q16-x64-dll.exe
then install it
then open windows command-line interface (cmd)
change to your image dir : cd whatever-your-dir-is
the command line should be
"C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-6.9.0-Q16\mogrify.exe" -resize 1350x2100! *.png
I managed to figure it out! I had to look up how to use a command line, as I almost never use it. Another question about the print service you used. It lists a "safe area," "cut area," and "bleed area." On the template, it says that the Safe Area should contain all of the important text. Did you have any text or special detail in the "cut area," and if so, did it turn out okay? Or do you think I should reduce the dimensions down further and create a visible border area to guarantee that the text will show?
Also, do you have a source for the images used in your item cards?
Sorry, super late here. I no longer have the sources. Many were pulled from Warhammer video game concept art. Others were ripped and pieced together manually from other concept art from various artists on deviantart; for example, some of the chest pieces were mixed with other artists' work to get the desired look (e.g. plate from one mixed with chainmail from another). I wish I could credit all the wonderful artists, but this wasn't something I originally planned to share.
Edited by SPARTAN VI