Artist/Educator Business card

Fitting an Image on a Business Card

Many artists want to show their art on their business card. For example this artist has a nice photo file of her art that she wanted on the front of her card. Like many photo files we receive, it does not have the same ratioed shape as a business card. Please notice how the photo on the front of the following card is more square than the long shape of the overall business card.



Therefore, the only way to show the complete photo on the business card will be to shrink the photo so it fits inside the business card layout as show above.

Since the artist was also interested in seeing her photo image fill the front of the card, we enlarged the photo until it filled the card, and then we have to crop the parts of the photo that extend beyond the card edges. Here is what the card front looks like with the photo image cropped to fill the card and all text on the back of the card.

card front

card back