Fill or Frame a photo on a Business Card

It is not always easy to fit a photo to the shape of a business card. A business card shape is 2"x3.5". Most photos are not of the same shape as a business card.

To make a photo fill the business card shape, one needs to overlay the photo and extend it beyond the business card area. This means that a small portion of the photo edge which extends beyond the business card edge will be cut off when the business card is cut. This can be a problem if important portions of the photo extend to the edge of the photo. If this is the case, then I would recommend that the business card be filled with a frame color and the photo be placed inside the business card area using the business card to frame the photo. In this way not any of the photo becomes cropped.

Here is an example of a photo being used to fill a business card area, and another example of a photo being framed on a business card:

The photo fills the whole card area, so parts of photo edges become cropped:



The photo is placed inside the business card area, using the business card to frame the photo. Nothing on the photo is cropped:



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