Now left click your mouse … choose “edit” from the small menu. Which will be the standard *(American) US letter. Now open GIMP and select your template size.
Don’t worry, your copy is safe in the paws of your mouse). ( Then go to previous screen to get back to read the rest of these instructions. Just calm down and trust me and click RIGHT … anywhere on the screen.
LEFT click onto this template. The damn thing will expand in a nano-second … taking over your computer screen. It will give you a perfect template for GIMP ( version 2.8). This looks like an ordinary simple illustration. Then you can print ten cards on standard card stock paper. Where you’re standing ready to paste the great business card design you’ve nurtured for that lost weekend right smack into it. Two careful clicks of your mouse will capture it and copy it onto a magic cyber-carpet to carry it straight to GIMP. It should be easy to download one into GIMP and then just paste your great design into the ten perfectly aligned spaces for printing. There have to be lots of blank templates for ten cards on a standard single sheet of 8 ½ by 11 inch card stock. After all that work, you have a SINGLE business card staring up at you mournfully from your computer screen. However GIMP doesn’t offer the solution to printing out a nicely formatted single sheet of those neat cards you’ve spent the better part of a weekend laboring over. Gimp is heaven for an innovative designer.
There are neat fonts which you can move all over the place and adjust with a click. You can use layers, flip things around, import whatever suits your fancy. You just open a nice 3 ½ by 2 inch blank ( okay … it’s 1050 x 600 pixels if you want to get technical about it) and go at it. Gimp addicts who want to use that fabulous free site to design their own business cards … from scratch.
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