Promoting yourself on the internet, which is the biggest place where you can do it, is a great idea. Actually, is a must if you`re working on the internet as a freelancer, for example. There are many ways to do it, through personal websites, portfolios, online CV and virtual cards or vCards. I decided to design a nice and clean vCard in Photoshop and I`m going to explain you step by step what you need to know to build your own vCard.
Step 1
Create a new file, and name it “vcard”. Give the width : 922px and height : 780px
Now, let’s we make a layout with a width 500px, the first step is create a guides, open View > New Guide, in the box that pops open select vertical and enter 211px.
Then go to View > New Guide, in the box that pops open select vertical and enter 711px.
Step 2
Apply the gradient to your “background” layer. When applying the gradient start from the top-middle of the canvas and drag half way down, this should give us a nice sized effect. If you hold down the Shift key while dragging the gradient down it will lock the gradient line vertically.
Step 3
Next is to make the object box, using the rounded rectangle tool, Width: 500px, Height: 500px, Radius: 10px, dan Color: white (#ffffff)
Now add these layer styles, change the Fill of Opacity to 20%, add Drop Shadow, Inner Shadow,and Gradient Overlay
Then edit Gradient on Gradient Overlay
Step 4
The next step, duplicate the rectangle layer using [ ctrl ]+[ j ] or choose menu layer > Duplicate Layer, then send backward layer using [ ctrl ]+[ [ ]. Next, sliding down the object.
Change the fill of Opacity to 20%, and edit the layer style.
Step 5
Again, duplicate the rectangle layer using [ ctrl ]+[ j ] or choose menu layer > Duplicate Layer, then send backward layer using [ ctrl ]+[ [ ]. Then change Fill Opacity to 0%, and edit layer style.
Step 6
Now we’ll make the header, the first step is add your name at this header
Change the Fill of opacity to 50%, and edit the layer style.
Then, please add a little description about us.
Creat two lines below the title (your name) with a height 1px, for the first line give the color: #95b6c3 dan the second line color: #dcf2fa.
Then we add the logo and label to the righ side.
Step 7
Now we add some heading text “About Me”.
Then change the Fill of Opacity to 70%, and edit the layer style
Next please add some text below the heading “About Me”
And create a dividing lines, like that we created on step 6
Step 8
Create some heading text again, below the lines with same style as on step 7
Give some text below the heading “Links”, change the Fill of Opacity to 80%
Give the dividing lines
And add the icon like teh picture below
Step 9
Again let’s create some heading “Skills” text with the same style as on step 7
Then add some text, change the Fill of Opacity to 80%
Give the dividing lines
And add the icon like the picture below
Step 10
Finally, for the last step is create a footer. We’ll add some text and change the Fill of Opacity to 80%
Conclusion
There we have it! Hopefully, you should have something like this:
