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Mindy
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Custom Card Caution & Clean-up
Aug 21st, 2013, 3:18pm
 
Attention:  Artists who create custom photo and custom text cards.  
 
Please be sure to use care when defining the custom photo area (transparent area) and custom text area in your designs when submitting on GCU:  
 
Please avoid:
- Transparent photo areas that touch or overlap each other
- Text boxes that touch or overlap each other
- Text inside text boxes which does not fit
 
If you are creating a multi-photo design be sure to use enough design between the photos as Penny has done well here to accommodate the transparent photo areas to not touch/overlap:

 
This is a good "to do" on your older cards and caution for new card designs.
 
Thank you!
 
UPDATE 10/12/13:
- Text boxes that touch or overlap transparent photo areas are OK
 
Here is a sample with the blue line being the photo area and the yellow lines the custom text boxes:
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Re: Custom Card Caution & Clean-up
Reply #1 - Aug 21st, 2013, 8:01pm
 
Great advise!
 
 
Quote from Mindy on Aug 21st, 2013, 3:18pm:
Attention:  Artists who create custom photo and custom text cards.  

Please be sure to use care when defining the custom photo area (transparent area) and custom text area in your designs when submitting on GCU:

Please avoid:
- Transparent photo areas that touch or overlap each other
- Text boxes that touch or overlap transparent photo areas
- Text boxes that touch or overlap each other
- Text inside text boxes which does not fit

If you are creating a multi-photo design be sure to use enough design between the photos as Penny has done well here to accommodate the transparent photo areas to not touch/overlap:
http://i1114.photobucket.com/albums/k539/mindyrg/Penny_Multi.png

This is a good "to do" on your older cards and caution for new card designs.

Thank you!

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Re: Custom Card Caution & Clean-up
Reply #2 - Nov 13th, 2013, 3:46am
 
This is good to know about the update. I must have missed that change. I was still being careful to keep the text box away -- and it can be a good design feature!
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