Greeting Card Designer for Adobe Photoshop is a collection of actions/effects used to lay out greeting cards, ensuring even margins and a professional look.
Before you begin creating greeting cards in Photoshop, it’s important to understand the limitations of the application and your hardware.
Greeting cards are usually printed on a special paper stock. Like standard photo papers, you can purchase greeting card stock in glossy or matte finishes or even elegant artistic papers. These papers, however, are scored to accommodate the fold and are cut in unusual dimensions that will result in standard folded dimension. For example, if you wanted a 5” x 7” greeting card, the pre-scored stock will be 10” x 7”.
This brings us to our most important limitation. Because greeting card stock is usually cut to non-standard dimensions, there are few printers that have the capability to print borderless images using these papers. You’ll find that even with a printer that is advertised to print borderless, the feature is limited to specific standard sizes such as 8” x 10”, 5” x 7” and 4” x 6”. Because of this you need to allow for a non-printable margin on all sides of the card.
This may sound all too confusing but that is why you’ll want to use Greeting Card Designer actions. These actions are designed to accommodate for the necessary margin and produce a well-balanced card.