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How to Create a Greeting Card Template in Photoshop
  • By Kia Lor
  • 08 Apr 2022
  • 11 Mins
  • Beginner
  • Photoshop Tutorials

How to Create a Greeting Card Template in Photoshop

Learn how to easily create a greeting card template in Photoshop.

If you like saving time, we have the perfect tutorial for you! Today, we will teach you how to create a greeting card template in Photoshop. With a template, you can quickly add elements to make a greeting card without recreating the whole thing every time.

How to Create a Greeting Card Template in Photoshop

We’ll be using the font, Just Because, from Font Bundles. It’s a Plus product that you can get access to today with this free 30-day trial of the Gold Plus Membership if you aren’t already a Plus Member.

Step 1 - Create a New Document

Create a new document in whatever size your final greeting card will be. Our document will be 11 x 8.5 inches, but the physical greeting card will be folded in half. If you are printing your greeting card designs, make sure you set the Resolution to at least 300 PPI.

Enter dimensions of the full greeting card and resolution

Step 2 - Set Up Rulers, Snapping, and a Guide

Enable Rulers

Go to View > Rulers (Ctrl/Cmd + R).

Enable Rulers by going to View  Rulers in Photoshop

Then right-click on the ruler to change the unit of measurement if needed. We changed ours to inches.

Change the unit of measurement by right-clicking on the ruler in Photoshop

Enable Snapping

Make sure you have View > Snap (Shift + Ctrl/Cmd + ;) enabled.

Enable snapping by going to View  Snap

Then go to View > Snap To and select Guides and Document Edges. You can enable Layers as well if you’d like.

Set snapping rules by going to View  Snap To and selecting what to snap to

Add a Guide

Click + drag from the left ruler to where the guide will be. We’ll place the guide right in the center of the document. This is where the physical greeting card would be folded. Ours is at 5.5 inches.

Click and drag from the left ruler to the center of the document to add a guide

Step 3 - Create Rectangles

We’re going to create rectangles for the left half and the right half of the card. The back of the card will be the left rectangle, while the front side will be the right rectangle.

Left Rectangle (Back Side)

Select the Rectangle Tool (U) and click + drag on the left half to draw a rectangle. Click + drag the left middle handle on the rectangle to the left edge of the document. Then click + drag the right middle handle to the center of the document where the guide is. Next, click + drag the top center handle to the top edge, and lastly, click + drag the bottom center handle to the bottom edge.

This rectangle should be exactly half the size of the document. Ours is 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Check the Properties panel (Window > Properties) for the rectangle’s width and height.

Create a rectangle and resize it to fit the left half of the document

Duplicate and Move a Rectangle Onto the Right Half (Front Side)

To duplicate the rectangle, right-click on the rectangle layer in the Layers panel and choose Duplicate Layer.

Right-click on the rectangle layer and select Duplicate Layer in Photoshop

With the duplicate layer still selected, click on the Move Tool (V). Then click + drag the rectangle to the right side of the document until it snaps into place. You can hold Shift while dragging to keep it in a straight line.

Move duplicate rectangle to the right side of the document

Rename Rectangle Layers

For organization, double-click the layer names in the Layers panel and rename them to know which rectangle is the left one and which is the right one. We simply renamed them “Right Rectangle” and “Left Rectangle.”

Rename the layers to indicate which rectangle is which

Step 4 - Add Details to the Back of the Card

Now we’ll add details to the back of the card. This will probably stay the same for all your cards, and the kinds of information you can add there are your website, a logo or business name, email, social media handles, etc.

Add Text

With the Right Rectangle layer selected in the Layers panel, click the Create a new layer icon at the bottom right to create a new layer at the top.

Click the create a new layer button in the Layers panel in Photoshop

Select the Horizontal Type Tool (T). Click on the left half of the artboard near the bottom and enter your text. Next, we selected the text and clicked on the Center text button in the Options bar at the top.

Center align the text by clicking the Center text button in the Options bar in Photoshop

Then you can edit the font/text some more by opening the Character panel (Window > Character) and making adjustments there.

Note: if you exited text editing mode, you can press the T key and then click on the text to reenter text editing mode.

Edit the font and text some more using the Character panel

Center Text in Left Rectangle

Now that we’ve centered the lines of text, we will center the text to the left rectangle. Select the Move Tool (V). Using Control/Command, select the text layer and the Left Rectangle layer in the Layers panel. In the Options bar, click the Align Horizontal Centers button.

Center align the text to the left rectangle with the Move Tool in Photoshop

Add Image

You can also add an image, such as your logo. Click on File and select either Place Embedded or Place Linked.

Add an image using the Place function in Photoshop

Locate and select the file, then click Place. You can align it to the center of the left rectangle the same way we did above with the text.

Shows greeting card template with logo image above text on the left half

Step 5 - Save Your Greeting Card Template

Now you can save your template as a PSD, so you can come back to this template to add or change the design whenever and as many times as you want.

Save the greeting card template by going to File  Save

Once you create a finished greeting card design, you can export your greeting card by going to File > Export As and saving it in the file format you need, such as a JPEG or maybe a PDF.

Note: the adorable watercolor bunny in the following image is also a Plus product!

Export final greeting card design by going to File  Export  Export As

That’s all there is to create a greeting card template in Photoshop. Now you have a greeting card template that you can reuse for all occasions and events.


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