Once you decide on the components in your game, you'll be ready to download our templates. We provide a variety of blank templates to make the design process quick and easy.
The templates display trim lines, bleed areas and other guides so game designers know exactly where to place artwork and content. Templates are available in several file types and are edited with image editing software. When finished, the designer must export the file as a PNG or JPG so it can be uploaded to TGC.
We print at 300 dots/pixels per inch. Which means that if you are designing an image that is 3 inches wide, then it will be 900 pixels wide.
Our cut lines are 1/8" from the edge of the image for square items like cards, which means that they are 37 pixels (300 x 1/8 = 37.5) from the edge.
Likewise, the safe zone on such images is 1/4" from the edge, or 75 pixels (300 x 1/4 = 75) from the edge.
Watch the video below to learn about our templates and the proper way to insert artwork.
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