Ootp baseball card templates how to#
Ootp baseball card templates series#

If you know how to work GIMP or Photoshop, I believe it is relatively simple to do it on there, so just open the card on that program and make the changes. Select the entire picture, and copy it.įor the name, on a card like a '91 Donruss where it slants, you can do 1 of 2 things. Once you have found a picture, open that up in your other window of Paint. works well for that, as well as I would try to find a photo that is around the same size as the card that you are working with (bigger ones or smaller ones look all grainy and crappy when you resize them), and one that you don't have to do much touch-up work to (erasing a watermark, blurring out an autograph, etc.). For some cards, I have to find a picture from a Major or Minor League card. I usually find photos by googling a player+ a year that I need or a team that I need, and usually that works. I am going to do Jeff Bagwell for this one. Now you need to pick which player you are going to use. You can just right click the templates I made and save them as whatever is easy for you to remember.

Ootp baseball card templates series#

In the first one, open your template (let's go with the 1991 Donruss Series 1). I would go ahead and open 2 windows of Paint. I usually use multiple windows of Paint at the same time, which allows me to copy and paste things easier. You can use it to select a part of a drawing, and cut it, move it, copy or paste it. In Paint, the tool I use the most, is the Select tool, which is the tool on the top row on the right. I'm going to go through how to make a custom in Paint, just becuase most computers have it, and you can get similar programs on a Mac. I typically use Microsoft Paint while making my customs, but I also have GIMP, which is a great photo program similar to Photoshop (I just haven't toyed with GIMP much), and if you have Photoshop, I'm sure you can make some amazing customs with it. Even though this blog is called 'TOPPS cards that never were', I decided to make some templates with the 1991 Donruss and 1992 Upper Deck designs, just because those are really the only card designs that had fronts and backs that didn't have different colors for every team in the league. That got me thinking, and I decided to make a post with a few basic templates and tips on how to make a custom card. Recently, a reader named Paul left a comment on one of my posts saying that he also wanted to make custom cards that never were, and was primarily focusing on players from 1990-1994 who never had cards, and asked if I had any templates available.