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ST advice appreciated: Business cards with a photo on them -- glossy or matte finish? -- nm

Posted by Fuzzy (aka mrfuzzy) Feb 12 '11, 11:44

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Matte finish - glossy reflects fingerprints and smears which are gonna happen a lot on business cards. -- nm - CrankYanker Feb 12, 12:52
Are you a real estate agent? If not, no picture on business cards. - CovingtonCat Feb 12, 11:59 20
- It's for a photography business and the photo isn't of me. -- nm - Fuzzy Feb 12, 12:08 18
  - make sure it's in focus - Reagen Feb 12, 12:12 16
    - This is the photo I intend to use (feedback welcome and appreciated) -- (link) - Fuzzy Feb 12, 12:25 [flickr] 14
      - The lighting is weak and the diagonal of the arm distracts (turn the image upside down and squint, all you'll see is arm and not faces) though the - zeitgeist Feb 12, 13:09 7
        
        This is probably the best of the lot (though suffers from two very common amatuer mistakes) - zeitgeist Feb 12, 13:19 [flickr] 1
        
        Thanks. The fact that I only understood about 1/3 of your post should probably tell me that I'm not ready to go pro. -- nm - Fuzzy Feb 12, 13:28
        
        Thanks for the feedback -- nm - Fuzzy Feb 12, 13:15 4
        
        I do agree about the lighting. it looks like a head-on flash. -- nm - loosilu Feb 12, 13:32 3
        
        Really? I actually bounced it off of the ceiling. -- nm - Fuzzy Feb 12, 13:33 2
        
        try bouncing off a side wall for an effect like a huge softbox -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 12, 14:07
        
        I don't know fancy talk for lighting, but when the picture is shrunk, it doesn't look right to me. -- nm - loosilu Feb 12, 13:36
      - I like this - I would do a matte finish. -- nm - CrankYanker Feb 12, 12:50
      - hmmm, I think I agree with spawn. what else are you considering? -- nm - loosilu Feb 12, 12:42 3
        
        I think this one might work really well. -- (link) - loosilu Feb 12, 12:46 [flickr] 2
        
        Hmm.. I hadn't really considered that one. I assume you see that covering the entire card? My wife prefers this pic -- (link) - Fuzzy Feb 12, 12:54 [flickr] 1
        
        I think it's a good picture, but you don't want to put an unsmiling kid on your card. -- nm - loosilu Feb 12, 13:26
      - Uhm... how big is the card going to be? - Spawn Feb 12, 12:35
    - That just makes it artsy. -- nm - Spawn Feb 12, 12:19
  - go glossy. -- nm - Kim Pine Feb 12, 12:09
- or a performer. -- nm - znufrii Feb 12, 12:03
glossy period...matte finish just makes it look flatter and duller, it looses a lot of contrast and color saturation - zeitgeist Feb 12, 11:54
glossy -- nm - znufrii Feb 12, 11:50
No pictures on business cards. -- nm - Remlik Feb 12, 11:46
no pictures on business cards -- nm - cupixie Feb 12, 11:45

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