## Description Recently I created another business card for [[MIND Lab]] and I want to describe how I setup my [Procreate](https://procreate.com/) on iPad to create a reusable Canvas for business cards. ## TL;DR 1 - Canvas 1. Create a New Canvas 2. Change units to Inches 3. Width: 3.5 inches 4. Height: 2 inches 5. DPI: 300 6. Change Color Profile to CMYK 7. Rename to "Business Card" 8. Open new project with "Business Card" Canvas 9. Use the Select tool -> Rectangular Selection to create a Layer the size of the Canvas and give it a different color 10. Go to "Actions" tool, pick "Canvas" and then "Crop & Resize" 11. Go to "Settings" and enable "Resample" 13. Keep the ratio and increase "2" to "3" 1. The width should be 5.25" 2. Click Done ## Create a Canvas When you first open Procreate, it will show you a screen of all of the projects you have created and saved. ![[procreate-general-screen.png]] In the top right you can tap the "+" icon to create a new Canvas. ![[procreate-new-canvas.png]] You can see that I have already created a Business Card Canvas. I'll go over how to create a reusable Canvas and the design considerations to account for printing physical media. After clicking on the icon to the right of "New Canvas", you'll get taken to a screen where you can set up some initial configuration for the business card Canvas. ![[screenshot.png]] Here we'll switch to tap the field where we would enter pixel and choose inches instead. ![[screenshot 1.png]] Standard business card dimensions are 3.5 inches in width and 2 inches in height. We'll also have to go to **Color Profile** and change the values to [[CMYK]]. If you want to know why **CMYK** is chosen in the printing industry, you'll have to consult some other resources yourself, like [CMYK Colors - Ionos](https://www.ionos.com/digitalguide/websites/web-design/cmyk-colors/). Lastly tap the text **Untitled Canvas** and rename it to "Business Card" ## Account for Bleed Area Once you've created a Canvas template, you can now go back to the Gallery to create a project using the new business card Canvas we've created. However before we can start drawing, we need to do one more step to account for the **bleed area** when printing. This bleed area