Creating Cards Guide

Getting started

To create your own cards, first of all get an account on our cards database. Once logged in you can create your own cards.

Uploading Card Artwork guide

First thing to do is find a matching piece of artwork in our repository and check if it is unused by any other arcmage card.

Use gimp to prepare the png file

• Set/check the dpi setting:
  • Image > Print Size : Set 600 dpi
• Cropping
  • Image > Autocrop
• Scaling
  • Image > Scale Image : keep aspect ratio, and I usually set the height to 1220
• Centering
  • Image > Canvas Size : do not keep aspect ratio
    • For creatures/cities use 1535 width by 1266 height,
    • For events/magic/enchantments use 1535 wight by 1214 height
    • If you want the image to be in the frame bounds, then the X offset is 70.
    • The Y offset is always set to the maximum.
• Shadow
  • Filters > Light and Shadow > Drop Shadow
    • Offset X: 4, Offset Y: 4, Blur Radious: 15, Color: black, Opacity: 60, Allow Resizing (false, uncheck)
• Export
  • File > Export as ... (select png)

Uploading to the card database

At the card's edit page, select Browse, point to the exported png file. Then click the 'Upload' button (should appear next to the 'Browse' button).

You'll have to change something e.g. loyalty, and hit save before it uses the new artwork (I should fix that). The result should show rather quick, the rasterized versions (png, jpeg, pdf's) are created in the background and might take a min or two.

Please do not forget to fill in the Artist!

All done!