Father Pizor & I both use 150 DPI for our cards. I make it so that I can fit 4 cards wide by 3 tall per 8 1/2 x 11 inch sheet of letter paper. I have noticed that so many of your decks are designed with a "gutter" in between your cards. That makes for double cutting. I even have a customized template for taking your cards and converting them into my printing stye. I call it the Scott Template.

If you line your cards up side by side, then one cut seperates two cards. Now as I recall you did go into detail about how you cut them out with scissors slowly, making each deck you make almost a ritualistic act, reminiscent of how the Samurai Carpenters would slowly carve the wood with percision as they built the great wooden castles across the Japanese countryside. I am more into assembly line techniques. To each his own.

Now since you mentioned you have GIMP, if you would like, I can send you my templates that I use (in layers) for cards that are 150 DPI (300 being the Hasbro originals), much better than the 72 you had been using. Your GIMP can do the following:

Open my Photoshop Files
Use the layers
Edit the text which is already placed in the perfect spot for all of the cards.

Scott, I have prefab files in the exact style used by Hasbro ready to go. I have templates for the following:

Power Combat Atk
Power Combat Atk/Def
Power Combat Def
Special

I also have sheets which can be used with the magic wand feature to quickly place art to make basic cards for all deck types:

Red
Blue
Green
Yellow+
Yellow
Strong++
Strong+
Strong
Weak
Melee Minor (Traditional)

I will be creating the more modern deck types as well as I am preparing to make my own LOTR cards, so I must create Brown, etc...

I also have what I call blank boxes, 4 cards wide x 3 cards tall lined pages for using the magic wand feature to slap your cards into when they are done.

All you need to do to change the base color layer of my templates to come up with a custom color. Find the base color layer and modify the Hue, Saturation, Brightness, and Contrast of the base color level to end up with any color. To see how my Star Wars Templates look when used to make a deck, check out my Cloud City Chewie cards here:

http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/epicdu...0Duels%20Stuff/

If you look at my Luke on Taun Taun, you will see a custom style art type (150 DPI again) that I made for SWED decks. I like the traditional SWED cards better. My Batman decks have another custom type.

Now you may want to make your own stuff from scratch. Whatever you do, I highly suggest you go with 150 DPI. Finding basic card artwork to fit the 300 DPI cards would be next to impossible. With the 150 DPI, you can still use stadard DVD captures to make card art.

Let me know if I can help in any way.

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