Cool idea? Stupid idea?
Jan. 22nd, 2008 06:25 pmDo-it-yourself tarot decks.
Here's how it works.
Cunning plan? Really bogus, for some reason which I (not knowing much about tarot) am missing? There'd be a certain amount of time and work to prepare the pictures, of course, but what else?
Here's how it works.
- You create or find digital images appropriate for the tarot deck of your dreams. Draw them, scan them, find them on the net. Whatever. Using image-processing software (e.g. the GIMP freeware package), crop / rescale to 600x900 pixels or 1200x1800 pixels.
- Digitally add an overlay (provided to you) which adds borders and the appropriate text to each image.
- Print the images as 4"x6" pictures, either at a digital photo-printing place (around 19 cents per image, hereabouts) or on your own equipment if you've got it.
- Print a back-of-the-card pattern (provided to you) on each card. You can do this with a laser printer.
- Laminate, using (for example) librarians' book-covering film.
- Trim the edges.
Cunning plan? Really bogus, for some reason which I (not knowing much about tarot) am missing? There'd be a certain amount of time and work to prepare the pictures, of course, but what else?