Graphics Reference
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Table 8.
Your Visual Response: Designing the Playing Cards
Creating your own project for a deck of cards that would convey to the players a visual message about your favorite actions, hobbies, or
interests. Four suits (spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs) of 13 characters each plus two jokers equals 54 cards. There is no necessity to
design the whole pack and all four suits to express your taste; it would be enough to draw sample ideograms with some of the numerals,
and then the court cards (the King, Queen, and Jack), and the Ace. Draw both the face and a back; the card back design (and so the Joker)
should match the stylistic concept of your cards.
Both coding and software may be helpful in creating perfectly repetitive lines on many cards, achieving precision, symmetry, and perfect
patterns. Software such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, CorelDraw, Corel PaintShop, Corel Painter, free and open-source software GIMP
(GNU Image Manipulation Program), a free vector graphics editor Inkscape, as well as hardware such as graphics tablets, can be used, or
oil and acrylic paints, inks, markers, pencils, and some precise tools. In order to make the cards easy to play, when designing the cards place
the index labels on opposite corners so one can identify a card whichever way up it is, even when held in a fan.
