After months of hard work, we are proud to introduce you to the new Card Creator! We gathered a huge deal of feedback from the initial version and worked since to deliver a completely re-imagined version.
New features
Blueprint editor
The most requested feature overall was to be able to completely customize the design of the cards. Our response is the "blueprint editor", a completely new tool that allows you to define any kind of card format (blueprint) you can imagine and use it as a template to quickly create all the cards you want with it. Split your card into as many areas you like and assign each one with one of the panel types (text, image or icon for now, more are coming).
Card editor
Once you have your format defined, you can instantiate as many cards as you like and edit the contents of each one. Click over a text piece to edit it, over an image to re-assign it, or over an icon to pick one from the new icon gallery with tons of new icons and re-organized categories.
Collection editor
The new collection editor is no longer a card list with a single preview, but a complete array of your cards as if they were placed over the table, all with realtime previews responding to any format or content changes. We've also added the much requested card sets, so you can arrange the cards in your collection into many different sets, each one with its own (or shared) blueprint.
Layers, format grid, card size, bleeding, back side edit, UX improvements
We've added multiple layers to the blueprint editor in case you need more control for advanced formats, full edge bleeding support for print & play prototypes, back side edit and export and many other features.
Output
We've revamped the output screen completely. Now it's easier to know how your collection will be printed with just a glance. You may also choose your paper format and orientation.The output pdf even includes cut lines and is aligned so you'll be able to easily print the back of your cards.
Version notes
Please be kind
We did a lot of testing before releasing this version but errors may happen. The first days after we'll patch any reported bugs and start working on the next update (this one wont take that long...).
Roadmap
If you want to know what's next, be sure to check out our feature roadmap at:
https://trello.com/b/WxLZOIDR/card-creator
We update this on a daily basis since it works also as our to-do list.
Legacy version
If you are currently working on a project with the previous version of Card Creator, we've enabled a legacy version so you can keep using your projects. This format will no longer be supported in newer versions.
You may find out more about opting in for this version in this post, under "Product Betas". You'll find the previous version of CardCreator as "legacy".
2.0 Changelog
General
- Completely redesigned UI/UX
- Tons of bugfixes
- Added sample projects
- Merged different files into a single project file
- Smooth UI animations everywhere
Blueprints
- Split/merge multi-tool to enable arbitrary layout creation
- Radial menu tool to enable quick panel type assignation
- Multi layer support
- Support to edit back side of the cards
- Replaced old fixed format with a generic new one
- Text fields with font, alignment and color support
- Image fields, with masking, positioning and zoom support
- Blueprint management
- Overlay grid, snap to grid and variable grid size
Collections & Cards
- New realtime preview generator (much faster!)
- Drag & drop support to reorder cards
- Card amount input for multiple instanced cards
- New collection format, with multiple sets per collection support
- Card set zoom in/out slider to display more or less cards
- Hundreds of new icons to the icon picker
- Rearranged icon categories
- Flip card preview upside-down
Output
- Realtime PDF/print previews
- Multiple paper sizes support
- Full edge bleed support
- Cut marks
- Back/Front export with alignment