I've been thinking recently what next to post on here for some time, and toyed with a few ideas, but I finally decided on bringing into the fray an idea I've considered for some time - presenting some of the custom cards I've created. Now, as a preface, yes I use the Topps.com one, and yes I know they don't want you using it with players and it's more just a novelty thing, but seeing as I'm not printing them and make no money (nor plan to) off of this page, I've decided I will show some of my projects. I've been working on these cards since I found out that Topps had a custom care maker, and have numerous cards scattered across a few laptops (which I really need to consolidate a bit more before my work ends up getting lost, but that's another story). Recently I've made a few 2022-style cards using the new 2022 option on the site, but the template that's actually worked the best for me over time has been the 2018 one. This is the only one that has remained available in horizontal for some time now, and the front design is mostly accurate to the real 2018 Topps set. I think the horizontal format works best for most good images you can find for a player, and is especially great for pitchers, as will be seen going forwards. Anyways, why not start off with one of these 2018 editions?
Our first specimen is Thad Ward, more or less because his 2018 edition is the only one I have on this laptop at the moment. This is actually one of two 2018 Wards I did, with the other being a lest zoomed-in edition. I've had a harder and harder time over the course of my card customizing figuring which zoom/position of the image for a card is best, so I've tended to make multiple of some of the cards I have made. Ward, unlike a lot of my specimens, does not appear centered on this card, but I felt this positioning looked real visually appealing, so I stuck with it.
I hope to iron out this format a bit going forward, but I'll leave this post here due to it already being a bit long with the explanation and all. I'm hoping to post a few more of these soon and better explain this project along the way. Also, in a final note, I hope to try and find the image I used for each card at the end of my custom posts so as to give some credit to the images I used for each card. I can't guarantee this, as some images are older and proba1bly harder to locate now, but I'll do what I can.
Photo credit: Gwinn Davis
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