How to Prepare Cards for Printing on MakePlayingCards.com

MPC.com requires that individual cards have a bleed edge put on them before uploading.  To add this edge to any folder of Huge-size PNG card images, follow these steps:


1- Download and install ImageMagick, a command-line utility for performing batch operations on image files: https://imagemagick.org/script/download.php

(If you are on Windows, scroll allll the way to the bottom and look for the first entry under "Windows Binary Release", which should be "Win64 dynamic at 16 bits-per-pixel component with High-dynamic-range imaging enabled" at time of writing.)

2- Place all of the images that you want to convert into a single folder, call it "input".

3- In the same folder as "input", make a new folder called "output".

4- In the same folder as "input", copy-paste the "MPC-huge-border.png" file.

5- Your folder structure should now look as follows:

-
 |> input
 |> output
 |- MPC-huge-border.png


6- Open up a command line prompt in the same folder that you placed "MPC-huge-border.png".  On Windows, you can do this by holding down Shift and right-clicking inside the folder, then selecting "Open command line here" or "Open PowerShell window here".  

6- Run the following command:

mogrify -bordercolor red -border 64 -draw 'image src-over 0,0 0,0 MPC-huge-border.png' -path ./output ./input/*.png

7- "output" should now be full of your fully bleed-edged cards, ready to drag'n'drop into MPC.