Binder page ideas: four, six and nine pocket layouts
Which layout suits which artwork, where to put the card, and how to plan themed spreads across facing pages. Ideas from pages we have made and pages customers have sent us.
Journal
Journal
Guides to printing and cutting, notes on sets that make good pages, and ideas for laying out a binder.
Prismatic Evolutions: a set built for binder pages
The Eeveelution Special Illustration Rares from Prismatic Evolutions share a palette and a mood, which makes them the best set we know for filling a whole binder with expanded pages.
How the AI expansion works (and where it fails)
A plain account of the pipeline behind every page: cleaning the card, expanding at native page size, locking the card's position by geometry, and the area fixes for when the model gets it wrong.
A printing guide that actually gets the pockets to line up
Most disappointing binder pages were printed correctly and scaled wrong. Paper, scaling, borderless settings, cutting and the double-sided cutting guide, in the order you will meet them.
Which cards make the best binder pages
Not every card wants to be a page. Scenic Illustration Rares with a horizon expand beautifully; portraits and text-heavy cards fight it. A field guide, with examples from the catalogue.
The full-art binder trend, and why we built BinderArt
Collectors have been hand-building full-page binder art in Photoshop for years. Here is where the idea came from, what it used to cost in evenings, and what changes when a page takes minutes.