Topps Baseball cards template request

statfreak · 08-06-2010, 11:02 AM

Does anyone have or is anyone working on any of the following Topps sets?

1980 (with 1979 player stats)
1981 (with 1980 player stats)
1983 (with 1982 player stats)
1984 (with 1983 player stats)

I've noticed that depending who creates the templates, the sets are named with either the year they were released or the year the stats were for.

Thanks.

BMW · 08-06-2010, 12:16 PM

I'm not. Looking at them, none of them are particularly great candidates, at least from the standards I'd want from a card:

1980 - Text on the front of the card is slanted. This could really only be done for historical leagues since you'd have to pre-render 26-60 different templates for each team in baseball history (or by altering the design of the card, not sure how that would look).

1981 - Same as 1980.

1983 - This can't be done without a hell of a lot of compromised because you wouldn't be want to have the two photos on the front of the card. You'd have two photos of the guy staring into the camera. Plus, the photo is circular, and that just isn't possible to do because the border around it is so thin you couldn't hide the parts of the square photo that crept out of that circle.

1984 - Same as 1980, except the text isn't slanted, it's fully horizontal. The second photo on the front here is possible, because its square, but as with 1983, the photo would look very silly.

08-06-2010, 11:02 AM	#1
statfreak Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Milwaukee, WI Posts: 2,434	Topps Baseball cards template request Does anyone have or is anyone working on any of the following Topps sets? 1980 (with 1979 player stats) 1981 (with 1980 player stats) 1983 (with 1982 player stats) 1984 (with 1983 player stats) I've noticed that depending who creates the templates, the sets are named with either the year they were released or the year the stats were for. Thanks. __________________ Roll out the barrel!

08-06-2010, 12:16 PM	#2
BMW Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2003 Location: New Jersey Posts: 2,030	I'm not. Looking at them, none of them are particularly great candidates, at least from the standards I'd want from a card: 1980 - Text on the front of the card is slanted. This could really only be done for historical leagues since you'd have to pre-render 26-60 different templates for each team in baseball history (or by altering the design of the card, not sure how that would look). 1981 - Same as 1980. 1983 - This can't be done without a hell of a lot of compromised because you wouldn't be want to have the two photos on the front of the card. You'd have two photos of the guy staring into the camera. Plus, the photo is circular, and that just isn't possible to do because the border around it is so thin you couldn't hide the parts of the square photo that crept out of that circle. 1984 - Same as 1980, except the text isn't slanted, it's fully horizontal. The second photo on the front here is possible, because its square, but as with 1983, the photo would look very silly. __________________