Buisness Cards

In this project, I was trying to create a business card. This was done by using InDesign and a tutorial on Adobe's website. The tutorial is linked here. The tutorial in itself was very simple. I had little to no obstacles. The directions were straightforward and all tools I have used before. It mainly was typing in placeholders and placing the logos in their correct spots. The main difficulty was when I was trying to shrink the logo, it kept cropping it. I eventually clicked ctrl T. This allowed me to shrink it. It took about 10-15 minutes to do overall.

Therefore, I decided to go rogue and make my own business card. This was more challenging than following directions.
First of all, I am not a big fan of a red and white color scheme, unless it is Christmas. I prefer a blue-green color scheme. Changing this was very difficult. On page 2, it was simple. I clicked the card, then went up to the two color swatches and clicked blue. Page 1 is where it was very complicated. Apparently, on the template (the original Adobe file used for the first tutorial) the color isn't the card itself, but a textbox. I eventually played around until I had a wavy blue border and a transparent green background. However, as this was a textbox with border and can't fit the entire screen, the outline of the card is white. It looks fine so I left it.
Adding text was easy enough. The only issue was the spacing between words is sometimes wider than I would like it to be. Sadly, I was not able to resolve this issue. I was able to resolve the issue of adding bullets though. This was done by doing it first in Word, then placing it into InDesign.
Pictures were also difficult. I first Googled free images. I found a data bank and picked out four possible images. The first was gigantic. It took four times of me shrinking it to the furthest corner until it fit on the business card. Then, it was blurry and cropped. I attempted twice more, once with using ctrl T. It did not resolve the issue. The next three images fit, but were very blurry. After I deleted all the pictures fro my files, I realized it may be the display performance. I went back to the data bank and resaved the file I thought worked best last time. I then went to View > Display Performance > High Quality Display. This made it tremendously less blurry.