Specifically, three apps are used: Adobe Photoshop is used to create raster (pixel) art, such as the card type backgrounds, symbols, frames, etc Adobe Illustrator is used to create vector (line) art, such as the set logos and and card symbols like 1st Edition and Promo Star Adobe InDesign is used to put them all together into a single document Now its still perfectly OK to do all your fake card making with Adobe Photoshop alone, especially since Photoshop has many of the core tools that make Illustrator and InDesign necessary
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I've personally had more than one hundred (100) Pokmon TCG cards graded with CGC and the cases, which we'll call slabs, make the cards look beautiful
This whole series of cards seems to have been badly underestimated at first, and we've seen Caretaker's, Innkeeper's, and Scavenger's Talent all blow up one after the other