All that we need to do is fill the 2 empty picture boxes with the colour black, remove anything else (text for instance) that does not require UV and we are then left with the following:
Remember, the magenta card outline will be removed before the printing stage so it's very important the original crop marks (corner marks) are left in place. This will allow the press operator to position the UV plate with 100% accuracy.
The above image can now be saved as a separate file e.g. business_card_UV_plate.eps and supplied with the original business card artwork.
When working with vectored eps files UV plates are very easy to create as all parts of the artwork is easily selectable.
In the Lion Head image below the designer may for some reason not want part of the head and mane UV treated as shown by the arrows. 
In the graphics program the parts would be removed, (remembering to keep the all-important crop marks in place) to leave this:
As with our very first example, it's now simply a case of converting the remaining artwork to black as shown below:
Don't forget to remove the magenta outline, if you're using one, before sending to print.
Sometimes you may have a more complicated image that is only available as a hi-res jpeg or tiff file.
In these cases you'll probably need to load the image into Photoshop and create clipping paths, (where you draw around the image with a pen tool), or you may be lucky and be able to simply erase the parts not required for UV. It all depends on the image.
Hope this helps!
If you have any doubts at all about the suitability of your artwork then please email across a copy and one of us will take a look and let you know if it's suitable or not. Either way, we'll do our best to help where we can.
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