Make a 2010 New Year greeting card tutorial with Photoshop

New Year greeting cards, mainly using the layer style and shape tools to draw, I hope you like! The material comes from the Internet. First look at the effect of the picture:

Material:

1, select the "File/new" menu, open the "new" or CTRL + N dialog box name: Production 2010 cards, Width: 1024 pixels, Height: 768 pixels, "Resolution" of 72, "mode" for RGB color documents, as shown in Figure 1.

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2. Click the New Layer button in the Layer Control Panel, create a new background, select the Toolbox Gradient tool (accelerator g), set the radial gradient in the tool options bar, and then click the editable gradient to eject the gradient editor. Double-click a in Figure 2 to set the color RGB to 105, 16, 20, respectively. Double-click b in Figure 2 to set RGB to 49, 7, 8, as shown in Figure 2. In the workspace, hold down SHIFT while dragging the left mouse button from top to bottom to drag the horizontal gradient effect, as shown in Figure 3.

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3, create a new Layer button, named Layer 2, select the Custom Shape tool in the toolbox, set the path in the Tools Options bar, shape a pattern, drag a pattern shape in the workspace, and press the keyboard ctrl+enter to convert the pattern shape to a selection, and then select the set foreground color in the toolbox. Set the foreground color to yellow, then click the OK button to fill the pattern shape, and copy many pattern layers, select all pattern layers and merge the layers, merging (ctrl+e) into a layer 2, as shown in Figure 4.

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4. Select Layer 2, set layer blending mode to overlay, fill transparency to 43%, as shown in Figure 5.

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5, click the Horizontal Type tool in the toolbox, enter the number 2, and then set the font on the Tools Options bar: Founder Water Black Simplified, size: 287.62 point, Color: black, set anti-aliasing method: Sharp, as shown in Figure 6.

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6, two-click type layer into the layer style, respectively, tick projection, inner shadow, inner glow, bevel and emboss, gradient overlay complex options. Set the reference values as Figure 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and then click the OK button, the effect figure shown in Figure 12

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7, the other approach is the same as step 6, and resize and position, as shown in Figure 13.

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8, click the Horizontal Type tool in the toolbox, enter the tiger, and then set the font on the Tools Options bar: Founder Children Simplified, size: 158 point, Color: white, set anti-aliasing method: Sharp, as shown in Figure 14.

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9, double click Tiger Layer into the layer style, respectively, tick projection, inner shadow, inner glow, bevel and emboss, gradient overlay complex options. Set the reference values as Figure 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, and then click the OK button, the effect figure shown in Figure 20

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10, click the Horizontal Type tool in the Toolbox, enter New Year auspicious, auspicious, Tiger Gang Pa Yun, the year, and then in the tool options bar set the font: Founder Xiang Li-Simplified, size: 45 points, Color: White, set anti-aliasing method: Sharp, and resize and position, as shown in Figure 21.

Map

11, create a new Layer button, new layer, select the Custom Shape tool in the toolbox, set the path in the Tools Options bar, shape the star shape, then drag a star shape in the workspace, and press the keyboard ctrl+enter to convert the star shape to a selection , select the set foreground color in the toolbox, and then click the OK button to fill the star shape and copy many map layers, select all the map layers and merge the layers, and merge (ctrl+e) into a layer, as shown in Figure 22. The effect figure is shown in Figure 23. &NBSP

Map

View

12, create a new Layer button, make a new layer, select the Custom Shape tool in the toolbox, set the path in the Tools Options bar, shape the star shape, then drag a star shape in the workspace, and press The keyboard ctrl+enter converts the star shape to a selection, select the set foreground color in the toolbox, set the colors to white, then click the OK button to fill the star shape, and copy many map layers, select all the map layers and merge the layers, and merge (ctrl+e) into a layer, as shown in Figure 24. The effect figure is shown in Figure 25.

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13, execute menu: "Open" import tiger material, appropriate adjustment tiger material size and rotation angle, put the tiger placed in different locations of the pages, as shown in Figure 26. is also the final effect chart.