Create beautiful childhood postcards with colorful images

We were born in the 80 's, witnessed China from the ancient to the modern, witnessing a change in the era, is the middle of the growth of the weak generation, is also a nostalgic generation, just as the beginning of the youth, we not only feel the youthful Yong, more and more memories of childhood carefree, looking at the bright blue We can forget the present, but we can't stop us from remembering the past.

Today's small series to teach you to use the "Color Shadow 2010" To create a beautiful childhood postcard, and as a new year small made up a mind, dedicated to the 80 's all friends! First of all, what do you remember? (Figure 1).

Fig. 1, the effect picture, the recollection in the photograph do you remember?

Let's start together to make it, rest assured that the steps are very simple, color shadow itself has been very human!

1. First start the Software "Color Shadow 2010", click on the menu bar "Photo file" main menu, in the pop-up menu click "New Collage Artboard", or press the shortcut key "CTRL + N", set tile artboard size, background color, transparency, such as Figure 2.

Figure 2, create a new tile artboard, start our memories

2. Open a selected background, because color shadow support multiple windows at the same time editing, so can be very convenient and flexible to open the background directly with the left mouse button dragged onto the collage board, easy to save trouble! As shown in Figure 3.

Figure 3, first add a favorite background to the artboard

3. Select the background four corner of the circle node, drag size to fit the size of the tile artboard, you can hold down the keyboard "Shift" while pulling the node can be proportional scaling, so as to avoid background distortion, as shown in Figure 4.

Figure 4, adjusting the background size

4. The background is good, we use the color shadow to open all the childhood toys, games, snacks, watched the animation, television and other photos, the method is in the color of the Open Picture dialog box, a one-time selection of all photos can be. Then use the above background-like method, using the mouse to drag the open photos directly to the artboard, as shown in Figure 5.

After all the photos have been dragged and dropped, some of them overlap, in exchange for ordinary entry level software, to select the hidden in the back of the photos or adjust the sequence of the upper and lower order is quite troublesome and time-consuming, do not have to confuse, color Shadow has helped us think of this, as shown in Figure 5 to the right, the software provides professional-level software to have layer management Through the layer list of layers bar, you can quickly find the photos you need through the thumbnail image, click to select them automatically. You can even select the thumbnail and press the left mouse button up and down drag to determine the image of the occlusion before and after the order. With these humanized functions, our creation is very convenient!

Figure 5: Adding all our memories at once, the powerful features of the software simplify many of our operations.

5. Using the convenience of the layer bar, we can also achieve more editing function of each layer, very flexible and practical. For example, in order to make a picture more like a small picture, we first adjust the size of the photos, and then use the layer bar "stroke" and "shadow" function, set the appropriate parameters, such as Figure 6, so that the picture is more three-dimensional, more like a small picture. You can also click on the top of the small photos of the circle node, so that small photos rotate a certain angle, looks more like a casual display. Use the above introduction of the mouse and drag the top and bottom of the list of thumbnails, we can also easily make each small photo reasonable dislocation superposition and so on.

Figure 6, the Layer bar Super feature makes it possible to make a more professional and exquisite effect.

6. Finally, click the right mouse button in the picture editing area, select "Blend all layers" in the pop-up menu, as shown in Figure 7, combine all the layers into a picture, which will be more conducive to the overall editing of the following. Because everyone's childhood is not cheap, so next I will use more skills to build more to make us resonate with the advanced effect!

Figure 7, a key fusion, creative results stereotypes!

7. Because it is to make nostalgic effect, so we click on the main interface of the top navigation bar of the "Digital darkroom" button, and then on the left side of the function sidebar click on the "faded old phase" effect, slide parameter slider preview and choose their favorite old photo feeling. As shown in Figure 8.

Figure 8, the use of digital darkroom, so that photos have a strong sense of nostalgia.

8. In order to highlight the image center, so that the picture more emotional, we can add a mask on the picture: Click on the "creative synthesis" of the navigation bar, the left side of the function sidebar, select the "feature Mask", the background color selected black, and then select a suitable mask, and finally click on the image edit area below the "Confirm Application" big button completed, as shown in Figure 9.

Figure 9, quickly making a mask photo

9. Obviously, no text is not good, text can express our feelings, so then is to add text. Click "Play Text" in the navigation bar, we can enter text in the left side of the function sidebar, color shadow of the text function is the most powerful I have seen, you can almost set any of the parameters can be thought of, where I made a stroke and use the pattern to fill the text, as shown in Figure 10.

Figure 10, using the WordArt feature of the software, you can produce almost any style of artistic writing

10. Finally, the pursuit of perfection, to do the final cosmetic work, plus a number of decorative items, further increase the visual effect. Click "Creative Synthesis" again, on the left side of the sidebar click "Fun Decorations" button, color shadow also provides a large number of decorations, its characteristics are color shadow of the decorative products more professional and exquisite, and high quality. Here I chose a pair of wings, placed on both sides of the text, but also add some stars to the title, after the ingenious collocation, can produce more unexpected artistic effect! As shown in Figure 11.

Figure 11, do the final cosmetic work, the pursuit of perfection!

Finished production! So far, I have realized all the dream effect, I believe that this high-quality work as a postcard to my old classmates, old friends, they should also be satisfied:

In addition, the small made up to you this tutorial you satisfied? I hope you can use this way to find the good old times. If you grow up now you have been happy, then as the Tigers have sung, let us Open the dream of the skylight to make it more beautiful, but if you are still struggling, then do not be discouraged, because the more the wind, we sing the more high-pitched!

Everybody together to "play" the Music of childhood!