Sunday, August 14, 2011

Spice up a boring birthday invitation or a personalized business cards

We would like in a tutorial showing a configuration option that can be used to spice up a rather boring birthday invitation or a personalized business cards.


1. We therefore invite, first download the template and open it in Photoshop (Ctrl + O). Then we invite us here to download the free and royalty-free wood texture and put it with the Move - Tool (V) in our document. About Ctrl + T, we can hold down the Shift - key to adjust the size of the texture on our canvas.















2. Now we have to make the wood a little darker and a little desaturate. On "New Fill - create or adjustment layer" button and add two new levels for a Levels and Hue / saturation level of our wood. Change at the level of "Levels" will return on 50 / 0,80 / 255 and reduce the level of "Hue / Saturation" the saturation to -30. Then create clipping masks for both planes (right click to create the appropriate level and then cut mask), so that corrections can be applied only to our timber level.















3. We now load from here down the paper texture and open the document in Photoshop (Ctrl + O). Now we mark with a magic wand - Tool (W) the white background of our image and remove it. Then we move with the Move - Tool (V) the texture in our original image. Since the edges of the paper will now appear a bit flat, we avoid them smartly with a lasso - Tool (L) and remove the protruding parts of the paper plane.















4. Hold the Ctrl - key, we go on the layer thumbnail of the plane of the paper to highlight only those. Then we go with the Burn tool - Tool (O) from the edges of our paper layer to darken slightly. For the exposure we'll select the 50% process and only the depths and midtones.















5. About our paper plane now add a new layer and name it highlight. Here we add a large, soft, white brush to a point exactly in the middle. Then we set the mode on this level yet, "Soft Light".















6. Since the paper now appears a little too new for old paper, we have to grow old with two setting levels for brightness / contrast and hue / saturation a bit. The brightness is reduced to - 30 and the saturation at - 35 For both levels, we re-create clipping masks, so they can act only on the underlying paper layer.















7. So that the paper not only simply rests on the wood, but something before that "floats", we add a subtle drop shadow for our paper plane. For this we go twice on the plane of the paper and on call as the layer style. Then we reduce the tab "shadows" the opacity to 50% and enter at a distance, trapping, and the size of each value of 15.















8. With the text - Tool (T) we now insert any text. Previously, we invite us here a desired font (in this case Western) and install it under C: \ WINDOWS \ Fonts. The text we provided with the color # 502516th















9. Now we use the Line tool - key to draw two horizontal lines of varying thickness - Tool (U) by holding down Shift. Then we move again to duplicate the two planes and rotate them by pressing Ctrl + T. In turning down the Shift - Hold down the key, so that the beams rotate exactly 180 °.















10. Now it is time to open the attached file with the nail (Ctrl + O) and in our place to document (File -> Place). The size and location of our nail change and confirm the change by clicking on the check.















11. Since I now have something to nail the dominant appears we create another adjustment layer ("Brightness / Contrast") with a clipping mask and reduce the brightness to -90. We then reduce the opacity of the layer "nail" to 60%.















12. Now we make it, paste the image of "wanted" person. To the image of here to download and open it in Photoshop (Ctrl + O). Then add a layer mask and set free with a hard, black brush face. The cropped face with the move - Tool (V) move into our final document.















13. Use Ctrl + T, we can scale our faces again to the desired size. Then we add on the plane with the face again add an adjustment layer "Levels" and create a clipping mask for them. In setting the level we set the following values: 50 / 0,65 / 255 Now we reduce the opacity of the layer with the face on 70% and make the layer mode to "Luminosity".















14. Now look to Scripture and the face is not really old and scratched, we still need to edit these levels with a Layer Mask. For this we first combine all the lines - planes. For all levels by holding down the Shift - key and clicking "Merge Layers" right-click (or Ctrl + E). The text also combine levels so and then add the three levels (cowboy, lines and text), each a layer mask.















15. With a Brush, which I here have downloaded and C: I \ Program Files \ Adobe \ Adobe Photoshop CS5 \ Presets \ Brushes, now do I edit my layer masks, so that a scratched screen. Different brushes with different opacity and use different character angle. These settings are adjustable in the Brush window. Everything is already saved and our invitation or other printed material ready.






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