How to create Happy New Year 2012 Colorful Greeting Card in Photoshop CS5

Final Results Start working by creating a new document (Ctrl+N) in Adobe Photoshop with the size 1920px by 1200px (RGB color mode) at a resolution of 300 pixels/inch. Click on Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel and select Gradient Overlay. Click in the color bar to open the Gradient Editor and set the color stops as shown. Click OK to close the Gradient Editor dialog box. We’ve got the next background: Insert the message text for greeting card. Select the Horizontal Type tool (T). Select a font, size and color in the Character panel. Click in the canvas and type ’2012′. Press Enter to apply the text. Hold CTRL button and click on digits’ layer in Layers panel to get the next selection: Return to background’s layer (make sure it’s active), insert the mask on the layer by choosing Add layer mask on the bottom part of the Layers paneland then press CTRL+I to inverse the color. Click the eye icon next to the digits’ layer to hide its content in the document window. Now we have to decorate the digits, representing in this case the small circles of different colors. Their layer will be situated under the background’s one. Use the Ellipse Tool (U) to draw the first ellipse. Click on Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel and select Gradient Overlay. Click in the color bar to open the Gradient Editor and set the color stops as shown. Click OK to close the Gradient Editor dialog box. We’ve got the next result: Continue drawing the next ellipse: Click on Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel and select Gradient Overlay. Click in the color bar to open the Gradient Editor and set the color stops as shown. Click OK to close the Gradient Editor dialog box. We’ve got the next result: Draw another shape: Click on Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel and select Gradient Overlay. Click in the color bar to open the Gradient Editor and set the color stops as shown. Click OK to close the Gradient Editor dialog box. We’ve got the next result: Draw one more ellipse: Click on Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel and select Gradient Overlay. Click in the color bar to open the Gradient Editor and set the color stops as shown. Click OK to close the Gradient Editor dialog box. We’ve got the next result: Copy Write:http://www.adobetutorialz.com/articles/30970817/1/create-happy-new-year-2012-colorful-greeting-card-photoshop-cs5 Post Pages: 1 2 3

Merry Christmas Background with Red Baubles for Greetings Card

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Text over face Image with Photoshop

Final Results Here is an easy way to make any picture even your own portrait into text in Photoshop.Let’s begin by opening a picture in Photoshop that you want to see in text format, I used this one: Desaturate the image (Ctrl+Shift+U), then Add layer mask (Layer>Add Layer Mask>Reveal All). Select all (Ctrl+A), copy selection (Ctcl+C). Then go to Channels (Window>Channels). Select Layer1 mask and make it visible. Then paste (Ctrl+V) and deselect (Ctrl+D).   Go back to Layers (Window>Layers), select Layer Thumbnail and fill everything with white.    Create new layer (Ctrl+Shift+N), fill it with white and bring it to Back (Ctrl+Shift+[). Now select Text gizmo and highlight the whole canvas area. Then copy text from any source and insert it in the highlighted area. I used the standard filler text. “First of all you need to open a respective document or a file with its respective program. Like suppose a mp3 file has to be opened with MP3 compatible program that can play it. Not with a Notepad or MS WORD. that is similar in each case. A *.doc file cannot be opened with NOTEPAD because its not capable of reading it. Look mate, there’s more characters in computer than you are supposed to know. You perhaps knowing the characters from A-Z,a-z,0-9, & special characters, etc. But the computing thing requires massive amount of various combinations of” Apply the following settings to the text: You should come up with something like this: For a really convincing effect you can simply duplicate the layer with text (Ctrl+J). Also, you can choose the layer with solid white color (without mask) and fill it easily with shades of grey (#e0e0e0). Although this would be cheating, inasmuch as the image is easily painted with its original colos, but at the same time this increases the quality and is not terribly noticeable. Here’s what I came up with as a result:                                                         Copy Write: http://www.okapixel.com/category/text-over-face-image-with-photoshop