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Designing a Flower Greeting Card

Filed under: Designing — Fiery Darts @ 7:55 pm

Designing a Flower Greeting Card

Start by creating an ellipse using elliptical shape tool.
Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply layer style with the settings shown.
Create an ellipse using elliptical shape tool.
Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply layer style with the settings shown.
Create a petal shape using pen tool. Apply the same stroke layer style.
Duplicate the layer several times. Rotate and place it as shown in the images below.
Select and merge all the flower layers. Duplicate layer. Press Ctrl+T. Right click the layer and select warp. Adjust nodes to get the shape as shown.
Similarly create more duplicates. Press Ctrl+T to warp and place as shown.
Create a leaf shape using pen tool.
Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply layer style with the settings shown.
Create a green color stem using pen tool.
Decorate it with some branches and leaves.
Apply a gradient to the background layer.
Type the message over the black ellipse.
Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply layer style with the settings shown.

Mud Text Effect

Filed under: Text Effects — Fiery Darts @ 6:46 pm

Mud Text Effect
Start by typing text in a new file.
Ctrl+Click the layer thumbnail to get the selection. Press Q to enable quick mask.
From filter menu select distort>>glass. Apply settings as shown.
Add new effect layer from the bottom of the effect window. Select sketch>>plaster. Apply settings as shown.
Press Q to disable quick mask.
Create a new layer and fill it with white color.
Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply layer style with the settings shown.
Create an elliptical selection using elliptical marquee tool.
Press Q to enable quick mask. Repeat the above steps to reapply the filters we used previously. Press Q to disable quick mask.
Create a new layer and fill it with any color. Apply the same layer style we used for text layer.
Similarly create more shapes below the other alphabets.
Fill the background with black color.

Abstract Designer Background

Filed under: Textures/Patterns — Fiery Darts @ 5:11 pm

Abstract Designer Background
Start by creating a circle using elliptical shape tool.
Enable subtract form shape area form the top bar.
Create a circle in the first circle using elliptical shape tool.
Similarly create some more circles as shown in the image below.
Press Ctrl+T. Right click the layer and select warp. Select fish eye from the warp presets. Apply settings as shown.
Duplicate the layer. From filter menu select blur>>radial blur. Apply settings as shown.
Duplicate the layer and press Ctrl+F to reapply the filter.
Duplicate the layer again. Press Ctrl+F twice.
Duplicate the shape layer and rotate 45°.
Duplicate both the shape layers. Scale them up.
Select each shape layer and change their color as shown in the image below.
Fill the background with black color.
Select each blurred layer and press Ctrl+I to inverse the color. Select all the blurred layer and move them above all the layers in layer palette in layer order.
Select all the layers. Press Ctrl+T. Scale down as shown in the image. Merge all the shape layers.
From filter menu select artistic>>neon glow. Apply settings as shown.
Duplicate the layer. Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply layer style with the settings shown.
Duplicate the layer. Double click the layer to open layer style window and change the outer glow settings as shown.
Select and merge all the blurred layer. Apply the same layer style to the blurred layer.
Ctrl+Click the original shape layer thumbnail to get the selection. From select menu apply modify>>contract. Contract the selection by 2 pixels.
Create a new layer and fill it with black to white linear gradient.
Change the layer mode to color dodge.
Select the original layer. Duplicate the layer and hide it. Select all other shape layers and invert their colors by pressing Ctrl+I for each layer.
Duplicate the top shape layer and scale it up.
Unhide the original shape layer.
From layer menu select new adjustment layer hue/saturation. Apply settings as shown.
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