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Custom playing cards

Create Custom playing cards in Photoshop CS3

It’s time for drawing the last playing card’s indicator, selecting the Custom Shape Tool (U). It’s necessary also to use the Free Transform option to incline a little the indicator, according to the position of the card the indicator will be situated on.

Create Custom playing cards in Photoshop CS3 

Create Custom playing cards in Photoshop CS3

The layer’s parameters: Fill 0%
Blending Options>Bevel and Emboss

Create Custom playing cards in Photoshop CS3

Blending Options>Gradient Overlay

Create Custom playing cards in Photoshop CS3

Gradient’s parameters:

Create Custom playing cards in Photoshop CS3 

Create Custom playing cards in Photoshop CS3

The next table shows the demands for the cards’ names. The Free Transform option should be used when changing the inclining direction of the letters and their turning around.

Create Custom playing cards in Photoshop CS3

the red letters

Create Custom playing cards in Photoshop CS3

the black letters

Create Custom playing cards in Photoshop CS3

Next step includes creating the minimized copies of the indicators, situated under the cards’ names. In this case we have to apply the Custom Shape Tool (U). Use the same Free Transform option to turn over the letters if necessary and to make the corresponding inclination angle. The colors of the indicators correspond with the letters’ colors above them.

Create Custom playing cards in Photoshop CS3

Representing playing cards came to end!

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