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How to create a New Year 2011 colorful card in Photoshop CS5

For layer containing ‘0’ click on Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel and select Drop Shadow.

How to create a New Year 2011 colorful card in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Add Gradient Overlay:

How to create a New Year 2011 colorful card in Adobe Photoshop CS5

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.

How to create a New Year 2011 colorful card in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Settings for Stroke.

How to create a New Year 2011 colorful card in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Select File type – Gradient and 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.

How to create a New Year 2011 colorful card in Adobe Photoshop CS5

We’ve got the next result:

How to create a New Year 2011 colorful card in Adobe Photoshop CS5

For layer containing number ‘1’ click on Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel and select Drop Shadow.

How to create a New Year 2011 colorful card in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Add Gradient Overlay:

How to create a New Year 2011 colorful card in Adobe Photoshop CS5

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.

How to create a New Year 2011 colorful card in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Setting for Stroke are the same with the previous number ‘0’. We’ve got the next result:

How to create a New Year 2011 colorful card in Adobe Photoshop CS5

The Layer Styles for the layer containing the second number ‘1’ are the same with the first one:

How to create a New Year 2011 colorful card in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Let’s represent a highlight now. Choose the Pen Tool (P), set the drawing mode on Shape Layers in Options bar and draw a four rays star as shown.

How to create a New Year 2011 colorful card in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Make two copies of the last made layer and select the Free Transform (Ctrl+T) command to change the copies’ sizes and place them the way from below.

How to create a New Year 2011 colorful card in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Create now a new layer and select the Soft Round brush of white color.

How to create a New Year 2011 colorful card in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Use this brush to represent in the middle part of each small star bright points.

How to create a New Year 2011 colorful card in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Click Create new fill or adjustment layer from bottom part of the Layers panel and select Hue/Saturation.

How to create a New Year 2011 colorful card in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Drag the slider to the right to increase the Saturation of the color range.

How to create a New Year 2011 colorful card in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Click again Create new fill or adjustment layer from bottom part of the Layers panel and select Exposure.

How to create a New Year 2011 colorful card in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Drag the sliders to the left to decrease the Exposure, Offset and Gamma Correction as shown.

How to create a New Year 2011 colorful card in Adobe Photoshop CS5

The final result!

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