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How to Create Greeting Card for Valentine’s Day with Cute Glossy Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Make three copies of the recently made layer containing the dashed line and choose the Free Transform (Ctrl+T) command to change the copies’ sizes, placing them the same way indicated below.

How to Create Greeting Card for Valentine's Day with Cute Glossy Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Create a new layer and select the Soft Round brush of white color (brush Opacity – 60%).

How to Create Greeting Card for Valentine's Day with Cute Glossy Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Use this brush to paint above the circles as shown:

How to Create Greeting Card for Valentine's Day with Cute Glossy Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Set the Blending mode for this layer to Overlay.

How to Create Greeting Card for Valentine's Day with Cute Glossy Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Create a new layer and select for it the same Soft Round brush mentioned in the previous example to paint above the rings with the color #FFE400 (brush Opacity – 7%):

How to Create Greeting Card for Valentine's Day with Cute Glossy Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Set Fill to 60% for this layer and change the Blending mode to Hard Mix.

How to Create Greeting Card for Valentine's Day with Cute Glossy Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Create a new layer again, choosing for it the Soft Round brush.

How to Create Greeting Card for Valentine's Day with Cute Glossy Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Use this brush to paint again above the rings with the color #FE0042 (brush Opacity – 20%):

How to Create Greeting Card for Valentine's Day with Cute Glossy Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Set the Blending mode for this layer to Overlay.

How to Create Greeting Card for Valentine's Day with Cute Glossy Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Next we’ll draw a small heart, using the Pen Tool (P) and the Convert Point Tool. Using the Pen Tool (P), insert the anchor points of the shape, but the second tool may be used when correcting the heart’s shape.

How to Create Greeting Card for Valentine's Day with Cute Glossy Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Set Fill to 0% for this layer and click on Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel to select Stroke.

How to Create Greeting Card for Valentine's Day with Cute Glossy Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Add Inner Shadow:

How to Create Greeting Card for Valentine's Day with Cute Glossy Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Apply Gradient Overlay:

How to Create Greeting Card for Valentine's Day with Cute Glossy Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

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 Greeting Card for Valentine's Day with Cute Glossy Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Add Drop Shadow:

How to Create Greeting Card for Valentine's Day with Cute Glossy Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

We’ve got the next result:

How to Create Greeting Card for Valentine's Day with Cute Glossy Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Now we’ll insert a highlight on the heart, applying the Ellipse Tool (U).

How to Create Greeting Card for Valentine's Day with Cute Glossy Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Make sure that highlight’s layer is active in Layers panel and hold CTRL button when clicking on the heart’s layer on the Layers panel to get the next selection:

How to Create Greeting Card for Valentine's Day with Cute Glossy Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Insert the mask on the highlight’s layer by choosing Add layer mask on the bottom part of the Layers panel.

How to Create Greeting Card for Valentine's Day with Cute Glossy Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Set Fill to 32% for this layer.

How to Create Greeting Card for Valentine's Day with Cute Glossy Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Rasterize now the highlight’s layer. In this case create a new layer above the old one and select them both layers in Layers panel. Press CTRL+E to Merge Down. Using the Free Transform (Ctrl+T) command, displace a little the rasterized layer.

How to Create Greeting Card for Valentine's Day with Cute Glossy Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Make sure that highlight’s layer is active in Layers panel and hold CTRL button when clicking on the heart’s layer on the Layers panel to get the next selection:

How to Create Greeting Card for Valentine's Day with Cute Glossy Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Insert the mask on the highlight’s layer the same way we did before, this time, cutting out a part of the highlight’s element.

How to Create Greeting Card for Valentine's Day with Cute Glossy Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Choose in the mask a Soft Round brush of black color (brush Opacity – 15%).

How to Create Greeting Card for Valentine's Day with Cute Glossy Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Paint in the mask using this brush to hide out the highlight’s edges:

How to Create Greeting Card for Valentine's Day with Cute Glossy Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Create a new layer and hold Ctrl button when clicking on the layer containing the heart in Layers panel to get the next selection:

How to Create Greeting Card for Valentine's Day with Cute Glossy Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Use the Paint Bucket Tool (G) on the new layer to fill the selection with the color #700E19:

How to Create Greeting Card for Valentine's Day with Cute Glossy Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Press Ctrl+D to remove the selection. Insert the mask on this layer by choosing Add layer mask on the bottom part of the Layers panel and choose the Soft Round brush of black color.

How to Create Greeting Card for Valentine's Day with Cute Glossy Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Paint in the mask using this brush to hide the heart on its central part.

How to Create Greeting Card for Valentine's Day with Cute Glossy Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

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