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How to Create Happy New Year 2013 Holiday Card in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Then separately insert number ‘1’ with #B3B631 color.

How to Create Happy New Year 2013 Holiday Card in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Next we’ll represent the texture for the number ‘0’. Using the Ellipse Tool (U), we may represent a small circle of the color #E7AFCA.

How to Create Happy New Year 2013 Holiday Card in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Click on Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel and select Stroke.

How to Create Happy New Year 2013 Holiday Card in Adobe Photoshop CS6

We’ve got the next result:

How to Create Happy New Year 2013 Holiday Card in Adobe Photoshop CS6

This way we have to insert circles of other colors: #F9C379, #B1B12D, #4F9C92, #974970, #C2D0AF. The Stroke options for all the layers are the same. The circles must be situated on the same distance, applying Free Transform (Ctrl+T) command.

How to Create Happy New Year 2013 Holiday Card in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Combine in a group all the layers composing the circles the same way we did with the lines’ layers (press CTRL button to select the necessary layers and hold on the left mouse’s button while dragging the selected layers on Create a new group icon from bottom part of the Layers panel). Make sure that the circles’ group are active in Layers panel, hold on the CTRL button and click on the layer containing ‘0’ number in Layers panel to get the next selection:

How to Create Happy New Year 2013 Holiday Card in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Insert the mask on the circles’ group by choosing Add layer mask on the bottom part of the Layers panel:

How to Create Happy New Year 2013 Holiday Card in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Next we have to represent the texture for the number ‘1’. This time apply the Ellipse Tool (U) to represent many white circles:

How to Create Happy New Year 2013 Holiday Card in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Combine in a group all the layers containing the circles the way we did earlier. Make sure that the circles’ group are active in Layers panel, hold on the CTRL button and click on the layer containing ‘1’ number in Layers panel to get the next selection:

How to Create Happy New Year 2013 Holiday Card in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Insert the mask on the group with the white circles by choosing Add layer mask on the bottom part of the Layers panel .

How to Create Happy New Year 2013 Holiday Card in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Create a new document (Ctrl+N) with the size 20px by 20px (RGB color mode) at a resolution of 72 pixels/inch. Use the Rectangle Tool (U) and draw 2 rectangle as shown, to represent the next pattern. The rectangle’s color is #3B9E8C. The background layer must be removed.

How to Create Happy New Year 2013 Holiday Card in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Choose Edit > Define Pattern. Enter a name for the pattern in the Pattern Name dialog box. Next we’ll add separately the layer with the number ‘3’, using the Horizontal Type tool (T).

How to Create Happy New Year 2013 Holiday Card 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 Color Overlay.

How to Create Happy New Year 2013 Holiday Card in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Add Gradient Overlay:

How to Create Happy New Year 2013 Holiday Card 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 Happy New Year 2013 Holiday Card in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Go to Pattern Overlay. Click on the Pattern Overlay dialog and find your own pattern created before in the list of patterns.

How to Create Happy New Year 2013 Holiday Card in Adobe Photoshop CS6

We’ve got the next result:

How to Create Happy New Year 2013 Holiday Card in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Next we have to insert the greeting text under the numbers of the coming New Year. Select the Horizontal Type tool (T). Select a font, size and color in the Character panel. I used this font from FontSquirrel.

How to Create Happy New Year 2013 Holiday Card in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Click in the canvas and type ‘Happy New Year’. Press Enter to apply the text.

How to Create Happy New Year 2013 Holiday Card in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Create a new layer and select the Hard Soft brush of white color (brush Opacity – 10%).

How to Create Happy New Year 2013 Holiday Card in Adobe Photoshop CS6

 

Use this brush to paint above the numbers as shown:

How to Create Happy New Year 2013 Holiday Card in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Set the Blending mode for this layer to Overlay.

How to Create Happy New Year 2013 Holiday Card in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Create a new layer and select the Soft Round brush (Opacity – 15%).

How to Create Happy New Year 2013 Holiday Card in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Use this brush to paint one more time above the 2013 numbers with white color.

How to Create Happy New Year 2013 Holiday Card in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Set Fill to 40% for this layer.

How to Create Happy New Year 2013 Holiday Card in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Click Create new fill or adjustment layer from bottom part of the Layers panel and click to Curves to adjust the curve shape as shown to make a little color corrections.

How to Create Happy New Year 2013 Holiday Card in Adobe Photoshop CS6

We’ve got the next result:

How to Create Happy New Year 2013 Holiday Card in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Next combine in a group two layers painted with white brush and the Curves adjustment layer (press CTRL button to select the necessary layers and hold on the left mouse’s button while dragging the selected layers on Create a new group icon from bottom part of the Layers panel).

Make active the last made group in Layers panel, hold on the CTRL button and click on the layer with the 2013 numbers (the layer with the white numbers) in Layers panel to get the next selection:

How to Create Happy New Year 2013 Holiday Card in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Insert the mask on the group by choosing Add layer mask on the bottom part of the Layers panel.

How to Create Happy New Year 2013 Holiday Card in Adobe Photoshop CS6

 

Our Happy New Year 2013 Holiday Card is finished!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

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Download free Layered PSD file.

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