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Valentine’s day card

Gradient’s parameters:

Create Valentine's day card in Photoshop CS4

Create Valentine's day card in Photoshop CS4

Using the earlier applied Custom Shape Tool (U), try to make the next heart’s layer, which shape must be corrected with the Convert Point Tool.

Create Valentine's day card in Photoshop CS4

The layer’s parameters: Blending Options>Gradient Overlay

Create Valentine's day card in Photoshop CS4

Gradient’s parameters:

Create Valentine's day card in Photoshop CS4

Create Valentine's day card in Photoshop CS4

Try to represent a highlight on the heart, choosing for this operation the Custom Shape Tool (U). Then press Alt button while applying the Pen Tool (P) and the Convert Point Tool to represent a kind of zone which must be cut out later.

Create Valentine's day card in Photoshop CS4

The layer’s parameters: Fill 0%
Blending Options>Gradient Overlay

Create Valentine's day card in Photoshop CS4

Gradient’s parameters:

Create Valentine's day card in Photoshop CS4

Create Valentine's day card in Photoshop CS4

Next we’llĀ combineĀ in a group the layers composing the heart (press Ctrl button to mark out the necessary layers and then press the left mouse’s button while moving the marked layers on Create a new group option) Make a copy of the got group and choose Free Transform option to put the copy the same way indicated on the next picture, also changing the copy’s sizes:

Create Valentine's day card in Photoshop CS4

Create Valentine's day card in Photoshop CS4

Download sets of ready to use brushes in Adobe Photoshop, named: Ideal__s_Vector_set_3, Straight_Grunge_Lines_Brushes_by_DieheArt, Vector_Flower_Brushes_by_Yasny_chan.
Create a new layer, applying the brushes out of the set with the name Ideal__s_Vector_set_3. The brushes have black color and #6D0E12. The brushes’ layer should be placed lower than the layers composing the heart and the layers containing the horizontal lines:

Create Valentine's day card in Photoshop CS4

Create Valentine's day card in Photoshop CS4

Set for the brushes’ layer the parameters from below: Fill 35%

Create Valentine's day card in Photoshop CS4

On the next new layer we’ll apply the brushes out of the set Vector_Flower_Brushes_by_Yasny_chan, having the color #341d19. This layer will be placed lower than the hearts’ layers and the horizontal lines’ layers:

Create Valentine's day card in Photoshop CS4

Create Valentine's day card in Photoshop CS4

Using the same method we’ll introduce several more ornaments, applying this time the brushes out of the set, named Vector_Flower_Brushes_by_Yasny_chan. The brushes have black color and their layers will be placed lower than the hearts’ layers and the layers containing the horizontal lines:

Create Valentine's day card in Photoshop CS4

On the last stage we’ll create a new layer to use there the brushes, named Straight_Grunge_Lines_Brushes_by_DieheArt with the color #FDAEB2

Create Valentine's day card in Photoshop CS4

Create Valentine's day card in Photoshop CS4

Finished!

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