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Valentine’s Day

The layer’s parameters: Fill 34%, Blending mode-Soft Light

Make your  own Valentine's Day card in Photoshop CS4

Create a new layer for the next path. Apply the same operations described above then Stroke Subpath with the color #E5331E

Make your own Valentine's Day card in  Photoshop CS4

The layer’s parameters: Fill 42%, Blending mode-Color

Make your own Valentine's Day card in Photoshop CS4

On the next new layer we’ll Stroke Subpath another path, choosing the same steps we did before with the previous lines. The brush has the color #EC008C

Make your own  Valentine's Day card in Photoshop CS4

The layer’s parameters: Fill 30%, Blending mode-Overlay

Make your own Valentine's Day card in Photoshop CS4

Make a copy of the last made layer containing the ornament’s line without any effects and choose for this layer Filter>Blur>Motion Blur (Angle 0, Distance 25px)

Make your own Valentine's Day card in Photoshop CS4

Make a copy with the very first ornament’s line, raise it up on the layers’ panel and change the color on the black one.

Make your own Valentine's Day card in Photoshop CS4

The layer’s parameters: Fill 20%

Make your own Valentine's Day card  in Photoshop CS4

Next we’ll represent a small heart, applying the Custom Shape Tool (U)

Make your own Valentine's Day card in Photoshop CS4

Make your own  Valentine's Day card in Photoshop CS4

The layer’s parameters: Fill 0%, Blending Options>Inner Glow

Make your own Valentine's Day card in Photoshop CS4

Make your  own Valentine's Day card in Photoshop CS4

Make your own Valentine's Day card in Photoshop CS4Make a copy of the layer containing the heart element and choose Free Transform option to enlarge the copy a little (press SHIFT button for this operation). Then place it the same way it is demonstrated on the picture.

Make your own  Valentine's Day card in Photoshop CS4

Select by one copy of each heart’s layers. Set for each copy’s layer the same parameter Blending Options>Inner Glow

Make your own Valentine's Day card in Photoshop CS4

Make your own Valentine's Day card in Photoshop CS4

Next we’ll combine in a group all the layers composing the heart (press Ctrl button to mark out the corresponding layers and then hold on the left mouse’s button while moving the marked layers on Create a new group selection). Set the next demonstrated parameters for the made group. Opacity 74%

Make your own Valentine's Day card in Photoshop CS4

Create a new file (File>New) of 70×70 px and 72 dpi (delete off the background) and choose for it the Custom Shape Tool (U) to represent a small heart.

Make your own Valentine's Day card in  Photoshop CS4

The layer’s parameters: Fill 0% Blending Options>Inner Glow

Make your own Valentine's Day card in Photoshop CS4

Make your own  Valentine's Day card in Photoshop CS4

Rasterize the layer by creating a new layer above the original one, mark out them both pressing Ctrl button and press finally CTRL+E.
Select from menu Edit>Define Brush Preset
Create a new layer and apply here the brush chosen out of the Brushes option (F5), situated on the lateral panel, on the right side. We need the brush to represent a lot of small hearts above and around the earlier made ones.

Make your own Valentine's Day card in Photoshop CS4

Make your own Valentine's Day card in Photoshop CS4

Make your own Valentine's Day card in Photoshop CS4

Make your own Valentine's Day card in Photoshop CS4

Make your own Valentine's Day card in Photoshop CS4

Make a copy of the layer containing lots of hearts. Choose for the top layer the next option – Blending mode-Overlay

Make your own Valentine's Day card in Photoshop CS4

…and for the lowest layer the selection from here – Filter>Blur>Gaussian blur

Make your own Valentine's Day card in Photoshop CS4

Make your own  Valentine's Day card in Photoshop CS4

Create a new file (File>New) of 10×10 px and 72 dpi and move off its background. Using the Pencil Tool (B) (brush of 1 px), try to represent a diagonal line of white color.

Make your own Valentine's Day card in Photoshop CS4

Edit>Define Pattern
Create a new layer and select for it Edit>Fill, applying here the earlier saved pattern.

Make your own Valentine's Day card in Photoshop CS4

The layer’s parameters: Fill 58%, Blending mode-Overlay

Make your own  Valentine's Day card in Photoshop CS4

Create a new layer and use here a standard brush with the Opacity of 10% and orange color to outline the zone from the left and top sides – the zone that is reserved for the text.

Make your own Valentine's Day card in Photoshop CS4

Make your own Valentine's Day card in  Photoshop CS4Insert the text now (I used this font from dafont.com):

Make your own Valentine's Day card in Photoshop CS4

Make your own Valentine's Day card in Photoshop CS4

The layer’s parameters: Blending Options>Drop Shadow

Make your own  Valentine's Day card in Photoshop CS4

Blending Options>Stroke

Make your own Valentine's Day card in Photoshop CS4

Gradient’s parameters:

Make your own Valentine's Day card in Photoshop CS4

Make your own  Valentine's Day card in Photoshop CS4

Insert now the layer containing the text Happy Day under the layer with the text Valentine’s (I used this font from dafont.com):

Make your own Valentine's Day  card in Photoshop CS4

Day

Make your own Valentine's Day card in  Photoshop CS4

Happy

Make your own Valentine's Day card in Photoshop  CS4

Create a new layer and represent here a lot of small dots with a standard brush of red and yellow colors.

Make your own Valentine's Day card in Photoshop CS4

Make your own Valentine's Day card in Photoshop CS4

Make your own Valentine's Day card in  Photoshop CS4

The layer’s parameters: Blending Options>Drop Shadow

Make your own Valentine's Day card in Photoshop CS4

Make your own Valentine's Day card in  Photoshop CS4

Finished!

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