Vintage Greeting Card

Posted on 26. Sep, 2009 by admin in Graphic Design

This tutorial shows how to make a Vintage Greeting card using Photoshop.

Step 1: Open a Blank document in Photoshop.

Step 2 : Select the Paint Bucket Tool from the Tool Bar and fill the blank document with it. Choose a nice color since it will the background for your card.

Fill the blank document with it.

Step 3 : Make a duplicate copy of the Background Layer. we do so, because the Background layer is locked so no changes can be done to it.

Step 4 : Select Add a layer style option from the Layer palette, in the drop down menu select the Pattern Overlay option. We will fill a pattern in our background.

Select a good pattern and then set the Blending Mode to Vivid Light; reduce the opacity of pattern to 40% or any other suitable value.

Step 5 : Create a new layer by selecting the Create a new layer option from the Layer Palette. Fill this layer with black color.

Step 6 : Select the Elliptical marquee Tool from the Tool Box.

Draw an ellipse or a circle in your Document.

Step 7 : Select the Feather Option from the Select menu to make the boundary of the circle or ellipse soft.

Set the Feather Radius to any large value.

Now press the Delete key to remove the selection.

Step 8 : Now we will start making the card. To do so, create a new layer and select the Rectangular marquee Tool from the Tool box as shown below.

Select a suitable old looking paper color.

Make a Rectangular Box and fill it with the above selected color.

Step 9 : Now drag a suitable photograph on to your canvas and resize it to fit in your rectangle. The photograph I used is a black and white sketch, but if you bring in a colored picture then desaturate it and change the blending mode in the layer palette to luminosity.

Step 10 : What is a card with out some text, so now we will add some text to the card.

Select the Horizontal Text tool from the Tool box and create some text of your own

Step 11 : Now we will add some depth to our picture. Select the Levels option from the Image Menu.

In a Levels Dialog Box, experiment with the different Input levels to enhance the picture.

Step 12 : Now add some card textures to the card.

Step 13 : Now we will blend the photograph on the card to the color of the card. To do so, select the layer containing the photograph and change the blending options from normal to luminosity.

Step 14 : Now we will add some roughness to the text in our card. Select the Eraser Tool from the Tool Box as shown below.

Select the brush type as shown in the figure below.

Step 15 : Now merge all the layers of the card into one i.e. the card background, the photograph, the card texture and card text. To do this select all the layer right click and select the Merge Layers option

Step 16 : Now we will give our card an old paper appearance by adding some roughness to the edges of the card. To do so, select the Ripple Option from the Filter Menu.