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

In this tutorial, we are going to create a greeting card for Valentine’s Day using simple techniques from Adobe Photoshop CS6. I hope you enjoy this tutorial, and will inspire you to create your own greeting card for Valentine’s Day! Layered PSD file included. Let’s get started!

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

Start working by creating a new document (Ctrl+N) in Adobe Photoshop CS6 with the size 1280px by 1024px (RGB color mode) at a resolution of 72 pixels/inch. Click on Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel and select 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

We’ve got the next background for our greeting card:

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

Using the Ellipse Tool (U), we may represent a small circle.

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

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

We’ve got the next result:

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

Make a copy of the layer containing the circle and remove out of it the Gradient Overlay effect. Put the copy under the very first circle’s layer, go to the Mask Panel and set Feather to 172px (in case if you can find Mask Panel on the right side just activate it on main menu Windows > Masks):

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

Next we’ll draw the rays, choose the Pen Tool (P), set the drawing mode on Shape Layers in Options bar and draw the next shape as shown, placing the made layer under the circles’ layers.

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

Set Fill to 20% for the rays’ layer.

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

This way we can represent the next rays of white color, almost like on the next picture. Place the layers under the circles’ layers.

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

Combine in a group all the layers containing the rays (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).

Insert the mask on the group by choosing Add layer mask on the bottom part of the Layers panel and choose the Soft Round brush of black color (set Opacity to 60% in Options bar).

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 rays as it is shown on the picture.

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

Make a copy of the rays’ group and place the copy under the circles’ layers. Remove the mask out of the copy. Using the Free Transform (Ctrl+T) command, we may turn over the copy by circle.

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

On the group’s copy insert the mask now the same way described above. Using the Soft Round brush mentioned above, hide out the rays the same way described on the picture.

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

Next we’ll represent several rings around the circle, using the Ellipse Tool (U). The rings’ layers must be situated above the circles’ layers.

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

In Adobe Photoshop CS6, there’s now a convenient Stroke option on your Options Bar when you have a shape active. Use drop downs to set the next Stroke options for our circle, Fill – (None), Stroke color – #FFF568, Stroke type – Solid:

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

Set Fill to 45% for this layer.

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

The next ring must be represented with the same Ellipse Tool (U).

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

The Stroke options:

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

Set Fill to 45% for this layer.

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

Let’s draw the next ring of the same width, applying the same tool.

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

The Stroke options:

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

Set Fill to 45% for this layer.

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

Continue representing the rings, using the Ellipse Tool (U).

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

The Stroke options:

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

Set Fill to 13% for this layer and change the Blending mode to Linear Light.

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

Now we must represent a dashed line on the central part of each ring, using the Ellipse Tool (U) too.

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

Set the next Stroke options in Options bar:

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

Set Fill to 28% for this layer and change the Blending mode to Linear Light.

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

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