Personalized Card

I went to text and wrote out my initials and found a picture of a speaker with sound levels and I copied and pasted it onto my document but I first put a new layer up on there so I could put the picture I wanted. Then, I went to Layer and Create Clipping mask to put it behind my initials. Then after I finished that I played with different things that we have learned but what I decide to do was go to Filter, Render, and Clouds. Then, I went to my brushes and chose one to make a fancy looking border. Then I made a new brush effect and put it as my initials. All I did was type my initials then went to EDIT and DEFINE BRUSH PRESET and that's all I did to it.

Why I chose the picture I did was because I'm totally into music, it's like my life so I thought the best picture to best describe me was music. I think this picture describes me the best and it goes good with what I love to do.

Post Card

For the background I took out the telephone lines in the sky with clone stamp. Then, I added the house and used the magnetic lasso tool to take out the houses background. Then after I got it the way I wanted it to look, I went to EDIT, FREE TRANSFORM and tilted the house a little to the left to make it straighter. Then, I Clone Stamped the sink that was on the side of the house and an outlet.

Next, I used text, the double a figure was set at strong, and the font style was monotype corsiva, the font at 200. Then, I went to Filter, Render, and lighting affects. The style I choose for this was the triple spot light.

Then, I added my dog, Zeus did the same technique I threw in some clip art and used the same stuff also. Then, I went back to the house and refined the edge with a radius at 53.6, Contrast 6, Smooth 91, Contract/Expand -8, and Feather 54.5.

I also free transformed the snowflake, hot chocolate and the fireplace. Then, I CTRL + A, to select all and messed with the curves and levels a little bit.

The curves were put at an output of 176, and an input of 123. I created a border around my post card with the pixels at 30 for the border. The opacity was set at 91% and the vibrancy at +83.

Didn’t really like the blending mode much I only used it for two of them. I didn’t use it for the house. Dog was set at opacity 84% for blending, and the snowflake at 66% opacity. Nothing was set for the fireplace. Next, I added in the tree and used the inner glow and satin. Inner glow was set at lighten mode and opacity of 75%. Satin was set at soft light, opacity 26%, Distance 12, size 14. Then, I went to stroke and saturated it didn’t do anything else to it. I refined the edges on the tree at Smooth 72, Feather 8.5.

Finally, I put a drop shadow on the cup of hot chocolate. Distance was 37, Spread was 35, and Size was 35 also.

Why I added the drop shadow is because I wanted to give it a realistic look. Why I added the other things with the tree is because I wanted to give it somewhat of a realistic look. But I didn’t put a drop shadow because I didn’t like it on the tree. Blending mode didn’t really work but with what I added the blending mode was to help it complete the picture. Like the dog I don’t think it would’ve been really great if I didn’t add blending mode. I think I could've went without the blend mode but it still looks good.