Personal Card

For the backround I found a picture off the internet. I used the horizontal type tool the put my name in. Using the rectangular marquee tool, I selected a sun set picture in my other tab. I copyed (Ctrl+C) and went back to my original tab; and pasted it there using (Ctrl+V). Next I right clicked on my text layer-select pixels. Then I moved that layer above my text layer; and went to layer-create clipping mass. For the flower I selected it using quick selection. Next I used free transform to shrink it than draged it to my original tab. While I was on the flower layer and it was still selected I went to edit-define brush preset; and renamed it flower. For the boarders on the flowers I went to fx-stroke and put the size on 2. On the text I put the boarder on size 3. I went to select-modify and put pixels at 14; Then I went to edit-fill. Finally I went to levels To make the picture look much better. I really like this picture because of how my name looks and the flowers.I chose the blur lights for my background because i love lights like that. I picked the sun set to go behind because i like looking at sun sets. I put the flowers in there because they remind me of my moms garden.

Post Card

I used levels on both of the garden pictures so it would be clearer. Next I used the rectangular marquee tool to select them; I went to edit-free transform to rotate it. Then when it was still selected I clicked refine edge and put radius, smooth on 3 and feather on 6. For the sign I used quick selection tool to select it; and went to hue/saturation to make the color come out. I put hue on 4 and saturation on 15. After that i refined the edge and put smooth on 45; and feather on 16. I made the garden pictures and the sign smaller using free transform; I dragged them over to a 6 by 4 blank tab on photo shop. Once I moved them I put them where I wanted then on the sign layer I used fx to add a drop shadow. For both of the flowers I went to levels; and using the quick selection tool I selected the flowers. Then I went to select-inverse and pressed the delete button on the key board so only my flowers were left. I used refine edge of both. When I was done with that I used free transform then dragged them over.

I made a new layer (Ctrl+J) then went to filter-render-clouds to make the background have clouds. For the sign I put opacity at 90%; and changed the blending mode to luminosity so you could see through the picture. Next I used fx to add a drop shadow to the red flower; I put opacity at 65% For the purple flowers I put opacity at 80%. I added the words in using T-horizontal type tool; I put the font at 18pt on latin-smooth. I used the gradient tool to change the color of the words. On the smaller garden picture I went to fx-drop shadow. On the red flower I went to fx-drop shadow-blending options-bevel and emboss-contour to put on a darker edge. To put the boarder on I made a new layer; and went to select-all then select modify-width 8 pixels.

I went to edit-fill-foreground color to change the color of the boarder. I used the gradient tool on the boarder to make the color half & half. For the words I went to fx-stoke to put in a out line; I put it at 3 pixels. On the bigger garden picture I went to fx and added a drop shadow and put opacity at 69. I think I did a really good job on this picture.