Open the wd-redouté ufo. Set your foreground color to #BECAD6 and your background color to #BAC999.
Open a new white image of 430 x 580 pixels. Menu bar: Edit - Fill - Gradient tab. Fill your new image with a gradient
using your fore- and background colors:
Menu bar: Effect - Fills and Textures - Texture filter: Select the Effect Embossed (1) (second thumbail, first row at the bottom).
Click the small arrow (2) at the top to open the menu list. Select: Add Texture and browse to the folder with the materials
for this tutorial and click the wd-fine-canvas.jpg. Then change the settings (3) so they reflect mine:
Select and drag the wd-redouté object to your new image and Align: Center Both. In your Layer Manager rename this object: Blur.
Rc.: Duplicate. Rename this layer Lotus, hide it by clicking on the eye and select your Blur layer.:
Menu bar: Adjust - Resize. First click the Apply to Selected Object radio button and resize the object to 135%:
Rc.: Align - Center Both. Keep selected. Menu bar: Photo - Blur - Gaussian Blur - Options with these settings. Make sure the Expand outside object box
has a checkmark.
Keep selected. Menu bar: Effect - Artistic - Brick Tiles with these settings:
In your Layer Manager set the Transparency of this layer to 65% :
Deselect. Activate your Lotus layer and click on the eye to unhide it. Rc.: Shadow. Please use these settings:
Deselect.
This is what I have so far, your image should look similar to mine:
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Open the wd-dover-brushes ufo I prepared for you. These are not real "brushes" as PhotoShop brushes. I made them in
PhotoImpact using a Free Dover Sampler sheet with butterflies and other objects. Each object sits on its own layer.
We will use a couple of them and fill them with a color of our choice and adjust the size and transparency if necessary.
I used 3 of these smaller butterflies and filled each one of them with a different color. I used #6C8B98 and #324531 alternately
and arranged them on my working image but staying away from the edges. I changed the trnasparency to 15 - 25 depending on how
dark the color was:
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Close the sheet with te brushes without saving so you can use them in any other project in the future.
Using the Outline Drawing Tool: Mode:2-D. Shape Rectangle. Lind Width: 1. Line Style: Dotted Line. Color: #708697
Staying away from the edges I made 4 overlapping rectangles on my image like this:
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In my Layer Palette I selected my rectangles and merged them as a Single Object and Send them to the back.
I set the Transparecy of this layer to 50%. Deselect.
Using the font Sloop Script 2: 2-D , size: 48 and color #708697 I typed the name: Redouté with a space between each letter.
In the Tool Settings Panel I changed the Ant-aliasing to Strong. No shadow.
Then I put a greeting and my name at the bottom of my card using the A.D. Mono font:
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If you are happy with your image, Rc.: and Merge All.
Menu Bar: Edit - Expand canvas. Expand your canvas with 1 pixel color #708697.
Expand canvas, this time with 4 pixels color:#D4C75B and another border of 1 pixel color #708697 .
Menu bar: Photo - Light - Brightness & Contrast - Third thumbnail on the second. row.
Optimize and save your work as a jpg file.
That is all, I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial as much as I liked writing it for you.
your work often. I suggest you read the entire tutorial,
before you start. Where it reads "Rc" in this tutorial, it means right click. And if you need help, or if you have any
suggestions, please don't hesitate to contact me at: