Description:Create a beautiful card using a photo object and a corner shape.
Author: Wouter Démoet.
Terms of Use: Please read
Skill Level: Simple. I assume you know where the tools are in PhotoImpact.
Additional Files:A photo and a corner shape of your choice or you may use mine. The corner shape was created by Laura's Addiction. Laura shares a very beautiful collection of shapes, corners and other goodies. Check them out! Thanks a bunch, Laura! The photo was taken and prepared for you by me. Please download the materials for this tutorial.

NOTE: Save 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: wouter@demoet.nl

You can drag this pointer as you go to keep track of your place in the tutorial.


Open the wd-soft.jpg, Ctrl+D to duplicate it and close the original. Set your foreground colour to: #C90200 and your background colour to: #FEBFB7


Menu bar: Adjust - Expand Canvas (Shift+N). Expand your canvas with 1 pixel (Expand sides equally: checked) colour: Foreground colour. Expand your canvas, this time with 5 pixels: Background colour. Add another 1 pixel border using the Foreground colour.


Rc.: Copy. Open a new canvas, check the Active Image radio button to get an image of the same size as the rose mage.


Menu bar: Adjust - Resize. Resize this new canvas to 140%.


Rc.: Paste. The rose object should be floating in the top left corner of your new canvas. Rc.: Duplicate. Rc. Duplicate. You now have a total of 3 rose objects in your Layer Manager.


Rc. on the active top image object and Align - Center Both. Select the the second rose object in your Layer Manager


Rc.: Align - Bottom. Rc.: Align - Right. Your image should look similar to this:


Make sure that your centered image object sits on top of the other two. Deselect. Rc.: All to select the white Base Image. Menu bar: Edit - Paste - Fit Into Selection. Deselect.


Change to your Text Tool. Background colour. Mode: 2-D. Border: 1 pixel Foreground colour. Using your favourite font add a greeting to your card. I added Happy Birthday ;-)


Rc.: Select All Objects. Rc.: Merge as a Single Object. Rc.: Shadow with these settings:


Deselect. Open the Laura corner ufo from the download and drag the corner to the top right of your image like so:


Rc.: Duplicate. Using the Transform Tool Flip this obejct Horizontally and then Verically


and put in place in the corresponding bottom left corner. Select both these corners and Merge as a Single Object. Rc.: Align - Center Both. Rc.: Merge All. Optimize and save your work as a jpg. You're done!

The beautiful image below was created by my friend ♥ Rosalie ♥ (Ggrannyrose). Thank you so much for allowing me to show your Friendship Card as an extra example, Rosalie.


That is all, I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial as much as I liked writing it for you.