How to make a postcard in Photoshop?

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We are accustomed with gifts for the holidaysto give postcards. But what if you want to congratulate a person who lives far away from you? Send him an e-card. You can find on the Internet a ready-made postcard and send it to the e-mail of the addressee. And you can open the Photoshop editor and create something of your own, original and unique. How to make a postcard in Photoshop? Now we'll find out.

As a training work, we will try to create a postcard in the New Year theme.

First of all, we create a document. To do this, click first in the "File" menu, then "Create". Immediately determine the size of the postcard and save them, confidently pressing "OK".
The next step is to find the "Tools" menu, where you should select "Rectangle". With this rectangle, select our sheet.
Click on the layer with the object by double clicking, in the opened menu click on the line "Layer Style". In the line "Overlay gradient" we need, we select the mode, for us it is "Normal".
Then set the following values:
- Opacity - 100%;
- angle - + 31;
- style - "Radial";
- the scale is 117%.
Since we need to figure out how to create a postcard in Photoshop color, add the ability to vary the color gamut on the field with colors.
Set the following color values:
- the first is 0067A9;
- the second is CDF5FF;
- the third one is 040023.
- The sliders that specify colors are set so: one - at ¼ of the left edge, the second - at ¼ of the right edge, and the third - at the very end of the ruler. We do not forget to confirm the choice by clicking "OK".
In the "Tools" menu, select "Pen" and draw a snowdrift.
In the style of the layer, set "Internal glow", as well as "Overlay gradient". Between the colors we set the stretch - 004D8E and 68C4ED.
In the tools we find the option "Arbitrary figure", put the tree and choose the color 003274. After that draw the spruce - the coniferous New Year tree.
Add a few more trees with the keysCtrl + J. Change the color and size as you like. Move to where the place seems most appropriate. You can use colors 00578C, 108FDC, 0078C1. Still draw snowflakes.
We will paint several snowdrifts, strengthen the internalglow, expose the color A7FEF6. One of the drifts applies a gradient overlay. Let's play with a range of colors. Snow on the postcard can be white or blue, in shaded places - blue.

If we make a postcard in Photoshop for a loved one, we can put his picture on the postcard. It will be a beautiful collage. It will not take long, but the person will be pleased.

Photo in the card

Open the desired photo of a person.
On the toolbar, select "Quick"selection "and denote the image. You can take the Magic Wand tool if a person is photographed on a monophonic background. But it happens rarely, more often the background is heterogeneous.
Copy the selected section of the photo and transfer it to our postcard.
We try to insert a human figure between the layers so that it as naturally as possible fits into the landscape.
At the end of the work, you can add the inscription "With best wishes". To do this, on the toolbar, find "Text" and write the desired words.
We change the inscription until it appears to us perfect, by changing the style.
Do not forget to save the postcard when the work is completed.

In the embodiment of the life of his ideas, the Photoshop tutorial will always help. A postcard made with the help of this editor will be unique and will be able to please a lot of who it is intended for.