At this day and age, we have to get in close touch with spaces, blogs and somewhere like that. Under that kind of situation, the figures with your own signature gradually become an important part to show yourself. Therefore, the skills of making that kind of picture are urgent for you to command. In this tutorial, we will learn this skill. It is not that difficult. What we need is a photo of your own and other auxiliary materials in the Photoshop environment. Let’s see its process and do it yourself. Begin now!
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1. Build a 700*700 document, padding the color of #502b2b. Choose a kind of classic grain to set a mixed mode of the picture: the pattern overlay mode, the opaqueness is 45% and the zoom is 100%.
2. Build a new layer and fulfil black color, and then use elliptical marquee tool to make a circle and feather it with the keys Ctrl + Alt + D, the value is 70. Then delete the choice and cancel the electoral district with the keys Ctrl + D.
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3. Then comes to create the classic greeting card. Open the material and adjust the size. Then drag it to the background layer. Next open the photo and drag it into that layer, too.
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4. Change the mixed mode of the picture to the bright mode and add some words that you prefer with the color #221301. Then add some decorative materials onto the text part. Next create a new layer mask and make a scratch effect on the photo with black-color brush.
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5. Merge all the layers and build a new one with white color and click the merged photo with pressing Ctrl to select the electoral district and pad black color to it. Execute the following steps: filter → brush strokes → spray. (the radius is 6 pixels and the smoothness is 8 pixels)
6. Then use magic wand tool to delete the white part and execute the enlargement of 2 pixels and delete the merged layer and hide the layer which is used as the electoral district.
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7. Then we make the add noise effect to the picture: the quantity is 2.5% and use hypodispersion with single color. Next we can change the direction of the picture a little and then add a rake angle effect to the photo. At last, we should build a new layer and build a reflection part and set the mixed mode as transfer mode with 70% opaqueness. Here comes our final product.
