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How to create a sexy Christmas card using Photoshop
Let's create a sexy yet tasteful and Christmas inspired greeting card using an old paper texture.
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Open a picture of a sexy girl (or boy).
I'm going to use a picture of a lovely Victoria's Secret model.
Click here to download the picture.
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Choose the Vertical Type Tool.
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Choose some beefy font and enter some text.
Click here to download font used in this lesson.
Click here for the tutorial on how to install a new font.
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Click to commit the written text (see picture).
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Press Ctrl + T to enter the Free transform mode and stretch the font like I did.
Press Enter when done.
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Right click the Background layer and choose Layer From Background...
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Now right click the text layer and choose Rasterize Type.
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Now click the Girl layer, drag it to the top of the layers, right click it ...
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... and choose Create Clipping Mask.
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This is how it should look like by now.
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Now let's bring in the old paper texture.
Click here to download the old paper texture.
In the menu click File and choose Place...
Click Enter.
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Resize the old paper layer to fit the picture and press Enter.
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Now click the old paper layer and drag it to the bottom of layers (see picture).
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Right click the girl layer and choose Duplicate Layer...
Click OK.
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Right click the new girl copy layer and choose Release Clipping Mask.
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Click the girl copy layer and drag it between the text layer and old paper layer.
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With the girl copy layer selected, click Filter, Blur and choose Gausian Blur...
Set the Radius to about 20 pixels and click OK.
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Set the girl copy layer blending mode to Overlay (see picture).
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Now select the old paper layer and set the Opacity to 60%.
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Now right click the text layer and choose Blending Options...
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Click Drop Shadow on the left side and then choose the same settings as I did (see picture).
Click OK.
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