Art Show Post Card

Here is my final product for my "senior show" postcard.

Post card Ideas

Our assignment for this week was to do mock up designs for a post card that would be for an art show. (our art show, to be more specific) I did quick sketches for the front and back of three post cards. They may not be masterpieces, but hey, it's just a mock up! Tell me what you think?

Text over Photo tutorial

I found a tutorial and wanted to try it out. Instead of just copying and pasting that tutorial to the blog, I decided to write down what I did in the simplest way possible, and i will show the starting photo and my end result.

This is my starting point. I shall tell you what I did from here.

• open the picture you want to manipulate.
• open a new layer.
• select the text tool.
• set font size. (mine is 600 pt.)
• set font. (mine is Pristina.)
• your text will be black. change blend to overlay.
• command or ctrl click the text layer thumbnail.
• click the "create new layer" button.
• copy the background image layer.
• click and drag the background copy above the text layer.
• click and drag the text mask (the thing you made when you clicked the text thumbnail and made a new layer) and put the text mask with the background copy.
• select brush tool. use white as color.
• set brush size. (mine is 500.)
• paint over the bottom of the photo to the bottom of the text.
• you can delete the background image if you want.
• right click "create new fill or adjustment layer"
• select "solid color".
• choose what color you want. (mine is a white-ish color.)
• flatten your image.
• save your image as a jpeg.

This is my end result! This was really fun to do, and I hope you guys try it!