Today is Friendship day. Why not prepare a friendship card with photoshop and sent to your friends :)

Here is the tutorial to create a Friendship card with photoshop.

We need some photoshop brushes

  • Mountain brush
  • planet brush
  • Grass brush
  • Star brush

I have used some stock photos

Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/theciscokid/3688494919/

Photo credit: http://www.desicomments.com/friends/your-friendship-is-a-gift-2/

Open a new document with photoshop.

Select black and dark gray foreground color and background color.

Go to filter->Render->Clouds

We will get this:

Add a new layer

Now Open brush set and select planet brush.

set foreground color light yellow and brush it like this:

Go to Layer->Layer style->Outer glow

give the settings:

We will get this:

Add new layer

Open bursh set ans select mountain brush

set foreground color gray

brush it

Now open girls image and cut them and place them like this (use moov tool to place the image properly).

Press ctrl+T to transform the image and resize them

when it is ok, press enter

Rename all layers, so that it will be easy for us to edit layers.

Double click on the layer name and type the correspondent name like-girls, mountain, moon etc.

Now select mountain layer and select eraser to erase some top portion of mountain like this:

Now select burn tool  

select mountain layer and use burn tool to add some shadow of girls like this:

Add another new layer

select star brush, set foreground color white and brush it

Add one more layer

Now select grass brush, set foreground color green and brush it.

Now lessen the opacity of moon layer, grass layer and star layer

ok, now we have prepared our background for the card.

merge all layers(press ctrl+e)

Add a new layer

Select text tool

Set text color and font, size as you like

Find a nice poem or quoto about friendship and type it.

Go to layer ->Layer style->Outer glow

give some glow to the text.

We are Done!! :)

You can add more if you wish.

For me, I like this!!