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You can make a realistic heart with Adobe Photoshop easily by using Layer Blending options. You can make for example a heart for your special someone with your or their name on it. |
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Step 1. Heart Shape |
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Color the background, for example with blue. Then create a new layer. |
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To make a heart pick the Custom Shape Tool and select the heart shape. |
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Pick a grey color and draw a heart on a layer you created. |
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Step 2. Hole |
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With the elipse selection tool draw a circle on the heart where the string would go. Hold Shift while drawing to make a perfect circle. |
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Now press Delete on the keyboard to empty the hole. |
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Step 3. Text |
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Select the text tool and Stencil STD font. Write the words you wish in black. |
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Seleck the letters you wrote by clicking on one with the magic wand tool (make sure you have contigous option off). |
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Now select the layer with the heart and press Delete to empty the letters.
Delete the layer with text.
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Step 4. Blending Options |
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Now for the fun part: we will use three of the blending options: Drop Shadow, Gradient Overlay and Bevel & Emboss. First open the layer's blending options. |
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Select Drop Shadow and set the parameters like it is shown on the picture: 33% Opacity, 3px Distance, 0% Spread and 4px Size. |
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The heart will look like this: |
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Now select the Gradient Overlay. Double click on the gradient and select two grey colors, one light and one dark grey. Set other parameters like on the pic below: make sure you select reverse, 92% Scale. Also set the angle to -108 degrees. |
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The third and final blending option is Bevel and Emboss. Select the parameters as they are on the pic below: Inner Bevel for Style, Chisel Hard fot Technique, 1% of Depth, 4px of Size. Select the Gloss Contour that is selected on the pic below and set the Opacity and Shadow mode to 75%. |
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To finish the heart set Image Size to 50% which will soften the edges, and you can also add a string simply with a few brush strokes. |
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