

Leave the color as default (black for the foreground color and white as background color), move your cursor until the center of the layout and click to brush. The new brushes will be added to the list.Ĭhoose the brush number 4 and set the diameter to 1800pxĬreate a new layer from the Layers Panel and call it “Trees”. Select Load Brushes and load the brush from the folder where you have previously saved it from the provided link. It’s now time to load the first of our brushes, the set called Beyond the Mist, to create our bunch of trees.Select the Brush Tool and go to open the Brush Presets Picker. The graphic elements, except for the background, have to stay inside the area delimited by the guidelines. Then do the same vertically on 0.3 cm and 10.3 cm. Set the rulers units in centimeters.Įnlarge the image and moving the cursor from the left rule toward the center of the layout create a guideline positioned horizontally on 0.3 cm and again on 15.3 cm. Select Edit > Preferences > Units & Rulers. The 0.6 cm is useful as bleedings in the print file preparation. The final size of what we are going to create till the end will be a two folded card 15×10 cm size. Let’s start by creating a new file ( File > New) with a dimension of 15,6×10,6 cm, color method CMYK and 300 ppi resolution. PART 1: Creating the Visual in Photoshop Step 1 The second part is about importing the design created with Photoshop into InDesign to finish the product, adding the text elements, applying to the two folded card mock-up and actually print it. The article is composed of two parts: this first one is about creating the greetings card visual, using Adobe Photoshop. For example: document settings, dimensions, color mode, bleed and margins. This means that, we will cover several important subjects both in Photoshop and InDesign. The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial.Īs it is said in the title this tutorial aims to be a guide for creating the card from scratch to print.

#FREE GREETING CARDS TO PRINT FOR MAC FULL#
You may click on the image to see the full scale version.Įstimated Completion Time: 2 – 3 Hours Tutorial Assets Let’s see what you will be creating in this tutorial.
