Make an old Ace of Spades with photoshop

I was not  much familiar with photoshop skills but then i always had the urge to learn it and create graphics and add effects to images that look awesome. Am just like you out there a beginner in photoshop trying to learn things out after researching online the basics. You could also learn photoshop if you don’t bother spending some time learning online. I have learnt whatever the basics of it online. If you are very new to photoshop, or if you think that you have nil artistic ability(never mind) or never knew the tricks behind the scene, then start up with just basics like first knowing all the tools present in the course of study in photoshop.

Now, for those who know tools better, I would like to show you that its very easy to design something, once you implement it on your self like me.

In this section am going to tell you step by step procedure to make an ace of spades card that is pretty old. I have learned it from online ofcourse, from great designers tutorials. But i thought to put it in my blog, not by just copying things from there, but by implementing it on my own in photoshop. And that made me to write this post. I will be updating my blog with more and more photoshop tricks and easy tips for the effect for the new users out there and for those who think  “its only for those great designers”. Nop.. Lets start up with the tutorial.

Here i will give it the look of an aged card with using several layer and styles, giving it some texture and color. You can also get same kind of card look just like mine. Just follow simple steps with me.

Step1 : Open up a blank document in photoshop sized 540×480 pixels.

Step 2 : Make the base for the card

Select the Rounded rectangle tool and set radius to 20. Pick the foreground color as #c9a862and make a rectangle assuming the size of the card. This will make a rectangle filled with the color #c9a862. Name this layer as cardbott.

Step 3 : Duplicate layer and overlay Now select the cardbott layer in layers pallette and then duplicate this layer by using Cntrl+J. Name the new layer as cardtop and fill it with #ffebc6. Now lock the cardtop layer in the layers pallette and start adjusting the cardbott layer (below the cardtop layer), move it 1 pixel to the right and bottom wrt. cardtop.

Step 4 : Texturising cardtop

Unlock the cardtop layer and press Cntrl+layer thumbnail to select the cardtop layer like below.

Now we are going to give some effects to the cardtop layer. Before that set the foreground color as #ffebc6 and background color as #f1d39b To give the effect of old card we need to add some effects  as below From the main menu Go to Filter–>Render–>Clouds. This would make the cardtop look mixed with colors.

Again we will add some noise. Filter–>Noise–>Add noise. Set level 2 with gaussian and monochromatic selected. After adding noise the cardtop shows some real texture and to smoothen it out, we would blur the layer. Filter–>Blur–>Gaussian Blur. Set level 1

Step 5: Shadow effect and inner glow effect

Give some shadow effect to the cardtop layer by selecting the layer in the layers palette and double clicking to the right of layer and select blending options from the drop down menu. Set the levels for drop shadow as shown below.

Give inner glow effect by setting the blend mode to color burn, opacity around 30 and noise level to 10.

Step 6: Add burn effect

Add a new layer above the cardtop layer by selecting this layer and then click the new layer icon in the layers palette. Name this layer burn. Select the burn layer and reduce the opacity to 20%. Now clip this burn layer to the cardtop layer by pressing ALT and clicking in the middle of the two layers (cardtop and burn) in the layers palette.

Now select a round paint brush with 70px in diameter and hardness setting of 0. Keep the blend mode to color burn. Now mark some dark areas on the burn layer with this brush to give the effect as depicted below.

Step 7: Dodge effect with chalk brush

Make a new layer above burn layer, name it dodge. Create clipping mask with this layer as well. (both the burn and dodge layer must be clipped to the cardtop layer). Now select the Chalk brush with 60px, set the brush to normal blend and opacity of 30%.

With the chalk brush, paint the edges of the card lightly to make the card look worn or torn from corners.

Step 8: Shine effect

Since the center of the card doesn’t get much hurt and only the corners get, we are going to give a shine effect at the center. Now create a new layer about the dodge layer, name it shine and make a clipping mask with the cardtop. Select the gradient tool from the tool bar, and set the foreground color to white and the gradient settings to Foreground-Transparent. Also select the radial gradient. Now drag the gradient at the center of the card to the top or bottom of the card. This gives a fine highlight effect at the center of the card.

Step 9: Grunge effect

Finally we are about the add some grunge effect to the card to make it more worn or damaged. Make a new layer above the shine layer and name it grunge. Change the layer blending mode to color burn as shown below. Drop the opacity to 60%.  Clip this layer too with the cardtop.

Now choose set of corner grunge brushes and give fine details to the corner of the card as shown.

Step 10: Add Vector Image to the card

Now that we finished giving the card a fantastic look, am now going to add another layer above the grunge layer and name it vector image. Clip this layer too. Download the vector image from other websites for Ace of spades and add it over this layer. Drop the opacity of the vector image layer to 75%. Set the layer’s blending mode to linear burn to give it an old look like how i got.

Note: When you make this card the specified levels may not match with the one as mentioned here, you need to take care what levels of opacity or fill to set for each layer to make it look real as i did.

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