Designing Your Own Christmas Card
Sharon Mapuvire, Anything Is Possible
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Lessons in This Class
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1. Intro
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2. Step 1 Placing your vector
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3. Step 2 Adding your text
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4. Step 3 The Glitter Effect
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5. Outro
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About This Class
Hi Guys! Christmas is fast approaching and sometimes the best gifts are those you've made on your own. In this quick and easy tutorial, I'm going to teach you guys how to make your own Christmas glitter card in Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop.
What You Will Learn:
- How to design a card using ready made vectors
- How to use the illustrator tools to create a centered text message
- How to create a 'the glitter effect' to produce sparkling realistic-looking glitter designs
Links for class material:
- For Vectors - all-free-download.com
- The Solid Fill Layer Colour I selected was #fffbed
- For digital paper texture - http://www.freepik.com/free-photos-vectors/paper-texture, or just look in google images.
- For Gold Glitter Layer -Â https://www.google.co.zw/search?q=gold+glitter&espv=2&biw=1366&bih=662&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwix7P7dnvPQAhWCIsAKHY4sAQ4Q_AUIBigB
Always use high quality, large sized jpegs when downloading from Google.
Meet Your Teacher
Hello everyone, my name is Sharon Mapuvire and I'm a freelance fashion designer based in Harare, Zimbabwe. The Skillshare team invited me to be a part of the teaching community and I felt it would be a great platform to share my skills and talent because I have developed easy ways of painting and drawing portraits. Making it possible for anyone to start painting portraits today.
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Create your own glitter Christmas card using ready-made vectors or vector shapes you've created yourself in Illustrator and apply the glitter effect to your design through Photoshop. Experiment with different glitter colours and even mix them together. Upload your design and share it here.
See more examples and designs using this technique here.
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