Happy Birthday Postcard

Take now the Eraser Tool with smooth edges and erase the stripes situated upper the stars and the girl, and then minimize the Opacity of the layer till 20%.



Insert the illustration in a frame finally by choosing the next usual instruments designed for this manipulation: the Crop Tool and the Rectangular Tool.



Insert on a new layer now the picture of a little baby.



Erase the background the child is situated on with Polygonal Lasso Tool and insert this picture in our illustration's corner.



Create the layer's mask: Layer – Add Layer Mask – Reveal all. Take now the Gradient Tool to hide the picture in that place it covers the frame.



Select the next command: Layer – Remove Layer Mask – Apply and correct baby's color (Selective Color).



Create a new layer now and insert several stars on the baby's cheek then minimize the layer's Opacity till 30% (change the angle of their placement selecting the usual option, Free Transform).



Using the Type Tool, write the next expression, applying “Angelina” type.



Applying the next command Layer – Rasterize – Layer, copy it and make it white with the next combination: Image – Adjustments – Brightness/Contrast.



Blur out the colored layer (Gaussian Blur) and combine the layers containing the text (ctrl+e). Then make a copy of the final layer and turn it vertically: Edit – Transform – Flip Horizontal. The command Edit – Transform – Perspective will help us to make the corrections on it.



The layer's Opacity should be around 55%.