Valentine Day Background

Valentine Day Background
Valentine Day Background

Create a new file that would have 217×450px, 300 dpi, then take the indicated tool

Valentine Day Background

and create the background for the picture to be.

Valentine Day Background

Fill 0 % on the layers.
Blending Options-Gradient Overlay

Valentine Day Background

Gradient’s parameters:

Valentine Day Background

Take now this instrument

Valentine Day Background

and represent an ellipse of white color.

Valentine Day Background

Copy the new made layer and make use of Free Transform option to increase the copy and place it the right way, indicated in the picture below.

Valentine Day Background

Take the previous instrument to draw one more ellipse.

Valentine Day Background

Blending Options-Gradient Overlay

Valentine Day Background

Gradient’s parameters:

Valentine Day Background

Using the same instrument applied before, it’s possible to draw two more ellipses of black color.

Valentine Day Background

Applying the usual tool

Valentine Day Background

, create a circle colored in F7E7E8.

Valentine Day Background

Valentine Day Background

on the layers.
Take the last instrument to represent several more ellipses and circles colored with this color’s code – F7C9CC.

Valentine Day Background

Now we should use the same instrument

Valentine Day Background

and create several circles and ellipses colored in white.

Valentine Day Background

Apply now a different instrument, this one:

Valentine Day Background

and represent a spiral figure.

Valentine Day Background

Valentine Day Background

The Opacity on the layers should be of 50%.
Blending Options-Gradient Overlay

Valentine Day Background

Gradient’s parameters:

Valentine Day Background

Take the same instrument and draw a wavy stripe colored with 998587.

Valentine Day Background

Take the next instrument

Valentine Day Background

and draw another wavy stripe colored with a different color now – 837076.

Valentine Day Background

The same instrument and the next wavy stripe.

Valentine Day Background

Valentine Day Background

Blending Options-Gradient Overlay

Valentine Day Background

Gradient’s parameters:

Valentine Day Background

Select the usual tool now

Valentine Day Background

for representing another stripe of wavy shape, colored in F9E7E3.

Valentine Day Background

The next instrument

Valentine Day Background

will help us to choose from the table below an appropriate cliché that will be inserted later in our picture. Choose that one accentuated with red color.

Valentine Day Background

Represent now a heart figure colored in white.

Valentine Day Background

Choosing the same instrument and the same cliché (the heart), represent one more figure – the heart.

Valentine Day Background

Blending Options-Outer Glow

Valentine Day Background

Blending Options-Gradient Overlay

Valentine Day Background

Gradient’s parameters:

Valentine Day Background

Copy the new made layer and then apply Free Transform option to make it smaller a little, turn it around and place it exactly the way it is shown in the picture below.

Valentine Day Background

Select the last instrument and the same cliché to draw another heart figure.

Valentine Day Background

Blending Options-Outer Glow

Valentine Day Background

Blending Options-Gradient Overlay

Valentine Day Background

Gradient’s parameters:

Valentine Day Background

Copy this new made layer two times and select again Free Transform option to make it smaller, turn it around and place it the same way you may see in the following picture.

Valentine Day Background

Represent the same way another heart figure.

Valentine Day Background

Blending Options-Outer Glow

Valentine Day Background

Blending Options-Gradient Overlay

Valentine Day Background

Gradient’s parameters:

Valentine Day Background

Copy the last made layer and make use one more time of Free Transform option to turn it around, minimize it a little and place it the way it is demonstrated in the next picture.

Valentine Day Background

Take after that a brush with blurred edges and white color to draw on each of the represented hearts a flare on their left sides.

Valentine Day Background

Make a click now on the mouse’s right button on the first gradient layer to choose the option Create Layer. Erase now the layer having curved figures on it and keep only the gradient layer.

Valentine Day Background

Choosing this layer, select in the upper menu the next combination: Filter/Render/Lens Flare
and insert the parameters from below.

Valentine Day Background

Valentine Day Background

This is the final result!