Signatory Floral Wedding Invitation Made Easy

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what's up guys this is Eric Vasquez here with a brand new tutorial for you today from design cuts calm now in this tutorial we'll be creating a clean and elegant wedding invitation in Photoshop we're going to do this using some beautiful watercolor illustrations from graphic box that you can find in the all new create and make design bundle now along with this we'll be using a small handful of free typefaces and elements from the wedding three mock-up scene creator from the design cuts marketplace now if you're all ready to march down the aisle and fire up Photoshop and let's get started the first thing we're gonna do here is create a new document and I'm going to give my document a name I'm just going to call it wedding invitation design and then we're gonna change the units of measurement year from pixels to inches make our document five inches wide by 7 inches tall the resolution color mode and background contents are fine then go ahead and click create now once we're inside here the first thing we're gonna do is click on the adjustment layer icon and add a solid color adjustment layer for the hex color let's go ahead and enter the value F for F 1 DB and then go ahead and press return now that we've done that we can just go ahead and scrap our background layer we no longer need it and then from here we're gonna come up to the file menu and choose place embedded so that we can import our first Priebe now as I mentioned we're gonna be using a few elements here from graphic box the first one we're going to open is flower wreath too so go ahead and click place or just press Enter or return on the keyboard and then you will notice that we have our file imported here and it automatically comes in as a smart object which is great now what we're gonna do here is rotate this counter clockwise until we've got our wreath upright basically like this okay and then what we're going to do from here is move our cursor over any of the four corners of the bounding box and drag outwards while holding alt option and shift on the keyboard once we've done that let's just go ahead and move this down a little bit we're going to hold the ctrl key and click on the image come down here to the bottom of the menu here and we're going to choose flip vertical and then hold ctrl and click again and use flip horizontal so we can basically just change the orientation of our wreath here all right then we're just going to move it around a little bit maybe slide it over to the right and then once you're happy with the size and positioning of this bottom portion of the wreath press return on the keyboard and I'm only focusing on the bottom for right now because we're going to position the top separately as you can see the wreath isn't quite tall enough to reach the top of our document so we're just going to focus on one part at a time now what I'm going to do is press M on the keyboard to get my rectangular marquee tool click and drag a rectangular selection around the bottom portion of the design and then click on the add layer mask icon here now select the layer press command J to duplicate it hold the ctrl key and click on the layer mask of this duplicate layer and choose delete layer mask now I'll press command ctrl T on the keyboard to do a free transform click hold the shift key and move this up so we can now focus on the top portion of the wreath and I'm just going to reposition it a little bit here you know move it up a bit something like that and then go ahead and press return on the keyboard now we'll do the same thing press M once again click and drag to make a rectangular selection around the top portion and then click on the add layer mask icon once again so we now have our floral wreath in position now I'm going to do is select this top wreath here hold the shift key and select the colorful adjustment layer and then you can either click on this group folder icon or press command ctrl + G to put it into a new group folder and we're just going to call that folder background now go ahead and add another new layer and then press T on the keyboard and that's going to give us our type tool so we're going to do is just click here and we're going to type out please join us for the wedding of ok and then what I want to do is come up to the window menu here to get my character panel and just choose character alright and there you go now I'm going to click inside this text box here to highlight the text and I'm going to change the typeface here to a font called chop azza okay and this is a free typeface which can download from dafont.com and there's a link for this spot in the written portion of the tutorial now what I want to do here in the character panel is change the size to nine point five five and increase the tracking to about 180 to spread the letters out now let's also click on the color here to set the text color and I can enter the hex value three one six four four three on the keyboard and then go ahead and click OK alright so we now have our text let's go ahead and just drag this over into the middle section here and you can see it kind of snapped right into place there now before we move on I might want to see how it looks if I just flip this wreath the other way around so I'm gonna come into the background folder real quick select at the top reef hold shift and select the bottom one press command ctrl T on the keyboard hold the ctrl key and click and then choose flip vertical all right now it kind of dig the way that looks a little bit more so what I want to do is just kind of tap this down to make sure that our entire canvas is filled with this nice floral wreath and if you guys want to move this around you'll notice that there's a little link here in between the smart object and the mask so if you remove that link you can now kind of move the the floral wreath around independently of the layer mask if that makes sense alright and you can do the same thing here on the bottom just make sure that you put the link back after you're done repositioning it ok in case you wanted to maybe rotate it a little bit more or adjust it however you like alright maybe I'll just move it up a couple clicks there alright and I'm gonna put that link back and close that folder now I'll press T again on the keyboard to click inside my text layer here and then what I want to do is come up to the top toolbar and choose this icon that says create warps text we're going to change the style to arc make sure we have a horizontal Bend of about 55 and then go ahead and press return on the keyboard alright and now you can see that we have our nice kind of art to text here on the top now let's come back up to the file menu for a second and we're going to choose place embedded once again and this time we'll go ahead and import the flower bouquet ten dot PNG file and choose place now hold the alt option and shift key and drag inward from any of the four corners to the bounding box then click pull the shift key and slide it up so we can position it underneath our art to text now let's go ahead and create another new layer press T to get your text tool again and this time I'm going to type out a lowercase J I'll press command ctrl a to select the text come over to my character panel and this time I'm going to change it to Molly ornaments regular now I should just mention here guys that Molly is one of the typefaces that you will find in the full bundle but there are some very nice alternatives that I've provided in the write-up for this tutorial but for this particular part right here we're just using an ornament so any kind of free you know vector ornament or flourish will do now once you have your flourish for this I'm just going to continue with Molly ornaments for now but I'm going to make a few adjustments here I'm gonna change the fill color to maybe more of a gold let's try b19 a four eight eight four eight there we go click OK and now let's also go ahead and make this a bit larger so I'll make it forty one point fourteen points grab my move tool press command ctrl T and then I'm just gonna drag this up here to the side of the floral bouquet now once you're happy with the position here press come in ctrl J to duplicate it then command ctrl T to do a free transform hold the ctrl key and click and choose flip horizontal now I'm going to click hold the shift key and drag this over to the opposite side alright so we now have our two nice flourishes on both sides of the bouquet just underneath our arched type and that's looking pretty cool alright so now I'm going to select that top copy there hold the shift key and select to the text just above the background group folder and then press command ctrl G or click on this folder once again to put it into a new group folder now I'm going to double click on the group one text and just change this to please join us just so we know what is inside of that folder alright now let's move on and go ahead and create another new layer press T to get your type tool again click and this time I'm going to type out the name Amandla an upper and lower case so as you can see I need to change my font here this time I'm just going to use the regular style of molly-molly script regular alright which is a really nice kind of hand-drawn cursive typeface very very nice and some of the the recommendations that I gave you guys in the written portion of the tutorial do look pretty similar to this so be sure to check those out just so you guys can follow along and if you want this exact typeface again as I mentioned you will have to purchase the full design bundle but it's totally worth it there's a lot of great stuff in this one now once I've typed this out here I'm going to change the size to 90 1.73 and then let's go ahead and change the color to 1e six eight four six alright and then click OK or press return on the keyboard now with this typeface if you select certain characters you'll see that you have some alternatives here so I'm going to go ahead and maybe try one of these other alternatives here for the lowercase a on the end and then I'm just gonna tap this over a bit move it down get rid of that little pop-up there and just position this you know roughly visually in the center now once I'm happy with the placement here I'll press command ctrl J to duplicate it and command control in the left bracket to move it down below that layer hold the shift key and then the down arrow to move it down prestine once again highlight the text and this time I'm going to change it so that it reads Jason now again I'll select just the N on the end here and maybe we can try another one of these alternatives so let's see what it looks like if we maybe go with this or maybe the nice kind of underlined here you know you guys can get creative with this and try some different things out until you find something that you like and a lot of these type of you know fonts usually do have alternatives available alright so now let's go ahead and create another new layer press T once again click and this time I'm going to type out an ampersand that looks just like that but I'm gonna change the typeface so I'm gonna select it highlight it however you want to do that come back over to the character panel and now I'm going to change this to a typeface called 5 lighten number six regular alright and this is another font that is free that you guys can find the download link for in the written portion of the tutorial now I'm going to change the size of this make it a little bit smaller by making it 65 point 25 and then I'll also use the same fill color that we use for our ornaments before which was b19 a48 and go ahead and click OK grab your move tool press command ctrl T to do a free transform and then I'm just going to move this up in between both of the names here alright give it a little bit of breathing room move Jason down a bit and there we go now we have our two names in place and just to keep things nice and neat what I want to do now is select Jason hold the shift key select Amanda and then press command control G to put it into a group folder and I'm just going to name this folder Amanda and Jason keep it very simple straightforward and easy to identify alright and if you want to what we can do now is select that top folder hold shift and select the please join us folder and then come up here to the top toolbar and choose this option that says align horizontal centers that's just gonna make sure that everything is nice and aligned now I'm gonna add another new layer grab my type tool once again and this time I'm going to type out Saturday and all-caps press command ctrl a to highlight the text and then we're going to return to our first free typeface that should pause it regular font and let's go ahead and maybe make it a bit smaller so we can actually see it by changing it to about 8.3 okay and then for the tracking I'm gonna spread these letters out change the tracking setting to about 260 and I also want to change the color here so I'm gonna make the fill color maybe that nice green color from before which is 1 6 8 4 6 okay grab your move tool press command ctrl T move this over here in the middle and then let's zoom in a little bit just we can get a better look at our text press T to get the type tool come after the Y and Saturday and then press return now for this line I'm going to type out the date August 28 comma 2018 hold the alt option key and press the number 8 on the keyboard to get that nice little bullet and then type in the time 4:30 p.m. all right so this is the same font that we're using before we want to use the same typeface here for everything so let me just go ahead and make sure that we're doing that because it looks like our time is a different font here all right so let me just select the time and make sure that we go back to our free to Plaza fun okay now what I want to do is press command ctrl a to select all so that I can grab both lines of text here and then I'm going to hold the alt option key and tap the up arrow a few times and that's going to reduce the amount of space in between these two lines you can also do that manually over here in the character panel right where it says set the letting alright so we're gonna leave it set to about twelve point seventy one alright and then we're going to select the second line here and let's make it a little bit smaller I'll make it about seven point eight just a bit smaller than that first line come up here grab your move tool hold the shift key and tap this up a few times and then press command ctrl J to duplicate it command control in the left bracket to move that layer down and then hold the shift key and the down arrow to move this copy down now grab your type tool select the first line of text here the Saturday text now we're going to type in the Lodge now for the second one what I want to do is type in the address so let's say 87 cardinal Ave make another bullet here alt option and eight Boston MA now you can see we're running into the same issue here we're basically because we don't have a bullet available for this font it's reverting to Helvetica so we want to do is just select a Boston MA here and change it from Helvetica back to our regular font okay and that's looking pretty good now another option here is to select this second line and maybe reduce the space in between the characters just a little bit by holding alt option and using the left and right arrows and by doing that we're reducing the tracking instead of a two eighty all right so let me go ahead and do that with this first line as well or you can do it manually in the character panel now I want to select both of these layers tap them up a few times and then I'll select only the bottom layer the law flare press command ctrl J to duplicate it command ctrl + the left bracket to move it down and then press V to get your move tool hold the shift key and tap it down with the down arrow now I'm going to grab my type tool once again click inside here press command ctrl a to select all the text and I'm going to type out RSVP by July 20 all right with the same font but we're gonna make this even a little bit smaller so now I'll make this about six point four point just like that and I might actually make this second line of text in here a little bit smaller as well maybe I'll go to seven point to do the same for this first block of text for the second line only change the size to seven point two okay and now we have our three blocks of text so from here I'm going to press you on the keyboard and what that's gonna do is switch over to my rectangle tool now you'll notice up here in the toolbar we have a fill a stroke and exchange now what we're concerned with here is the shape we want to make sure that we have a rectangle and then I'll click on the fill here and click on this little box in the upper right here that looks like kind of a rainbow colored spectrum now I'm going to use the same hex value from before which is B 19 a 48 to get that nice gold color and then I'm just going to click and drag out a thin rectangle that'll kind of serve as a divider in between these lines of text and I can zoom in here press command ctrl T to do a free transform click hold the control key and now I have even more control over how thick or thin that line is all right and then I'm just going to position it roughly in the middle of those two blocks of text and maybe make it a little bit less wide so I'm just moving my cursor over the right or the left side until you see that left and right arrow click hold the alt option key so that comes in from both sides and then just drag inwards a little bit and go ahead and press return on the keyboard then press command ctrl J to duplicate it hold shift and press the down arrow to move it down all right so we now have our details and the date on the bottom along with these two nice dividers so I'm going to select the top divider scroll down a bit hold the shift key and select the RSVP by July 20th layer and then click on the folder icon double-click the Groupon text and change this to date now just to reorder these folders I'm going to press command control in the left bracket to move that down select please join us text and press command control in the right bracket to move that up so that now our folders are in the same order in which they appear on the invitation design itself ok so the next thing I want to do is select this please join us folder so that we're at the very top and I'm gonna come to the adjustment layer icon and add a levels adjustment now over here on the properties on the right side what we're going to do is set the left slider to about 23 let's go ahead and move this middle slider towards the left until it's set to about 1.4 - what that's gonna do is just kind of boost the colors brighten things up and give us a little bit more contrast you can kind of see the difference there as I turn that on and off okay and then once you've done that select the levels adjustment hold the shift key select the background layer and then press command control G to put all of these layers into a group folder double click the group 1 text and rename this layer artwork now from here we're pretty much done with our main invitation design so be sure to save your work before moving on now once you've saved your Photoshop file we also want to go ahead and save a flattened version of this separately so what we're gonna do is come up here to this hamburger menu in the layers palette click on it and choose flatten image now come with the file and choose save as and save it as a separate flattened version of your Photoshop file ok so I'm just gonna add a flattened on the end alright so that way we don't save over our original layered artwork now for this next part we're going to come up to file and choose new to setup our new document so we can begin building a realistic looking mock-up for our invitation now we're going to be adding a few other wedding related elements to this as well so the first thing we're gonna do here is give this one a name wedding invitation mock-up and then change the increments from inches to pixels make the width 2400 and the height 2000 and then go ahead and press ENTER to create your new document alright I'm just moving these panels aside so that I can work here and see so that I can see everything nice and clear now just like we did earlier on I'm going to select the adjustment layer icon and add a solid color adjustment layer now for the hex value this time we're going to enter a value of 726 f-5e all right which is kind of like grayish brown color alright go ahead and click OK there and then what I want to do is come up to the file menu and choose open now go to the freebies folder for this tutorial and yours may look a little bit different than mine and we're gonna be looking for and we're looking for and we're looking for the background PSD file alright go ahead and click open now I'm going to pull this tab down here just so that I can see it next to my main document and what I want to do is grab this folder or actually I don't even need the entire folder I'm gonna first expand the contents of the folder and grab layer 3 alright now grab this layer and drag and drop it into my file alright now I can press command ctrl + the tilde key come over here and close the background because we only needed that one layer alright and then what I'm gonna do is scrap the background layer just drag it to the trash double click on layer 1 and rename this layer marble because it's kind of a Marbley texture and then let's go ahead and drop the opacity to 40% just by pressing the number 4 on the keyboard and then we'll drop the fill to about 80 82 % just so it's you know nice and subtle somewhere about there looks pretty good and then I'm going to select the marble there hold shift select the solid color adjustment layer press command ctrl G on the keyboard double click the group 1 text and put this into a folder of its own called background now come back up to the file menu and choose open again this time we're going to open the card PSD file right and all these elements as I mentioned earlier on or from the the wedding mock-ups and creator from the design cuts marketplace and now what I want to do is hold the shift key and select both of these folders because we have a card folder and an effects folder so I'm going to select both of those click hold the shift key and then drop them into my document now press command control tilde to come over to this other window and close okay so as you can see guys we have this nice looking card mock-up here and as you might have guessed we're going to be putting our flattened artwork right here on this front card but the only problem is that this card is horizontal and ours is more vertical so we're gonna need to make a few adjustments there to make it work alright so I'm just going to quickly just change the name here of these folders just to make it all consistent come inside the card folder and double click this first smart object now you will now be inside of the mock-up here this is you know basically just inside of the card but we actually have to go even one level further so find a layer that has the artwork for the main card itself and then double click on that to go inside you can ignore this choose don't resolve or cancel it's just basically saying that we don't have the fonts and I'm going to zoom out a bit collapse that folder and now as you might have guessed we want to come back to our flat part work here okay so what I'm going to do is click pull the shift key and drag and drop this into this file press command ctrl T on the keyboard hold ctrl and click on the image and then choose rotate 90 degrees counterclockwise now before applying the changes I want to move this in a little bit so move your cursor over any of the four corners and drag in while holding alt option and shift and just scale it down until it just about fits perfectly and then press return on the keyboard now you guys can delete these files or just keep them in there whatever you want to do is fine but we don't really need them all we need is this so now press command ctrl s to save it and then command ctrl W to close out of the window and you will now see our invitation design on this card mock-up so let's move on and customize this a little bit more I'm now going to double click on the smart object layer below which is just filled with this solid pink color and from here I'm going to come up to the file menu and we're going to come down to place embedded now we're gonna go back to the same flower bouquet that we use before earlier on in the tutorial and the invitation design itself alright so select flower bouquet 10 click the place and then this will be imported as a smart object so I'm just gonna move it up here to the upper left-hand corner maybe scale it down a bit while holding shift and then press return press command ctrl J to duplicate it command control in the left bracket to move it down and press command ctrl T and then just hold the shift key and move this down a bit okay so now it's behind the original copy now you can tap it down a little bit further maybe moving in a bit too so it's not you know perfect and then what I want to do is select both of these layers clicking on them while holding shift and press command ctrl J to duplicate them both press command in the left bracket twice to move both copies down below the original to press command ctrl T to do a free transform hold the ctrl key click on the image and choose flip horizontal and then click hold the shift key and slide these copies over to the right now I'm gonna select copy 3 here press command ctrl T and then drag out while holding the shift key just to scale it up and I'm gonna make it nice and big in the background here and then do the same thing for a copy to press command ctrl T scale it up and maybe you know offset it a little bit play around with the positioning and just try to fill in any large gaps here now we're gonna turn off this effect layer with the pink so that we just have a transparent background and then press command ctrl s to save it and once it's finished command ctrl W to close the tab and now as you can see we have a nice floral pattern on the inside part of our envelope now let's go ahead and customize the envelope color itself so select the smart object layer just below hold the alt option key and click on the adjustment layer icon and now choose solid color now for this I want to check off this box that says use previous layer to create a clipping mask and then click OK now for the fill I'll type in the hex value c8 c0 AAA which is this nice kind of cream color here go ahead and click OK and you should now see that you have a clipping mask applied to ensure that this adjustment layer is only affecting the envelope now once you've got that all set up we're gonna go ahead and save it command ctrl s and then command ctrl W to close out and return to our main mock-up all right you can also go ahead and close this flattened version here and here we are we're back in our main file so I'll collapse folder but there's one problem we want to rotate this and maybe scale it a bit just so that it you know it's a little bit easier to read so I'm just gonna zoom out here make my window a little bit larger select the card group folder and press command ctrl T now what I'm going to do is just move my cursor over any of the four corners and rotate it clockwise a bit alright and then we can move it up slightly see how this looks maybe rotated a little bit more let's also make it bigger by moving our cursor over any of the four corners and dragging outwards while holding alt option and shift all right somewhere about there looks pretty good and I'm just gonna kind of tap it over and up a little bit so that the card is basically in the center now once you're happy with the size and placement just press return on the keyboard to apply the changes let's go ahead and customize this scene a little bit more I'm gonna come up to the file menu and choose open and now let's go ahead and locate the earrings PSD from the wedding mock-up go ahead and open that up and then what I want to do is once again move this tab to the side so that I can see both of my documents here and I'm going to select this whole group folder and just drag and drop it here into my main mock-up and then you can go ahead and close it now for this we want to make these earrings a little bit larger so press command ctrl T click and drag out while holding alt option and shift from the keyboard and then let's go ahead and maybe move these over a bit somewhere about there and we can just rotate them slightly as well now before we customize the earrings let's just go into the group folder for a second so that's the shadow layer and then increase the opacity a little bit more maybe to about fifty forty eight fifty looks pretty good alright maybe even a little bit lower say like forty five okay and then double click on the earrings smart object now once you're inside of this file you'll notice that you have a couple of adjustment layers here with masks applied now the first thing we're going to do is turn off the curves adjustment because we don't want those bright bright highlights and then the next thing we're going to do is use the selection from our photo filters adjustment layer so what we're gonna do is select the mask hold the command ctrl key and then click on it come down to the adjustment layer icon at a hue/saturation adjustment layer all right now all we're gonna do here is increase the hue to about 12 or 13 just to make it more of a gold color instead of a you know rose gold or like you know remove some of that pink tint in there okay and then the next thing we're going to do is select the hue/saturation adjustment layer just above it and we're going to change some of these parameters as well let's make the hue plus 45 and then we can make the saturation about negative 14 and we'll move the lightness slider down to negative 22 okay so you now have this kind of dark yellow color I'll go ahead and press command ctrl s to save it and then once that's done command ctrl W to close the tab and you'll now see your updated earrings in the mock-up here and you'll notice that now it matches the same yellow color that we used for our invitation let's come back up to the file menu now and add some more objects alright this time I'm going to open the branch PSD open this up here alright press f2 just to change your screen view if you need to and then click and drag this whole branch folder into your document and then you can close it press F again and now what I want to do is move this branch down to the lower right hand corner so I'm gonna press command ctrl T move this over here rotate it clockwise and somewhere about there and then you can just kind of play around a little bit with the size and positioning as well all right now let's go ahead and add one more object here come back up to file choose open alright and now we're going to select our bead PSD file we'll get this nice necklace in here these beads that look pretty cool and all I'm going to do as you might have guessed is press F to change the screen view click and drag this whole folder into my mock-up close the beads and then I want to make sure that the beads are on top of the card so that it overlaps now I'm gonna press command ctrl T to do a free transform move this over here and then scale it up just by clicking and dragging outwards while holding the shift key now I'm gonna move it down a bit maybe rotate it slightly and just experiment with the the positioning here a little bit okay maybe move it over somewhere about there looks pretty good just we get a little bit of an overlap on the card but we don't want to you know cover up any of the text but doing this will just help us to get a little bit more depth out of the design all right and now once you've done that come inside the beads folder and double-click on the beads smart object now once we're inside here we can begin customizing this file a little bit more so the first thing I'm going to do is turn off the visibility of the hue/saturation adjustment layer here but we're still going to use this mask to make a selection so just like before click on the mask while holding the command/ctrl key to activate a selection around it come down here to the adjustment layer icon and add a solid color adjustment layer now we're going to enter the hex value 3 8 6 a 5 2 and go ahead and click OK and change the blend mode from normal to let's try and multiply all right now I'm just going to save this file and close it all right now you can come in here you can make any other adjustments you want you can you know rotate the card rotate any of these objects or elements in the mock-up here for our scene alright and there you go guys that's looking pretty cool and that just about wraps up our tutorial for today I've walked you through the process of designing a nice clean elegant wedding invitation and then building a scene to make the presentation look even better now we've done all this just using a handful of free typefaces some cool mock-up elements from the design cuts marketplace and of course a few beautiful floral watercolor illustrations from graphic box now all of these and more including the Molly script font are available in the create and make design bundle featuring best selling fonts brushes custom shapes watercolor illustrations and much more so I hope that you've enjoyed this tutorial and hopefully learned a few new tips and tricks along the way as always we would love to see what kind of things you guys create with these elements and with these techniques on your own so be sure to share that with us and let us know how you liked the tutorial thank you guys so much for watching my name is Erik Vazquez and we'll see you next time