You will need
  • - Adobe Illustrator
Instruction
1
In Illustrator create a new document of size 800 × 600 with a white fill and a color scheme RGB.
2
Take the tool Elliptical Tool on the toolbar and draw a simple circle with no fill. To turned round, not oval, hold the Shift key while dragging a shape.
3
Now your task is to turn the circle into a heart shape. To do this, select the Convert Point Tool, which allows you to edit vector images as well as the Direct Selection Tool.
4
Transform of the line shape change vectors so as to narrow the bottom part of the circle and make a sharp notch in the upper part – in short, to make the shape of a heart.
5
Click along the outline of the heart right-click and click Make Selection, putting the blur radius is zero.
6
Select the fill tool and fill the selected area with red color. Then copy and cut the selection to a new layer (Ctrl+Shift+J). After this surgery you have in the list of layers will appear three coats – you need to work on.
7
Open control panel, colors and styles (Colors, Swatches, Styles). Using one of the styles you will give to your heart volume. Locate styles of Blue Glass (Button) – this style you will need. Heart gets larger, it will appear the natural reflections and shadows, but now need to perform the following operation on the drawing after applying a new style, you specify the red color could be changed.
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Correct the distortion of colors. Go to effects – the right of the name of your layer, double-click the icon with the letter f. Open Color Overlay and select the appropriate shade of red color that you originally wanted.
9
Tab Inner Glow and reduce the opacity to 30% and then move the sliders in the Shading tab, Bevel and Emboss, while the level of volume and the appearance of the heart is not will suit you completely.
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Experiment with different styles, applying them to a painted heart and you will get many different original images for postcards and greetings.