Drawing a gift tag

Add a drop shadow effect to the gift tag layer.

drop shadow layer effect

Now select once more the Custom shape tool and pick an ornamental shape. Place it on your gift tag (color=black)

decorating the gift tag

Set the opacity of this new layer to 30% and the blending mode to Soft light.

added ornamental shape

Select the text tool and using a calligraphic font add your text.

add text

Now Select the Elliptical Marquee tool and draw a selection like the one shown below. If you cannot achieve that with the first try you can free transform your selection (Ctrl+T).

elliptical selection

Go to Select -> Modify -> Border and use a value of five.

border selection by 5 pixels

Create a new layer and fill the selection with any color. Then apply these layer effects to this new layer.
bevel settings
gradient overlay settings

And our gift tag is ready.

Photoshop tutorial final result

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My name is Dimitris and I am from Greece. I created this blog as a learning tool for Photoshop both for other but for me as well. I am definitely no Photoshop Guru or a professional graphic designer, I am just an amateur trying to learn as much as I can about Photoshop.

6 Responses to Drawing a gift tag

  1. Ralph Whitbeck January 5, 2006 at 1:34 pm #

    Very nice…learned alot with this very simple tutorial.

  2. Unknow January 6, 2006 at 4:41 am #

    Very nice work dude…keep it up

  3. couldnt follow January 9, 2006 at 12:40 pm #

    Couldnt find how to perform this:

    “Check the “Subtract from shape area” option Subtract from shape area option
    and draw a circle at the position shown at the screenshot below.”

    Couldnt find how to do this correctly as well:
    “Our gift tag shape is now ready and you can save it as a custom shape by right clicking and selecting “Define Custom Shape””

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