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Creating a stylized postcard

Creating a stylized postcard

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Creating a stylized postcard

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- What we're going to do this week is we're going to create a stylize postcard. Not like all the ones that you see in the souvenir shops, no, we're going to create our own because we're creative types, right? So, here we have on the screen a shot that I took of the Eiffel Tower. This is going to be perfect for our little postcard of Paris. So what I'm going to do is, first of all, I'm going to kind of stylize the photograph a little bit. So, I'm going to add some simplicity to it, and right now the clouds are a little too complex. So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to select the clouds, go in there and just select this portion of clouds and Shift-select this side as well, just so I get the basic shapes of all the clouds. There we go. I'm going to go in there, I'm going to blur them. A little Gaussian Blur, just to soften them up a little bit. There we go, that kind of simplified the effects. Click OK, then I can deselect. So now, what I'm going to do is I'm going to go in here and…

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