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Valentine's Day Photoshop ideas. Shiny heart on the dark background

  • Create a new document in Photoshop 1024*768px and resolution 72px/inch.
  • Create the heart shape with Custom Shape Tool, you my use preset Photoshop shapes from Custom shape palette.

Valentine's Day Photoshop ideas. Shiny heart on the dark background, Retro car, clouds, paint splashes, Talbot-Lago T-150 CSS, car wallpaper

  • Insert different splashes shapes, transform and rotate them to create heart silhouette, apply Multiply Blending Mode to each splash layer to see original background heart shape.
  • You may see in the screen shot below, that we can use one splash image twice, just stretch it and move it upside down.

Valentine's Day Photoshop ideas. Shiny heart on the dark background, Retro car, clouds, paint splashes, Talbot-Lago T-150 CSS, car wallpaper

  • Fill heart shape with different splashes like on the example.

Valentine's Day Photoshop ideas. Shiny heart on the dark background, Retro car, clouds, paint splashes, Talbot-Lago T-150 CSS, car wallpaper

  • Select all splashes layers and Convert them to the Smart Object.

Valentine's Day Photoshop ideas. Shiny heart on the dark background, Retro car, clouds, paint splashes, Talbot-Lago T-150 CSS, car wallpaper

  • You will have all splashes in one Smart Object layer.

Valentine's Day Photoshop ideas. Shiny heart on the dark background, Retro car, clouds, paint splashes, Talbot-Lago T-150 CSS, car wallpaper

  • Create a new adjustments layer, click small icon in the bottom of layers palette. Add "Levels" adjustment layer and "Black and White" levels adjustment layer. Go to Menu > Filter > Blur > Surface Blur. All settings for levels, black&white and Surface Blur filter you will find in the screen shots below.

Valentine's Day Photoshop ideas. Shiny heart on the dark background, Retro car, clouds, paint splashes, Talbot-Lago T-150 CSS, car wallpaper

  • Blur Filter settings:

Valentine's Day Photoshop ideas. Shiny heart on the dark background, Retro car, clouds, paint splashes, Talbot-Lago T-150 CSS, car wallpaper

  • Levels.

Valentine's Day Photoshop ideas. Shiny heart on the dark background, Retro car, clouds, paint splashes, Talbot-Lago T-150 CSS, car wallpaper

  • Black and white settings .

Valentine's Day Photoshop ideas. Shiny heart on the dark background, Retro car, clouds, paint splashes, Talbot-Lago T-150 CSS, car wallpaper

  • Merge Smart Object splash layer with adjustments layers.
  • You will have black and white Splash layer.

Valentine's Day Photoshop ideas. Shiny heart on the dark background, Retro car, clouds, paint splashes, Talbot-Lago T-150 CSS, car wallpaper

  • In order to remove white background, go to Menu > Select > Color Range. Select with Eyedropper tool white background.
  • Remove white selected area.

Valentine's Day Photoshop ideas. Shiny heart on the dark background, Retro car, clouds, paint splashes, Talbot-Lago T-150 CSS, car wallpaper

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