In this tutorial you will learn to create your very own Photo thank you card using your photos in Adobe Photoshop.

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Sometimes, we need to thank our friends and family members in special way for there gesture. What can be better way to thank them then creating your own thank you card? A thank you card can be easily created using Adobe Photoshop. You can use your family photos to make a nice photo thank you card.
Given below are the guidelines to thank you make a photo thank you card using Adobe Photoshop.

Step 1-- Set the dimensions

So first of all, let's work with the dimensions. The size of a thank you card should be around 7 by 5 inches, if you're thinking about getting it printed and sending it over.

Step 2 -- Fill the background

With that done, we will now fill the background layer with a dark color. For this tutorial, we will use the value "580122" for the color fill. This is so that the photos that we will add later and the text both are clearly visible.

Step 3 --Create background texture

Next, we will add a new layer and pick up the brush tool. There are many brush presets that you can work with for the background. For this tutorial, we will be using this basic floral brush and apply it on the layer.
Let's keep the color white and resize the layer to fill up the whole canvas. With that done, we will reduce the opacity of the layer to 20%.

Step 4 -- Create photo border

Next we will open the photos that have to be included in the thank you card and place them on the canvas. With that done, let's open up the blending options panel and move to the "outer glow" tab.
Over here, let's set the color to black and blend mode to "luminosity". After that, we will adjust the spread to 10 and size to 10.
With that done, do remember to copy the layer style and paste it on the other photo as well.

Step 5 -- Insert the text

In the end, let's pick up the text tool and write "thank you". After that, we will change the color of the text to white and select "Edwardian script" for the font, keeping the size at 72 pt.

Step 6 -- Create Jpeg format

And now we're basically done with our Photo Thank you Card. Now you can send over the psd file to the printers if you want the card to be printed.
If you want to send the card through email, you can do so by first saving the output in the jpeg format.

Step 7 -- Sending via email

Once the file has been saved, you can open up outlook or any other email client that you are using.
Simply attach the image to the email, add the recipients of the email, write the subject and body message and hit send. That way you can send the Photo Thank you card to your contacts via email.
And that's it.