Custom Sim Cards Tutorial
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Learn how to create your very own custom sim cards.
Create a new document the size you want your simcards to be, select the rounded rectangle tool and draw out your rectangle, fill with your choice of color.
Add there layer styles to your rectangle.
You should have something like this.
Select the rounded rectangle again and create a small rectangle inside your current rectangle. Hold down the SHIFT KEY on the keyboard while dragging to ensure the rectangle stays perfectly square.
Now add these layer styles.
You should have something like this.
Now select the pen tool, using the color black and a 1pixel brush draw these lines.
On a new layer draw.
On a new layer draw.
On a new layer draw.
On a new layer draw.
On a new layer draw.
On a new layer draw.
Now all your lines are drawn add this layer style to each line layer. (best way is to add to one line layer then right-click and goto copy layer styles, high-light every other line layer, right click and goto paste layer styles.)
You should now have something like this.
Select the pen tool on a new layer above your simcard but UNDERNEATH your gold plate make a selection like this and fill with the color white. Set opacity to 10%. You should have something like this.
Now add your logo and text to your simcard. Highlight all the layers and press CTRL + T and rotate it anyway you like, once rotated hit the enter key. Select the simcard layer and cut the corner off. You should then have something like this.
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Naveed ~ Mar 24, 2008 at 9:15 am
cool nice and simple great idea man..thanks for sharing..
gota make some of mine too now -
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Frank Voors ~ Mar 24, 2008 at 10:56 pm
Nice concept, never seen SimCard tutorials before, they look really fresh too
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Photoshop Free Tutorials ~ Mar 26, 2008 at 1:00 am
Great tutorial dude, they look very modern.
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PhotoshopHome ~ Mar 26, 2008 at 11:36 am
nice tutorial. Thanx!
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Helpfull hand ~ Mar 26, 2008 at 5:30 pm
A little thing to improve: When you give the colors of the gradient, also give the position, then we can really recreate the effect or drawing.
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I already pressed Submit Comment before i realised that I wasn’t finished typing so:
Further it’s a really nice result, gonna make it as soon as I have enough time.
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cool ~ Mar 26, 2008 at 6:25 pm
Really Great Effects, nice and well done, never thought of it before
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silver ~ Mar 30, 2008 at 3:47 am
Those look really sweet, although I have no idea what I could use them for.
Good work
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xDjussi ~ Apr 3, 2008 at 9:25 am
in just a noob but how u cut the corner off with out losing the shadows?
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Suicidal Mofo ~ Apr 7, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Nice tutorial, would make for good business cards as well (me thinks) =]
Might have a go at this in a bit.
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David ~ Apr 13, 2008 at 11:41 pm
Great design… Thanks for the tutorials.
~David
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TuanAnh ~ Apr 14, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Great tutorial!
Thank you!
Could you write tutorials on icon design? -
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vladimire ~ May 4, 2008 at 12:37 pm
I just didn’t understand this phrase :
“select pen tool on a new layer above your simcard but UNDERNEATH your gold plate make a selection like this and fill with the color white.”
can you make it clear please .
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ADMIN ~ May 4, 2008 at 1:05 pm
basically make a selection as shown inbtween the 2 layers, so the white shine is on the simcard not the gold plate
think of it as a sandwich
simcard 1st (bread) / then the white shine (ham) / then the gold plate (bread)
