A sentimental DIY Valentine’s Day present concept, no matter what stage your relationship is in.

Beforehand we put collectively a set of Valentine’s Day present concepts which are from smaller, indie manufacturers. Now, I am going to present you easy methods to craft your personal tremendous considerate present.

This is the proper Valentine’s Day present irrespective of how far alongside within the relationship you might be. If it’s a comparatively new relationship, the maps you select will be their hometown and the place they dwell now. In the event you’ve been collectively for awhile, the left facet will be the place they’re from, and the appropriate facet the place you’re from.

In the event you each grew up in other places than the place you reside now, a pleasant longer time period relationship present can be the guts with Three maps, together with your beginning maps on the skin and the place you guys dwell collectively now within the center.  In the event you dwell in your hometown, you might select ancestral international locations, favourite locations you’ve visited collectively, honeymoon spots, actually something that has worth to the each of you!

Step 1: Obtain the Photoshop File

➳ Two Map Model Obtain – Proper Click on, Save File As

➳ Three Map Model Obtain -Proper Click on, Save File As

The Photoshop recordsdata use colour layers as examples as an alternative of maps to maintain the file measurement down. (With map examples the PSD was over 100mb, with out they’re 6mb.)

Step 2 : Discover Your Excessive Decision Map Pictures

Go to Google’s Superior Picture search and seek for “YOUR CITY Classic Map”.

Beneath picture measurement, change to “Bigger than Four MP”. Scroll by the choices and discover one you want. If there aren’t any outcomes you want drop the picture measurement right down to 2 MP and see what comes up. The upper res, the higher the main points will probably be on the print. In the event you nonetheless can’t discover something you want, you’ll be able to search by a county (Allegheny County classic map) or  a broader area (western Pennsylvania classic map).

Step 3: Paste the Maps into the Photoshop File

As soon as you discover the map, click on on “View picture” within the Google picture viewer. You’ll be taken to the complete decision picture the place you’ll be able to proper click on and select “Copy”.

Again in Photoshop, go to the Layers palette, which needs to be on the decrease proper facet. Discover and click on on the layer known as “Left Map Instance”. Paste within the map you’d prefer to be on the left facet of the guts.

To get the map to be within the form of the guts, we’ll use a “clipping masks” on the newly pasted map. To try this, maintain down the Alt / Possibility key in your keyboard and place the cursor between the brand new map layer and the “Left Map Instance” layer and click on, like so:

Repeat that course of for the appropriate facet map for the 2 map model or the center and proper maps for the three map model.

To reposition what a part of the map exhibits inside the coronary heart shapes, merely use the Transfer Software and drag the layer you pasted in till the portion of the map you need is seen. Do that for every part.

If the a part of the map you need to be seen is on the sting, be sure the Instance layers usually are not by chance peeking out. You’ll be able to assure this by clicking on the Eye subsequent to the Instance layer to make it invisible.

Step 4: Save & Print

Upon getting your map the best way you prefer it, merely reserve it as a top quality JPG or TIFF file and have it printed wherever is handy for you. I like Costco, their 16″ x 20″ prints are lower than $15 and tremendous prime quality. You may as well try Staples, or any native print store will probably be ready that can assist you out.

Step 5: Body It

The Photoshop file is a 16” x 20” picture. I exploit Ikea frames for all of the Free Artwork Print Downloads; for the worth and elegance they’ll’t be beat. A few of them use plastic as an alternative of glass, however the added expense of going to a body retailer all the time appears too prohibitive.

That’s it!

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