Have you ever tried to make funny holder for photos? Ok, this Photoshop tutorial I’m going to be showing you how to make a simple and nice smiling flower children holder for photos.
Alright, you can start by first creating a new document; I used a document size of 500×500 pixels, white background. 
Now you’ll want to begin with creating basis for holder. Get out the Custom Shape Tool and select Flower 1 Shape (this is standard shape). 
Use color of #94cb00 to get the picture as below: 
Now you have go to Blending Options and apply the Drop Shadow and Inner Glow layer styles to this layer. 
I think we need to add leaves to our green shape. For this effect select Burn Tool (Range: Shadows, 30%) and darken this shape as shown below: 
Ok, time to add yellow flower core. Select Ellipse Tool and create a round shape with color of #fff93a similar to mine: 
Then apply the Drop Shadow, Inner Shadow, Outer Glow and Inner Glow layer styles to this layer. 
Ok, not looking so great, yet! Now we can put something like smiling face on this core. First of all, I would like to add some glare to it. Make a round selection using Elliptical Marquee Tool and fill it with white to transparent linear gradient. 
Make a new one selection as on picture below and press Ctrl+Shift+I to invert selection, then delete image outside the selection. 
Press Ctrl+D to remove the selection. Good! Now select the Ellipse Tool to create a shape with a black color as on picture below: 
Duplicate this layer (Layer > Duplicate Layer) and move it a little bit left. 
And the last one… we need to add a mouth. Make the selection using Elliptical Marquee Tool as shown below and fill it with a black color. 
Make a new one selection and cut away part of circle to get a ‘smile’ similar like to this: 
Press Ctrl+D to remove the selection. Looking better now! Merge all layers of the face into the one and rotate it (Edit > Transform > Rotate). 
Time to add a couple if ribbons to our holder for photos. You can do this by using Pen Tool with the color of #94cb00. 
Right click the Layer Thumbnail in the Layers Palette and select Rasterize Layer. To bring our ribbons three-dimensional effect use Dodge Tool with moderate settings (Range: Highlights, 30%) do a little bit of dodge-work on the each ribbon. We should have an image like below: 
Select Burn Tool (Range: Shadows, 30%) to make the same things. 
Now apply the Drop Shadow and Outer Glow layer styles to this layer. 
OK, we’re done for that part, but we I think we should bring some picture to our canvas. 
Actually you can use different pictures or photos. I prefer to use this one, used above. If you want to download this picture, please feel free: MonstersInk.jpg.
Apply the Outer Glow and Stroke layer styles to the layer with picture. 
Our children holder for photos is done!
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