How to Create a Spectacular Wedding Monogram in 5 minutes?

Its wedding time now!! As I have written enough for business cards designing techniques now I prefer giving time to monograms. So all you people out there, the ones about to get married, how are you feeling? Great? No doubt you are. The big day is near and all the preparations are near their end. So much to think, so much to worry, must be stressed? Come on, why would you be stressed? Wedding means excitement and a start of a new happy life.

Photoshop Eye Effects #1

A reader from the Photoshop 911 forums writes in to ask about blending two images into one -- writing:

I'm trying to create a nice graphic with these two images: (samples provided) and I want #2 to go over the eye to create a cool eye-design effect but I don't know what the heck to do. I already know how to erase the background from the #2 image and everything but when I paste it over top of the #1 image all I know to do is try and change the blending options which does not work, it just looks crappy. Can anyone provide me with some help? I want it to look really neat, like the #2 design is actually part of the eye!

Generate a Patterned Layer

In the interest of time, without a lot of precision measurements, I'm going to 'emulate' the pattern in the sample, rather than trying to duplicat it. So, we'll need a nice, uniform pattern for the "lines" in the background. Sizing the pattern will be seat-of-the-pants -- looks about like 12 pixels off and 12 pixels on. So I'll generate a pattern and fill a layer with it before blurring.

 

Isolate the subject, create a glow

Now we've finished work on the background, and it's time to highlight our subject, and create her glow. Fitting, don't you think?

Now activate the view of your outlined subject. (Turn the layer on.) Cmd/click or ctrl/click the layer icon for her to generate a selection based on her outline. You should see racing ants appear. Now, choose Select > Modify > Expand and add enough pixels to cover at least part of the "glow" we'll be making. (There are other ways of doing this "glow" but this is the most straight forward and mechanical -- for a teachable moment.)

20 Elegant Examples of Wedding Monograms

I’m sure most of you are well acquainted with the term “monogram”. However, for those of you, who don’t have a clear idea of what monograms are, allow me to enlighten you! In simple words, a monogram is basically a design pattern that is created by joining (and sometimes even overlapping) two to three letters, generally the initials of a person’s name. These letters are styled elegantly, so as it give a striking look.