Making the Ace of spades on photoshop.

shoutman

Hey guys I hope this is the right place to post this, basically I have just started using photoshop, I am looking to make a new logo for the poker society in college and am finding trouble making a realistic playing card, ie the ace of spades.
Would I be better off just using a photograph of one?

If anyone could point to a tutorial on how to make a card that would be great, I found a good one on how to make a poker chip using photo shop but thats it.


cheers
Luke

GobShi7e

Could you not get one on google, then edit it ?

http://www.fthwholesale.com/Theme/Casino/PageCASI3/P48-5%20Ace%20of%20Spades.jpg

shoutman

I tried but it the pixels all became weird when I tried to resize it and it just looks wrong.

Karoma

Source photographs:
http://images.google.ie/images?q=ace%20of%20spade
&
http://images.google.ie/images?q=ace%20of%20spades


Tutorial:
http://www.photoshoptv.com/photoshoptv/photoshop-tv-episode-13-january-16-2006.html
(I think.. The Pen tool can take a bit of getting used to... And Photoshoptv was suggested in the resources Stickey - they have some decent tips/tutorials..but the format is a bit irritating... ahem.)


Attached: a quick (and very dirty attempt using Illustrator's Live Trace & some quick touch ups)

shoutman

cheers thanks very much karoma I will have a go at it later.
luke