Intertwined Hearts

Intertwined Hearts These instructions work for either Adobe Photoshop Elements or Adobe Photoshop.
		Create a new document by choosing “File > New > Blank File.” (In Adobe Photoshop or Elements 2 choose “File > New”) Click on the Foreground Color Chip and choose the color of your heart. How to change the color of your Color Chips.
		Click on the Shapes tool and select “Custom Shape Tool” from the flyout menu.
		Click on the Shape icon in the Options Bar to open the Shape Picker. (Your icon may look different than mine depending on which shape was used last.)
		Click on the arrow at the top right of the Shape Picker to get a flyout menu. Choose “All Elements Shapes” (Adobe Photoshop: choose “All”)
		Scroll through the shapes until you come to the Heart Frame shape. Double click on it to select it and close the Shapes Picker menu at the same time.
		Click on your document and drag to the right to create a heart shape. Press shift as you drag to constrain proportions to the original heart shape. When you let go of your mouse, your shape will fill with the foreground color.
		From the Styles and Effects palette choose “Layer Styles” from the Menu on the left and “Bevels” from the menu on the right. Click on “Simple Sharp Inner” to add a bevel to your shape. (It is very important to add the bevel now before simplifying the layer in the next step, or your intertwined heart won’t turn out right.) How to create a layer style in Elements 2 How to create a layer style in Adobe Photoshop
		Click on the “Simplify” button in the Options Bar to turn your shape into a pixel object that can be edited. Adobe Photoshop: Press the Ctrl key (Mac: Cmd key) and click on the New Layer icon at the bottom of the Layers palette to put a new, blank layer below the heart shape layer. Click back on the heart layer. Then click on the right facing triangle at the top of the Layers palette and choose “Merge Down” from the flyout menu
		Your heart should now look like this. To duplicate the heart, press “Control + J.” How to duplicate a layer in Photoshop Elements 2.0
		Then click on your Move tool. Click on the heart duplicate and move it slightly to the right and down as shown.
		With the new copied heart layer selected in the Layers palette hold down the “Control key” (PC) or the “Command key” (Mac) and click once on the original heart layer (Shape 1) to create a selection outline. (In PSE 4 and CS2 you must click on the THUMBNAIL of the layer to get the selection outline.)
		Click on the eraser tool and erase away the overlapping rung of the copied heart shape in the area I’ve circled in black.
		Press “Select > Deselect” to get rid of the selection outline, and now your hearts appear to be intertwined.

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