Create a realistic balloon for your e-cards or to enhance your drawings

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There is nothing more important in a party that multicolored balloons and what better way to bring them to the party than drawing them on a nice birthday card. They look very real and the tutorial is very simple. Enjoy!span>


Step 01:
To create our balloons we need a background for presentation purposes. Create a document and fill it with any color, texture or picture you want.

Create realistic multicolored balloons for your e-cards or to enhance your drawings

Create realistic multicolored balloons for your e-cards or to enhance your drawings

Step 02:
Now create a new layer Layer-New Layer and using any tool of your choice like the Pen Tool, the Elliptical Marquee Tool or the Lasso Tool, create the balloon shape.

Create realistic multicolored balloons for your e-cards or to enhance your drawings

Create realistic multicolored balloons for your e-cards or to enhance your drawings

Step 03:
Now select the Gradient Tool with the properties you see in the picture and load the colors shown there.

Create realistic multicolored balloons for your e-cards or to enhance your drawings

Create realistic multicolored balloons for your e-cards or to enhance your drawings

Step 04:
Trace a diagonal line from left to right starting from outside the shape and going all the way out like its shown in the picture.

Create realistic multicolored balloons for your e-cards or to enhance your drawings

Create realistic multicolored balloons for your e-cards or to enhance your drawings

Step 05:
And here is our balloon shape. Hit Select-Deselect.

Create realistic multicolored balloons for your e-cards or to enhance your drawings

Create realistic multicolored balloons for your e-cards or to enhance your drawings

Step 06:
Create a new layer Layer-New Layer and using the Elliptical Marquee Tool create an elliptical shape and fill it white.

Create realistic multicolored balloons for your e-cards or to enhance your drawings

Create realistic multicolored balloons for your e-cards or to enhance your drawings

Step 07:
Use the Warp Tool or the edit-Transform-Distort or Warp and give it the shape shown. You can also use the Liquefy Tool to accomplish this.

Create realistic multicolored balloons for your e-cards or to enhance your drawings

Create realistic multicolored balloons for your e-cards or to enhance your drawings

Step 08:
Now click Filter-Blur-Gaussian Blur and apply enough of it to make it look like light reflection. Click OK when you are done.

Create realistic multicolored balloons for your e-cards or to enhance your drawings

Create realistic multicolored balloons for your e-cards or to enhance your drawings

Step 09:
If needed, use the Move Tool and relocate the layer to place the shine properly. Now we go for the tip of the balloon. Create a new layer Layer-New Layer and draw that shape.

Create realistic multicolored balloons for your e-cards or to enhance your drawings

Create realistic multicolored balloons for your e-cards or to enhance your drawings

Step 10:
Like we did before, put a little white brush there and then apply the Gaussian blur to make it reflect light.

Create realistic multicolored balloons for your e-cards or to enhance your drawings

Create realistic multicolored balloons for your e-cards or to enhance your drawings

Step 11:
Reduce the opacity as needed and we are done. Happy Drawings!!

Create realistic multicolored balloons for your e-cards or to enhance your drawings

Create realistic multicolored balloons for your e-cards or to enhance your drawings

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