Making a PostSecret in Photoshop

Have you heard of PostSecret?

PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where it allows people to anonymously mail in homemade postcards with their secrets on them. There are no restrictions on the secrets, except they must be true and have never been told before.

Frank Warren, the creator of the PostSecret website, then updates the site every Sunday with new secrets he has received in the mail.

If you want to learn how to make a PostSecret, then this tutorial is sure to teach you how!

If this is your first PostSecret, prehaps you want to visit the website before we begin! It can give you an idea just to how personal, funny, sad, strange, and amazing these postcards can be! (see like below)
PostSecret

Step 1: Getting Started

These postcards can be as abstract as you want them. For your very first postsecret, we will keep things simple but bold.
Choose two contrasting pictures from your files. It does not matter the order in which you work with them.

Open Photoshop. Go to File>New. Under Document size, change the Width to 15.3cm, and the height 10.1cm. Then change the Resolution to 180 pixels/inch. This is the correct size for an average postcard.
Choose your first picture you would like to work with and open it. Once you have it open, go to Image > Image size. Under Document size, change the Width to 15.3cm, and the height 10.1cm. Then change the Resolution to 180 pixels/inch.
The picture is now the same size as your canvas.

Comments

[sideshowcesil]

i would do terrible things to your face...

[sideshowcesil]

you're awesome! we should meet up some time?

[damasta]

whow, are they still trying to unravel the fork dillema?

[BigCoCo]

Wow. I just went to the postsecret website and watched some of their videos on youtube and i can officially say that i am now depressed. I wish there were more like yours on there

[omnibot]

Cool. I do something similar : I post secrets I can't talk about on anonymous websites.

[iectyx3c]

This is simple and elegant +1 for you

[maruawe]

The sizing and all is correct,but you can just select post card when printing in landscape mode. instead of pasting to a post card just scan a post card(address side )the flip the print over and print the address side. I don't know about sharing secrets,When is a secret not a secret--when it's told.................

[onlyonebowman]

nice!

[GorillazMiko]

That's awesome! I might try this out soon, just like PocketSized. Great job!

[PocketSized]

I love the Post Secret website, some of the designs people have done are really thought provoking. I may follow your Instructable soon and add my contribution to the project... Thank you.