They are cultural imprints that reveal popular custom. The birthplace of ordinary playing cards ... Today’s 52-card deck preserves the four original French suits of centuries ago: clubs (♣) ...

Photoshop CS6 tutorial in 2 parts, showing how to design your own picture, playing card (i.e: Queen of Hearts). The techniques shown can be easily applied to any suit of the King, Queen or Jack.

While the Middle Ages treated playing cards as objects of sorcery and the more reasonable French introduced the four main suits that are still used today (hearts, clubs, spades, diamonds), a more ...