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Merry Christmas Greeting Card
Published  12/5/2007 | Drawing Techniques
   
Merry Christmas Greeting Card - part 6


Create Merry Christmas Greeting Card in Photoshop CS3

Make a copy of the last made layer and choose the Free Transform option to make the copy smaller and placing it the way indicated next image. The color this time should be #FFEC00. Move off the copy the next parameter: Blending Options>Gradient Overlay

Create Merry Christmas Greeting Card in Photoshop CS3

Take the Rectangle Tool (U) and draw next the candle’s wick, colored with #98726E

Create Merry Christmas Greeting Card in Photoshop CS3 

Combine in a group all the layers composing the candle and its flame (press Ctrl button to accentuate the necessary layers and then hold on left mouse’s button when moving the marked layers on Create a new group selection). Make a copy of the last made group and select the Free Transform option to make the copy smaller and place it as it is represented next image:

Create Merry Christmas Greeting Card in Photoshop CS3

We may introduce on our picture near the candle a fir tree’s twig, selecting in this case the Pen Tool (P).

Create Merry Christmas Greeting Card in Photoshop CS3

Make three copies of the twig’s layer and select again the Free Transform option to turn the copies over and place them as it is shown next picture:

Create Merry Christmas Greeting Card in Photoshop CS3

Use the previous tool to make another fir tree’s twig, colored with #005F26

Create Merry Christmas Greeting Card in Photoshop CS3

Make again three copies of the last made layer and select the Free Transform option to turn the copies over as it is demonstrated below:

Create Merry Christmas Greeting Card in Photoshop CS3

Next we should draw a leaf, colored in the next presented color - #33A02C. This time we’ll choose also the Rectangle Tool (U) and then press Alt button when using another tool – Ellipse Tool (U) to make the drawn element looking like a real leaf.

Create Merry Christmas Greeting Card in Photoshop CS3

Try to represent the leaf’s veins with the Pen Tool (P) and the color #257320

Create Merry Christmas Greeting Card in Photoshop CS3

Create Merry Christmas Greeting Card in Photoshop CS3 Merry Christmas Greeting Card
What your mother, father, sister, brorher, etc would like to get on Christmas more than anything, is a hand-made greeting card. If you have no color paper and glue, create it in Photoshop.