Christmas tree
November 6th, 2008 by ART-D Posted in Adobe Photoshop, Designing
Today, you will learn how using brushes, different shapes and Layer styles in Photoshop CS3 to create eye catching Christmas illustration in a few simple steps. Let’s get started!
Final Image Preview
Start working by creating a new document (Ctrl+N) in Adobe Photoshop with the size 1280px by 1024px (RGB color mode) at a resolution of 72 pixels/inch. Use the Paint Bucket Tool (G) to fill with #4d0100 color the new background layer.
Create a new layer and choose the next brush of black color from Brush Tool (B), set the Opacity to 50% in Options bar.
Use this brush to dark out the bottom part of the canvas and the left top corner.
Create one more new layer (Create new layer), use the same brush (Opacity is 100%) to paint the right top corner with the color #B90C00.
Next choose the Pen Tool (P), set the drawing mode on Shape Layers in Options bar and draw the next shapes as shown.
Make sure the last created layer is active and click on Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel and select Gradient Overlay.
Click in the color bar to open the Gradient Editor and set the color stops as shown. Click OK to close the Gradient Editor dialog box.
We’ve got the next result:
Draw the next shapes using Pen Tool (P), started above.
For the last created layer set Fill to 0% and click on Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel and select Gradient Overlay.
Click in the color bar to open the Gradient Editor and set the color stops as shown. Click OK to close the Gradient Editor dialog box.
We’ve got the next result:
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Tags: background, brushes, card, christmas, cs3, December, design, Photoshop, snow, snowflake, tree, winter, xmas
steph
22/12/2009
the boxes arent even!!:o
Dat Tai
27/12/2009
like it
Al Kamal Md. Razib
13/06/2010
Great colorful tutorial ! Thanks. I like your posting.
revathi
04/10/2010
Great colourful tutorial ! Thanks. I like your posting.
J0hnb0y
06/10/2010
Nice tutorial I followed all of the first page but on the second page I couldn’t work out what you was trying to say in the tut
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Next we’ll make the next operation: create by new layers above each layer containing by line. Mark out the layer with the line and situated above it the new layer (pressing Ctrl button) and finally press Ctrl+E. This way the layers containing the lines will rasterize themselves.(unquote)
Im sorry this is not very good english and I couldn’t work out what to do so now I’m stuck any help would be really appreciated so I can finish the tutorial
Ravi
09/11/2010
It’s verry nice
Steve
10/11/2010
I like this tutorial… but like the user above, struggled with some of the ‘english’.
naren
24/11/2010
It’s Awesome….awesome..awesome….
thanx for sharing ……..
waiting for new next tutorials through photoshop.
thanx
kenichifc
14/12/2010
thanks for tutorial. Love it, simple and effective
Cierra
17/12/2010
Where Are These Shapes ?
Mines Don’t Have Them . . .
Spellen
19/01/2011
I love it, i’m a webdesigner for many years… But this is really adding new skills to my. I guess you used blurring to create the effect which is shown in the main image?
Looking forward to see more tutorials like this!
VIruS
06/12/2011
I love it but I couldn’t make it because I don’t know photoshop .
Ali
06/10/2012
Very nice. Thanks for tutorial.
whiteangel
19/11/2012
I enjoyed your tutorial, didn’t have any problems with your English….so well done!