Merry Christmas tree design
November 6th, 2008 by ART-D Posted in Adobe Photoshop, Designing
This tutorial teaches you how to create a stylized Christmas tree design with stars.
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For the beginning create a new file (File>New) of 1280×1024 px and 72 dpi. Select the Paint Bucket Tool (G) and paint the primary layer the way it’s demonstrated below:
Take now the Rectangle Tool (U) and stretch out the figure on the whole canvas. Set the next demonstrated parameters, making a mouse click on this layer on the layers’ palette
Create one more layer, giving it the Opacity of 0%.
Give next indicated parameters for the made layer:
Now it’s time to represent a rounded element, applying the Ellipse Tool (U), giving it also the Opacity of 0%.
Follow the shown parameters:
It’s the result you must get on this stage:
Select now the Brush Tool (B) and try to represent the contours of a fir tree, like on the next picture:
Select out of the Custom Shape Tool (U) the same star indicated below:
Fill the whole fir tree’s inside space with selected stars, changing also their sizes (Ctrl+T)
One star should be situated on the fir tree’s top, giving it the next parameters:
This is the image you should get now:
Next we’ll select three types of snowflakes, like those from below:
Placing the snowflakes in an arbitrary way on our picture, we may change their Opacity parameter on the layers’ palette: Fill: 10%, 20%, 40%.
Choose out of the already known table a kind of figure like the next one:
Place it under the layer containing the top star, the same way situated below: Fill 0% on this layer:
Next we should select the next demonstrated parameters:
This is the next stage of the picture:
Take now the Pen Tool (P) and represent several fillets on the fir tree, choosing the next colors’ codes:
The final result!
View full size here.
Tags: card, christmas, design, Photoshop, tree
Josee
12/10/2009
well,I am new at photoshop and I find that it is a bit hard to fallow the instruction.Maybe I should start with something a bit easier!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
any suggestion
Liz
16/11/2009
You mention giving the layer an opacity of 0%, then highlight the fill area at 0%? Would be better if you could have a shot of how many layers used to complete this tutorial
Matt
17/11/2009
Nice tutorial, easier then it looks!
Kasto
17/11/2009
Ok, that thing with Elipse and Gradient tool just doesn’t work for me
Maybe I am missing a point, but I think it’d be much better to write it more closely.. I can’t get over that step and I am really sad about it..
davulcu
18/11/2009
Lack of information ! Totally useles, waste of time
lijuan
19/11/2009
Good, very good tutorial, but my English not very good, it seems too hard to learn the future….
renelli
22/11/2009
thanks for sharing this. I love your designs. =)
it seems that some people got frustrated, probably because they just don’t know how to follow instructions…oh well…very common.
Buffy23
22/11/2009
Great tutorial! It sure helped a lot!
Thanks. =)
View my christmas tree:
http://buffy23.deviantart.com/art/The-Red-Tree-144385699
Bianca
23/11/2009
Hi I just want to ask permission if I can use the photo, the green christmas tree used as an example
sara
28/11/2009
HellU! Great that you do this. But could you please be more spessific! Like, you don’t tell how to get the gradient editor up,etc. :S
sara
28/11/2009
Hellu, I’m getting crazy cus I WANT TO DO THIS :O But the tutorial isn’t good enough explained. :/ I don’t understand anyway… HOW DID YOU DO/FILL THE STARS!?
Sebastian
30/11/2009
Hi could anyone please help me on the big with the circle and the bars?
Mine just does not want to fade away at the edges!
If anyone could please, please help me with this contact me on sebstrug@hotmail.com
Thyaga
05/12/2009
Hi,
This is too good and simple. I tried it out. Everything came good but the shape of the tree using pen tool only little problem.
Anyway thanks for sharing this.
Peter
16/12/2009
It just requires a bit of patience while working on the steps although it would have been easier if the layers were also indicated!
Hannah
18/12/2009
Hi, I just had a few questions about the step where you put the ellipse and gradient. First is that my version of Photoshop doesn’t have the “Hard Mix” Blend Mode, so I just used “Color Dodge” instead. I guess that would work the equally well…? And second was that the outline of the circle didn’t go away after this. How do I make the line disappear? Thanks =]
MOHSEN FASSI
20/12/2009
i wish you merry cristmas and a happy new year to all people who use this page.happy new 2010………………………………..
beatifull tree of dreams…..from morroco with love for all…….
Slava
26/12/2009
Best. This is too good and simple.
Annette
06/01/2010
Good points, I think I will definitely subscribe!
. I’ll go and read some more!
DIPEN SINGH GOUTAM
02/02/2010
THANKS YOUR DESIGN Owl OF YOU
and i want to say something about you
you are as good as your thing
Tony
15/02/2010
Oh, very-very nice