Creative christmas cards
November 6th, 2008 by ART-D Posted in Adobe Photoshop, Designing
Next we’ll use the Ellipse Tool (U) to represent a snow ball reserved for a snowman.
Click on Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel and select Inner Glow.
Add 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:
Make two copies of the layer containing the snow ball and select the Free Transform (Ctrl+T) command to minimize the copies’ sizes, placing them as it is represented next image:
Applying the Ellipse Tool (U), it’s possible to draw the buttons on the snowman.
Set Fill to 0% for this layer and click on Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel and select Drop Shadow.
Add 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.
Settings for Stroke:
Select Fill Type – Gradient and 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:
Make two copies of the layer containing the button and choose Free Transform (Ctrl+T) command to change the copies’ sizes, placing them the way demonstrated next picture:
Using the previous tool, it’s possible to draw the snow man’s nose:
Set Fill to 0% for this layer and click on Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel and select Inner Shadow.
Add 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:
Create a new layer and select the Hard Round brush from Brush Tool (B). The Foreground color is black.
Use this brush to draw the eyes and the mouth, belonging to the same snowman.
Using the Line Tool (U), it’s time to draw a twig that will represent the snow man’s arm. The color in this case is black too.
Put together all the layers composing the twig into a single layer. Hold Ctrl button, select the twig’s layers from Layers panel and press then Ctrl+E to Merge Down. Next we’ll make a copy of the new layer that we got and apply Free Transform (Ctrl+T) command to turn over the copy, make the copy smaller and put it on the picture the same way shown below:
We’ve got the next result:
Happy New Year and Merry Christmas!
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Tags: background, brushes, card, christmas, cs3, December, design, new-year, Photoshop, snow, snowflake, snowman, tree, winter, xmas
AARON MANIO
04/11/2009
Hi, Just want to ask, where and how I can add to the custom shape in my Photoshop
jo
17/11/2009
this is impossible to do
Dirty
20/11/2009
Not impossible at all, you just have to know a little about photoshop. And you select the custom shape tool under the square that is set to “rectangle tool” by default. Click on the rectangle tool and hold down and the custom shape tool will come up.
Jeanette
07/12/2009
Thank you so much for the tutorial. Took me awhile but I made it to the end and did turn out alright
jeanette
daddy
08/12/2009
this is easy but how are you supposed to make the snowman?
Miss Asa
10/12/2009
Where can I put my own photos in the card? Can I change the snowmans face to my childrens faces?
Jozef
11/12/2009
Happy new year 2010
Maria
14/12/2009
Great tut!!! Thanx!!!
Adriz
17/12/2009
x fin lo terminee!!!…muy wueno el tutotrial =)
graxiazz…flicz fiestaz x)
ptite_Chipie
28/01/2010
Il est super et le rendu aussi! bravo….. et pas compliqué du tout si l’on maîtrise les techniques de base……..
Je me suis régalée à le faire…..
Kuleza
22/04/2010
I enjoyed this tutorial.
Bob marley
26/10/2010
It would have been Good if my computer did not spas up
dashkin
26/10/2010
thanks for the fun!
elisabeth
29/10/2010
Thanks.. It was a good tutorial:)
Radim
12/11/2010
Nice tutorial. Image isnt much original, but I like this
Shagun
29/11/2010
its a nice tutorial,useful and enjoyable
Ganesh Shetty
02/12/2010
Thank u for nice tutorial ….
check my creation here
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=178560845489515&set=a.176829062329360.43343.100000068024285
Kyle
05/12/2010
Awesome Tutorial. I just did this and learned a lot!
Meowzers
07/12/2010
This tutorial was great!
john marston
15/12/2010
i used this tutorial and i personally conclude that this website doe snot help the ole kind folke of these parts so i concurr that you shud nawt use this website for any of yur christmas needs
Arlenne Geraldibne Paola González de la Rosa
17/12/2010
It’s so awesome!!.
I love the snowman!. <3
criss guzman
17/12/2010
good tuto someone tells me what it is called the brush you used for this tutorial please
Omgitzkara
24/12/2010
Great and Easy tutorial ((:
angel abraham
30/12/2010
Gracias por compartir el tutorial me gusto mucho.
Artem
30/12/2010
Lol! It’s useful l. I’ll try to do my own card.
rajesh
17/06/2011
I LIKE IT!!!
vhinz
17/11/2011
Its cool!!!
Okralsd
06/12/2011
this is the best photoshop thing ever! i can’t believe it. I used it and it was amazing i can’t believe it. THIS it the best thing EVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrr HOLY COWS! it is sooooooooo good
Okralsd
06/12/2011
how do u make da snowmanÉ
jakob
09/12/2011
did it work?
Collin Dranow
13/12/2011
my snowman looks like sheesh yall
dan
13/12/2011
a video tut would be much more useful…..
especially for new users
jakob
14/12/2011
This sucks! It is impossible
Collin Dranow
15/12/2011
gtfo faggit
Hugh Jass
16/12/2011
pretty nice tut
mirei
21/12/2011
How can I put the blue shadow of the snowmans belly on the right side? thx