Creative christmas cards

November 6th, 2008 by ART-D Posted in Adobe Photoshop, Designing

The layer’s parameters: Fill 0%
Blending Options>Drop Shadow

Create creative christmas cards in Photoshop CS3

Blending Options>Gradient Overlay

Create creative christmas cards in Photoshop CS3

Gradient’s parameters:

Create creative christmas cards in Photoshop CS3

Blending Options>Stroke

Create creative christmas cards in Photoshop CS3

Gradient’s parameters:

Create creative christmas cards in Photoshop CS3

Create creative christmas cards in Photoshop CS3

Make two copies of the layer containing the button and choose Free Transform option to change the copies’ sizes, placing them the way demonstrated next picture:

Create creative christmas cards in Photoshop CS3

Using the previous tool, it’s possible to draw next the snow man’s nose:

Create creative christmas cards in Photoshop CS3

The layer’s parameters: Fill 0%
Blending Options>Inner Shadow

Create creative christmas cards in Photoshop CS3

Blending Options>Gradient Overlay

Create creative christmas cards in Photoshop CS3

Gradient’s parameters:

Create creative christmas cards in Photoshop CS3

Create creative christmas cards in Photoshop CS3

Create a new layer and use on it a standard brush (Brush Tool (B)) to draw the eyes and the mouth, belonging to the same snowman. The elements’ color is black.

Create creative christmas cards in Photoshop CS3

Create creative christmas cards in Photoshop CS3

Using the Line Tool (U), it’s time to picture a twig that will represent the snow man’s arm. The color in this case is black too.

Create creative christmas cards in Photoshop CS3

Put together all the layers composing the twig into a single layer. In this case we’ll press Ctrl button, mark out the twig’s layers and press then Ctrl+E. Next we’ll make a copy of the new layer that we got and apply Free Transform option to turn over the copy, make the copy smaller and put it on the picture the same way shown below:

Create creative christmas cards in Photoshop CS3

Create creative christmas cards in Photoshop CS3

The picture is finished!

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  • AARON MANIO

    11.06.08

    Hi, Just want to ask, where and how I can add to the custom shape in my Photoshop

  • jo

    11.06.08

    this is impossible to do

  • Dirty

    11.06.08

    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.