Christmas ornaments lights balls
November 6th, 2008 by ART-D Posted in Adobe Photoshop, Designing
In today’s quick tip tutorial, I will show you how to create a nice christmas card with ornamented New Year’s toys using Adobe Photoshop CS4 techniques. Let’s get started.
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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 #320000 color the new background layer.
Choose the Pen Tool (P), set the drawing mode on Shape Layers in Options bar and draw the next wavy shape as shown.
Click on Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel and select Drop Shadow.
Add Outer Glow:
Also apply 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.
You’ll get the next result:
On the next step we’ll create another wavy shape using Pen Tool (P), like it is demonstrated below. Place this layer under the first one in Layers panel. Apply the same Layer Styles for this layer as we did with the first shape. You can make a right-click on the first shape’s layer in Layers panel and select Copy Layer Style, then right-click on the last created layer and select Paste Layer Style.
… draw another shape using Pen Tool (P) and apple the same Layer Styles.
Select now a Soft Round brush from Brush Tool (B):
… and represent several dots of different sizes as shown:
Set the Blending mode for this layer to Overlay.
Represent another wavy shape using Pen Tool (P), like the next picture shows it:
Set Fill to 0% for this layer and click on Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel and select Outer Glow.
Add Inner Glow:
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Tags: background, ball, brushes, card, christmas, Christmas-baubles, cs3, December, design, new-year, ornament, Photoshop, snow, snowflake, snowman, tree, wallpaper, winter, xmas
Stephanie
15/10/2009
This was very nicely done. I am very happy with my result. The lines were a bit tricky to make, but the pen tool can be such a pain in the butt sometimes. Thanks for the tutorial
lo
28/10/2009
Nice. I Love it! Many thanks
Jessie
16/11/2009
I used the pen tool and drew the box and the line squigly line.I have tried everything from the background color being a seprate layer from the back (that just makes everything the gradient, even with the pen tool), making the pen have its own layer (does nothing). What am I doing wrong
Gaka
18/11/2009
To make those wonderful little patterns with the pen tool – Select the background layer (Your dark red) and use the pen tool to create a design. Be sure to close it. right click the line this makes and “Make selection.” Proceed to Ctrl + C (Command + C for mac users) and immediately Ctrl + V (Command + V.) This will create a new Layer with a red design that is the inside of your selection with the pen tool.
Add the blends to this layer, then copy the layer styles.
You can now redo this continually, remember to paste the layer styles to the new layers, and remember to select from the background (unless you merge layers, you just need a solid selection.)
Enjoy – Gaka
E-maniacs
07/12/2009
Amazing work.
The tutorial is an awesome one.
Good work
Patrik
11/12/2009
Jessie: The creator made a bad tutorial. no doubt.
What he did not mention was.
Duplicate the background layer, apply the blending options and delete the parts you dont want.
if you want to add more areas with the same glow as the one with the blending options just copy paste a part of the background and paste your blending options on to it.
arkangel75ar
16/12/2009
Hi, im interested in a brush stars_and_blinks but this link is broken, can you share this again? thxs
admin
16/12/2009
@arkangel75ar
link was updated
Cherlique
18/12/2009
Dude! this is a nice tutorial but whats up with these indistinkt tutorials. like how do i draw the wavie lines? as paths? should i stroke it? and such. tutorials are ment for people to learn not to know so i dont want to sound ungreatful but trie to teach us like u would stundents thanks.
tadees
18/12/2009
This tutorial is horrible. There seems to be several key steps omitted… kinda defeats the purpose of a “tutorial”. But the finished product looks nice enough.
Cherlique
18/12/2009
did anybody get the same result as in the tutorial? i cant seem to get the same color of the smoke like lines mine just stay red after i apply the motion blur
gumby
24/12/2009
There it too much missing. I am quite comfortable with photoshop though I couldn’t figure out how to even get the first few steps done as you missed several key intermediate steps. Please fix this.
Greeting cards Backgrounds
10/02/2010
Nice collection of tutorial…very nice to make backgrounds..
Elaine
02/05/2010
I wish I had read everyone’s comments before I struggled for two hours trying to work through the first 3 or 4 steps.
Kathy
21/07/2010
Yes there were a few steps that were omitted or unclear – but I learned a whole lot working through this – mine is not exactly like the original – and part of it is because of choices I made and part of it is because I am not proficient with the pen.
For those complaining – publish your tutorial for this. Oh – don’t know how to do it. Hmmmm
Magnus Hansen
15/10/2010
Thanks for this great turtorial. I Had to figure out quite a lot myself, but that just pushed my knowledge of photoshop more which is GREAT! THANKS!!!
senthil
30/10/2010
Great tutorial, and nice creativity ,thanks a lot for the tutorial
Carrie
21/11/2010
Hi I wanted to say I am not a beginner or an expert with photoshop but I learn. Not sure how or why anyone could say this tutorial is not complete. If you want to learn to use the pen tool try the help button the lines are illustrated quite well. This is one of the best most complete tutorials I have done and I have done a lot. Many thanks to the creator I would like more of your tuts if you have any.
Gemma
21/11/2010
well this is awful i had to blag the first steps just to get the shape cut outs
as for those 3 lines that glow that step is so unclear its untrue
im actually very good with photoshop but this was the absolute worse tutorial i have ever had to use!
fix it!
stephone
24/11/2010
Tuto nul du début à la fin Oups!! il est pas fini…
leo
03/12/2010
the stars and blinks link is broken. Wasn’t able to download it. Is it possible to update the link?
admin
03/12/2010
@Leo,
link working fine
RuthArt
04/12/2010
lol, I don’t even use Photoshop and I was able to get a good representation of the finished item using Paint Shop Pro. I had to do a lot of my own ‘thinking’ as to how to get a certain effect, but it was a great time. Thanks
ziddi
07/12/2010
my email ziddijutt44@yahoo.com and i say some deeply heart i like and first love jessi plz plz i m wi8ing you
Abraham
09/12/2010
Thanks for yout time to do this tutorial. Nice result , but very difficult to understand and follow the tutorial. I wonder if you have this on video?
pham trinh
10/12/2010
when I Hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) and click between ellipse’s layer and brushe’s layer in the Layers panel, I haven’t got the result. The ball didn’t display brushes. What did I wrong?
byambaa
13/12/2010
u r so awesome ilke ur tutorials keep going!
Medyo
14/12/2010
awesome, just what I am looking for. I will different variants of this for my personal greet to friends. Cheers and my thanks.
medyo bastos
14/12/2010
I don’t know about the others, – easily labeling this as bad tutorials just because some parts were ‘missing’. No, there were no parts missing, and yes I was able to follow the steps, and even add some experiments (removing the drop shadows and instead creating glows using overlays).
This is great piece, and it allows great room for improvement, according to one’s subjective taste.
because u can’t catch up doesn’t mean it’s too complicated. Maybe you’re just too slow.
medyo bastos
14/12/2010
BTW, to make the ‘draw wavie lines with pen tools’ easy, just duplicate the first drawing, then using pen tool options, adjust the duplicated line to make it different from the first. That way, you don’t have to draw over and over again, and repro by just by editing the clones.
Ravi
23/12/2010
very nice use for me good
Pj
24/12/2010
Great work!!
Especially, the pen tool one!!
Velvet
25/12/2010
This is one of the best tutorials, I’ve ever completed. I’m still rather a beginner in photoshop and had to search for some options quite a while. but I’ve learned so much and the result is so great! Thanks!
Charm
20/01/2011
Nice..it’s very beautiful…this is very useful..for i am starting to learn and have fun with photoshop…thanks… I am so excited to try this one….thank you very much
Marco Betti
15/02/2011
Thank you very much for you explanation and the brushes
Very Success for you
Marco from Brasil
spark
15/08/2011
Hello,
Love the tutorial. I don’t know how to open the brushes. I downloaded winzip to unzip it, but still no result. Need some help with this.
Are these brushes also compatible with ps 7?
Looking forward to more tutorials.
mellow
07/11/2011
Thank you so much! I loved it!