How to design an abstract Christmas illustration with colorful shapes and glass baubles in Photoshop CS5
December 1st, 2010 by ART-D Posted in Adobe Photoshop, Designing
We have another great tutorial available for our readers today. If you want to learn how to design an abstract Christmas illustration with colorful shapes and glass baubles, using simple shapes and gradients in Adobe Photoshop CS5, then this tutorial is for you.
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Start working by creating a new document (Ctrl+N) in Adobe Photoshop with the size 1200px by 1200px (RGB color mode) at a resolution of 300 pixels/inch. Take now the Rectangle Tool (U) and draw a rectangle on the whole canvas.
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 background:
Next we’ll create many shapes to decorate our Christmas background. Choose the Pen Tool (P), set the drawing mode on Shape Layers in Options bar and draw the next shape as shown.
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:
Use Pen Tool (P) to create another shape.
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 another shape using Pen Tool (P).
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:
We’ll continue with drawing another shape.
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:
Use Pen Tool (P) to draw the next shape.
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 another shape as shown using Pen Tool (P).
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:
Use Pen Tool (P) to create the next shape.
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:
Let’s add another shape on our background.
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 a shape as shown using Pen Tool (P).
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:
Use Pen Tool (P) to draw another shape as shown.
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:
Tags: abstract, background, ball, brushes, card, christmas, Christmas-baubles, cs5, December, decoration, design, greeting, Illustration, new-year, ornament, Photoshop, snow, snowflake, toy, winter, xmas
white
02/12/2010
beautiful,go on.
Aitor Izquierdo
02/12/2010
Thank you very much for this tutorial. I´m trying to do it as a present to my family.
Tirath
03/12/2010
Awesome tutorial with nice abstract Christmas design you make it so Beautiful
You are so much Creative & Genus
Your entire tutorials are so much interesting & Creative
Thanks so much for your kind effort
keep up good work
God Bless you
web developer
30/12/2010
Great to saw a wonderful tutorial for Adobe. i am a newbie interested in designing. i really thought that the steps are very easy to follow to learn and design an illustration.
i am going to try this and send it to my very best friend Filo.
Eira
04/05/2011
I wanted to learn Photoshop and I think you are one of the best designers that I have come across in the website till now. All the Best. Keep coming up with new and creative ideas.
Anon
04/06/2011
I can’t get the balls/ornaments to do that. my gradient is always centered in the middle. I followed the tutorial to a T and my ornaments didn’t turn out like in the instructions. How do I change the center of the gradient? cause the center now is directly in the middle, and the tutorial isn’t.
ThePrince
23/09/2011
Thank you very much for this tutorial.but wher is the psd source
robin
17/01/2012
very nice
omid
05/07/2012
Very Very goooooood
Thanks