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It's only a week to Christmas and you just realized you still have greeting cards to write and send. Well, before freaking out take a look at this simple Photoshop tutorial where you can learn how to create a nice Christmas card in just a few simple steps. You can then print as many copies as you need at your home printer and get all your card stuff done in one evening.
1. Open a blank document in Photoshop. It can be any size you want your card to be, but remember to use at least a 300 dpi resolution, because we're going to print this later on. Click on Layer - Layer Style - Gradient Overlay and fill in the background with a blue gradient effect.
2. Create a new layer and draw a basic tree shape. You can also download this tree shape and open it in your document by clicking on File - Place.
3. Create several copies of the tree on your document by pressing Ctrl+J. Assign each layer a different value in opacity and use also different shades of white and blue with color overlays to create an illusion of depth. You can freely resize the tree because it's a vector graphic and it won't lose quality.
4. Now create a new layer and click on the Custom Shape Tool. Go to the shape menu and look for some snowflakes - you can find them under "Nature". Start adding snowflakes to this layer, using different shapes and sizes. Once done, turn this layer's opacity down to around 50.
5. Create a text layer and add your personal message with your favorite text font.
6. Add some border or shadow effects if you like, and you're done!
Note: Would you like a different design for your Christmas card? Try the 2008 tutorial!
Wow Elena thanks, just hope none of my family are reading this!!! I'm going to follow the steps now and make a few. I'll let you know how I get on! Happy Christmas folks.
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Nice tutorial, thank you so much. I need that madly.
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just too cool. a wonderful idea and i am quite impress with this concept of creating your own card.thank u.
This looks superb but why cant I do it in my version of photoshop which is Elements 6.0 and 8.0? Are these only for cs2, 3 and 4?
I this not good ideas!!
Done my own video on how to do this too inspired by this excellent tutorial works in all versions of Photoshop too! http://www.crashtutorials.com/?p=4
Merry Christmas to you