Wednesday 12 December 2012

Making Merry Christmas & Happy New Year card in Photoshop



Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Wallpaper
In today’s tutorial I will present how to make a merry Christmas and Happy New Year card in Photoshop. In this tutorial we use color adjustment and create colorful star, gift etc. So let’s get start…


1. Downloads
  • Firstly you’ll need a few Icons and a fresh font!
  • I have used the font Museo, which can be downloaded here (I’m using the 500 and 700, both are free, just add to cart and checkout, it will be emailed)!
  • Put text in your main fonts folder for your computer, or it may do that for you when you open it!
Museo Fonts
Museo Font
  • I also downloaded these brilliant Christmas Icons from Icon Archive!
  • *Right Click* > Save Image As! Select the 256 x 256 .png:
Santa Hat Icon
Santa Hat Icon
Gift Icon
Gift Icon
Fireworks Icon
Fireworks Icon
Star Icon
Star Icon
2. Making your Background
  • Create a new document in GIMP, settings: 1600 x 1000, 72 pi, Transparency:
  • Fill with Black using the Paint Bucket Tool:
  • Now to create a cotton or linen like texture use HSV Noise, go Filters –> Noise –> HSV Noise
  • Apply HSV Noise twice – Shift + F
Making your Background
Making your Background
  • Duplicate that layer, name it ‘BG 2
  • On BG 2, go Filters –> Blur –> Motion Blur, settings: Linear, Angle: 0, Length: 50:
  • Repeat this for BG 1, but change Angle to 90
  • Set BG 2 layer mode to Multiply:
  • Brighten up BG 2, go Colors –> Brightness-Contrast, by 50:
Motion Blur
Motion Blur
3. Adding Text
  • Using the font Museo Semi-Bold at 251 px make the different layers:
  • My separate words/layers: MerryChristmas&, HappyNew Year:
Adding Text
Adding Text
4. Text Border
  • On your text layer *Right Click* > Text to Selection
  • Grow the selection, go Select –> Grow2px
  • Create a new layer ‘text layer - Drop
  • Fill selection with a grey colour: 828282
  • Drag the ‘-Drop’ layer below the text layer original in the Layers panel:
  • Repeat for all the other layers:
Text Border
Text Border
5. Adding Icons
  • Using the Icons you downloaded in step 1. place them around your text:
  • Import: File –> Open as Layers… (Ctrl + Alt +A):
  • You may need to scale some to fit, go Layer –> Scale Layer
  • If scaling up I would use 450px, but experiment to find the most suitable!
  • Note: For the Fireworks Icon I used the Horizontal Flip Tool (Image->Transform->Flip Horizontally)!
Adding Icons
Adding Icons
6. Vignetting
  • Create a new layer ‘Vignetting‘:
  • Using the Gradient Tool with settings: FG Only: BlackReverseRadial:
  • Stroke from the centre out to make a vignetting effect.
  • Set ‘Vignetting’ layer mode to Soft Light:
Vignetting
Vignetting
That’s It!
Hope you can learn something new from this tutorial.
I feel really glad if you give me feedback through comment below. Soon i am going to show more interesting & innovative tutorials so please keep visit our blog. That’s for now.
Have fun!
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Thank you… :)
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