Photoshop Design stylish Christmas greeting card

Final effect

1, the new 660*480 pixel document.

2, open the provided ' greeting card psd template ', select the top three layers in the layer group, move to the document just opened, and reduce the placement.

3, the ' Page1 ' and ' page2 ' layer merge, create ' hue/saturation ' adjustment layer, the greeting card into purple tones.

4, and then hold down the CTRL key and put the mouse over the ' adjust layer ' and ' Page1 ' layer to click between, creating a clipping mask.

5, on the card part of the input of white text, this according to their own want to get the casual.

6. Create new layer on background layer, fill white, double-click Layer to add Layer style: gradient overlay, color from #958ea1 to #403f43.

7, open ' snow material ' and drag into the document, put the position as follows, use ' Blur tool ' to blur the top of the snow, use the soft angle brush head.

8. Use ' brightness/contrast ' and ' hue/saturation ' to make the snow more textured.

9. Note: If the gradient background and snow look very stiff at this time, then adjust the gradient background, so that they better integration.

10, open the provision of ' cedar ' material, with the selection tool will be covered with snow cedar a tree to move to the snow, according to their desired effect to pendulum.

11. Merge all the cedar layers and execute: Filters-Blur-Gaussian blur, value 0.9px.

12, open the ' Christmas tree ' material, drag into the document, move to the card layer above, put a good position and size.

13, make a projection of the Christmas tree, simple production methods: Copy the Christmas tree layer, the next Christmas tree layer fill in black, layer opacity 50%, use ' edit-transform-twist ' to change the shadow shape, the last Gaussian blur.

14, open ' snowflake ' material, drag into the document, move this layer to the top layer, layer blending mode: filter color, but also can be high blur, and finally reduce the opacity of the layer: 70% or so.

15, select the ' Custom Shape tool ' in the top of the status bar in the ' natural ' shape, and then pull out a variety of snowflakes on the canvas, pay attention to making snow altogether projection.

16, load the "Starlight" brush, brush out a variety of colors of starlight to the Christmas tree, want to have color starlight, you can create a new layer on the Starlight layer, fill the gradient, change this layer blending mode to: color, then load the starlight into the selection, select the gradient layer press CTRL+J to copy one layer, and then hide the gradient layer.

17, new layer, fill black, add: Lens halo filter, and then the layer blending mode set to: Color filter, put the position.

18, then open the provision of ' Christmas deer ' optional head dragged into the position, and then use ' natural saturation ' to adjust the color, and then add a projection.

Finally make the details yourself, at the top of the new layer, press ctrl+shift+alt+e stamped layer, execution: filter-sharpening-USM sharpening. Complete the final effect.

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