PhotoShop: Create a Christmas card with a decorative sphere

Just follow each step in this lesson, you will know how to create a more beautiful and special greeting card by yourself.

Open the PhotoShop and create a new file ( File > New ) of size 1280x1024 px and 72 dpi . After that, select the Paint Bucket Tool (G) and fill the background with # 7EC21D

Next select the Rectangle Tool (U) and draw the # 008C7F colored stripes like the following:

Select Custom Shape Tool (U) and select the Christmas tree shape (if you don't see the pine tree in the Shape list, click the arrow button to the right and select All , click OK ):

Draw these pine trees on the background of the original file, then copy them ( Ctrl + J ) into several shapes and place them on the same vertical stripe as shown below:

Select the background color (# 7EC21D ) and draw the pine tree image on the vertical stripe against the background color (see the following picture).

Use the Ellipse Tool (U) and draw three circles of the same size and in the following position:

Set the following parameters in Blending Options > Drop Shadow (click your mouse on the top circle layer select Blending Options . )

Other setting parameters in the Blending Options section:

The result will be the first sphere:

Do the same with the other two spheres but slightly change the gradient color. Red will have the following color parameters:

The orange sphere has the following parameters:

Result:

Use Line Tool (U) to draw strings for 3 spheres:

Select the Rectangle Tool (U) to draw a rectangle over the entire background. Set the Fill level to 0% for the layer just drawn and the Blending Options parameter as follows:

After adding a new layer, we get the following result:

Now it's time to decorate the balls. Select the Custom Shape Tool (U) and select the following star and snowflake shapes:

Turn stars and snow flowers in turn for each sphere. The color of snow flower is # 5E0B61 . Insert a new layer, draw different big and small snow flowers on the sphere. Merge all the snowflake layers together into a layer by selecting the layers and pressing Ctrl + E. Delete the extra snowflakes outside the sphere with the Eraser Tool (E) .

Likewise decorate the star on the remaining sphere

Put all the star layers on the same layer as you did with the snow flower layer. Set gradient parameters as follows:

Delete the remaining components outside the sphere. The result will be the following picture:

Choose # 0B296F color and draw some stripes for the top orb. Put all the squirrels on the same layer (select the layer and press Ctrl + E ), then still select the stripe layer and press Ctrl + T. Right-click on the newly displayed frame and select Warp and bend as shown below. After aligning, click OK , set Fill to 40% and choose Blending mode-Linear Light

Results after finishing: