Making Merry Christmas & Happy New Year card in Photoshop

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 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

Gift Icon

Fireworks 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

• 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

3. Adding Text

• Using the font Museo Semi-Bold at 251 px make the different layers:
• My separate words/layers: Merry, Christmas, &, Happy, New Year:

Adding Text

4. Text Border

• On your text layer *Right Click* > Text to Selection
• Grow the selection, go Select –> Grow: 2px
• 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

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

6. Vignetting

• Create a new layer ‘Vignetting‘:
• Using the Gradient Tool with settings: FG Only: Black, Reverse, Radial:
• Stroke from the centre out to make a vignetting effect.
• Set ‘Vignetting’ layer mode to Soft Light:

Vignetting

That’s It!

Hope you can learn something new from this tutorial.

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