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Create an Elegant Greeting Card with Vintage Christmas Baubles on Background in Photoshop CS5

Represent now the thread element, using the Line Tool (U) (set Weight to 2px in Options bar) draw a line as shown. Its color is #F2D5A5. Place the layer under the bauble’s layers and its support element.

Create an Elegant Greeting Card with Vintage Christmas Baubles on Background in Photoshop CS5

We’ve got the next result:

Create an Elegant Greeting Card with Vintage Christmas Baubles on Background in Photoshop CS5

Create a new layer and select the Soft Round brush of white color.

Create an Elegant Greeting Card with Vintage Christmas Baubles on Background in Photoshop CS5

Use this brush to represent the highlight on the bauble as shown.

Create an Elegant Greeting Card with Vintage Christmas Baubles on Background in Photoshop CS5

Combine in a group all the layers composing the Christmas bauble (press CTRL button to select the necessary layers and hold on the left mouse’s button while dragging the selected layers on Create a new group icon from bottom part of the Layers panel). Make two copies of the made group and select the Free Transform (Ctrl+T) command to change the copies’ sizes, placing them as below:

Create an Elegant Greeting Card with Vintage Christmas Baubles on Background in Photoshop CS5

Create a new layer and select here the Soft Round brush of white color (brush Opacity – 10%).

Create an Elegant Greeting Card with Vintage Christmas Baubles on Background in Photoshop CS5

Use this brush to paint the background as we have on the picture below. Place the layer under the first group of the decoration.

Create an Elegant Greeting Card with Vintage Christmas Baubles on Background in Photoshop CS5

On the next new layer we’ll use the Hard Round brush

Create an Elegant Greeting Card with Vintage Christmas Baubles on Background in Photoshop CS5

… and Soft Round brush.

Create an Elegant Greeting Card with Vintage Christmas Baubles on Background in Photoshop CS5

Use this brushes to insert highlights on the baubles and background. Choose for the hard brush a different Opacity value.

Create an Elegant Greeting Card with Vintage Christmas Baubles on Background in Photoshop CS5

Next step we’ll download set of brushes for Adobe Photoshop, named: light_brushes_2. Copy the brushes file to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop X\Presets\Brushes folder (Adobe Photoshop X been your version of Photoshop).

Create a new layer and load the downloaded brushes, select the next brushes from light_brushes_2 set:

Create an Elegant Greeting Card with Vintage Christmas Baubles on Background in Photoshop CS5

Use this brushes to represent a highlight of white color (brush Opacity – 60%).

Create an Elegant Greeting Card with Vintage Christmas Baubles on Background in Photoshop CS5

Insert the message text for greeting card. Select the Horizontal Type tool (T). Select a font, size and color in the Character panel.

Create an Elegant Greeting Card with Vintage Christmas Baubles on Background in Photoshop CS5

Click in the canvas and type ‘Merry Christmas’. Press Enter to apply the text.

Create an Elegant Greeting Card with Vintage Christmas Baubles on Background in Photoshop CS5

Click on Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel and select Drop Shadow.

Create an Elegant Greeting Card with Vintage Christmas Baubles on Background in Photoshop CS5

Apply Gradient Overlay:

Create an Elegant Greeting Card with Vintage Christmas Baubles on Background in Photoshop CS5

Click in the color bar to open the Gradient Editor and set the color stops as shown. Click OK to close the Gradient Editor dialog box.

Create an Elegant Greeting Card with Vintage Christmas Baubles on Background in Photoshop CS5

We’ve got the next greeting message:

Create an Elegant Greeting Card with Vintage Christmas Baubles on Background in Photoshop CS5

Click Create new fill or adjustment layer from bottom part of the Layers panel and click to Curves to adjust the curve shape as shown to make a little color corrections.

Create an Elegant Greeting Card with Vintage Christmas Baubles on Background in Photoshop CS5

We’ve got the next result:

Create an Elegant Greeting Card with Vintage Christmas Baubles on Background in Photoshop CS5

Our Greeting card with Vintage Christmas Baubles is finished!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

View full size here.

Download free Layered PSD file.

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