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How to create Christmas Greeting Card with Decorative Snowflakes on Red Background in Adobe Photoshop CS6

In this tutorial, we are going to design a simple Christmas greeting card with decorative snowflakes in Adobe Photoshop CS6. I hope you enjoy this tutorial and that it inspires you to create your own greeting card for New Year! Layered PSD file included. Let’s get started!

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How to create Christmas Greeting Card with Decorative Snowflakes on Red Background in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Start working by creating a new document (Ctrl+N) in Adobe Photoshop CS6 with the size 1920px by 1200px (RGB color mode) at a resolution of 72 pixels/inch. Create a new layer, click on Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel and select Gradient Overlay.

How to create Christmas Greeting Card with Decorative Snowflakes on Red Background in Adobe Photoshop CS6

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.

How to create Christmas Greeting Card with Decorative Snowflakes on Red Background in Adobe Photoshop CS6

We’ve got the next background:

How to create Christmas Greeting Card with Decorative Snowflakes on Red Background in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Create a new layer and select the Soft Round brush from Brush Tool (B). We need to customize our brush in Brushes panel (F5), select the Brush Tip Shape. Click and drag any of the sliders to change the size, the spacing and brush angle as show. The Preview window displays the changed brushstroke.

How to create Christmas Greeting Card with Decorative Snowflakes on Red Background in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Go to Shape Dynamics and apply the next settings:

How to create Christmas Greeting Card with Decorative Snowflakes on Red Background in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Apply Scattering:

How to create Christmas Greeting Card with Decorative Snowflakes on Red Background in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Go to Transfer:

How to create Christmas Greeting Card with Decorative Snowflakes on Red Background in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Now you can use this brush of white color to represent the snow.

How to create Christmas Greeting Card with Decorative Snowflakes on Red Background in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Next we’ll download set of custom shapes named Decorative Snowflakes Shapes. Little tutorial to explain how to load Custom Shapes here.

How to create Christmas Greeting Card with Decorative Snowflakes on Red Background in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Create a new layer and select the Custom Shape Tool (U) in the Tools bar, in the Options bar click the Shape to open the selection menu. Find the next shape at the bottom of the menu, and then double-click a shape thumbnail to select it.

How to create Christmas Greeting Card with Decorative Snowflakes on Red Background in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Click and drag to draw the snowflake of the color #EE282B.

How to create Christmas Greeting Card with Decorative Snowflakes on Red Background in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Then make many copies of the layer containing the snowflake and select the Free Transform (Ctrl+T) command to change the copies’ sizes and to turn over the elements, placing them the same way from the next picture:

How to create Christmas Greeting Card with Decorative Snowflakes on Red Background in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Combine in a group all the layers composing the red snowflakes (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).

Set Fill to 39% for the new group.

How to create Christmas Greeting Card with Decorative Snowflakes on Red Background in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Next we’ll draw a rectangle, applying the Rectangle Tool (U) draw the rectangle and insert some anchor points on the top part, bottom part and on the middle part. Use in this case the Add Anchior Point Tool and the Convert Point Tool to make the necessary corrections. The rectangle’s color is #D70010.

How to create Christmas Greeting Card with Decorative Snowflakes on Red Background in Adobe Photoshop CS6

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

How to create Christmas Greeting Card with Decorative Snowflakes on Red Background in Adobe Photoshop CS6

We’ve got the next result:

How to create Christmas Greeting Card with Decorative Snowflakes on Red Background in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Make darker now the rectangle’s edges by creating a new layer and selecting the Soft Round brush to paint the rectangle’s edges with the color #99161A:

How to create Christmas Greeting Card with Decorative Snowflakes on Red Background in Adobe Photoshop CS6

We’ve got the next result:

How to create Christmas Greeting Card with Decorative Snowflakes on Red Background in Adobe Photoshop CS6

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