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How to Create Christmas Greeting Card with Blue Christmas balls in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Using the Ellipse Tool (U), we may represent a small circle of white color. The layer must be situated under all the layers containing the Christmas balls:

How to Create Christmas Greeting Card with Blue Christmas balls in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Set Fill to 28% for this layer.

How to Create Christmas Greeting Card with Blue Christmas balls in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Make many copies of the layer containing the white circle and select the Free Transform (Ctrl+T) command to change the copies’ sizes, placing them the same way shown on the picture:

How to Create Christmas Greeting Card with Blue Christmas balls in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Create a new layer above the layers containing the white circles, select the Soft Round brush of white color (brush Opacity – 20%).

How to Create Christmas Greeting Card with Blue Christmas balls in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Use this brush to paint the central part of the canvas:

How to Create Christmas Greeting Card with Blue Christmas balls in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Next we’ll draw a kind of thread for the ball, choose the Pen Tool (P), set the drawing mode on Shape Layers in Options bar and draw the next shape as shown. This layer will be placed under the layers with the ball:

How to Create Christmas Greeting Card with Blue Christmas balls in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Select from Options bar the Fill option to set the color for our thread, also set the color for Stroke option and finally from Line Type drop down box select Dotted Line as shown:

How to Create Christmas Greeting Card with Blue Christmas balls in Adobe Photoshop CS6

We’ve got the next result:

How to Create Christmas Greeting Card with Blue Christmas balls in Adobe Photoshop CS6

This way we’ll represent the thread for the other ball:

How to Create Christmas Greeting Card with Blue Christmas balls in Adobe Photoshop CS6

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.

How to Create Christmas Greeting Card with Blue Christmas balls in Adobe Photoshop CS6

We’ve got the next result:

How to Create Christmas Greeting Card with Blue Christmas balls in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Next step we’ll download sets of brushes for Adobe Photoshop, named: Lens Flare . I would like to thank the author of these brushes, or if you prefer, you can substitute similar brushes of your own.

Copy the brushes file to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop X\Presets\Brushes folder (Adobe Photoshop X been your version of Photoshop). Little tutorial to explain how to load new brushes here.

Create a new layer, go to Brush Tool (B) and load the downloaded brushes, select the next brush:

How to Create Christmas Greeting Card with Blue Christmas balls in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Use this brush to represent the shining effect on the Christmas balls. Set the Blending mode for this layer to Luminosity.

How to Create Christmas Greeting Card with Blue Christmas balls in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Create a new layer and select the next brush from Lens Flare set of brushes.

How to Create Christmas Greeting Card with Blue Christmas balls in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Use this brush to draw a highlight element under the balls:

How to Create Christmas Greeting Card with Blue Christmas balls in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Next we need to create some abstract lines. Open Adobe Illustrator and use here the Pen Tool (P) to draw two lines of blue color.

How to Create Christmas Greeting Card with Blue Christmas balls in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Using the Direct Selection Tool (A), select the lines and apply Object > Blend > Blend Options:

How to Create Christmas Greeting Card with Blue Christmas balls in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Select next Object > Blend > Make.

How to Create Christmas Greeting Card with Blue Christmas balls in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Select the abstract lines and press CTRL+C to Copy, return to our main document in Adobe Photoshop. Press CTRL+V to Paste as Smart Object. You can download our source file with lines here.

How to Create Christmas Greeting Card with Blue Christmas balls in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Set Fill to 88% for this layer and change the Blending mode to Overlay.

How to Create Christmas Greeting Card with Blue Christmas balls in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Insert the mask on this layer by choosing Add layer mask on the bottom part of the Layers panel and choose the Soft Round brush of black color.

How to Create Christmas Greeting Card with Blue Christmas balls in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Paint in the mask using this brush to hide the left bottom corner of the lines:

How to Create Christmas Greeting Card with Blue Christmas balls in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Make a copy of the last made lines’ layer, right-click on this layer in Layer panel and select Delete Layer Mask. Set Fill to 100% for this layer and change the Blending mode to Normal. Using the Free Transform (Ctrl+T) command, turn over the copy’s layer, placing it the way from the next picture:

How to Create Christmas Greeting Card with Blue Christmas balls in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Set Fill to 40% for this layer and change the Blending mode to Linear Dodge.

How to Create Christmas Greeting Card with Blue Christmas balls in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Insert the mask on the layer by choosing Add layer mask on the bottom part of the Layers panel and press CTRL+I to Inverse the color.
Choose the Soft Round brush of white color (set Opacity to 40% in Options bar).

How to Create Christmas Greeting Card with Blue Christmas balls in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Paint in the mask using this brush to hide the lines as it is demonstrated below:

How to Create Christmas Greeting Card with Blue Christmas balls in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Create a new layer and select the Soft Round brush of white color (brush Opacity – 15%).

How to Create Christmas Greeting Card with Blue Christmas balls in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Use this brush to paint the highlights on the Christmas balls:

How to Create Christmas Greeting Card with Blue Christmas balls in Adobe Photoshop CS6

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.

How to Create Christmas Greeting Card with Blue Christmas balls in Adobe Photoshop CS6

We’ve got the next result:

How to Create Christmas Greeting Card with Blue Christmas balls in Adobe Photoshop CS6

On the final stage we’ll paint smoothly the threads on their top part. In this case create a new layer and select the Soft Round brush mentioned above. The brush’s color is #FFF690 (brush Opacity – 30%).

How to Create Christmas Greeting Card with Blue Christmas balls in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Our Christmas Greeting Card with Blue Christmas Balls is finished!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

View full size here.

Download free Layered PSD file.

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