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How to create Festive Christmas card with Shining Decorative Star in Photoshop CS5

Now we have to create a kind of tail coming out from the big star. Choose the Pen Tool (P), set the drawing mode on Shape Layers in Options bar and draw the next shape as shown.

How to create Festive Christmas card with Shining Decorative Star in Photoshop CS5

Set Fill to 0% for this layer and click on Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel to select Gradient Overlay.

How to create Festive Christmas card with Shining Decorative Star 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.

How to create Festive Christmas card with Shining Decorative Star in Photoshop CS5

We’ve got the next result:

How to create Festive Christmas card with Shining Decorative Star in Photoshop CS5

Create a new layer and select the Soft Round brush.

How to create Festive Christmas card with Shining Decorative Star in Photoshop CS5

Use this brush to paint the background on the indicated area with #FFEB00 color (brush Opacity – 10%).

How to create Festive Christmas card with Shining Decorative Star in Photoshop CS5

Set the Blending mode for this layer to Overlay.

How to create Festive Christmas card with Shining Decorative Star in Photoshop CS5

Create a new layer and select here the Soft Round brush to paint on the stars situated on the top left side. The brush’s color is #D40050 (brush Opacity – 15%).

How to create Festive Christmas card with Shining Decorative Star in Photoshop CS5

We’ve got the next result:

How to create Festive Christmas card with Shining Decorative Star in Photoshop CS5

Set the Blending mode for this layer to Overlay.

How to create Festive Christmas card with Shining Decorative Star in Photoshop CS5

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

How to create Festive Christmas card with Shining Decorative Star in Photoshop CS5

Use this brush to paint on the big star and the tail on the upper zone.

How to create Festive Christmas card with Shining Decorative Star in Photoshop CS5

Set Fill to 53% for this layer and change the Blending mode to Overlay.

How to create Festive Christmas card with Shining Decorative Star 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.

How to create Festive Christmas card with Shining Decorative Star in Photoshop CS5

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

How to create Festive Christmas card with Shining Decorative Star 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 brush from light_brushes_2 set:

How to create Festive Christmas card with Shining Decorative Star in Photoshop CS5

Use this brush to add many small stars of white color. We should add the stars of different sizes and use different Opacity values for brush.

How to create Festive Christmas card with Shining Decorative Star in Photoshop CS5

Set the Blending mode for this layer to Overlay.

How to create Festive Christmas card with Shining Decorative Star in Photoshop CS5

Make a copy of the last made layer and set the Blending mode for this layer to Lighten.

How to create Festive Christmas card with Shining Decorative Star in Photoshop CS5

Create a new layer and select on it the Hard Round brush of white color (set Opacity to 15% in Options bar).

How to create Festive Christmas card with Shining Decorative Star in Photoshop CS5

Use this brush to draw many small circles. Firstly represent a circle of bigger diameter and then inside of it one of a smaller diameter.

How to create Festive Christmas card with Shining Decorative Star in Photoshop CS5

Set the Blending mode for this layer to Overlay.

How to create Festive Christmas card with Shining Decorative Star 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.

How to create Festive Christmas card with Shining Decorative Star in Photoshop CS5

We’ve got the next result:

How to create Festive Christmas card with Shining Decorative Star in Photoshop CS5

Our Festive Christmas card with Shining Decorative Star is finished!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

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Download free Layered PSD file.

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