Merry Christmas :)

In this tutorial, you’ll go through easy steps and techniques to design a simple illustration for Christmas. You’ll learn how to use the brush presets and modify its properties. Let’s get started!

Program: Photoshop
Difficulty: Beginner
Completion Time: 30-45 minutes

Final Image:

Create a new document (Ctrl+N) in Photoshop with the size 1920px by 1200px (RGB color mode) at a resolution of 72 pixels/inch. Using the Rectangle Tool (U), let’s represent a big rectangle reserved for background we want to have.

For this layer click on Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel and select Gradient Overlay:

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.

We’ve got the next background:

Create a new layer and use on it the Soft Round brush from Brush Tool (B).

Change the Foreground color to black, set Opacity to 10% for this brush in Options bar and paint the bottom part of the picture as shown:

Next we must create a new layer and apply on it the Hard Round brush to outline the contours of the Christmas tree.

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