![]() The white snowflakes and frame snowflakes brushes are Design by Firgs Snowflake Brush 6. I painted a little beige color over the white flakes to make the lettering stand out better. To find the Layer Styles in Elements, highlight your layer to add effect to, go to Menu -> Layer -> Layer Style -> Style Settings. The Frame Layer has an Outer Glow layer style set to Blend Mode Screen at 75% opacity and Size 16 pixels to make the frame stand out a little. ![]() Note the Text Layer has a 1 pixel Stroke layer style set to Black and Outside. Below is an image of the layers as they appear in the finished image above. The Background Image layer was changed to 73% opacity. Then use the Move Tool to scale, rotate, and move the image(s) to place it. (These are both images I took last Christmas.) Switch to the template file, highlight the layer(s) that indicates where the photo(s) should be placed, and press CTRL+V to place the image above that layer. Open up your other image(s), CTRL+A to select the whole image, and CTRL+C to copy the image. Same steps as with the regular Photoshop program. This template was processed completely in Photoshop Elements. I hope everyone has a great time with them – I know I did!….Digital Lady Syd’s Free Christmas Card Template Using Photoshop Elements Well I believe this should be enough resources to make some really pretty Christmas Cards. I just found a good article on 8 Tips for Printing Inkjet Greeting Cards from Red River Paper that may help with your cards. Unfortunately the do not support PhotoFrame (which was one of my very favorite plug-ins) but have incorporated their frames and borders into OnOne Perfect Effects. I also used an OnOne (see website link in sidebar of my Tidbits Blog) PhotoFrame for the vintage look border. In late 2014 Matt left KelbyOne (NAPP) so I am not sure his blog will be up for long. This preset is for Lightroom 3 but it can be easily updated to work with Lightroom 5. I put a final touch on this image using Matt Kloskowski’s Vintage preset in Lightroom. They may still be available in the How to Wow books currently being sold. They were on the CD of a little gem of a book called “ Adobe Photoshop 7 One-Click Wow!‘ that I have used over and over (in 2014 I am still using these layer styles – check out a free download from Jack’s Facebook Page and click on More-Jack’s Freebees – his Mini Sampler has some in it). Also, for this image I used a gradient from the Wow 7 Gradients set from Jack Davis. In this case I used the image for the base tree and then I used the brushes for the deer, bird and star at the top. Obsidian Dawn is another great resource, especially for any Photoshop presets. On the image below, I used the Christmas Vectors Package from Obsidian Dawn for the tree – you can download both brushes and images. I did not even get through a portion of it but I believe if you have a certain look you want, you should be able to find it here. Once again the people from Photoshop Roadmap took the time to pull 30 Delightful Christmas Photoshop Brushes, Patterns and Vectors together for our use. There were so many ideas to choose from in this group – I could have made many different looks and had a great time creating them all! Photoshop Roadmap always has a really great variety of tutorials they upload all the time so bookmark this one if you can.įor the next image I just wanted to try out some of the great free vector images and holiday brushes that I downloaded. I got the idea from a tutorial at Adobe Tutorials, one of the 80 tutorials gathered by Photoshop Roadmap. This year I decided to use the following image as the tree for my cards. Check out her link for three nice short tutorials on holiday greeting cards. Also be sure to keep your text and any other important parts of the image at least 1/4″ away from the documents edge so you will not accidentally cut them out when printing. Just a couple of card tips that I learned from Lesa Snider: She starts with a 5 x7 inch document at a resolution of 250 ppi to begin her images – this works nicely with the above cards. I make cards all year using this stock of paper and my own pictures. 3378) that are perfect for a bit of vintage look and print out very nicely. I found a box of Heavyweight Textured Half-Fold Cards from Avery (No. As promised, I am presenting a few more ideas on how to make really nice Christmas Cards.
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