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Holiday Greeting Card Photo Border. Written by Steve Patterson.
In this Photoshop tutorial, we'll learn how to create a simple and fun holiday greeting card- style photo border! Photoshop ships with some great snowflake shapes that we can use in our design, and we'll convert them into brushes so we can add variety to our border with snowflakes of different sizes, angles and opacity levels! We'll use a layer mask to cut out the area where the photo will appear, and a layer style to add a thin border around the photo itself. We'll finish things off by adding some traditional . I'll be using Photoshop CS5 here, but any recent version of Photoshop will work. Here's what the final result will look like: The final result. Let's get started!
Step 1: Create A New Photoshop Document. Before we begin work on the photo border itself, let's start by creating some snowflake brushes to use in our design. We'll need a new Photoshop document, so go up to the File menu in the Menu Bar along the top of the screen and choose New: Go to File > New. This opens the New Document dialog box. Enter 2. 00 pixels for both the Width and Height of the new document, and make sure the Background Contents option is set to White. Click OK when you're done to close out of the dialog box. A new 2. 00x. 20.
Create a new 2. 00x. Step 2: Select The Custom Shape Tool. Photoshop ships with a few ready- made snowflake shapes that we can use. To access them, select the Custom Shape Tool from the Tools panel. By default, it's hiding behind the Rectangle Tool, so click on the Rectangle Tool and hold your mouse button down for a second or two until a fly- out menu appears, then select the Custom Shape Tool from the list: Click and hold on the Rectangle Tool, then select the Custom Shape Tool from the list. Step 3: Load The Nature Shape Set. With the Custom Shape Tool selected, right- click (Win) / Control- click (Mac) anywhere inside the document window to quickly access the Shape Picker, then click on the small arrow in the top right corner of it: Click on the small triangle in the top right corner of the Shape Picker.
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Clicking on the arrow opens a menu with various options, along with a list of additional shape sets that we can load into Photoshop. Click on the Nature shape set to select it, which is the set that contains the snowflakes: Set the Nature shape set from the menu. Photoshop will ask if you want to replace the current shapes with the Nature shapes or if you'd rather just append them to the list, which will add them below the original shapes. Click the Append button: Choose Append to add the Nature shapes in with the original shapes. Step 4: Select The First Snowflake Shape. With the Nature shapes now loaded, scroll down through the small shape thumbnails until you see the snowflakes (there's three of them in a row). Click on the first snowflake's thumbnail (the one on the left) to select it.
If you have Tool Tips enabled in Photoshop's Preferences, you'll see the shape's name, . Once you've selected the snowflake shape, press Enter (Win) / Return (Mac) to close out of the Shape Picker: Click on the first of three snowflake shapes to select it.
Step 5: Select The Fill Pixels Option. Photoshop gives us three different types of shapes that we can draw - vector shapes, paths and pixel- based shapes. We can switch between the types by selecting them in the Options Bar. We're going to be creating brushes out of the snowflake shapes, and since brushes are made of pixels, we'll draw pixel- based shapes.
Click on the Fill Pixels icon in the Options Bar (the one on the right) to select it: Each icon in the row of three selects a different type of shape. Press the letter D on your keyboard to quickly reset Photoshop's Foreground and Background colors to their defaults, which sets the Foreground color to black. Then, click in the center of the document and, with your mouse button still held down, begin dragging outward to draw the snowflake shape. As soon as you begin dragging, hold down Shift+Alt (Win) / Shift+Option (Mac), then continue dragging. Make sure you wait until after you've started dragging before holding down these keys (if you see your cursor temporarily switch to the Eyedropper Tool, it's because you held the keys down too early). Holding the Shift key down will constrain the dimensions of the snowflake so it doesn't end up looking tall and thin or short and fat, while the Alt (Win) / Option (Mac) key tells Photoshop to drag the shape out from its center.
Drag out the largest snowflake you can fit inside the document window, then release your mouse button, then the keys (once again, make sure you release the keys after you release your mouse button). If you need to reposition the snowflake as you're drawing it, hold down your spacebar, drag the shape around inside the document, then release the spacebar and continue: The black snowflake will become the brush tip. Step 7: Create A Brush From The Snowflake. With the first snowflake in place, go up to the Edit menu at the top of the screen and choose Define Brush Preset: Go to Edit > Define Brush Preset.
Name the new brush ! We still need to make brushes out of the other two snowflake shapes, so first, press Ctrl+Z (Win) / Command+Z (Mac) to undo the snowflake we just drew in the document window. You should see only the solid white background. Then repeat Steps 4 - 7 for each of the other two snowflake shapes. Right- click (Win) / Control- click (Mac) inside the document window to bring up the Shape Picker and click on the next snowflake's thumbnail to select it. Make sure the Fill Pixels option is selected in the Options Bar. Click in the center of the document and begin dragging out the snowflake shape, then hold down Shift+Alt (Win) / Shift+Option (Mac) and continue dragging out the largest snowflake that will fit inside the document.
Go up to the Edit menu and choose Define Brush Preset, then name the new brush either . Remember to press Ctrl+Z (Win) / Command+Z (Mac) after you've created the . Our snowflake brushes are now ready to go.
We'll be creating a brand new Photoshop document for our holiday photo border next. Step 9: Create Another New Photoshop Document.
Let's create another new Photoshop document, this time for our holiday photo border. Just as we did previously, go up to the File menu at the top of the screen and choose New to bring up the New Document dialog box. I'm going to use a standard photo size of 4x. I'll be using is in portrait orientation, I'll enter 4 inches for the Width and 6 inches for the Height. You may need to enter a different size (5x. Finally, since I'll want to print my final result, I'll enter a Resolution value of 2. The new document will appear on your screen: The New Document dialog box.
Step 1. 0: Fill The Background Layer With Black. At the moment, our document background is white. Let's fill it with black, which will make it easier later on to see the area where the photo will appear. Go up to the Edit menu at the top of the screen and choose Fill: Go to Edit > Fill. This brings up the Fill dialog box. Change the Use option at the top of the dialog box to Black, then click okay to exit out of it. Photoshop will fill the document with solid black: Change the Use option to black, then click OK.
Step 1. 1: Add A New Blank Layer. Click on the New Layer icon at the bottom of the Layers panel (second icon from the right, beside the Trash Bin): Click on the New Layer icon. This adds a new layer above the Background layer.
Photoshop names the new layer . Go back up to the Edit menu and once again choose Fill.
This time when the Fill dialog box appears, change the Use option to Color: Change the Use option to Color. As soon as you select Color, Photoshop pops open the Color Picker where we can choose the color we want to fill the layer with. Choose a bright, holiday shade of red: Choose a bright red from the Color Picker. Click OK when you're done to close out of the Color Picker, then click OK to close out of the Fill dialog box. The document becomes filled with red: The document after filling Layer 1 with red. Step 1. 3: Select The Brush Tool. We're ready to add some snowflakes to the document.
Select Photoshop's Brush Tool from the Tools panel: Select the Brush Tool. With the Brush Tool selected, right- click (Win) / Control- click (Mac) anywhere inside the document to quickly bring up the Brush Picker, just as we brought up the Shape Picker earlier when the Custom Shape Tool was selected.
Scroll through the brush tip thumbnails until you see the three snowflake brushes we just created. They should be at the bottom of the list. Click on the first one, . Press F5 on your keyboard to bring up the Brushes panel. I'm using Photoshop CS5 here so my Brushes panel will look a little bit different than what you'll see in earlier versions of Photoshop, but most of the options are still the same.
If you are using Photoshop CS5, make sure the Brush tab is selected at the top of the panel. We're going to use Photoshop's Brush Dynamics to add variety to our snowflakes as we paint them onto the photo border. Click directly on the words Shape Dynamics in the left column of the panel. Make sure you click on the words themselves, not in the checkbox beside the words, otherwise you won't get access to the options: Click on the words .
Set the Minimum Diameter to 2. Increase the Size and Angle Jitter to 1.
Minimum Diameter to 2. Next, if you're using Photoshop CS5, click directly on the word Transfer on the left of the dialog box.
In CS4 and earlier, click on the words Other Dynamics: Click on . Increase the Opacity Jitter option to 7. When you're done, press F5 once again on your keyboard to close out of the Brushes panel for now: Increase Opacity Jitter to 7.
Step 1. 5: Add The First Snowflakes. With the . We want our snowflakes to be white this time, not black as they were earlier, so press the letter X on your keyboard to swap the Foreground and Background colors, which makes the Foreground color white (Photoshop paints with the current Foreground color).