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.