This tutorial will show you how to create, fast and simple, but effective, winter scene in Photoshop. Use it for your own postcard, greeting card or scrapbook page.
1. Create a new document 6”x4” and color the background using Linear Gradient Tool with light blue (cyan) to white like this:
2. To make hills landscape use the Elliptical Marquee Tool and make some ellipses on a new layer holding down the “Shift” button like this:
3. Fill the hills shape with the same linear gradient fill you used for the background. Copy the “hills” layer and flip the layer horizontally. Now, lower the upper “hills” layer a bit. Reduce the opacity of the hills in the background (lower „hills“ layer) to 50%
4. It should look like this:
5. Add some white thick brush strokes in the blue area and
6. use the Blur Tool (50) to create the clouds effect.
7. It should look like this:
8. Now we need some trees? Yes. Use Polygonal Lasso Tool and create triangle as shown on the following screen shot.
9. Then, press Shift key and while holding it down make another two triangles and the trunk as presented on the following screen shots.
10. Now it’s time to fill the trees with some color. For that purpose we will use the gradient that we used earlier in this tutorial. Convert the tree to a Smart Object – later you can duplicate it and change it’s size without loosing it’s quality.
11. When done with trees, merge all layers that contain trees and copy it.
12. Duplicate the trees layer. Drag one of them between two layers with hills. Flip that layer horizontally (that hill is already flipped so the tress will match).
13. Now we need some snowflakes. A perfect opportunity to use my “Snowy skies” Photoshop brush. Let’s make it white.
14. set the snowflakes layer opacity to 50%.
15. Simple winter scene in Photoshop is done!
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Few Simple Samples
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HO HO HO!
I’m all in the Christmas spirit! Yes! I’m even trying talk into my husband to putting the Christmas lights around the walls of our apartment :) I really, really like all the dazzling of clear bulb sparkle Christmas lights!
So, I have some new and interesting downloads today: Digital Scrapbook set – Four Digital Scrapbook pages for coming holidays album… and you have two options: either download 4 Digital Scrapbook pages as a .png file: with transparent windows for your images (you can easily put your images behind the upper layer, 19MB) and download 4 Digital Scrapbook pages as .jpg file: print it and stick your images in „frames“! (13MB)
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Here’s the small preview of 4 (four) different pages in this Digital Scrapbook “Holiday” set:
- one page for four horizontal images,
- one page for four vertical images,
- one for two small vertical images and one bigger horizontal image
- one for two big vertical images
And here’s the preview of the page detail at 100%. Pages are in 7,5“x7,5“ size at 250px per inch which is more than enough for your printer.
Enjoy! :)
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Latest news: yesterday I bought 2 domain names, one is my “user name”- bsilvia (bsilvia.com) and the other is “blogffiliate.com”. Webhosting at siteground.com as usual, I’ve been their customer for 6 years and never had any problems or issues. So I’m sticking with them.
** // UPDATE ON WEB HOSTING: Unfortunately, in the meantime I had issues with Siteground. HUGE ISSUES. At some point they decided that my site is taking up too much of their resources and that I should go for $97 dollars hosting plan instead of $4.50/month. I had something like 24 hours to convert to ueber-expensive hosting. Non-negotiable. I was desperate. Checked on my statistics, they did not show any changes, same traffic as always. They refused to provide any kind of technical assistance or explanation. I had to convert to $97 – immediately. So, I paid. I kept on paying until I moved to Hostgator which is now my host of choice. ** //
Maybe I’ll transfer this one to new domain “bsilvia.com”, so wish me luck with my new blogs (I’m gonna need it)!
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Love,
S :)
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I wanted to share with you my latest wallpaper! (1024×768) Download wallpaper
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Monday, Monday…
Today I created a set of “film brushes” made out of my old negatives and slides (6×6 and 35 mm).
All images are mine. I took ‘em :) (Please see commercial use of brushes info). Some of them are even taken with the Lomo camera – Holga :) and the origin looks like this yellow toned image on the right (taken with yellow plastic Holga filter in cute little city Novigrad in Istria, Croatia). Two years ago, that was my first lomography experiment.
The collection is heavy (15 MB) so please be patient, but I think it’s worth it and you gonna like them: Download free Photoshop brushes here (set of 13 brushes) and enjoy! :-*
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Hello friends!
Yet another Monday and yet more free Photoshop brushes on my blog (set of 6, high res swirls). You can download this Simple Swirls Photoshop Brushes set here–>
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Why is she doing all this? Some of you might wonder.
Well, except for being such a terrific person :), I also hope that some of you will maybe be interested to buy a book at Amazon, which (if you buy from one of the links on the right side) would make me some .30-.40 cents.
It’s not a lot, but being such a modest person, it would still make me happy. (You couldn’t care less, I know, but I still wanted to write it).
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I am receiving a lot of questions about commercial usage of my brushes and other artwork that is available on this blog. Most of you, naturally, understand that I invest lot of work, time and effort to create and offer free brushes and other free resources on this blog.
Now, here is the deal:
ALL WORK ON GRAPHIC-ILLUSTRATIONS.COM BLOG IS PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT AND/OR OTHER APPLICABLE LAW. ANY USE OF THE WORK OTHER THAN AS AUTHORIZED UNDER THIS LICENSE OR COPYRIGHT LAW IS PROHIBITED.
OK. So, general idea is:
All artwork here is offered for you to create your own designs with it. Naturally, you are then the owner of all artwork you derive from the artwork offered on my blog.
Here is more details:
1. COPYRIGHT OF THE FREE BRUSHES AND OTHER FREE ARTWORK OFFERED ON THIS SITE
1.1. YOU MAY NOT re-sell any of the work from this site in it’s original form. Remember, make your own artwork and do what you want with it;
1.2. YOU MAY NOT re-distribute (offer for download or share or copy on any other digital or analog media) artwork from this site in it’s original form (e.g. “.abr” files) without my permission;
1.4. YOU ARE KINDLY ASKED to provide a back link to my site if you use my free downloads :)
1.5. YOU MIGHT even consider purchasing the PREMIUM version of the brushes
2. COPYRIGHT OF THE ARTWORK THAT IS PURCHASED AND PAID FOR
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You MAY:
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2.1. YOU MAY use the content to create layouts for your own personal use, commercial and non-commercial use like scrapbook kits, wedding invitations, birthday cards, ads, web sites and other commercial and non-commercial projects.
2.2. YOU MAY make gifts for family and friends.
2.3. YOU MAY alter size, color, etc. to suit your layouts.
2.4. YOU MAY submit project for publication using these graphics.
2.5. YOU MAY make one copy of this set for backup purposes only, but not with intent to redistribute.
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You MAY NOT:
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2.6. YOU MAY NOT Claim brushes as your own.
2.7. YOU MAY NOT share this set in it’s original format with anyone.
2.8. YOU MAY NOT redistribute or resell the file(s).
2.9. YOU MAY NOT remove any notice of copyright included in the content.
2.10. YOU MAY NOT make any of the graphics into brushes again and redistribute them.
2.11. YOU MAY NOT offer these brushes on any web site as downloads or send them through a news list or any other way. This is pirating, and is ILLEGAL!
That’s it!
Thanks everyone and have fun creating!
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I have another set of high-res (805-2229 pix) Photoshop brushes.
Download free “Splatter” brushes set for Photoshop (11 brushes) here
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Here is one of the graphics where I applied “Splatter” brushes (and if you like or need for some of your future projects you can buy this graphics for as low as $0.26, just click on it):
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