Christmas is coming and we just can’t have enough of these little helpers which we need to make creative Christmas graphics. In this post, my dear GBG-ers,and visitors, I present you a brand new
Photoshop brushes set
Christmas Photo Masks
As you probably guessed, the image above (yes, that’s Mirta:)) was made with this set. So, if you’re interested in making similar effects – keep on reading.
Christmas Photo Masks set contains 16 brushes:
- 4 brushes in two sizes (total of 8 brushes) and
- 4 inverted (black-white inversion) in two sizes (total of 8 brushes).
So there are 16 free Photoshop brushes in this set.
Also, down below you will find the download link to 4 PNG files in 3600×3600 pixels size at 300dpi. Perfect for printing in any format!
If you don’t know how to use them, follow this short Photoshop video:
How to use Photoshop Brushes as Photo Masks tutorial –>>
But, before just heading over to download links bear with me just a second more:
I used Christmas Photo Masks Photoshop Brushes to make a cover for our Graphics-Illustrations.Com Christmas Album.
“What album? How will be making this album?” I hear you say.
“Well – you!”
Because, I thought, this is the perfect time , to make a little
Christmas Graphics Competition
So, here is a short FAQ on the Christmas Graphics Competition
1. What I need to do?
- You need to make Christmas graphics. One, two, tree … well, not more than three submissions please. It can be Christmas card, Christmas Party Invitation, Gift tag, Scrapbook cover … or any other graphic applied to paper or web or video any other media, like mug, or shirt … does’t matter.
- The only condition is to use at least one of the free graphics available for download on Graphics-Illustrations.Com or GreenBulbGang.Com (Hint: FREE LITE Christmas Photoshop brushes set, FREE LITE Grunge Snowflakes Photoshop brushes set, FREE LITE Snowy Skies Photoshop brushes set, FREE LITE Christmas Trees Photoshop brushes set FREE LITE Grunge Stars Photoshop brushes set…) or some of the PREMIUM Photoshop brushes or graphics (Hint: Christmas Photoshop Brushes set )
2. What size and format should the graphic be?
- It can be any size up to width 530px and height 795px, jpg or png format
3. What’s in it for me?
- You’re going to have fun doing it
- Lots of people will see your work
- I still haven’t think of any prizes but it will probably be something from my Shop or mug or something like this
- You will have as much fun as I have doing free stuff for you guys :)
- You will use your work for your own projects as well
- You might even start making new projects based on what you did for this competition
- Anyways, you should have fun doing it and sharing with the rest of us
- It will be featured on:
- This blog
- Graphics-Illustrations.Com Facebook fan page (right now over 2300 fans will have the pleasure of enjoying your work)
- Graphics-Illustrations.Com Christmas 2009 Graphics Album which will be the showcase of your work
Ha! I just figured out what will be the first prize for the Christmas competition! This: Family Video Photo Album!
- What is the deadline for submission?
- Well, how about 14th of December? Yes. Let’s make it Monday, 14th Monday 28th of December!
- And where do I send my work?
- Since our greenbulbgang.com social networking site is still under development you can send your submissions to
silvia (at) graphics-illustrations.com
- Since our greenbulbgang.com social networking site is still under development you can send your submissions to
So, what you see above is the cover page for the Christmas Graphics Competition Album.
Here is what I used to create it:
- Christmas Photo Masks Lite Photoshop Brushes set
- Red light Christmas Background (Layer style: “Multiply” on red colored Background)
For some inspiration check what are other people created using Photoshop Brushes as Photo Masks and join our GBG to get more than 70 Photoshop Brushes sets and other free downloads.
Pooof … that was one long post.
That’s it! Have fun creating and start sending your submissions now!
Love ya all!
Silvia
P.S.
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OK. As I promised in my previous post, today I will show you how to display your work on Zazzle and give yourself a chance to sell some of your work done with my Photoshop brushes.
So, dimensions of our Christmas Party Invitation were 5.25” x 5.25” which is 2550 x 2550 pixels. It is important to start the document in proper dimensions. If we don’t do that – later on the things might get complicated.
Here are some explanations that you know before starting your own designs (explanation from Zazzle):
“Bleed” is a printing term used to indicate the area that will be trimmed off after the job is printed and cut down to the finished size. This ensures that the design is printed to the full edge of the product. Our paper products contain a Safe Area and a Bleed Area. Always make sure any important parts of your design fall inside the Safe Area, and that your design background fully extends through the Bleed Area. Whatever is in the Bleed Area will get trimmed off, leaving your design printed all the way up to the Product Edge.
Zazzle supports images in JPEG, PNG, PDF, and Adobe Illustrator (AI) formats – so, if you are working with transparent images PNG, PDF i AI formats will be the formats of your choice.
So, let’s roll the sleeves and start having fun! :)
Once you start a new project on Zazzle you will be offered several templates to start with.
A well done wizard will guide you through the creating process:
Pick the invitation size:
And add images. Basically, images are front and back size of our invitation in .jpg format.
So, let’s select “My computer” option …
And upload our invitation.
Not much to do from this point on. Here is the preview of the front side:
Now, let’s pick the back side:
And add the back side of our invitation:
Voila!
Now it is only a matter of posting our invitation in our store and making it available for purchase:
Of course, we will need to add some details to to, like entering a Title, Subtitle and the Description of our product:
That’s it! We’re done! Time for a cup of tea … or coffee!
Or, even better – make another product! Make a mug, or T-Shirt, or baseball hat, badge …. etc … etc …
It was pretty simple and fast – you will agree! I hope you like the idea and I hope you see, once again, on this example, how Photoshop brushes can be of a great help when it comes to speeding things up or bridging the creativity gaps we all run into from time to time.
OK. That’s it for today. Have a great weekend and have fun creating!
Hugs,
Silvia
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Create unique Christmas Party Invitations for your friends and family or start a new job and earn some extra money. Here goes another short tutorial where I’m trying to prove, one more time, how easy, fast and fun it can be to use Photoshop brushes.
I this little tutorial I will show you how to use your passion and love for visual arts, turn your creative juices into something new and surprise your friends and/or family. In part two of this tutorial I will show you how to upload your Christmas Party Invitation to Zazzle and try to make some extra $$ with it!
And it will be fun!
So, for starters, let’s what we’ll need. Uhmmm … first we will need some nice, fancy-schmancy holiday font. You might have some already, but I always like to explore new stuff and I just ain’t gonna miss the opportunity to visit my favorite fonts places: www.dafont.com.
For this little occasion of ours - I picked this Santa’s Sleigh typography.
After downloading and installing the font (I hope you know how to do that, if not here is the hint: put them into Fonts folder :), we are going to open our good old Photoshop and create 5,25″x5,25″ document at 300 dpi. These dimensions (especially the dpi) are required by zazzle.com, so we’ll stick to it.
In this case I will load my favorite Christmas Photoshop Brushes set (55 brushes) (available in my shop for only $9,99), or you can use FREE LITE version (7 brushes) from GBG download area.If you are a GBG member you already have the download link and if you’re not – now here is a great opportunity! Become a GBG member and get access to 80+ Photoshop brushes sets including the FREE LITE Christmas Photoshop brushes set and FREE LITE Snowflakes Photoshop brushes set!
Press F5 to display Photoshop brushes window, load them and press B to activate Brush tool.
Because our Christmas Party Invitation has front and back side, we are going to organize our work in two Layer Groups, first Layer Group will be used for the front side of the invitation and the second Layer Group (which we will create on a later stage) will be used for the back side.
Now, let’s use some brushes! Press B to activate Brush tool, set foreground color to some light gray and simply add the brushes to our canvas.
Now, let’s add some snow!
Let’s add a new Layer (we are going to need it later) pick the snowflake brush and bit lighter gray color. Play with the brush settings as demonstrated below: adjust Shape Dynamics, Scattering for dispersion and Other Dynamics for the various tones of gray color and Spacing to adjust space between the snowflakes.
Now, just a few strokes with our brush on the canvas and voila! It’s snowing!
Now add desired text using Santa’s Sleigh font (downloaded from www.dafont.com).
And the front side of our invitation is over!
Now, let’s do some work on the back of the invitation. Create a new Layer Group and duplicate the layer with the snowflakes only.
On the back of the invitation type RSVP and make a dashed line with the Text tool (T). Spacing between the characters should be set at 100 (or more).
We are done :) Now print this card on your printer or use your local printing company or create account on zazzle.com.
That was simple, easy and fast, wasn’t it!
In the next tutorial I will show you how to make this invitation available for sale.
Whatever you do, do not forget: Have Fun Creating!
S :)
PS:
Of course, if you don’t feel like doing the whole thing by yourself, just DOWNLOAD this Christmas Party Invitation template in psd format HERE –>>
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Note: Santa’s Sleigh font is not included in the download (you will have to download it from www.dafont.com!)
And yes, you can sell stuff that you created with my Photoshop brushes! That’s because all of my Photoshop brushes come with a CU which stands for Commercial Use License, meaning you can create stuff with my brushes and sell it. So, get more great brushes from my Photoshop brushes shop and start creating ->
Orrrr … you can get all of my Photoshop brushes for 1/2 price! Find out more ->
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Christmas is coming. And maybe I would not notice too if the sales of Christmas Illustrations didn’t go up sharply in the last few days.
Obviously, designers, desktop publishers, art directors and marketing managers don’t waste time. After all, almost every one of us prepares at least some kind of graphics for Christmas, I thought I’d help you out by selecting and showing you some of my Christmas Illustrations.
© Photographer: Bsilvia | Agency: Dreamstime.com
Also, in my little shop of wonders I have something very special and very Christmas. Christmas Photoshop brushes set (55+55). And, along with this set, comes a gift! Actually two gifs! But, I will not tell you what are the gifts as it wouldn’t be a surprise, now would it? :)
This special edition set contains:
- 55 HiRes Photoshop brushes (300 – 2428 pixels)
- 55 smaller Photoshop brushes (130-1400 pixels)
Commercial license included and it’s compatible with Photoshop 7.0, CS, CS2, CS3, CS4 and CS5. You can use it on PC and MAC.
Click here for preview:
This set will help you make:
* Christmas scrap books
* Greeting cards
* Gift wrapping paper
* Even decorating your apartment
* Make a gift like a mug or t-shirt or clothing on Zazzle or Cafepress
* Let your imagination go wild as of this line :)
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Get Christmas Photoshop bruhshes set (55+55) now for $9.99
As I said, being so grateful to all of you who buy my brushes, who support my work and benefit from it at the same time. I prepared a little something for all buyers of this Christmas Photoshop brushes set (55+55). I want this little something to be a little Christmas surprise gift for you!
So, after buying this Photoshop brushes set, be prepared to receive two surprise gifts!
Have fun creating!
S :D
P.S.: You can get my Christmas, Winter and New Year related Illustrations on Dreamstime:
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We are still in the Holiday Atmosphere! Oh, yes!
Still, I’d like to show you what Tammy did with my brushes for the Crowne Plaza Jacksonville Riverfront Hotel.
As I always say, I am always happy to feature the works done with my brushes in the real life. Such as these Holiday Cards:
And here’s the hotel itself … (it is placed right on the St. John’s River in Jacksonville, FL)
Uh, oh, … strawberries and wine :)
I truly believe Tammy when she says that it is a great place to stay and maybe, one day, you never know, I just might visit :)
Anyway, that’s it for today, thank you Tammy for using my Grunge Snowflake PS Brushes, which are, by the way – FREE to download after join GBG here. (read my free download policy and Terms Of Use for more info)
Of course, just imagine what can be done with the REAL DEAL:
My 800+ Photoshop brushes MEGA SET! Check it out here ->
Cheers, S*
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Guys and gals,
Just a small post about this years Christmas Fair, Susanne and myself. As my old visitors already know, this year the Artists Society selected me along with some 20 artists who are allowed to set up their own “cabin” at this years Christmas Fair.
So, we did it!
I am selling my own stuff like, photos on wood, diaries, wooden candle holders and Susanne sells her socks and pantyhose.
And here are some images (taken late at night):
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Today I have: Snowy sky Photoshop brushes set of 13, hi-res!
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