Friday, January 2, 2009

:|: MHO :|: Photoshop Adv. Tuts ::: Night Before Christmas

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Hiiiii Friendzzzzz..
 
Happy New Year
 
Here It's A New Year's First Creation Specilly For U..
 
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Night Before Christmas 
 
Final Image :
We will create something like this
 
night-before-xmas-1920x1200
 
Step 1: Document Creation And Sky
 
Create a new document, I wanted this image to use later as wallpaper, so I used 1920×1200 resolution, 72 dpi.

 

Fill background with radial gradient (press G to activate gradient menu) with colors #1773e3 and #0b3972:

 
gradient-color
 
gradient
 
Step 2: Star Creation
 
Although we will create night effect, we need again to create some stars.
 

Now create new layer ( CTRL+SHIFT+N), right above the background, fill it with black ( choose black and ALT+DELETE to fill).

 

Go to Filter–>Add Noise and add settings like on picture below (amount 20-30):

 

noise

 

To get lesser amount of white noise, go to Image–>Adjustments–>Brightness/Contrast:

 

brightness-contrast

 

Change Blending style to Color Dodge:

 

color-dodge

 

Step 3 : Ground creation

 

Press CTRL+SHIFT+N to create new layer ( look at screenshot at my layers palette so it's the same like mine).

 

Then select rectangular marque tool (press M) and do selection like this:

 

marque-tool

 

Let's use linear gradient to create 3D look with colors #000b17 and #0b3972:

 

linear-gradient

 

Ok, now we have background:

 

linear-ground-gradient

 

Step 4: Adding Detailed Star

 

Create a new layer and grab soft  brush (B), change foreground color to white ( press D to reset colors and X to switch foreground/background).

 

airbrush

 

Draw big stars in various sizes on the sky and use right/left brackets [ ], to change brush size  :

 

sky-stars

 

Step 4: Adding Moon

 

What is Christmas night without moon? Let's create one!

 

Create a new layer, select from custom shape tool - "Crescent moon", if You don't have shapes like me, do this bonus step:

 

load-shapes

 

Add moon in sky, where You want, also add white outer glow to the moon.

 

custom-shape-moon

 

layer-style-outer-glow

 

Step 5: Hills And Downs

 

Now let's create some hills and falls. For that, here I just give an example.

 

Hit CTRL+SHIFT+N to create a new layer and press P to activate Your Pen tool. Do selection like picture below creating smooth lines and don't forget to close whole selection.

 

pentool-hill

 

Now bring up Your path panel - Window–>Path and press CTRL+CLICK on the work path to make selection.

 

path-selection

 

Grab again gradient tool (G), but this time use linear gradient using colors - #a2acff and #4759e5. You can use other Gradient to make the hill colourful.

 

linear-gradient

 

hill-color

 

Here, I have made just Two colourful hills.

 

hills-downs

 

Also look at my layer order:

 

layer-structure

 

Step 6: Adding Trees

 

Now let's create some trees to make look our scene more interesting.

 

Add some guidelines to create more precise results, create new layer, then grab pen tool and try to do something like this:

 

(You can get guidelines, by pressing CTRL+R to get rulers. Just click and pull from rulers to get them).

 

tree-pen-tool

 

Now CTRL+Click on path, and fill it with any color pressing ALT+DELETE ( foreground color):

 

If You don't see Your path palette - go Windows–>Path.

 

path-tree

 

Now on the tree layer, add blending options–>gradient overlay with colors - #1b2d02 and #477407:

 

layer-style-tree-gradient

 

Duplicate layer 2 times (press CTRL+ Upper Arrow) and upper layer transform perspective a little bit:

 

perspective-tree

 

Ok, now holding SHIFT select all three layers and group them pressing  CTRL+G. You can also smudge trees to add texture, but I won't do that this time.

 

With all three layers still selected, resize trees to much smaller size  - CTRL+T and holding shift resize.

 

We will use these trees in background, so we need many trees. Just press on the group with CTRL+Upper Arrow to create more duplicates and position trees like in the picture below:

 

tree-background

 

Add as much trees as You think is necessary.

 

scene-with-trees

 

Step 7: Horizontal Shadow

 

Let's add shadow on trees - create a new layer, select rectangular tool with black color:

 

black-gaussian-blur

 

Go Filter–>Gaussian blur and blur it 100px radius. Change blending mode to overlay and reduce opacity to 64%.

 

shadow-layer

 

Step 8: Adding Global Colors and Shadows

 

Create a new layer on the top of all layers and add some colorful radial gradient, change blending mode to overlay.

 

colorful-gradient

 

Adding Shadows:

 

Let's add some more shadows - use Elliptical marque tool and feather 100px. Create a selection and then press CTRL+SHIFT+I to invert selection and fill it with black ( ALT+DELETE). Change blending mode opacity to 75%.

 

selection-shadow

 

Okay, we are already finished, I added just a few more effects:

 

1. I added those swirly lines at the moon, with pen tool –> stroke path.. –> simulate pressure.

 

2. Also I added two trees on the front side in the same way as I added background trees, I just didn't want to go through whole process again.

 

night-before-xmas-1920x1200

 

 

So Friends... Have You Enjoyed This...!!! 
 
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