Christmas Holly tutorial

By on December 3, 2005 in Miscellaneous, Photoshop, Tutorials

6. Rasterize the leaf shape and apply a gradient overlay style with the settings shown below.

gradient overlay settings

I also drew a black line at the middle of the leaf and here is my final Christmas holly leaf

final christmass holly leaf

7. I duplicated my layer two times and then free tranformed (Edit-> Free transform) the two new layers in order to position them like this.

three christmas holly leafs arranged

8. Then select the Ellipse Tool Ellipse tool again, set the color to red and draw a perfect circle (hold Shift while drawing).

almost done

9. Apply a Gradient Overlay and a Stroke style on the new layer using the settings shown below.
gradient overlay settings
stroke settings

You should get something like this
layer styles result

10. Finally, duplicate this layer a few times and then move the duplicate layers anyway you like to get the result you want. Here is my final result.

final adobe photoshop tutorial result

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5 Responses to Christmas Holly tutorial

  1. Jim December 5, 2005 at 11:01 am #

    Not bad, think it’s quite good actually. simple but good…

  2. dan December 18, 2005 at 6:24 pm #

    thanks alot for this tutorial, it helped me make it on my banner :)

  3. Basilakis December 19, 2005 at 9:06 am #

    Very good tutorial. I will use it to my web site.!

  4. couldnt follow January 9, 2006 at 12:54 pm #

    not too easy to understand how to use pen tool to create a shape like that. you could be more elaborate

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