Create a Winter-Themed Holiday Card in Photoshop – Tuts+ Premium Tutorial

Stephen Petrany on Dec 1st 2011 with 9 comments

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Program: Adobe Photoshop CS4+
Difficulty: Advanced
Estimated Completion Time: 3 Hours

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In this Tuts+ Premium tutorial, author Stephen Petrany will demonstrate how to use various techniques to create a winter-themed holiday card in Photoshop. This tutorial will creatively utilize Photoshop filters and transformations to create a fantastic winter illustration. This tutorial is available exclusively to Tuts+ Premium Members. If you are looking to take your design skills to the next level then Log in or Join Now to get started!

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http://www.arphetamin.hu Arphetamin
The word “SNOW” on the ball is not wrong?
sukant
Why you people only puting premium tutorials from so many continuos days ..pls put some good video tutorials for general public its my request from Tutsplus.com team

Coda81
Because they just rolled out the new premium program and they want to add value to it for people like myself and others who DO pay for their hard work and effort to teach us something new all the time. I mean they are paying people to keep this stuff coming, the little money they are charging is worth it for what they offer. But that’s just my opinion.

kalmaya
the word Snow is wrong it should be reflected on the ball.

http://www.arphetamin.hu Arphetamin
Yessss :)

Adam
Er… the reflection is correct, I think you’ve been looking at other reflection tutorials where the an object that sits on top of a reflective plain has a reversed image below it. That is not the case here. The text is floating some way in front of the globe and the back side of the text is being reflected on the front of the globe, that is exactly how it should be – you can always set up the scene in a 3D modelling program like Blender if you don’t believe me with the text in front of a reflective sphere.

http://designerfied.com/ Designerfied
This looks great! But I do agree, I think the Snow text reflection would look better upside down and adjusted properly.
http://www.psd-dude.com john
It looks really nice!
http://creativeduck.blogspot.com Mikey
Adam is right, the reflection is correct, although it could do with a touch more distortion :)
Reference for distortion of a chrome orb: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/11/13160204_e9425253e2.jpg