The Fairyland

This tutorial teaches you how to create a stylized Christmas tree design with stars.

For the beginning create a new file (File>New) of 1280x1024 px and 72 dpi. Select the The Paint Bucket tool fills adjacent pixels that are similar in color value to the pixels you click.'); return false" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="nofollow ugc noreferrer noopener">Paint Bucket Tool (G) and paint the primary layer the way it's demonstrated below:



Take now the Rectangle Tool (U) and stretch out the figure on the whole canvas. Set the next demonstrated parameters, making a mouse click on this layer on the layers' palette







Create one more layer, giving it the Opacity of 0%.



Give next indicated parameters for the made layer:





Now it's time to represent a rounded element, applying the Use the ellipse tool to draw ovals and circles. To draw a circle, hold down the Shift key while dragging. Double-click the ellipse tool to open the Color inspector.'); return false" href="javascript:void(0)">Ellipse Tool (U), giving it also the Opacity of 0%.



Follow the shown parameters:



It's the result you must get on this stage:



Select now the The brush tool is used for making good backgrounds and also on new layers they have different types so that you get a different effect with every brush you use.'); return false" href="javascript:void(0)">Brush Tool (B) and try to represent the contours of a fir tree, like on the next picture:



Select out of the You use the shape tools to draw lines, rectangles, rounded rectangles, and ellipses in an image. In Photoshop, you can also draw polygons and create custom shape libraries to reuse and share custom shapes.
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Fill the whole fir tree's inside space with selected stars, changing also their sizes (Ctrl+T)



One star should be situated on the fir tree's top, giving it the next parameters:



This is the image you should get now:



Next we'll select three types of snowflakes, like those from below:



Placing the snowflakes in an arbitrary way on our picture, we may change their Opacity parameter on the layers' palette: Fill: 10%, 20%, 40%.



Choose out of the already known table a kind of figure like the next one:



Place it under the layer containing the top star, the same way situated below: Fill 0% on this layer:



Next we should select the next demonstrated parameters:



This is the next stage of the picture:



Take now the allows you to make lines that change colour and shapes on the project.'); return false" href="javascript:void(0)">Pen Tool (P) and represent several fillets on the fir tree, choosing the next colors' codes:





The final result!

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