I decided to do a Christmas picture even though christmas has already passed because I got alot of pictures from christmas. First for the stockings I used curves then quick selection (ctrl+W) to select it. After I selected it I used free transform (ctrl+T)to shrink them and dragged them over to my other tab that’s 6” by 4”. I got the fire place of the internet. I used levels on the fire place; and used (ctrl+W) to select it. Next I clicked refine edge and put smooth, feather, on 22, 1.4px.
On the Christmas tree I used quick selection to select it then went to select-inverse (shift+ctrl+I) and pressed the delete button then refined the edge on it. To make the stamp I found some bells of the internet then used curves on it then selected it. After that I made a new layer on my original tab I then moved my selected picture over there.
Went to edit-define brush preset and pressed okay. I chose the color I wanted then used my stamp. To put the words in I used the horizontal type tool (ctrl+T) and picked the colors I wanted the words to be. Next I added a drop shadow on them using fx. I put it on distance 10, spread 59, and size 4. I also added a drop shadow on the tree and put them on 7, 21, and 7. For the red and green background I used brush tool (ctrl+B). I changed the brush to transparent red spray paint and sprayed the background.
Then I changed the color to green and did the same. I went to select-all (Ctrl+A)then went to edit-stroke to add a green border. On fx I went to stroke to add a black border right by my first one so it would cool. I put size on 3 and opacity on 69. Next for the stockings I went to fx and added a outer glow. I zoomed (ctrl+Z)in on the stockings to change the color of the one on the right. Then I selected the stocking using quick selection and went to image-adjustments-replace color. I put saturation on 11 and lightness on -25.
For the fire place I went to filter-artistic-poster edges. Next on the tree I went to filter-artistic-poster edges. Finally on the Christmas tree I Changed the blending mode to lighten. I like this picture alot and maybe next year I will use it as a Christmas card.
