How to Create a Breathtaking Christmas Artwork in Photoshop

The unblended Vignette will look like this:

Once the blending mode is set to “Multiply” it would look like this:

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Step 39

To enhance the Christmas feel, let’s add some snow textures. Let’s start, by opening the stock image – “snowing texture” by wchild. Once it is open, activate the Move tool (V) and drag it to our canvas. Position it on our canvas as shown below:

Next, activate the Transform tool (Ctrl/Cmd + T) and resize the texture as shown below:

The result:

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Step 40

Now, to make it blend with our image, just change the Blending mode and Opacity to the following:

• Blending mode: Soft Light
• Opacity: 70%

The result:

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Step 41

Next, let’s add the second texture – open the Glitter Bokeh Texture Pack zip file by regularjane and then unzip the files, once unzipped, choose “glitter bokeh1_8”. Activate the Move tool (V) and drag the image to our canvas. Position it as shown below:

Next, activate the Transform tool (Ctrl/Cmd + T) and resize it as shown below:

The result:

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Step 42

Now, to make it blend with our image, just change the Blending mode and Opacity to the following:

• Blending mode: Soft Light
• Opacity: 40%

The result:

Now, select all these textures and then group them (Ctrl/Cmd + G). Name the group to “snow textures”.

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Step 43

Let us now enhance color of our image. Start off by creating a Solid Color adjustment layer from the Create New Fill/Adjustment layer button on the Layer window.

Once the contextual menu opens, click on Solid Color:

Now, clicking on the Solid Color option will open the Color Picker box. Set the color to #000627.

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Step 44

Make sure to put this Solid Color layer above the “Textures” group. Once done, change the Blending mode and Opacity of this Solid Color layer to the following:

• Blending mode: Exclusion
• Opacity: 60%

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Step 45

Next, let’s create a Color Balance adjustment layer from the “Create New Fill/Adjustment layer button”.

When it opens, input the following:

• Color Levels: -20, +5, 10
• Tone Balance: Midtones
• Preserve Luminosity: Check

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Step 46

Next, let’s create another Solid Color adjustment layer from the “Create New Fill/Adjustment layer button”. Once the Solid Color box opens, input the following:

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Step 47

Change the Blending mode and Opacity to the following:

• Blending mode: Linear Dodge (add)
• Opacity: 20%

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Step 48

Once done, we will now move to the creation of a Gradient Map layer; from the “Create New Fill/Adjustment layer button” click on Gradient Map.

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