Christmas Card

For this Christmas Card I put on a red background with the paint tool. Then I learned how to cut the snowman and christmas tree out using the quick selection tool and the magic wand tool. I also cut out a hat and layered it on top of the snowman to give him a hat. The next thing I did was put in some text. I used a christmas looking font to say "merry christmas!". I used a handwriting font for the back of the card to put my name and information on it as a copy write. I learned how to make snow look like its falling using a black background, then I added noise. I blurred the noise to make it look more vertical and like it's falling instead of just dots. Then to erase the black I added a screen filter. To make the snow look more dimensional I copied the layer and rotated it 180 degrees and increased the blur even more this helped make it look like bigger flakes and like some snow was falling faster than others. The last thing I did was to add a drop shadow to the writing, the snowman, his hat, and the christmas tree so they were more visible.