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Christmas Wreath with the Brush Tool

by Matt Kloskowski

ExtremePhotoshop.com

Welcome to the last Christmas tutorial - at least for another year. As you may know

from my other tutorials, I'm very fond of the Brush tool and the brush engine that was

introduced in Photoshop 7. This tutorial will teach you how to create a Christmas wreath

using that tool. Its a great way to learn what the brush tools are capable of and I hope

it opens up a new area of creativity for you as it did for me. By the way, this tutorial is

based on Photoshop 7 but it should work the same with CS.

Create a new document 500 by 500 pixels in size. First we'll start off by creating our

custom brush. Go to the custom shapes selection list and find the holly leaf shape - it

looks like this

Make sure your foreground color is black and drag one onto the stage. Size really

doesn't matter but make it around the size I have in the sample image.

Now if its not already, go ahead an Rasterize this layer. Next, grab the rectangular

marquee tool, hold Shift and drag a square marquee around the Shape. Yours should

look something like this now.

Then go to Edit->Define Brush and click OK. Now you have a custom brush to use - it

will be available in the brushes palette (probably at the bottom).

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Next, create a new layer. Make the ellipse custom shape tool active and select the

'paths' option in the tool palette at the top

Then go to your Paths palette - before you freak out about the Paths palette, its really

not that hard so just follow along. Create a new path by clicking on the icon at the

bottom of the palette. Then while holding down Shift, drag out a circle and position it

like I have. (Tip: Create another new path and click on it if you ever want to hide the

annoying path selection outline that you see).

Now select the brush tool. Then open the brush palette. Not the little one that just

allows you to pick a brush but the one with all of the options (Go to Window->Brushes if

you cant find it). Find the holly brush that you created (it should be at the bottom).

Select that brush and then change the brush settings to be like the screenshots I have

here.

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Then set your foreground color to #346E3E - click the 'Stoke Path with Brush' button at

the bottom of the Path palette - it looks like this

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Make sure your brush tool is active in the tools palette or this won't work correctly.

Notice how this strokes the layer that is active in your layers palette, even though you

cant see it. Now go to the layers palette again and create a new layer on top. Change

your foreground color to #30A643. Go back to the Paths palette and hit the stroke path

button again, still making sure that your brush tool is active. Go create a new layer on

top again, make your foreground color #3CE056 and stroke this layer with the brush

again in the paths palette. You should now have three layers with holly leaves on them.

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Next, using the ellipse tool, create three small circles of varying size like I have here.

turn off all of the other layers, put a square selection around them with the marquee

tool and go to Edit->Define Brush.

Now, create a new layer, select the brush tool and pick your new brush. Go back to the

Paths palette and stroke the path with this new brush. Drag this layer just below the top

holly leaf layer so the berries mix in. I've turned off the other layers in the first image

to show you what you should end up with.

Now lets add a layer style to the berries layer. Follow the settings I have here.

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