Winter Postcard Design

This task we'll learn how to create a New Year illustration, having just a picture with green grass and a girl's picture. We'll see how to use also several filters.


Open the picture with the grass landscape in a new window: File – Open (ctrl+o).



Apply next the command Select – Color Range to mark out the greenness on the picture by clicking on the eyedropper. The marked zone becomes white.



Decolorize the marked zone: Image – Adjustments – Desaturate (shift+ctrl+u) and increase its brightness and the contrast, making use of next selection: Image – Adjustments – Curves (ctrl+m).



Erase then the markings with Select – Deselect (ctrl+d)



Make the picture look lighter with Image – Adjustments – Levels (ctrl+l).



Decolorize next the entire picture: Image – Adjustments – Desaturate (shift+ctrl+u) and make a copy of it: Layer – Duplicate Layer (ctrl+j). Apply to the copy a special filter (Filter – Distort – Ripple).



Then make use of another filter (Filter – Stylize – Diffuse).



Blur it out a little, using Filter – Blur – Gaussian Blur.



Apply another one: Filter – Brush Strokes – Spatter.