The original idea was that this post would be published on the 23rd or 24th December … the title aimed at whose of you who might have left your present shopping to the last minute. Unfortunately this didn’t happen, and rather than waiting until next December I decided to post it today.

Anyway, the title itself isn’t particularly significant, the post just consists of some vaguely festive photoshop tutorials. Hopefully one of them will make you think – “This looks sooo awesome I’m going to stop watching these crappy Christmas films starring Robin Williams and spend a couple hours learning how to make an awesome Christmas e-card with photoshop”.

Christmas Card Night Scene Tutorial

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to layer up different snowy landscapes and how to draw fairy-tale-esque trees covered in snow!

Ice Mountain Surreal Scene

This less realistic tutorial is drawn entirely from scratch using 5 different brushes and only takes 1-2 hours …

Golden Christmas Parcel Tutorial

Taking you in and out of Photoshop and Illustrator you’ll learn how to make a photo realistic parcel complete with ribbon and tag.

An Illustrated Christmas Card

An advanced illustration lesson here with some great use of texture. Not sure exactly why there’s a skull and what looks like a ‘pokeball’ on the tree, but a nice tutorial nonetheless.

How To Create A Cold Wintery Scene

I can’t say I was blown away by this one, but it is Wintery and a bit different to the others. On the plus side it comes with a suggested soundtrack of a song called “The Sparrow and the Crow”.

Make A Christmas Calendar

I’m a sucker for images that use vintage wallpaper and this tutorial is no exception.

Make A Vaguely Christmasy Heart Shaped Box

Okay, you can tell we’re getting towards the end of the post because this tutorial is more from Valentines day than Christmas … pretty much just a less relevant version of the 3rd tutorial. However, this one is very beginner friendly will 39 super simple steps.

Snowy Christmas Card

Don’t worry I saved the best till last. Get your own version of this unusual Christmas card made now and you can save it to use as your e-card next year.

P.S. It’s worth looking at this one just to see the prop used to keep the card open in the 2nd step …

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