100+ Christmas Themed Tutorials on One Page
Christmas is one of the most looked forward to holidays. Though it's in the middle of winter it was and stays the warmest holiday in the year. Christmas is warmed up by emotions and love of billions of people. If there were no such holiday we should have invented it.
Santa, Christmas tree, Christmas stocking, Christmas lights, Christmas balls, Christmas crackers, Christmas cards, snowflakes, snowmen - things that make us feel Christmas is here, things which are used to decorate streets, houses, offices, websites.
I've made an attempt to gather all the tutorials (Photoshop, Flash, Paint Shop Pro, etc.) devoted to creating Christmas symbols in one place. Hope you find it useful.
For your convenience I've broken the tutorials into several sections. Feel free to use the navigation list below to find the very tutorial you were looking for.
Snow - static or animated
Adding Snow (static) - Photoshop Tutorial
We would like to assure you, that there is more to the birth of a snowflake than Aristotle's assertation that "when a cloud freezes there is snow." Snow is not merely frozen rain. It is what children assume it is: a wonder. Fortunately, it is replicable if not in temperature and taste, at least in texture and shape using a few handy web design tricks and tips.
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Use this nice effect to decorate your logotype
Snow at Night - Flash Tutorial
Create a Dark Snow Night and Snow Covered Trees
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Snow on Text (static) - Photoshop Tutorial
A very simple effect described in a short and easy to follow Photoshop tutorial.
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Snow/Star Effect (static) - Photoshop Tutorial
A nice star/snow effect for your christmas headers!
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Let Is Snow (animated) - Flash Tutorial
This tutorial will show you how to create a dynamic snow effect. This can really give the final touch to a Christmas card.
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Snow Effect with Wind (animated) - Flash Tutorial
Quite the similar effect to that described in the tutorial above.
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Create Falling Snow - Flash Tutorial
What good is a holiday animation without some snow? The following animation is an example of what caffeine and a thrilling re-run of Charlie Brown's Christmas Special can do.
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Falling Snow 2.0 - Flash MX 2004 Tutorial
This tutorial rectifies some of the usability issues that plagued the previous tutorial. In this version of the Falling Snow tutorial, your effect is localized inside a movie clip, and you have the ability to do a lot of cool things.
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Animated Snow - Photoshop Tutorial
This tutorial will teach you how to make and animate snow for a sig or banner.
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Creating and Animating Snowfall - Photoshop Tutorial
Take a winter photo and then animate some snowfall using this tutorial.
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Gifts Snowing on Christmas (static) - Photoshop Tutorial
Create snowflake Christmas decoration in Photoshop. You can use it for a christmas card. Really nice effect.
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Add Falling Snow using Java Script - JavaScript Tutorial
This tutorial will show you how to create your very own Java Script snow on your own web page. It might look a bit less natural, but it will still preserve its winter magic. So, let us start!
Add Snow to a Picture - Photoshop Tutorial
If your site is still without any token of snow and you're looking how to add some, you're reading the right thing.
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Add Snow to a Picture (animated) - Photoshop Tutorial
If your site is still without any token of snow and you're looking how to add some, you're reading the right thing. In this tutorial we'll be explaining how to add falling snow to any picture.
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Designing a Christmas Tree
Christmas Tree - Adobe Illustrator Tutorial
This tutorial shows you how to make a beautiful Christmas tree with Adobe Illustrator. See the result - it's probably the best Christmas tree from all the tutorials in this section (IMHO).
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Christmas Tree Design - Photoshop Tutorial
In this tutorial you will learn to make a Christmas tree that you can use on your own Christmas card.
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Another Christmas Tree - Photoshop Tutorial
An easy to follow tutorial to create a nice looking Christmas tree.
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Christmas Tree - Photoshop Tutorial
This tutorial will teach you to create a rather strange looking but still recognizable Christmas tree.
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Pixel Christmas Trees and Snow - Photoshop Tutorial
In this tutorial you will be able to create a christmas tree using only your pencil tool and your color picker to change the textures of the tree and its background.
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Stylized Christmas Tree Design - Photoshop Tutorial
This Photoshop tutorial teaches you how to create stylized christmas tree design with stars.
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Cartoon Christmas Tree - Photoshop Tutorial
Here I will show you how to draw a cartoon-style christmas tree mainly with the pen tool. It's really quite simple! :)
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Drawing a Christmas Tree - Photoshop Tutorial
With this tutorial we are going to show you a way to draw a simplistic Christmas tree.
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Christmas tree design - Photoshop Tutorial
Learn how to design nice Christmas tree with nice Christmas background
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Still one more Christmas Tree - Photoshop Tutorial
Learn in easy steps how to create a Christmas tree on a snowy hill.
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Drawing Christmas Trees - Photoshop Tutorial
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Abstract Christmas Trees with Snowflake Background - Photoshop Tutorial
Learn how to make a soft variable-colored snowflake background effect with this Photoshop tutorial
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Christmas Lights
Lighted Christmas Tree - Paint Shop 7 Tutorial
Learn how to draw a Lighted Christmas Tree with this simple animation tutorial.
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Light Up Your Trees - Photoshop Tutorial
Put some animated Christmas lights on a Christmas tree.
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Animated Lights for your Christmas Tree! - Flash Tutorial
In this tutorial we'll show you how you can easily add some animated lights to your Christmas tree. As an extra you can add a function that switches off the lights, so you get a better view at the Christmas-lights.
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Christmas Lights - Photoshop Tutorial
This tutorial will show you step by step how to do simple Christmas lights.
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Animated Christmas Lights - Photoshop and ImageReady Tutorial
Your lights or designs look empty, without life. With this tutorial you will learn to create some animated lights and your design will really look alive.
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Lighting a Christmas Tree - Photoshop Tutorial
Rather creative Photoshop tutorial on how to create Christmas lights, outcome looks nice.
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Christmas Lights Tutorial - Photoshop Tutorial
This Photoshop tutorial will show you how to create animated Christmas lights.
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Blinking Christmas Lights in Flash - Flash Tutorial
Learn how to create blinking Christmas lights with this easy to follow Flash tutorial.
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Put Christmas Lights on your House! - Photoshop Tutorial
Really very simple tutorial to add fake Christmas lights to the picture of your house.
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Tips on how to take successful Christmas lights pictures - Digital Photography Tutorial
The author is going to try to cover in this article how the technique needed to take good Christmas lights pictures outside.
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Christmas Decorations - Christmas hat, Christmas ornaments, Christmas wreath, ribbons, holly, mistletoe, heart, snowflakes, snowmen, etc.
Christmas Hat - Illustrator 9+ Tutorial
This vector graphics tutorial shows you how draw a furry Christmas hat.
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Christmas Ornament - Photoshop Tutorial
A step by step description for you to create a simple but really nice looking Christmas ornament.
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Snowflake - Photoshop Tutorial
This tutorial is based on the principles of reflection and rotation, the same principles by which you made those cut-paper snowflakes in school.
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Christmas Balls Design - Photoshop Tutorial
Learn how to design blue and red Christmas balls with ribbon of the same color over white background.
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Christmas Tree Ornaments - Photoshop Tutorial
Another simple tutorial to create a good looking Christmas tree ornament
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Animated Christmas Bells - Photoshop and ImageReady Tutorial
Here's a simple Pen Tool/Path combined with a brush preset animated christmas bells effect.
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Another Christmas Tree Ornament - Photoshop Tutorial
Here's a simple style effect to create a christmas tree ornament effect combined with the 'Shape Tool' and an image.
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Santa's Sleigh Drawing - Photoshop Tutorial
We will learn how to draw Santa's sleigh packed to the brim with colorful Christmas gifts.
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Christmas Ornament - Photoshop Tutorial
As you've noticed - Christmas ornaments is really a popular topic for tutorials - but people have different ways to recive similar results.
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Christmas Ball - Photoshop Tutorial
Learn how to create a nice Christmas ball in 6 easy steps.
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Christmas Holly - Photoshop Tutorial
With this tutorial I am going to show you a way to draw a simple Christmas holly like this one using Adobe Photoshop.
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Making Mistletoe in Photoshop - Photoshop Tutorial
Well, actually it's a tutorial about making holly (not mistletoe) in Photoshop :)
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Mistletoe - Photoshop Tutorial
Learn to create some mistletoe.. "the man may kiss the woman after the beautiful tradition".
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Christmas Heart - Photoshop Tutorial
A detailed an easy to follow Photoshop tutorial on how to create a nice static image of heart, good for use in Christmas or Valentine cards.
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Drawing Animated Heart - Photoshop Tutorial
e always want to give presents to loved ones. These presents may be material or non-material. But Birthday Cards, Christmas Cards or Valentine's Cards that can be sent to friends and family are always popular. Now you can create your own Cards! To begin a card you will create an animated heart.
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Christmas Ball Ornaments - Flash Tutorial
These lil decorations for your website (or photos, Christmas cards or whatever you like) are actually pretty simple to make using some basic Photoshop tools & techniques. Here we'll be playing around with some layer masks.
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Christmas Bell - Photoshop Tutorial
Learn how to create an attractive picture of Christmas Bell.
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Create Christmas Hanging Tree Ornaments - Photoshop Tutorial
Using this step by step photoshop tutorial you will be able to draw christmas ornmaments. I have used pen tool, transformation tool, eraser tool. I have shown how to combine curve shape using crtl + E and apply sharpen filter.
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Christmas Ball - Photoshop Tutorial
Rather simple Photoshop tutorial which will teach you to create Christmas ball in 9 steps.
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Christmas Ball - Photoshop Tutorial
Just another way to create a Christmas ball in two parts
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Spruce - Photoshop Tutorial
Make the classic branch of a Christmas tree.
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Christmas Ornament - Photoshop Tutorial
The following tutorial shows how to make a Christmas Ornament graphic that you can quickly modify in a few seconds.
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Still More Christmas Ornaments - Photoshop Tutorial
Hard to believe but here's still one more way to create a Christmas ball described in this Photoshop tutorial.
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Christmas Ornament - Photoshop Tutorial
Learn how to make a shiny glass ornament with a snowflake motif for the holidays.
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Christmas Wreath - Photoshop Tutorial
With this easy to follow tutorial create a holiday wreath - Round, fuzzy, and green.
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Lighted Christmas Wreath - Photoshop Tutorial
Create an animated, lighted Christmas wreath for the holidays.
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Christmas Ribbon - Photoshop Tutorial
Create a realistic christmas ribbon from scratch
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Candle Decorating - Photoshop Tutorial
Candles are an essential part of Christmas. Millions of them are lit every year on December 25 all over the world. Generally, a candle poses fire danger, but fortunately, ours won't. So, let us start.
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Frosty the 3D Snowman - Photoshop Tutorial
Draw a snowman with a filter that most people have never used: 3D transform.>
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Drawing a Snowman - Photoshop Tutorial
Learn how to draw a cartoon snowman using this tutorial.
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Christmas Graphic Design - Christmas cards, website designs, wallpapers, backgrounds.
Christmas-Themed Template Customization Using Clipart - Photoshop Tutorial
At Christmas everybody is rushing to buy gifts, decorate their homes, get a turkey. Web also designers have their share of work - decorating their site for visitors to feel the positive Christmas vibes and sense that you care enough about your business to update the site for major holidays.
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Custom Design for New Year - Photoshop Tutorial
With Christmas on the threshold, I will continue demonstrating different ways to decorate your site and customize it in the spirit of the holiday. In the last tutorial we explored using clipart as the source of decorative elements. Here I will teach you to draw them yourself.
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Christmas-Themed Web Layout - Photoshop Tutorial
In this tutorial I will be teaching you how to create this complete, Christmas-themed web layout. This tutorial is probably best for the intermediate Photoshop users rather than beginners, as it contains quite a lot of work.
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Snowy Winter Layout - Photoshop Tutorial
This tutorial will show you how to create a winter web layout decorated with snow.
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Floating Ice Navigation - Photoshop Tutorial
Make this clean and trendy layout header with an icey feel.
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Victorian Christmas Card - Paint Shop Pro Tutorial
Learn how to create Victorian Christmas Card - all versions of PSP
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Animated Christmas cards - Photoshop Tutorial
With Christmas just around the corner, it's time to start thinking about sending out all those E cards to our loved (and not so loved) ones. This year, why not make your own personalized animated E-card?
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Create a Christmas e-card using pen tool - Photoshop Tutorial
In this tutorial we'll create a Christmas e-card one of the elements of whic - a Christmas tree - will be created using pen tool.
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Christmas Card - Photoshop Tutorial
This Photoshop tutorial will teach you how to make a Christmas card that you can print out on some nice paper and send to your friend and family.
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Blue & Silver Christmas Card - Paint Shop Pro Tutorial
Learn how to create Blue & Silver Christmas Card - PSP 8 - 9 - X and XI only
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Another Christmas Card - Photoshop Tutorial
Make a creative Christmas card using vector techniques.
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Create a Holiday Card with Snowman - Photoshop Tutorial
Learn how to create a great holiday greeting card with a snow man, snowflakes, snow covered pine trees and wintry landscape.
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Winter Postcard Design - Photoshop Tutorial
Design 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.
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Placing Text Behind an Object - Photoshop Tutorial
Have you ever wanted to float a piece of text behind a portion of an image? It's really easy to do using layer masks. Today I'm going to show you a fun little Christmas card project that will help reveal how useful layer masks can be.
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Printable Christmas Menu - Paint Shop Pro Tutorial
Learn how to create printable Christmas menu - PSP all versions - no filters
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Abstract Christmas Wallpaper - Photoshop Tutorial
In this tutorial we will create Christmas wallpaper with gifts
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Pretty Girl in Christmas Suit - Photoshop Tutorial
In this tutorial we will learn how to draw dancing girl in christmas suit.
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Christmas Blue Candle - Photoshop Tutorial
Learn how to draw blue candle background.
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Christmas Shiny Background - Photoshop Tutorial
We will learn how to draw Christmas shiny background with a Christmas stocking image in the center.
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Christmas color conceptual graphic - Photoshop Tutorial
In this tutorial we will learn how to design Christmas color conceptual graphic.
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Drawing Santa Clause
Santa bringing gifts - Photoshop Tutorial
This tutorial will show how to create a cool looking Santa and gifts decoration
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Santa Hat - Photoshop Tutorial
Make a cheerful looking Santa's Hat!!! Good to use as a decoration for your website or Christmas card.
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Skating Santa - Paint Shop Pro Tutorial
Learn how to create skating Santa with Paint Shop Pro
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Making an Animated Santa - Photoshop Tutorial
Santa Clause is back in town! Learn how to create an animated Santa! - Great For E-Cards
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Santa's express - Paint Shop Pro Tutorial
Learn how to create Santa's express with Jasc PSP 10
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Winter Effects - ice and frozen text effects, ice image effects
Icy Text - Photoshop Tutorial
Really a simple way to create ice text effect.
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Getting Ready for Winter - Photoshop Tutorial
As the days get shorter and the weather gets colder, our designs may need a seasonal touch. (Readers in the southern hemisphere can bookmark this page and come back in six months.) Let's take a look at adding snow and ice to text.
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Advanced Frozen Text - Photoshop Tutorial
A tutorial on how to make some stone cold text with a chilly metal core and a shell of ice on the outside.
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Blue Ice Text Effect - Photoshop Tutorial
Learn how to create this rather natural looking blue ice text effect.
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Electric Ice Text - Photoshop Tutorial
An icy electric glow effect for your texts.
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Cold Fear Text Effect - Photoshop Tutorial
Add a cold/icy effect to your text
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3D Text with Ice Effect - Photoshop Tutorial
Follow the steps described in this Photoshop tutorial to create 3D text which looks as if made of ice or blue marble.
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Text on Ice Cave Wall - Photoshop Tutorial
Another text effect - this time ice effect is apllied not the text itself but to its background.
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Icy Image Effect - Photoshop Tutorial
Learn how to convert a summer picture to a winter scene. This tutorial will teach you how to give an icy look to a photograph using Photoshop CS.
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Icy Pinwheel Tutorial - Photoshop Tutorial
If you're doing this tutorial, you should know how to use filters, free transform, and know what the blending mode is. Or else you might be a litle confused.
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Ice Effect - Photoshop Tutorial
In this tutorial we will make a very basic background with an icy feel.
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Abstract Ice Tutorial - Photoshop Tutorial
Learn how to create abstract ice effect - good for backgrounds.
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