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Christmas Lights

 

Get in the holiday spirit by taking this picture of a house and adding some festive lights that glow at night.

Corey Barker

Corey Barker is Executive Producer of PlanetPhotoshop.com and is an Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. Corey has also made numerous appearances on the highly rated podcast, PhotoshopUser TV, and is co-host of Layers TV.

44 Comments

  1. Thomas said on — December 18, 2009 @ 12:23 pm

    Hi Corey,
    I got a question, how come i can’t see the movies of the newest tutorials but i can from older tutorials? But keep up the good work, gives me alot of inspiration.

    Thanks,
    Thomas

  2. Mary-Jane Hoehler said on — December 18, 2009 @ 12:24 pm

    WOW, very cool Tutorial :-)

  3. Dottie Hicks said on — December 18, 2009 @ 12:41 pm

    Thanks Corey, great lesson

    Merry Christmas

  4. John Large said on — December 18, 2009 @ 12:44 pm

    Congratulations Corey Another Triumph. Those lights truly Pop

    Thanks for the tuts this year, they have been a real inspiration.

    Happy Christmas and New Year

  5. Alexey Pustoshilov said on — December 18, 2009 @ 1:04 pm

    Thanks! Amazing tutorial!

  6. Char Murray said on — December 18, 2009 @ 2:27 pm

    Corey, your tutorial made my day. Thank you so much.

  7. Kole said on — December 18, 2009 @ 3:11 pm

    nice job ;-)

  8. G.A.™Alexandru said on — December 18, 2009 @ 4:25 pm

    Nice one !

  9. fufi said on — December 18, 2009 @ 4:27 pm

    Simple and effective. Thanks!

  10. JP said on — December 18, 2009 @ 6:03 pm

    What a talent you have Corey! You are my inspiration to improve my artistic skills.

  11. JP said on — December 18, 2009 @ 6:33 pm

    Corey you are a very talented artist. Great tutorial.

  12. ASP said on — December 19, 2009 @ 8:20 am

    Fantastic tutorial, can’t wait to give it a shot!!

  13. Ryan Schinneller said on — December 19, 2009 @ 11:48 am

    Corey, can you come over and paint Christmas lights on my house?

  14. Celeste said on — December 19, 2009 @ 12:52 pm

    Very cool Corey!….Happy Holidays!

  15. doug said on — December 19, 2009 @ 10:58 pm

    Real fun tutorial, really made my day. I definitely plan on doing this with my house. I am then going to e-mail the touched up photo to friends and family, and I know they will have to do a drive by, because they know how lazy I am, and they are going to want to see if it is in fact real or not. Thanks for the Christmas present. Your the best.

  16. web said on — December 20, 2009 @ 12:55 am

    loved the way you did the stars.. maybe a little more then the lights :-)

  17. William Porter said on — December 21, 2009 @ 7:19 am

    I thought I was a creative guy!! Looks like I need some work! Great Job!!!

  18. Alison said on — December 21, 2009 @ 8:04 am

    Merry Christmas Corey. Many thanks for your tutorials throughout the year :-)

  19. hans said on — December 21, 2009 @ 8:21 am

    Fantastic tutorial!

  20. Ann said on — December 22, 2009 @ 3:28 pm

    This really rocks!
    Have nice holidays!

  21. Lynn said on — December 23, 2009 @ 11:08 pm

    great tutorial.. thanks for sharing. Merry Christmas

  22. Adam said on — December 23, 2009 @ 11:57 pm

    What photoshop did you you use?

    Thanks

    Adam

  23. prashant said on — December 29, 2009 @ 2:55 am

    hi
    my name is prashant
    i am indian
    my english is not good
    but i understand english
    i love photoshop and your work in photoshop is so good

  24. Marc said on — December 29, 2009 @ 2:30 pm

    Great stuff once again!

  25. francis said on — December 30, 2009 @ 12:43 pm

    Corey im just 11 because of you i will not have this artistic skills

  26. norm said on — December 31, 2009 @ 12:28 am

    merry christmas and happy new year!

  27. Karen said on — January 4, 2010 @ 10:57 pm

    I’m just sitting here with my mouth open….WOW! Let see, get husbands laptop, find a 3D image of a cool house and try to follow along and do that on MY pc in photoshop. Cool, cool, cool!
    Thanks for sharing.

  28. maggie said on — January 5, 2010 @ 2:25 am

    Excellant

  29. Peter said on — January 6, 2010 @ 9:09 am

    Excellent !!
    Picked up a few ideas and tricks. It’s cool to see a felow artist put things together in a different way. As they say, there is more than one way to photoshop a cat :-)

  30. Crystal said on — January 8, 2010 @ 4:56 pm

    thats pretty gangster! if only i saw that around christmas!!!! oh well we got next year! awesome idea!

  31. abdul rahman said on — January 9, 2010 @ 4:20 am

    hi ….
    its is a great tutorials
    but it will great if you mail this video
    plzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

  32. M.L. Chisholm Sr said on — January 10, 2010 @ 6:32 pm

    Being a senior citizen, Very happy i came upon your site (Via Dpreview forums) enjoy the tutorials makes life easier thru Photoshop for me.. Thanks

  33. ARON said on — January 12, 2010 @ 12:25 pm

    THIS IS SO COOL OMG!!!

  34. Ryan said on — January 14, 2010 @ 12:35 pm

    WOW this changed your life. Thats both sad and pathetic:)

  35. sisterfunk said on — January 25, 2010 @ 5:30 am

    Completely awesome…. the lesson is great!!!! was wondering how to do color lights…then BAM.. colored lights…. SWEEEET!!!! Now, I can show my clients and new customers what their house will look like when we decorate for Christmas or for parties.. thank you so much!!!!

    Cant wait to see and learn more!

  36. DisturbedComputer said on — February 2, 2010 @ 4:32 am

    Cool I like this… Did notice that you left some Blue in, from the day time pic. to the left side of the house. though the Porch column… never the less this is a cool tutorial
    can’t wain to use this.. THANKS!

  37. opu said on — April 21, 2010 @ 10:48 am

    well tutorial.
    http://nextbarisal.com/english/graphic_design.php

  38. Khadak Bist said on — May 19, 2010 @ 2:28 am

    Excellent videos. i like your teching style. but your video is not clear .. any way nice job keep it up..thanks

  39. Dave said on — November 17, 2010 @ 8:02 am

    These tuts are great, but it woukd be nice to be able to download and save them for future reference.

  40. Brett Weaver said on — November 24, 2010 @ 11:29 am

    I’m a Real Estate Photographer and I’m SO going to use this to make Christmas cards for my clients this year! Awesome Tut. Thanks! Tweeting this now…

  41. Annissa said on — November 29, 2010 @ 3:13 pm

    FOr some reason this wont play and I dont think it is the computer.

  42. Maria said on — December 14, 2010 @ 10:52 am

    nice video but u shud but some text in the video to help with applying the video

  43. Christmas Lights | Nicole S. Young Pingback on — March 9, 2011 @ 3:16 am

    [...] on my kitchen table. So I did the next best thing and used Photoshop to do the work for me. I saw this tutorial on Planet Photoshop on adding Christmas lights to a house and used a bunch of Corey’s [...]

  44. Cardiff Electrical Contractors said on — August 2, 2011 @ 5:12 am

    Fantastic tutorial, this would be great for Christmas cards.

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