How would you go about making falling leaves?

Okay so I need to make falling leaves. They don’t necessarily have to hit the ground and stay there. Basically I need to learn how to make custom particles. I’ve tried making a leaf in Photoshop, saving it as a targa with an alpha channel and putting it into my project, but I’m clearly doing something wrong. Any tips on this?

You could use a particle emitter to emit those leaves, attach it to the player make the diameter medium so the player would not see whzere the particles stops emuitting.

and make it so that the leaves fall gently to the ground.

Try this