Add frost and snow to your image

This tutorial will show you how to add frost and snow to your scenic photos with only 1 or 2 steps! REALLY! .

This technique works best on scenic photos, such as of trees, leaves or gardens, but feel free to try it on any images you want.

Here is the image I will be working with:

Now create a NEW "Channel Mixer" adjustment layer, to do this, click on the adjustment layers icon at the bottom of your layers pallete, and select "Channel Mixer".

A channel mixer dialog will pop up, just click OK to close it for now.

Now set the blending mode of this layer to "Lighten"

Now change the settings to like below:

Now, your image may not look like mine at this setting depending on the lightings in your image. So adjust your "Blue" and "Constant" sliders around until you get some good results.

But like i said before, this will work better on some images than other, so if it doesnt turn out good on 1 image, try another :)

Here are mine at different Blue and Constant Settings.

Not much snow at all

A little more snow.

PLENTY OF SNOW!

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User Comments

Christian Dec/23/2011 18:22Excellent tutorial for adding snow/frost, thanks mate :)

matt Dec/22/2011 01:43great tutorial ;)

sad Apr/04/2011 15:40great work

fatihah Feb/20/2011 18:29thank

Ansar Mohammed Dec/22/2010 03:58Ok ...but on some cases

Zeeshan Dec/13/2010 03:12Really Awesome Effect thanks a lot.

bored dude Dec/09/2010 17:34Only works on some images.

your tutorial sucks! Nov/12/2010 03:50This tutorial sucks!!!! no thanks!

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Truyen cuoi Sep/05/2010 15:15so cool, ths for this tuts.

blackwolf577 Jul/29/2010 06:11it's very nice u made it ao reealitic thx man!

free style Feb/09/2010 13:22good job http://vn.myblog.yahoo.com/lesinhtien/

Pritush Dec/25/2009 19:22Nice tutorial look like real one

kelly Dec/05/2009 03:53for the people saying its lousy because it washes out parts, you could always go a little futher and edit the white layer, makin some parts a little more transparent than the rest and everything. I think it looks just fine!

arun Nov/03/2009 21:39i have seen many tutorials to add snow. but this tutorials is best and very easy thanks to tutorialwiz.pls give more tutorials for develop the designers.........

ariel Aug/25/2009 00:42i had a green mountain, and now i have a snowy mountain! many thaankss, works perfectly

pinga Jul/9/09 22:48chupami pinga

Gangfucker Mar/5/09 06:12Great Effect!! Perfection!

mellisa Jan/18/09 02:35Its something New, looks very nice! going to try it out now (-:

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Hanz Dec/15/08 18:38 Master its a great work

AASHISH Dec/9/08 15:24No offence but this is lousy. The background is washed out and it just looks like its been set to black and white. I'd suggest workin on it more.

$Hi!t Dec/3/08 06:36u suck azz

Weng Nov/25/08 03:59Brilliant! Many thanks :-)

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