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Add frost and snow to your image

Description: 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!

User Comments

Gangfucker | Mar/5/09 06:12
Great Effect!! Perfection!
mellisa | Jan/18/09 02:35
Its something New, looks very nice! going to try it out now (-:
tady | Dec/26/08 18:53
Hanz | Dec/15/08 18:38
Master its a great work
AASHISH | Dec/9/08 15:24
No 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 06:36
u suck azz
Weng | Nov/25/08 03:59
Brilliant! Many thanks :-)
Abraham Lincoln | Nov/24/08 07:05
this is very bad, visit www.sxc.hu for better version
Dorian | Nov/16/08 01:03
This worked really well as I needed to add snow to a surface that was already part of a much larger image ... it works when there are other components to the snowy image ...
Jen | Sep/29/08 10:53
I use photoshop elements. It does not seem to list Channel Mixer. Is there a way for me to do it?

Jen
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