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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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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 (-:
tady Dec/26/08 18:53http://www.forex-money.com
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 :-)
Abraham Lincoln Nov/24/08 07:05this is very bad, visit www.sxc.hu for better version
Dorian Nov/16/08 01:03This 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 10:53I use photoshop elements. It does not seem to list Channel Mixer. Is there a way for me to do it? Jen
Ulcia ;) Sep/29/08 04:16Po angielsku ale łatwe do skapowania xD
Chris Aug/8/08 05:17super
Craig Jul/6/08 10:49No 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.
lolo.6 Jun/11/08 03:36presne tak, ako kolegovia hovoria je to dobre len po anglicky, ale nevadi ved pomocou slovnika som na to prisiel :D
Sandiii^^ Jun/6/08 00:28to jest po angielsku a ja nie rozumiem :((
KArolina May/29/08 03:17BArdzo fajne..ale w angielskim sie nie łapie
BHAWESH May/14/08 17:49I an new user of photoshop so why don't u displays the shortcuts keys. By the way this tutor was rreally nice and easy too.
pixie Apr/9/08 15:17ho hum
zack Mar/6/08 04:28i love guys
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