{"id":7783,"date":"2013-01-03T14:59:33","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T19:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=7783"},"modified":"2013-01-03T14:59:33","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T19:59:33","slug":"photo-tricks-adding-snow-with-photoshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2013\/01\/03\/photo-tricks-adding-snow-with-photoshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo tricks – Adding snow with Photoshop"},"content":{"rendered":"

H<\/span>ere’s something new I’ve been thinking about sharing on the blog – more sophisticated tips and tutorials for photography. This is a fun little trick I learned this year and I thought I’d share it with you. Want to make a fun winter photo even more wintry-looking? Add a little snow with Photoshop!<\/p>\n

First, you need Photoshop Elements or just about any version of Photoshop. I love Lightroom for most editing purposes, but when it comes to cloning out unwanted bits or playing with layers, nothing beats Photoshop! Second, you also need to download these fun (and free!) snow textures from Florabella<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Open your photo and one of the snow texture files and drag the snow on top of your original photo. This is the important part: make sure you set the blending mode to SCREEN and not overlay. I think it’s the inclusion of the word ‘overlay’ in the title that keeps messing me up here, and it took me forever to figure out why I couldn’t get these to work. SCREEN blending mode!<\/p>\n

Adjust the opacity to taste. I also like to add a layer mask at a low opacity and randomly lighten spots, especially over key detail areas. For this image, first I duplicated the background layer and set the blending mode to multiply to punch up the contrast, and then I added the snow layer.<\/p>\n

Here’s the original:<\/p>\n

\"Nosnow\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s the version I took in the blizzard:<\/p>\n

\"Snowman<\/a><\/p>\n

What do you think? Would you have guessed the snow was added in post production?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s something new I’ve been thinking about sharing on the blog – more sophisticated tips and tutorials for photography. This is a fun little trick I learned this year and I thought I’d share it with you. Want to make a fun winter photo even more wintry-looking? Add a little snow with Photoshop! First, you … Continue reading “Photo tricks – Adding snow with Photoshop”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mothership-photography","category-the-family-photographer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7783"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7793,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783\/revisions\/7793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}