How to Make Snow in Photographs
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A few quick and easy steps of a photoshop tutorial on how to make snow and flakes in photoshop
Open Up the Picture in Which You Want to Create Snow As Well As Open a New Document and a New Layer in Photoshop
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On Layer 1 Make a Circle Using Marquee Tool and Then Go to Background Layer and Click Control+i .This Will Fill the Circle With Black. in the Same Way Make Different Sized Circles.
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Now Save This Brush by Going to Edit>define Brush Presets
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Now Open the Image to Be Edited, Create a New Layer and Draw Snowflakes With the Brush You Made. After That Blur Them a Little With the Help of Gaussian Blur.
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Now to Create Snow in the Background
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Go to select>color range. Select sampled colors and increase the fuzziness to about 150.
This Will Select Some of the Areas.
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Now create a layer mask on this layers copy. Adjust its lightness to almost 100 %. You're done