Use Photoshop to create a Christmas atmosphere

This tutorial mainly uses a new adjustment layer combined with the ocean ripple filter to bring out the Christmas atmosphere.
Original picture

Rendering 1

Effect picture 2

1. Find the sky material and place it on the background, use the magic wand to select the white part of the background, then press Ctrl+shift+i to invert the selection, and mask the sky layer.

2. Click Layer - New Adjustment Layer - Channel Mixer, set as shown in the figure to get a grayscale image, and press Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E to stamp the layer to get layer 4.

3. Click Layer-New Adjustment Layer-Curves to create an adjustment layer, as shown in the figure:

4. Stamp the layer and perform Filter-Sharpen-USM Sharpening 2 times to obtain a clearer image.

5. Perform color balance on the current layer, click Layer-New Adjustment Layer-Color Balance, adjust the shadows in the middle, and the general color will come out. The next part is to adjust the details, you can play freely.

6. Perform brightness/contrast and mask, covering the ant line part in the picture, then perform color balance and make it a clipping mask (press the ALT key between the color balance layer and brightness contrast)

7. Copy the sky material to the position as shown in the picture for color balance.

8. Make curve adjustments and optional color adjustments.

9. Adjust the hue/saturation and brightness contrast within the mask.

10. Copy the ground, go to Filter-Distort-Ocean Ripple, repair the ground, and finally use an appropriate amount of USM to sharpen and add a frame.

Completed renderings.