Main steps: First create a partial selection, and then use masks.
We know that the white mask area of Photoshop is displayed and the black mask area is hidden. Using this feature, we can use it in various situations.
Let’s take a look at the original picture and renderings first (the material comes from the Internet)
Open the original image in Photoshop, copy the background layer as shown in Figure 01, execute Selection---Color Range, use a straw to select the range covered by the snow, pay attention to the use of increased sampling, reduced sampling and tolerance, and you can be satisfied with the snow coverage. , as shown in Figure 02
After creating the selection, click OK, fill it with white, execute Filter--Blur---Gaussian Blur to make the snow more realistic (Figure 03), and then add a layer mask to the background copy (Figure 04) Why do you do this? Well, we know that the principle of masking is that white is displayed and black is hidden. The part we select is the part displayed by the layer, but the MM in the picture here is also displayed in white because it is selected, so we can use Apply the black brush to the position of the MM in the mask to dig out the MM, that is, hide the MM in the background copy and display the MM in the background (Figure 05)
Basically the snow scene is complete. Now let’s start making snowflakes
Create a new layer, fill it with white, and perform pixelation---dotization in the filter. The parameters are about 7 to 10. (Of course, to make the snow fall more heavily, you can increase the parameters a little larger)
Then execute Image---Adjustment---Threshold as shown in Figure 06, (the black dots here are the future snowflakes, and the size can also be adjusted by yourself)
Perform inversion. Here, the snowflakes come out. In order to make the snow more realistic, we can add a dynamic blur to the snowflakes. The angle here controls the direction of the snow, and the distance controls the size of the snow. Figure 07. In order to achieve better results The effect can be given to the snowflakes by performing a Gaussian blur, as shown in Figure 08
Then change the layer mode of the newly made snowflake to Screen, Screen, Screen, which is to filter out the black! As shown in Figure 09
MM feels uncomfortable with snowflakes on her face. Well, I simply add a mask to the snowflake layer and use a black brush to erase the snowflakes on MM’s face in the mask! (Of course, if you feel the snow is too heavy, , you can also make a black to white gradient in the mask) as shown in Figure 10
Finally, merge the layers, press CTRL+ALT+~ to select the highlight area, use curves to darken the highlight area, adjust the overall color balance and hue saturation according to your own preferences, and use a brush to partially modify the mask of the adjustment layer. Completed
This article was originally created by Hua Luo Wufeng, a Chinese tutorial network.