Snow day

[Bishop201]

Took about 15 mins to process this one. I didn't do too much because I wanted it to look natural.

Before



After



Used mostly gradient maps to make the snow look white/bluish. Cleaned up, smoothed and lightened the skin and played with the curves a bit. Hope it wasn't too heavy handed. Oh and I cropped a bit because I like pics that are off center.

[T.pickett]

Very nice, I really like the final contrast between all of the elements in the scene. I think I would have gone a little easier on the skin tones but very nice work!

-T

[Bishop201]

Originally Posted by T.pickett

Very nice, I really like the final contrast between all of the elements in the scene. I think I would have gone a little easier on the skin tones but very nice work!

-T

Yeah I thought I went a little overboard with the skin tone too but when she saw it she got excited and told me she loved it so I decided to leave it that way.

[scorpio_e]

Nice processing. I do find the background a bit distracting.

[jocelynaz]

I really like what you did with this shot! Beautiful! I see what you mean with the skin tone, BUT I think it totally works for this shot. Great job!

[x_eternity_x]

What did you do to lighten the skin? Local area dodging? General curves?

[Bishop201]

Originally Posted by x_eternity_x

What did you do to lighten the skin? Local area dodging? General curves?

No I made a copy of the layer, gaussian blurred it, switched to overlay, then added a layer mask filling in the skin only. Then I duplicated the masked layer twice and switched to screen and soft light. Took some playing with opacity to get it the way I wanted it. I just wanted it to look cold.

[moon]

Yes love it.
Crop makes it a lot stronger.

[photorelive]

i like it , the snow looks clear white after retouching
great job