Making a Photo look like winter

[digmo]

I have to create a card this year and have been asked to add a touch of frost to the photo. I have had a bit of a go and posted a tutorial of how I have got on so far at

Adding Winter with Photoshop | TotalApps

now, if anyone had any further tips on improving this I would appreciate any tips, the card has to be as realistic as possible and although I am happy with the look I have had one or two negative comments

David

[rhoraq]

I'm a newbie to photography, but what to me this looks pretty damn good.

[Omadawn]

I just followed your step by step guide and it really helped me a lot, ive been struggling with photoshop and had very nearly giving up using it all together.
Thanks for putting the time in to do this, I really like the effect of your pic and dont agree with the comments left.

Thankyou, look forward to reading more.

[digmo]

Originally Posted by Omadawn

I just followed your step by step guide and it really helped me a lot, ive been struggling with photoshop and had very nearly giving up using it all together.
Thanks for putting the time in to do this, I really like the effect of your pic and dont agree with the comments left.

Thankyou, look forward to reading more.

Any chance of posting your photoshopped photo on here ? I would love to see how it turned out ?

David

[Batgirl44]

I use Paint Shop Pro, the steps are pretty much the same. Here is a quick try at it:

Before:


After:


I'm excited to learn more about all of this! Will be playing with this new trick in the days to come! Thanks for this tip!
I used the Luminance Blend setting to keep some color involved though. Using the lighten Blend mode made it more black and white looking.

[Omadawn]

Originally Posted by digmo

Any chance of posting your photoshopped photo on here ? I would love to see how it turned out ?

David

yes sorry , here is before and after .

Before


After

[kimberlymerkel]

Love this!

[mgstudio99]

Originally Posted by digmo

I have to create a card this year and have been asked to add a touch of frost to the photo. I have had a bit of a go and posted a tutorial of how I have got on so far at

Adding Winter with Photoshop | TotalApps

now, if anyone had any further tips on improving this I would appreciate any tips, the card has to be as realistic as possible and although I am happy with the look I have had one or two negative comments

David

Thank you very much for sharing

[jdepould]

The contrast is way too much, and you're blowing all the details.

[Sterling]

Hmmm, I guess most of these might look like winter to someone that hasn't seen snow before. So far, Batgirl44's pic above looks the closest to what a light snow cover might look like. In fact, if presented alone, I would probably believe it was a photo of snow; just a rather overly contrasty one. I'm afraid the others just look to me like various types of B&W conversions.