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SUDDEN SEASONAL CHANGE

If you love pictures of icy winter landscapes, but really can't stand sitting out in the cold for hours on end watching your hand
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freeze to your camera, you might want to learn these little -known techniques for plunging any summer scene into deep winter.  
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Step 1: Open up a stock image in Photoshop of any size
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brightness. Artificial concentrated patches of deep blue (i.e.
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Step 2: Ensure your background layer is selected in the layers

palette, and create a new adjustment layer from the main
menu by selecting Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Color
Mixer. Enter in the settings on the right and press OK.  Change 
the layer blending mode to Lighten, and then take a look at your
image.

My settings may not work ideally for you, so double -click on the
adjustment layer in the layers palette if needed to alter the
settings further.  The best results come from moving the  Blue
and Constant sliders around until you have the ideal trade -off
between color loss and the artificial frost effect.

Step 3:   Press OK and take a look at your frosty image.  If you 
have washed out colors, just go back to the adjustment layer
and adjust it accordingly.   Of course, no winter scene is 
complete without copious amounts of snow... and that is what
we are going to create next...

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Step 5:  Doesn't look much like snow at the moment, does it?   Posted: Sep 05th, 6:42pm
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Step 7:  Nearly there!   Repeat step 5 again, but with a  1px

radius gaussian blur and the nice little curve on the left.  This 
creates the finest grade of snow.

Now that we have made three layers of snow, all we need to do

is combine them together.  To do this, just change the layer 
blending mode of the three snow -filled layer sets (*NOT* the
layers themselves) to Lighten, and lower the opacity to 90%.

Step 8: And here we have it - a nice English orchard in the

middle of summer has been thrust headlong into the depths of
winter.  The flakes of snow do not come out well in the small 
thumbnail to the left, but the differences between the full -scale
before and after images are definitely noticeable ( Beware:
each image is 1mb in size ).

This should not, of course, be the end of your seasonal

change.  You can add more layers of snow, blizzards, or even a 
cold -looking sky if needed... but I'll leave those additions up
to you.   Have fun!

- Tutorial written by Man1c M0g

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User:  saxc (#38482)
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Date: Thu Mar 01, 2007. 04:03:25

Very nice, effective and simple too (along with a tut for a companion, off course), just as all the real things ought to be.
Thanks, man.

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