 Hello everybody, welcome back to another Photoshop tutorial and this one I'm going to show you how to add snow to any image. You could take an image like this one here, just a nice winter's day and then a couple little clicks and bang, it's a nice snowy day. Now a couple things. First off, I am in Adobe Photoshop beta. In particular, I am in 25.2. So if you are using a version prior to 25.2, this won't work. If you want to get the beta, you just have to click on your little creative cloud little icon and then just go down here to beta apps and under beta apps, you will see Photoshop beta if you are a paid subscriber. Okay, with that out of the way, it's there's literally a one click option and then there's a one click plus a few little twerks on the dial kind of option. So let me show you both that should take about just a minute or two and we'll be ready to go. All right, let's go. All right. So the first step is you need to get an image obviously. So I went to free or I went to pexels.com and they've got all kinds of free images here. And then I just grabbed a nice wintery day one. Of course, you can grab this one or any image you want to follow along. Of course, now drag and drop that into your layers panel and we're on our way. The second step I highly recommend it's not required, but I recommend it is make a duplicate copy of the layer or of the image. The reason why is at the end, you may want to dial down the opacity and blend it with the original shot to make it a little bit more believable depending on the effects you go for. So there you go. So we've made a duplicate copy. Now let's go. All right. Next step here up at the top, come down to filter and under filter, you're going to see parametric filters. That's right. How cool is that for a name? Yep, I'm going to click on parametric filters or parametric filters. I'm not sure. And when you do that, you just drag and just drop it down here under parametric filter part of me. You'll see a few options. The one we're going for is snow filter. It's currently right here. There are 21 of them at the moment. And this is the, I guess, the 17th one of them. So let's just click on it and bang out of the box. It applies snow, but boy, oh boy, it does it like a Jackson Pollock painting. So it does not look believable in my opinion. So we need to go ahead and start making some changes. So I'll just just make this a little smaller here. And maybe I'll pull this in a bit so we can see more of the screen. Okay, rolling on. So up here under parametric filters, or pardon me, parametric properties, snow filter, you'll see here, you can drop it down from draft, medium, high and ultra. These don't do all that much at the moment. It just sort of, I guess it just sort of appears to impact the brightness. Now you can also click on randomize. And this will sort of randomize the snow, but it also randomizes the type of snow and the direction. So again, something you can experiment with. Now for me, I like to reduce the snow density a little bit because I find that it's just a little bit too much out of the box. So instead, you'll just see here, I'm just playing with the dials and here the ones that I like to use, I generally pull the bloom down quite a bit. So I'm going to make it something like that. And again, you guys can dial this into your effect. But if you look carefully, you'll see that it is impacting things like the clouds and the snow or the iceberg or the ice glacier that the person is on. So again, dial these as you see fit, speed, angle. Angle doesn't do all that much, but whatever. And then here's the other one that you want to really look at is snowflake scales. So I tend to pull this down a bit and then maybe I'll up the transparency a bit and get something like this. Now I realize that this is not quite right. Transform scale is something I don't touch because it just makes things really weird. Watch this. Yeah, see what's happening here. It just gets really weird real quick. So I'm just going to go to zero. But again, something you should know about. So there you go. You can make some adjustments like this. Now again, this does not look correct. So I might just, you know, adjust that a little bit more of a snowy day, something like that. I don't know what you guys think it's something like that maybe. Okay, let's take the bloom down a bit because I think it's blowing out the highlights a bit too much. Okay, good. Whatever. Good enough. We've got something. Now the next step is we're going to go ahead and start making a quick adjustment or two. All right. So the next step I'm going to do here is I'm going to click on the layer mask button and I'm going to make a layer mask on this top layer. When I do that, you'll see it creates a white mask. I'm going to go to the left side here, grab my brush tool, and then I am going to brush this in with black. So watch this. See what I'm doing here? I'm basically getting rid of the snow on this iceberg or this glacier because it doesn't make sense and it doesn't look quite right. The snow is falling down in the sky. That makes sense, but the snow doesn't really fall on the glacier like this. So I'm going to do that. And when I'm done, I'll come back and then I'll show you the next step. All right. So I've basically brushed in with black using a soft round brush, just a regular brush. I've brushed it in and I've got rid of the snowfall look on top of the glacier. Now, the next step is you want to go over here to the left side, grab your objects or pardon me, your quick selection tool. And now I'm going to make sure that I'm selected on the layer itself right here, not the mask, but the layer. I'm going to just go ahead and quickly reselect that. As you can see here, it's done a pretty good job, although it does have this person's, I guess, boots and stuff like that that I technically don't want. So again, just make a nice quick selection. It doesn't have to be perfect. And then presto. You'll see here that I've gone ahead and selected the glacier and not the rest of the image. With that done, now I'm going to go and show you the next step, which is creating an adjustment layer. All right. So the next step is we're just going to create a quick levels adjustment. The reason why is this does not match the sky. The sky is quite bright and sort of blown out here. And again, it's not perfect. We'll get there in a second. But this doesn't quite look right. It's not quite bright enough. So I'm going to go ahead and make sure that you've got the selection. So I'll just do that selection. Again, I let it go by accident. My bad. Sorry. Something like that. Now I'm going to go ahead and now that I've got my selection, I'm going to go up here. I'm going to go to adjustment layers, levels, and just watch this. I'm just going to pull the far right little, I guess you'd call that icon or stopper to the left here. And I can quickly, very quickly change the brightness of the glacier. So I want it to match. And for me, something around there looks pretty good. All right. Let's go ahead and click on the final step. All right. So we're kind of getting there. But the final step really is you just want to go ahead here on the top layer, not the levels layer, but your layer here. Just drag the opacity down a bit and just sort of get it so that it sort of blends all together. The snow is quite salient in the original shot. But if you pull the opacity down to something like, I don't know, let's say to something like 66%. That looks pretty believable. Also, you can adjust or experiment with the different layers here. So multiply that looks kind of cool if you want a dark day. Not all of them work. Lighten not so much screen not so much. But again, you can adjust their lighter color doesn't work too bad. So you can always just go ahead and overlay actually works too. So you can go ahead and flip through the adjustment layers, but literally just drop the opacity down a little bit. You can apply a blur if you want to, if you find that the snow doesn't quite look right. But there you go. That is all there is to it to creating a nice snow layer out of nothing using parametric filters. Thanks for watching.