PS7.0 add snow effect to landscape map

Get a beautiful scenery, we often fondle admiringly, but look a bit tired of a long time. But have you thought about it, if you like the snowy weather, or is it a colorful intermittent rain, then it is another wonderful feeling to add the wonderful weather effects of these great nature to the scenery map? Below I will teach you to use a few simple filters with Photoshop7.0 to achieve the snow, rain and fog effects of the common scenery map.

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Snow Effect Chart:

Figure 1

1. Open the picture of "landscape material" as shown in Figure 2, we will make the weather effect of snowing snow for this picture, compare with the effect chart above, is there another kind of wonderful artistic conception?

Figure 2

2. In the Layers panel, drag the background layer to the "Create new Layer" button shown in the Figure 3 red box, and copy the "background copy" layer that is identical to the "background" layer, and so on, all of our operations will be done at the replica level.

Figure 3

3. Verify that the background copy layer is selected, and then perform the filter-pixel-dot filter, the "Dot" dialog box, the cell size in the box to 6, click OK. The image effect at this point is as shown in Figure 4:

Figure 4

4. Below we continue in the "background copy" layer to perform operations, because snowflakes are falling trend, it will produce a dynamic effect, we can use "dynamic blur" to achieve this feature. Click on "Filter-blur-Motion blur", the "Dynamic Blur" dialog box, the distance set to 8 pixels, and then adjust the angle plate, adjust the snow falling angle, angle size depends on your own preferences, this example to choose 75 degrees. As shown in Figure 5

Figure 5

Figure 6 (Image effect after performing a motion blur operation)

5. Although Figure 6 has a little effect of snowflakes, but it seems to have not seen snow or color it! Next we will remove the color of the snowflake and make it white. Here may be asked if you can use the conversion image mode for grayscale to color operation, so of course not. To change the current RGB image mode to achieve the layer gray effect there is also a way to use the "image-adjust-go-color" operation, or press the shortcut key ctrl+shift+u to achieve. After performing the color-removal operation The image effect is shown in Figure 7:

Figure 7

6. Now the color of snow is removed, but also the bottom of the "background" layer also blocked, but this is very simple, "background copy" layer of the blending mode set to "Filter Color", our snow effect is not out. Figure 8 is our final effect diagram, is not very simple, magic ah?

Figure 8