Putting The Snow In Your Image Using GIMP
It has been a while since my last post.
And here i will show you on how to put snow in an image. There are many ways of doing it shown by other people and this is my version on it. I choose the KLCC image. :) and I'm using GIMP.
(here is the original image)
(and the results)
Step 1: Open an image.
Step 2: Select the fuzzy button (change mode to 'add to current selection') and click on the background of the building. Remember to click on everything including the sky and clouds.
Step 2: Select the fuzzy button (change mode to 'add to current selection') and click on the background of the building. Remember to click on everything including the sky and clouds.
(saturate the background)
Step 3: Click on Color>hue saturation. Lower the saturation and increase the lightness to saturate the background.
Step 4: Click Select>None.
Step 5: Duplicate that image.
Step 6: Change the foreground color to light blue, and the background color to darken blue.
Step 7: Choose Color>Map>Gradient map.
Step 4: Click Select>None.
Step 5: Duplicate that image.
Step 6: Change the foreground color to light blue, and the background color to darken blue.
Step 7: Choose Color>Map>Gradient map.
(and it should look something like this)
Step 8: Select layers mode to 'overlay' to add the cool-look within the image.
Step 9: Create new layer and fill it with black.
Step 9: Create new layer and fill it with black.
Step 10: Select Filters>Noise>HSV Noise. Set holdness=2, hue=max, saturation =80, value=max.
Step 11: Set the layer mode to 'screen'.
Step 12: And now we have the snow as what we wanted. But it's not ready yet. Select Blur>motion blur and set the length to '4' and direction of the falling snow to '230'.
Step 13: Duplicate that layer, select scale and choose width=200 ,make sure to pick on 'percent' and not 'pixels'
Step 14: Tone down the opacity of the layer, and you should be getting a nice snowy scene of an image.
