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Winter Edit With Texture Overlays in Luminar Neo Including Two Free Textures

 Last January we had some days with snow and people were rushing out to have some fun with it before all melted away, which is often the case were I live. I took my camera and went out into the falling snow and saw some people from my neighbourhood with their kid sleighing down a small hill nearby.  Here is the finished edit of the scenery: Enjoying A Winter Day RAW - Edit in Luminar Unedited RAW Image -  I started with the Enhance AI tool. I set the Accent AI value to 32 which was enough and brought out lights and contrasts, which I found helpful with this monotone snowy image. -   I changed into the Develop module where I enhanced the Exposure always keeping an eye on the Histogram because with snow you quickly run into burned out highlights.  - I also decreased the Highlight a bit and added more blacks. Especially reducing the lights is helpful, because I found that blend modes such as Overlay and Soft Light work better when editing with texture overla...
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Gentle Snowfall Overlay Freebie & how to apply it - Updated Dec 2024

I re-edited this post and added new links to download the texture:

Last post before Xmas,

over here we had our first taste of snow last week. At the moment it's back to normal, meaning rainy weather and roughly 5°C - 10°C...
I had the chance to take some wonderful winter landscapes in the sun and also shot while it was snowing quite heavily.
Still had no time to process some of these shots....

I thought it is about time for another freebie, so I made a snowfall overlay that is quite easy to use.

It looks like this:


Falling Snow Overlay


Download this overlays here for FREE! --> Free Download Snow Overlay




How do I use this? 
Overlays like the one above work best with blending modes like

- Screen
- Lighten
- Color Dodge

in programs such as Photoshop, Luminar Neo or Affinity.

In these modes the  color black doesn't have any effect and only the light/white parts show up in your picture. 
Just play around and see what works best with your picture.
Recently I used this overlay on my picture 4 colors of winter. Please move over the picture to see a before/after of this picture.



4 colors in winter









Hope you find this texture useful.


Dirk




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  1. Miriam17:35

    Great texture and great tips for applying, thank you!

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  2. Kathy Hardy18:18

    Beautiful! I have a "blogger" question, though? How do you do the before/after mouseover image? Is it a plugin for blogger? Thank you!!!

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