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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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How to add snow to photos & a free falling snow overlay

Hello
sooner than we think it will be Winter and if we are lucky there will be snow. Unfortunately this isn't always the case where I live. So I decided to make some snow overlays to add to images, what the weather could not always deliver. :-)
I usually use jpg- overlays to add the snow flakes, it is one of the easiest ways.

Please see the before / after effect by moving your mouse over the image:

Winter Idyll
   


Here is another one 






In both cases I chose two of my snow overlays and placed them above the original image. I then set the blend mode to "SCREEN" and already had a convincing layer of snow flakes. One can always adjust the intensity of the snow fall by either lowering the opacity, adding a layer mask and erase parts of the overlay with a soft brush or experiment with other blend modes such as LIGHTEN or COLOR DODGE.

I also experimented with snow brushes that I created myself, but found that it is much easier once you have realistic looking overlays. 

If you want to experiment with a snow overlay yourself you can download one for free from my Deviant Art profile -->  FALLING SNOW OVERLAY


If you want help me out you can purchase a whole package of overlays and a psd-file with additional possibilities to add snow from my Creative Market shop 



Thanks very much for reading.
Dirk

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