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Some Of My Images Used As Book Covers - before and after Part 2

 Book Covers - Before and After Part 2 Some time ago I created a post showing some of my images used as covers for books.  I am always curious how my wok is used, sometimes I am disappointed, but most of the time it is a pleasure to see the designs and the usage. So here we go: In these cases my original image hasn't been changed that much, most of the time only a crop and of course title and author.  Sometimes it is hard to make out my own design as you can see in this image:  My images are available for licensing through my agencies Trevillionimages   and   Arcangel Images or find something on my home page. Thanks very much. Dirk
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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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