PS skillfully uses masks to find new ways to recreate the snow wedding dress
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After reading the tutorial on snow wedding dress in the forum, it gave me another idea to create a snow scene, which is to create a partial selection and use a mask.
We know the mask area White is for display and black is for hiding. Taking advantage of this feature, we can use it in various situations
Okay, without further ado, let us start to see the magical function of mask
Look at the original picture and renderings first (the material comes from the Internet)
Open the original image first, copy the background layer as shown in Figure 01, execute selection—color range, and use the eyedropper to select the white snow cover range, pay attention to the combination of increasing sampling and decreasing sampling and tolerance. Just be satisfied with the snow coverage range, as shown in Figure 02
After creating the selection, click OK, fill it with white, and execute the filter –Blur—Gaussian blur makes the snow more realistic (Figure 03), and then adds a layer mask to the background copy (Figure 04) Why do you do this? We know that the principle of the mask is white for display and black for display. Hide, the part we selected is the part displayed on the layer, but the MM in the picture here is also displayed in white because it is selected. Then we can use a black brush to paint the position of the MM in the mask to dig out the MM. , that is, hide the MM in the background copy and display the MM in the background (as shown in Figure 05)
Basically the snow scene is completed. Let’s start making snowflakes
Create a new layer and fill it with white. Execute the pixelization—dot transformation in the filter, with parameters of about 7 to 10 (of course, to make the snow fall harder, you can increase the parameters a little larger)
Then execute the image Image—Adjustment—Threshold as shown in Figure 06, (the black dots here are the future snowflakes, and the size can also be adjusted by yourself)
Then perform inversion. Here, the snowflakes come out. In order to make Snow is more realistic. We can add a dynamic blur to the snowflakes. The angle here controls the direction of the snow, and the distance controls the size of the snow. As shown in Figure 07, in order to achieve better results, you can perform a Gaussian blur on the snowflakes, such as Figure 08
Then change the layer mode of the newly made snowflake to Screen, Screen, Screen, which is to filter out the black! As shown in Figure 09
It feels like MM, there is something on the face Snowflakes don’t feel comfortable at all. Well, let’s just add a mask to the snowflake layer and use a black brush to paint in the mask.�MM Wipe off the snowflakes on your face! (Of course, if you think the snow is too heavy, you can also make a black to white gradient in the mask) as shown in Figure 10
Finally, merge the layers and press CTRL ALT ~ Select the highlight area, use a curve to darken the highlight area, adjust the overall color balance and hue saturation according to your own preferences, use a brush to partially modify the mask of the adjustment layer, and you’re done
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