Absolute Beginner's Course Series 3: Episode 06: Full Edit: Creating a Snowy, Elky Scene

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Here's another slow edit with explanations for 'advanced beginners', taking a photo of an elk in the summer woods and turning it into a winter scene, complete with driving snow.

If you'd like me to edit one of your images in an episode in these series, please send it (or via such as wetransfer) to abc 'at' changingminds.org.

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Publication Date: 19-Dec-21

Duration: 14:03

Things we are doing here include:

Separating out the elk to a separate layer where we just reduce its saturation to make it look colder.

Use a B&W adjustment with sliders up to make most colours move to white.

Adding gradients from white to black (then Screen blended) from the top and from the bottom to add mist and thicker snow.

Grouping Background, Elk.

Using Perlin noise on a new layer above to create the basis for variable-sized and random snow. Then using Levels to limit the snow, plus a Motion Blur to give it movement.

Then grouping the 'snow', duplicating it and varying the controls to give a more 3D appearance to the snow.

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