If you are curious about feature development and want to float an idea past our development staff, we are certainly open to suggestions from our users. However, active development is still on going. It was fun to have a challenge and hopefully I will learn a few tricks to make this easier, especially with adjusting the snow speed and how the loop interacts.This page, its features and contents are largely in a completed state. This is very challenging to do, but once you start to understand the Photoshop Timeline Panel, it is pretty easy to figure out. To do this correctly, go to Colin’s video link above and scroll down to follow his saving directions so the snow layer can be easily be added into another image easily. Then Color Lookup and Levels Adjustment Layers were applied before converting the image to a gif animation. I cheated and duplicated the animation smart object layer from the Deeezy image above to this image and then changed the opacity of the different snow layers by opening the copied snow layer’s smart object and resaving. What is really great is that this animation layer can be placed on a different photo (this last image is from Unsplash by Atikh-Bana) to make it an animation also. This way of animating the snow does allow from some falling snow rate adjustment so that give a very different feel to the images. This effect has a more natural snow look with the snow layer animation speeds set to different amounts. Also a few layers were painted to add a snow accumulation effect to the objects. In PS the Landscape Mixer Neuron Filter was set to the first preset image to turn the summery image into a wintry scene. I think a lot of experimentation has to be done to get smooth snowfall. I thought this was an easier way to do the gif, but I had a lot of problems with the slight jiggling when the 5 second loop starts over.
Snow overlay gif how to#
This time the Photoshop marvel Colin Smith created a nice video called How to Make Animated Snow in Photoshop – it contains three snow layers in a Smart Object that ultimately ends up on top of your image (or videos).
Snow overlay gif free#
This image is from Deeezy’s 33 landscape photos free set and used a little different process to create the snow animation. This was my first attempt and it took a while to figure out how to set it all up. This time just created one layer with snow that would only show up inside the ornament. Also in the center were some PNG snowflakes from a while back that were turned into large soft brushes (I love doing this!). And the branch edges and some ivy painted across some of the more bare areas were painted on using JS Scully’s Christmas Accent Brushes at DeviantArt. The bulbs were copied from one of old tree pix. The green tree background was created using a silver colored pattern fill and clipping a Select Color Adjustment Layer to it for color. Need to put your image together the way you want it before adding the animation effect. And for your info, the crazy Fisheye effect is a filter in Topaz Lens Effects, one of my favorites (and it sure is a lot cheaper than buying a fisheye lens). The ornament is a shape that was also explained in the PSUser magazine and everything else was painted or used Christmas brush strokes. The speed seems to be a bit of issue with this method as I could not figure out how to slow the rate of falling snow down a little. By dragging the blurry snowy pattern a little sideways in the Pattern Layer Style, a soft windy feeling could be achieved.
For the top image, two layers with layer styles were used – one that used the ornament image snow layer and one using my blurry snow overlay turned into a pattern. Corey used a Pattern Layer Style in a timeline to get his snowy effect and that is what you see above and below. If you are member of Kelby One, check out the November/December 2019 edition of Photoshop User Magazine, Shaping and Styling a Custom Holiday Scene article, and at the bottom click on the Learn More button – a nice 7 minute video on how to do this is shown and it works perfectly! A more complicated video called Create Realistic Animated Snow in Photoshop that uses 3D by Corey is also very good – basic steps are the same at the end of the video so it does not have to be done with a 3D effect (had to try this in CS6 but any snowy layer should work). The GIF tutorial I followed is by one of my very favorite PS guys, Corey Barker. The subject was first separated from the background and then snow and lots of other steps added to the it to get the start of a snowy effect before adding the animated snow layers. BTW, the image above is of a beautiful Holiday item one of my friends had in her living room. Thought I would share how it is achieved since I have been looking for easy tutorials on this forever. I had so much fun creating these animated snow GIFs the past few days.
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