Here’s another really quick and easy tutorial.
This time, how to cover a house in snow.

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To make my job easier, I first found sources of snowy images that might fit into my original photo.
Using a picture of a snow covered roof, I started by taking the Lasso Tool and selecting the edge of the roof.
I copied this selection onto a new layer.
Using the Distort tool, I aligned this segment it to fit like so.

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Then, I did the same with the plane of the roof,

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using a hard Eraser, I went on to clean the edges of the snow on the sgements we pasted, removing all obstructing background elements.

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And again, for the surrounding areas and background, it was simply a matter of taking apart segments of snow from our source pics and cutting and pasting them to fit around our house.
Most of this process is just trial and error, finding areas of your source pics that’d suit your original the best.
I used the Lasso tool to cut these areas out, distort tool to align them, and a soft eraser to blend the edges.

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After we compiled the general composition of the image, I wanted to enhance the mood of snow a little more.
So I took the Paint bucket tool and filled the entire thing in a blue tone on a new layer.
I then set this layer’s blend mode option to “Overlay” and dropped the alpha to 60%.
this gave our entire image a nice blue tint.

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Now to add falling snow into our image.
The easiest way I found to do this was to find a nice clean picture of falling snow. Preferrably one with a fairly solid background.
I pasted this source onto a new layer, then simply set the layer’s nlend mode to “Screen”.
This allows only the brighter tones of the layer to show through, leaving us only with the snow flakes exposed.

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Finally, I copied this layer several times and pasted it throughout our image to cover the entire picture in snow, using the Move tool to offset a few of these segments to help randomize the snow’s position.

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And that’s it.
A really simple way to an easy snow job.

Credit:  aviary.com