How to Add Snow to a Photo with Photoshop

Posted on by Jeff Riegel, Producer/Editor

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Our friends over at Panos FX have released a great free action for adding snow to a photo using Photoshop. Their action creates animated snow… but you can also just use it for static snow as well.  You can change the size of the snowflakes and control the amount of falling snow.

These free actions create 3 different types of seamlessly loopable video clips:

  • The “Snowfall” actions will make beautiful snow fall on your photo!
  • The “Christmas Card – Snowglobe” action creates a complex animation: your photo appears inside a beautiful snow globe. Snow falls calmly inside while 3 big snowflakes revolve around the globe.
  • The “Christmas Card – Plain” action creates a simpler version of the previous animation.

The actions require Photoshop CC, or the Standard / Extended version of Ps CS6, CS5 or CS4.

1899896_10152361136055906_115607446473139028_nRich Harrington is a photo and video pro based in Washington, DC.  He is also the…

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For two decades, Jeff Riegel was a senior level Producer/Editor for the Department of Defense and various government contractors in Northern Virginia. Outside of the workplace, Jeff keeps himself busy with the creation of festival worthy documentaries "Tori Nelson: Fighting for Her Future" and the once nominated and two-time Emmy award winning "A Journey of Education and Remembrance." His short film "The Great Realisation" captured the eyes at 18 international film festivals with various winning honors; a poem that takes on heavy themes such as fevered capitalism, man-made ecological issues, digital addiction during the global Covid blight. Jeff is looking for funding investors and co-producing "The Lost Clipper," a two+ decades project about the first hijacking in U.S. history and the search for those 15 lost souls abducted in 1938, the true first act of war with Japan. Filming takes him to Micronesia, Guam, Hawaii, Canada, and locations across the U.S. (see www.LostClipper.com) He enjoys creating media-marketing social networking campaign for personalities such as 13-time world boxing champion Tori Nelson, Netflix's "Narcos" personalities Steve Murphy and Javier Pena, and renowned landscape photographer Frank Lee Ruggles. Jeff is eager to attack any project head-on. Jeff's Motto: think beyond convention...and consider it done!