Dirty Snow Start a new RGB image white background, black foreground.
Type some text. Note, if you are using Photoshop 4.0 it will create a layer of your type.
You must merge it down if you want this trick to work. Just hit Ctrl-E
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Now duplicate the image cause we will need 2 copies for calculations. (Image/Duplicate) You have images called Untitled-1 and Untiled-2 now. Switch to Untitled-1 and blur it with setting of 2. (Filter/Blur/ Gaussian Blur.../2.0) Now switch to Untitled-2 and blur it with setting of 4. (Filter/Blur/Gaussian Blur.../4.0) Now Filter/Other/Offset... 3,3. |
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Now again go to Untiled-1 and rotate it 90 degree clockwise (Image/Rotate/90 CW). Now we have to make it look snowy. Go to Filter/Stylize/Wind... and use it with Wind/Right settings. Then Filter/Stylize/Diffuse... with default setting. Time to rotate it back (Image/Rotate/90 CCW). |
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Finally, time for calculations. Image/Calculations.... Use following settings:
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And last step is to colorize it. Go to Image/Adjust/Hue/Saturation...
and set Saturation to 20 and Hue to -120 |
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