THE MISSION
Add a snow effect to your photos and learn about the powerful Brush tool in Affinity Photo
Time needed
30 minutes
Skill level
Intermediate
Kit needed
Affinity Photo
It may not be a white Christmas for all of us this year, but we can still give our photos a festive snowstorm whatever the weather. In this tutorial we’ll show you how to do so with Affinity Photo’s powerful brush tool. We’ll explain how to create your own brushes, and how to change your brush settings to build up a random scatter effect for the snow. Whether you want to add a wintry effect to your photos, or get creative with all kinds of amazing brush tricks, the technique here will show you how.
Affinity Photo’s Brush tool offers a rewarding array of powerful tools and hidden features. Not only can you choose from all kinds of fantastic brush tips, you can also create your own from any shape or image you like. We’ll take advantage of this here, beginning by painting a few simple blobs. Once done, we can save our image as a PNG file (which preserves transparency), then load the image as a brush tip and begin painting white snow over the image.
This story is from the January 2021 edition of PhotoPlus : The Canon Magazine.
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