Create Your Own Snowflakes

Create Your Own Snowflakes

Do you like winter and miss this season? In this way this tutorial special for you! We will create snowflakes everywhere.

Start by making a new document in Photoshop. After creating your document, fill the background with a gradient. For this select some appropriate colors, for example colors of #8cdbe8 and #49aedd.

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Now create a new layer, then select the Brush Tool and a soft round brush with size about 150 px. Make a couple of strokes, using white color.

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After that apply Filter > Blur > Motion Blur with the next presets:

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Now we have something like this:

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Ok, then create one more new layer and fill it with black color, then apply Filter > Noise > Add Noise with similar settings to these:

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After that change layer mode to Screen:

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Ok, now apply Filter > Blur > Motion Blur with the next presets:

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You can see the result below:

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We are done with a winter background; now let’s start to create our own snowflakes. Select the Line Tool (Weight: 5 px) and make a couple of lines using color of #4bb4f0 like on picture below:

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Merge all lines in one layer and press Ctrl+J to duplicate this layer. Apply Edit > Transform > Flip Horizontal to make horizontally reflected copy.

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Ok, now merge two of these layers again and press Ctrl+J to duplicate this layer one more time. Apply Edit > Transform > Flip Vertical to make vertically reflected copy.

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After that merge two of these new layers again, press Ctrl+J and rotate copied layer with Edit > Transform > Rotate 90 CW:

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Merge two of layers again, and press Ctrl+J again and apply Edit > Transform > Free Transform for new copied layer.

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Merge two of these layers the last. We are done with snowflake shape. Now I would like to stylize its view. Apply Filter > Stylize > Diffuse with similar settings to these:

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We’ve to get something like this:

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Ok, after that apply Outer Glow and Gradient Overlay layer styles to this layer:

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Our picture should look as below:

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After that I would like to create a little snowfall!

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Well, everyone, looks like we’re finished. I hope you enjoyed this tutorial!

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