Changing summer photo to winter theme
I was recently asked by Czech wedding magazine to change for them one nice wedding photo (taken by very good wedding photographer Pavol Bigos) to winter theme as the whole issue was about winter weddings.
The original photo had quite a few of grass straws in the bottom so first thing was to remove them in Photoshop. Then I went trough my own photo gallery and selected winter pictures with nice snow in the background and foreground. After that I started to mask the groom and bride carefully. I used two or three foreground layers for the snowdrift hiding the shoes. Next step was to blend different background pictures together and do the necessary painting to blend all pictures together. It was also important to properly adjust colors, as this is a winter image I preferred cold colors. For final color/tone adjustments I usually use Lightroom where I import the image and do the final touch. Hope you like it ;-)