Adding snow effect in Photo

[Angela M]

Hello

I am new to photo editing software. I have just purchased Photo 2.  
 

I am wanting to add snow effect to an image.  
 

can someone point me in the right direction to locate how to do this please? 
 

thank you 

[Ron P.]

Welcome to the forums @Angela M

There's several on Youtube

Snow Effect in Affinity Photo

[lacerto]

At some point snow overlays were also a free asset (might have been version 1 gift, though), but worth a check at Help > My Account:

 

[Komatös]

Make a web search with the terms snow overlays free and you will find lots of sides with snowy overlays.

For example this one: https://www.freepik.com/free-photos-vectors/snow-overlay

 

 

[bwob]

In Photo 2, you can usually find this under the "Effects" or "Filters" tab. Look for something like "Snow Overlay" or "Winter Effect." If it's not there, you might need to download a specific snow effect pack or plugin.

[thomaso]

In case you do not look for falling snow … but rather fallen, lying, melting …

[KarinC]

The free Dreamphography pack from the Affinity store has two snow brushes and lots of other cool brushes.

https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/store/free-content/

[jmwellborn]

@Angela M  It is not as sophisticated as some methods, but in case you would like to try this, I made an Asset several years ago that provides options for creating snow at different intensities. You just need to import it into your Assets Panel, then open an image, go to Assets, and double click on the Asset. This will allow you to drag the Snow Group across your image with the image placement icon, rather than having a huge representation covering your entire screen.  In the Layers Panel you will see that the asset is a new pixel layer "Snow Group." It can be opened to make adjustments on any of 5 layers in the group. For slightly stronger snowflakes, finish by running the Subtle Sharpening Macro (I believe that should be in your Default category in your Library panel).  You can add more snow anywhere you want by copying and pasting any of the five snow layers from the Snow Group on the top of the image.  If you want to remove snow from part of the image you can click on each pixel layer and use the Eraser Brush.

Here is a very quick sample, using a Pixabay stock image. 

generic snow.afassets