Gimpified: Make A Snowy Picture In GIMP 1.8.1

This tutorial will show you how to put snow on the ground and snow falling.

Before

After

First open a new image

Then click file > open and select the image to edit

For this tutorial I will be using a picture of these sports cars

Make sure the color looks like this in the toolbox. If it does not, just click D

Create a new layer. Layer > New Layer

Make sure that Foreground Color is selected. Click OK

Click Filters > Noise > RGB Noise

Make it look like this. Uncheck Independant RGB and Correlated Noise. Tune Either Red, Green, Or Blue to around 0.70. The others will automatically change. Alpha is turned to 0.00

Change the Mode Dropdown to Screen

Add a blur. Filters > Blur > Guassian Blur

Change Horizantal or Vertical to your liking. For this I will have 1.5. The second one will change automatically

Now you have falling snow.

I want more, so I will duplicate the layer

Now I have 3 snow layers

On the right select the original image layer. Then in the toolbox select the bucket fill tool. Set the fill type to pattern fill, and use the ice pattern. Under that select fill similar colors.

Click wherever you want snow. I am halfway done.

Now that you are done adding snow, shrink the image layer to the desired size. This image is way to large, so I will shrink it way down. If your image layer is the desired dimensions, do not change anything.

Now the snow flakes are larger. I don't want them all to be the same size, though.

I will shrink the first snow layer so it is a little larger than the image. The second snow layer even bigger, and the third layer even bigger.

First layer