Photo Editing Tips-Snow Globe Templates

Have you seen the snow globe photos that are everywhere this year? They are just precious and so simple to make! Here are the instructions to make your own snow globe photos.

STEP 1

First you will need to purchase a snow globe template. The snow globe template found at rock my edits comes with 9 different templates for $5. They also have some single ones you can choose from for $1! I also LOVE the ones found at Dreamy Babies on Facebook. These feature Santa!

STEP 2

Now that you have a snow globe template. Open it up in Photoshop. Now click on "File" then "Place" and choose the photo you want to put in the snow globe.

STEP 3

Once the photo is placed accept it. Now go to your layers panel and lower the images Opacity to around 55%. This allows you to see the snow globe behind the image.

STEP 4

Now go to "Image" and then "Free Transform." Click on the corner of your image while holding down the shift key to re-size your image to fit in the snow globe. I find that horizontal images work best.

STEP 5

Once you have your image in place, raise the Opacity back up to a percentage that looks nice in the globe. Around 77%.

STEP 6

Now add a layer mask to the image.

STEP 7

Click on your paint brush. Make sure black is your foreground color. Click on the layer mask and begin painting away the edges until your image fits perfectly in the snowglobe. Dream Babies template users are done. Rock My Edits template user please go to Step 8.

STEP 8(Rock My Edits Templates ONLY)

Now open up the "Lay over Globe-change opacity.png" Drop this image into your snow globe photo and place it over your snow globe. You can lower the opacity to make the snow less obvious if you like. If you need to remove any of the snow from the edges or the faces in the photo simply make a layer mask and follow steps 6 and 7.

Here is a wonderful tutorial video done by Rock My Edits:

And here is a look at one of my finished edits from Dream Babies: