How to Turn Summer Photos into Winter in Photoshop SUPER SIMPLE

Winter photos stand out with cold, neutral tones. Now, without winter, you can have impressive winter vibe photos with Adobe Photoshop. Let's practice with SaDesign  how to turn summer photos into winter photos in Photoshop through the following shares.

1. Turn Summer Photos into Winter in Photoshop 

Summer photos are bright with many colors, while winter is more gloomy with neutral tones. Therefore, the way to turn summer photos into winter in Photoshop is to change the strong tones into neutral, cool colors. You can transform a photo of green trees in summer into a bleak winter photo by following these steps:

Step 1: First you need to upload the photo you want to turn summer into winter in Photoshop. On the menu bar, select file => Open => select the appropriate photo and press Open.

Step 2: On the menu bar, select Image => Mode => Lab Color to convert the image to Lab color system.

Step 3: Press Ctrl+J to duplicate the Background layer. In the newly copied layer, switch to the Channels panel.

We can see in the Channels frame there are 4 channels, let's select channel a. 

Then press Ctrl + A (Select => All) to create a selection for the entire image. Continue pressing Ctrl + C (Edit => Copy) to copy the entire channel a.

Select channel b

Press Ctrl + V (Edit + Paste) to paste the entire channel a into channel b. Then press Ctrl + D to remove the selection. Finally, reselect the Lab channel and then return to the Layers panel.

Now we will get the result as shown.

On the menu bar, click Image => Mode => RGB Color to return the image to RGB color system. A dialog box will appear, select Don't Flatten.

Step 4: At the bottom corner of the layer panel, select Create new fill or adjustment layer (split circle icon). Select Gradient Map to create a Gradient Map.

With this Gradient Map, let's set the left color to black and the right color to white as shown.

Step 5: Still select Create new fill or adjustment layer, then select a Hue/Saturation layer.

Set the parameters as shown in the picture. Or depending on your picture, you will adjust the parameters accordingly.

Step 6: Continue to select Create new fill or adjustment layer. Then create a Curves layer. 

This step is the most important because it will create the main effect of your winter photo. You should increase the brightness so that the snowy white areas appear but do not lose the main details.

Step 7: Continue to select Create new fill or adjustment layer, select Color Balance.

Here you will adjust the parameters as shown in the following images.

This step is to create a cold, gloomy color tone to the photo to make it look as wintery as possible.

And the final result, you have turned a summer photo into a winter photo in Photoshop with a cold background like the image below. The photo is more unique, full of winter atmosphere with cold colors.

2. Conclusion

bove is a summary of the steps to turn a summer photo into a winter photo in Photoshop. In fact, the way to change the season in this photo is to change the color of the photo. When the color becomes cold, it becomes winter. The implementation is not too complicated, please try to refer to get surprising results.