Hello!

Lets start with a few simple steps! Go to http://www.stockvault.net/People_g22-Stop_Let_me_out._p6809.html and download that photo.

After frozen effect

Before frozen effect


Open the photo in photoshop.
The photo is too large so we have to scale it to 30% and Croop it.
Duplicate the layer and call it Before Girl
Now go to Image - Adjustments - Hue/Saturation and do the following settings

Ice Settings

Ice Settings

Select the Dodge tool brush:64; range:midtones ; expossure :100% and lighten all the areas of the photo until you obtain an icey effect/color.

Go to Edit menu- Transform - Rotate and set the angle to 90 degrees
Now go to Filter - Stylize - Wind and do the following settings
ice1

Now rotate de photo back, entetering -90 degrees angle. You can if you want to dodge some areas to make it lighter it depends on how you want to look the photo. You also can play with other color tones…it is up to you.

I have decided to add extra ice to the background, to the door actually…For that you need to create another layer. In this layer create a vertical light blue line; weight :1-2px. Go to Filter - Stylize - Wind and do the settings shown earlier…but this time twice or even three times it depends on the result that you like.

Right click an the name of the layer and select Blending Options….choose inner glow : white color ; opacity 70 %.

You can now duplicate this windy line and easily add it to any parts you want…i’ve added to the top of the door…. It is also important to skew the ice to blend in with the photo perspective.(Image - Transform - Skew)

You can also play with different color tones for the ice….it is also important to softly delete (Eraser Too 15% opacity) parts of the ice to look that it is from the picture, to blend in.

This is the result so far:
ice2

It looks pretty good i might say but if you want to add some extra effect. Duplicate the Girl Layer, go to Filter - Brush Strokes - Accented Edges - Edge Width: 1 Edge Brightness: 32 Smoothness: 1 OK Now you can leave it like this or you can set the opacity of this layer at 65% like i did.

Finally the result:

Frozen Ice Woman

Frozen Ice Woman