Easy Snow Covered Text in Photoshop

I've seen many complicated tutorials around the internet on how to give your text that "snow covered" look for holiday projects, christmas cards, whatever. It's not really as difficult as it may seem to make your text look "snowy", it's as simple as applying one layer style and changing the settings.

Set Up Your text

Start out by creating a new layer, giving it a background color other than white and using the type tool, type the text you want to have covered in snow. Then double click on the type layer to the left and choose your type color (I used #587295) and apply any other layer styles you might want.

After all that is done, click on the type layer (which when we add a new layer, will add it above the text) and add a new layer for our snow.

Add Some Snow

With our new layer selected, now we're going to switch to our brush tool and choose white for the color. Start out with a smaller brush like a hard round 3px or 5px and build the snow as you go, making sure there are no hard lines or 90 degree angles. Make the snow look fluffy and be sure to get those nooks and crannies!

Now we're are going to apply our bevel to make the snow look a little more like snow. Add a "bevel and emboss" layer style to the snow layer on top of the text and change the settings to the image below and this will give our snow some depth.

Touch it up

Once you've got the style applied and it looks a little more like snow, you can go back and make your snow fluffier by brushing over the existing layer or add a drop shadow to it for a little more realism.

And that's all there is to making snow covered text in Photoshop, it's that easy!