Follow this Photoshop tutorial to add a contemporary frosted pixel overlay to your photos.

Photoshop Tutorial Preview

Step 1

Open a picture into Adobe Photoshop.

Step 2

Next, press Ctrl+J to duplicate the layer. Change the blending mode to Overlay.

Step 3

Go to Filter> Pixelate> Mosaic and in the Mosaic Photoshop filter settings, set ethe pixels to the size that you want the squares to be.

Step 4

Then, press Ctrl+J to duplicate the top layer and change the blending mode from Overlay to Multiply.

Step 5

Now go to Filter> Stylize> Find Edges. This is what your image should look like inside Photoshop:

Step 6

This step is optional. Press Ctrl+Shift+U to desaturate the outline so that they don’t have any color to it.

Step 7

Final Results

Here’s the final image after applying this Photoshop effect: