Rain Effects in Photoshop

This is cool little effect that I have used many times in my classes. I would like to share it with you.

1. Find a picture with darkish looking clouds in the sky. There are many free stock photos sites I found by doing a Google search.

2. Right click on the photo and copy.

3. Go into Photoshop File > Open > New . The cool thing with Photoshop is after you have copied the picture, it will open the new canvas to the size of the picture you have copied.

4. Go to File > Paste.

5. Create a new layer with a white background.

6. Then go to Filter >> Noise > Add Noise. The settings should be about 400, Gaussian should be checked and also Monochromatic.

7. Then go to Filters > Blur > Motion Blur. The Angle should be about 76 (you can play with this, it will be the angle the rain is coming down) Distance should be about 27.

8. Next go to your layers box and change the layer from normal to multiply.

9. Next go to Image > Adjustments > Levels and make it lighter. Bring up the 1st two numbers in the input levels and try bringing down the last number. You can play around with it until you have the look that you want.

So now it is raining in the vineyard.

// posted by BasicAnn on 8/01/2005 09:01:00 PM / Permanent Link