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How To Make Cool Rain Effect (photoshop tut)

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Here i am going to show you how to create realistic rain effect using photoshop CS, this tutorial is suitable for immeadiate beginners too,

now the first thing you need is to get a good source image , i used this house which is shown at a kool angle and a dog lookin out of the window supposedly because it is raining

 

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dublicate the layer ( press Ctrl+J ) or just drag the layer to the create new layer button at the bottom of layers tool box ,

 

now go to Image > Image Adjustments > Levels and make your settings as shown in the image below ...

 

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even tough the image we have is already dark ,that would have given the image the necessary dark appearance as you would have on a rainy day ..

 

the next step is to create rain

create a new layer (Shift+CTRL+N) with a white background and name it rain for easy reference later

 

now go to Filter > Noise > Add Noise and make your settings as shown in the image below ....

 

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now go to Filter > Blur > Motion Blur and make your settings as shown in the image below ....

 

 

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now go to Image > Image Adjustments > Levels and make your settings as shown ....

 

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go to layers pallet and change your blending mode to screen

well we got it raining already but i just want it to rain more heavily so make another copy of the rain layer, set the blending mode to screen on this layer too

and go to Edit > Transform > Rotate 180 degrees clockwise and reduce the opacity of the layer to around 82,

now with the topmost layer selected press Crl+E to merge the two top layers

 

now it rains but we dont have any wind , so our rain is not realistic yet , now go to Filter > Distort > Twirl and make the settings as shown below ....

 

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and here is my final image , it rains doesnt it ?? :)

 

 

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there already is 1 for the animated.and the animated tut already has everything this post has w/ differnt settingsall you need to do is change the angle of the motoin blur to make it look like the rain is coming from a different angle.

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That is amazingly simple and sooo effective. I'm impressed - I've tried a few different ways to get a rain effect going on and none look as great as this one. Thank you so much :)

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Great Tutorial, this is actually a pretty good tutorial for other then just rain. I've messed around with a few of the settings and I have come up with some pretty interesting effects off of this tutorial. :)

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Great tutorial thanks! I always asked myself how to put rain in a rendered image, because I couldn't see any way to out rain in the scene with the 3d modelling program.But like always, it's post processing with photoshop :)

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