Basic Rain Tutorial

[Saminsan]

DISCLAIMER: I did NOT take the picture I used, I found it on Deviantart. Feel free to redistribute, BUT please credit me.

Ok, First off, you have to find a picture of a landscape or something that you want to look like it's raining. Save the picture and open it up in Photoshop (whichever version. I used elements 5 for this.) You can find landscapes on Google or deviantart. I suggest using a landscape that looks relatively gloomy, or about to rain. Thank you, and have a nice day^^

1.Open up landscape in Photoshop, and make a new blank file. Use the paint bucket to colour it black.

2. Go to Filter>Noise>Add Noise. Set it to Gaussian, then click Monochromatic.
Play around with the percent of noise. The more rain you want, the higher the
percentage should be. I used about 40%. You should play around with it to see what you feel is right.

3. Go to Filter>Blur>Motion Blur. Again, you should play around with the amounts, because you don't all have to do rain exactly the way I do. This time, I decided to use -84 to -86. For the Distance, I suggest somewhere in the 40-80 range.

4. Haul the rain into the landscape picture. Make sure to put it below the landscape picture. Set layers to either Colour or Linear Dodge, right click on one of the layers, and press MERGE VISIBLE.

5. Mine came out like this: