 Give your photo a realistic Rain Effect!
We agree that this effect will not look realistic on ALL your photos. However, when it works - it works well! The following steps will show you how to create a rain for a unique photo effect!
 Step 1:
Choose and Open your image.
Stock photo of Woman in Forest
This image works well for this tutorial for a couple of reasons...
1. Background is a simple landscape.
2. Her clothing works and you wouldn't be able to tell if its wet or dry.
3. The motion of her hair gives a natural "having fun in the rain" effect.
Step 2:
Make a new layer my clicking on the "new layer" option on your layers panel.
Step 3:
Make sure your foreground and background colors are on black and white, then using your new layer select
Filter > Render > Clouds.
Your layer will now look like this.
 Step 4:
Now add noise to the cloud layer with the following settings.
Amount = 150
Distribution = Gaussian
* make sure that Monochromatic is checked.
 Step 5:
Next motion blur the newly added noise according to the strength and direction of rain you would like to add to the image by selecting
Filter > Blur > Motion Blur.
Step 6:
Now is when the fun begins! Chose the "screen" blend mode option on the layers panel.
Our picture now looks like this.
 Step 7:
Now using levels, adjust the rain layer until you've reached an optimal effect!
Good Luck,
The PhotoRetouching Team
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