Rain Effect [PSP8&higher]

[Chantreya [Chani]]

Want to give an image a gloomier look? I'm going to explain how to give it a rainy look.

1. First, you must have an image to start out with. If you go here, you can find a myriad of stock images; just make sure to comply with the photographer's/artist's rules they may have posted either below the image or in their journal. =D

2. Resize your image and spiff it up however you wish before moving further. I made mine grayscale. This is what I'm going to be working with:


(If you wish to make your image grayscale, go to Adjust ~> Hue and Saturation ~> Colorize. Then turn the saturation to 0. The hue doesn't matter. Yay! B&W!)

3. Go to File ~> New. Make the width twice the size of your first image's height and make your new image's height twice the size of the old one's width. For example, the image I'm working with is 540x405 pixels. My new image is going to be 810x1080 pixels in size. Make the background color black.

4. Go to Adjust ~> Add/Remove Noise. Select Uniform, check the box next to Monochrome, and turn the Noise up to 100%. Press OK.

5. Go to Effects ~> Distortion Effects ~> Wind. Whether it is from the left or the right doesn't matter, just make sure the Strength is set to 50. Press OK.

6. Go to Image ~> Rotate ~> Rotate Clockwise 90.

7. Press shift+b. This will open up your brightness/contrast tool. Brighten it by 80. Set the Contrast to 20. Click OK. Copy the image by pressing ctrl+c.

8. Go back to your initial image. Paste as a new layer (ctrl+L).

9. Go to Layers ~> Properties. Change your blend mode to Overlay and click OK.

You can also test out different Blend Modes for different looks. Here's a few:

OVERLAY:


SCREEN:


LIGHTEN:


Which is your fave? xD

[Michael]

Bravo! Very nice, Chani! I'm positive this'll get some use out of it.

[~•XyMiC•~]

This tutorial makes me want to have PSP, but am loyal user of Photoshop, lol. Great and detailed tutorial

[Andrew]

I was also thinking I wish i had PSP but im also Loyal to PS