My Photoshop Tutorial

Of course there are thousands of tutorials on the net to show you how to create rain, but I didn’t find any that fast as my technique and with my twist. The twist is that you can change the feeling of any photo at the same time. Oh… and it’s fast… really fast. It’s all about applying one brush, one layer style, one effect and one blending mode. As usual, since I am one of the laziest persons alive, I find a way to pass all the hard work to Photoshop and me just to press few buttons along the way to achieve the effect. Curious about how can you do it in Adobe Photoshop? Read further then.

Â

First open a photo and create a new blank layer on top of that.

Now we need to set up a brush. Pick a small brush with soft edges, 5 to 10 px wide will do the trick. Open the brush engine and set it up like this:

On this new layer, paint with your brush to cover as much as you want. I know it looks like snow more than rain at this moment, but that will change in a bit.

Now set the Blending Mode to Difference and apply a layer style to it: Outer Glow with the following settings:

I am going for a vintage look of this photo so I picked for outer glow that gradient. You can chose any other gradient you want to play around and see what the outcome will be. Don’t forget to punch the size at max. No go to Filters – Blur – Motion Blur and apply the following settings:

There you go… it’s raining on an old vintage photo: