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3 ways to add rain effect in photoshop

Roshan Roy26 October 2022Last Updated: 26 October 2022

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Adding rain to an image is a great way to add drama or set your mood. Also, by creating in Photoshop, there is no risk of camera damage due to bad weather, so today I’ll show you three different simple ways to create a rain effect in Photoshop. So that you can make your images more interesting.

Let’s see how to do it.

first method

As you can see, in this image it already has rainy weather. If you want to add a rain effect to your image, make sure the image is based on the rainy weather, otherwise, the rain effect will look fake.

so here what i’m gonna do is, take a new layer.
and fill it with black color.

now go to the filter.
then noise.
and add noise.

in the noise panel you must have these settings

choose uniform noise.
and check the monochromatic noise.
and increase the amount of noise.

then hit okay.

The next step is to increase the size of the noise.

to do this, take a rectangular marquee tool From the tool bar.
and select this part of the noise.
now invert the selection by pressing ctrl + shift + I.

now click backspace to delete the extras.

then Press Ctrl + t, to transform.

and scale it up to increase the size of noise.

now change the blend mode normal to screen, so that only white spots are visible of the noise

Then convert this layer into a smart object, so that we can change the values later.

now go to the filter.
blur.
and choose, motion blur.

in the motion blur panel, set the angle and distance.

then hit okay.

Now it is starting to take the form of rain. But that’s too much, so let’s reduce some of them. which is makes our final step of this technique.

Create levels adjustment layer, just above the noise layer, and make a clipping mask of it.

Now adjust these points to get rid of some amount of noise that we don’t need.

and that’s it. you can change the value according to you, according to your image, at any time because this technique is totally customizable.

you can change the speed of rain, by adjusting distance of motion blur.

if you want to change the direction of rains, just change the angle value of motion blur.
you can increase the number of raindrops by levels, that i already shown you.

To save your time and make this process easy for you, I recorded this process as an action. you can download this action by clicking the below button.

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rain effect in photoshop

you can achieve that kind of rain effect with this action. Let’s move on to our second technique.

second method

You can also create a rain effect in Photoshop with the Photoshop Rain Brushes.

I have downloaded some premium rain brushes from Envato Elements, you can download them by click the download button right below.

go to the downloading page

rain effect in photoshop

If you want to change the angle, just change the angle of the brush. You can do some experiments with it to create a more realistic rain effect. like. You can add multiple layers and use multiple brushes on it. or some of them, reduce opacity or change blend modes.