Here i am going to show you how to create realistic rain effect using photoshop CS, this tutorial is suitable for immeadiate beginners too,
now the first thing you need is to get a good source image , i used this house which is shown at a kool angle and a dog lookin out of the window supposedly because it is raining



dublicate the layer ( press Ctrl+J ) or just drag the layer to the create new layer button at the bottom of layers tool box ,

now go to Image > Image Adjustments > Levels and make your settings as shown in the image below ...



even tough the image we have is already dark ,that would have given the image the necessary dark appearance as you would have on a rainy day ..

the next step is to create rain
create a new layer (Shift+CTRL+N) with a white background and name it rain for easy reference later

now go to Filter > Noise > Add Noise and make your settings as shown in the image below ....



now go to Filter > Blur > Motion Blur and make your settings as shown in the image below ....





now go to Image > Image Adjustments > Levels and make your settings as shown ....



go to layers pallet and change your blending mode to screen
well we got it raining already but i just want it to rain more heavily so make another copy of the rain layer, set the blending mode to screen on this layer too
and go to Edit > Transform > Rotate 180 degrees clockwise and reduce the opacity of the layer to around 82,
now with the topmost layer selected press Crl+E to merge the two top layers

now it rains but we dont have any wind , so our rain is not realistic yet , now go to Filter > Distort > Twirl and make the settings as shown below ....



and here is my final image , it rains doesnt it ??

   Mon May 22, 2006    Reply         

That has to be the most amazing effect I've seen described so simply. Wow, I am going to use this on everything! Even pictures where you can see the sun Good job

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   Fri May 26, 2006    Reply         

That is amazingly simple and sooo effective. I'm impressed - I've tried a few different ways to get a rain effect going on and none look as great as this one. Thank you so much

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   Sun Jun 25, 2006    Reply         

Very cool and simple, and very nice.
I like the background too

   Wed Jun 28, 2006    Reply         

Great tut. I will have to use it sometime.
I do agree that the rain angle should be adjusted a bit, but other than that, great!

   Fri Jun 30, 2006    Reply         

Great Tutorial, this is actually a pretty good tutorial for other then just rain. I've messed around with a few of the settings and I have come up with some pretty interesting effects off of this tutorial.

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   Sun Jul 2, 2006    Reply         

Great tutorial thanks!

I always asked myself how to put rain in a rendered image, because I couldn't see any way to out rain in the scene with the 3d modelling program.
But like always, it's post processing with photoshop

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   Mon Jul 24, 2006    Reply         

Wow, thats pretty quick n easy rain. I'll have to give it a try on some image i can find that could use some rain. Thanks for sharing that tip

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   Mon Sep 4, 2006    Reply         

i made that post sometime back , i noticed several people complaining about the angle the rain is coming , well if you look at the background you should notice that it is taken from an angle too and if i put the rain with a lesser angle the 3D effect which you now get wont be there and besides i have seen many a times rain coming from the same angle as i have shown when the wind is blowing strongly ,maybe because i come from a place where we get heavy rain , also if you are interested i may make an animated version too

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Wow. That is so amazing. I, myself, have a personal disdain for a lot of Photoshop tutorials but yours was so simple, yet produced such a cool effect. Needless to say, I do like it

   Mon Sep 4, 2006    Reply         

A simple tutorial but a really cool effect Well done!

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