Steps to Make Rain in Photoshop Look Lifelike with Just a

This guide provides a clear, practical overview of steps to make rain in photoshop look lifelike with just a, with useful context, important details, and straightforward takeaways for everyday readers.

1. How to make rain in Photoshop with the Noise filter

Step 1: Go to File> Open and open the image you want to edit.

Step 2: Then, you create another layer by clicking on the Create a new layer icon or pressing  Ctrl + J .

Step 3: Next, go to Edit > Fill or press the keyboard shortcut Shift + F5 to open the Fill dialog box .

Step 4: After displaying the Fill dialog box , adjust the modes as below:

• Use: Color (Choose black)
• Blending Mode:  Normal

Click OK to complete.

Step 5: Next, go to Filter > Noise > Add Noise .

Step 6: The Add noise window will automatically display, please adjust the  Amount parameter from 25% to 30%, then click to select Gaussian and Monochromatic . Click OK to complete.

Step 7: Next, Noise is still not very similar to the shape of rain. No worries, please continue to menu Filter > Blur > Motion Blur .

Step 8: After the Motion Blur window appears, adjust the tilt of the Noise particles to look like real rain by adjusting the following parameters:

• Angle:  -60
• Distance:  16

This is a suggestion for my parameters, you can adjust as you like as long as you feel like real raindrops.

Click OK to complete.

Step 9: Adjust the blend mode of the Noise layer in the Layers panel to Screen . 

To make more adjustments to make our rain effect look more realistic, you can adjust the Opacity  of the Noise layer.

Step 10: Finally, press Ctrl + E to merge layers.

Take a closer look at the results:

2. How to create rain in Photoshop using available textures

Another simpler way that you can apply to create a falling rain effect in Photoshop is to use the available rain textures. You can proceed with the following steps:

Step 1: Go to Google, search for the keyword rain texture,  select an image to download (Note that you should choose textures that look realistic and have a monochrome black background to make it easier to apply to the image), or you can also click Download photos below:

Step 2: Go to Photoshop, go to File > Open to open the image file you want to edit and the rain texture image file you just saved to your computer.

Step 3: Move the inserted texture layer above the image layer you want to edit by dragging and dropping that texture layer over the image layer, then press Ctrl + T to align the texture size so that the texture is covered. complete photo.

Step 4: Next, adjust the blending mode of the rain layer from  Normal to  Screen,  you can adjust the Opacity to make the effect look more realistic.

Step 5: After finishing editing, press Ctrl + E  to merge layers.

Take a closer look at the results:

So through this article, I have shown you two straightforward ways to create rain in Photoshop. You can open Photoshop and try it right away to create a very beautiful and romantic photo. Thank you for reading the article and wish you success.