Steps to make rain in Photoshop look lifelike with just a few taps

Create a rain effect for your photo to become more romantic and attractive, do you know how to do it? If you don't know, don't worry because through today's article, I will show you  how to create rain in Photoshop  with just a few very simple steps on your  computer . Let's get started!

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 .

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

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

1. Use:  Color (Choose black)
2. Blending Mode:  Normal

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Click  OK  to complete.

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

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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.

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

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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:

1. Angle:  -60
2. Distance:  16

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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 . 

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If you want 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.

Let's take a look at the results:

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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:

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

Let's take a look at the results:

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So through this article, I have shown you two very simple 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.

Marvin Fry

Update 31 August 2021