Hi, this is Anne with Graphic Design How To, and if you've ever taken photos on a
rainy day and you want to get that look of the rain coming out of the sky, but you also
want your subject to be in focus, that is almost impossible. It's really hard to get that effect,
so today I'm going to show you how to get the effect in Photoshop. Alright, let's get started.
Now, when we do this, we'll need our rain photo that we want to add rain to,
and then we'll also need either a black glitter or like a night sky with stars. Both of those
work really well. So, I'll come over here to Photoshop and I'll choose File > Open,
and then I'll navigate to that photo. By the way, these photos, I downloaded them from pexels.com,
and I'll put the link to both of them in the description below so you can practice. Okay, so
I've selected the first one, and I'll open that. I'll place the other image into this image,
so I'll go to File > Place Embedded, and then I'm going to choose that other image of the glitter,
and I'll hit Place. Then I'll hold Option and resize the glitter to fill the whole frame,
and it's okay if it goes outside a little bit too. Then I'll hit Enter or Return on my keyboard,
and now I'll open my Layers panel. Now, if you're not seeing this panel,
it'll be under Window right here. Make sure you’re clicked on it, this layer right here.
I'm going to kind of flip through the layer modes until I get one that looks kind of like snow. This
one looks pretty good, but we're losing a lot of our picture, so I'm going to choose Screen
right here. Because there's a lot of gray in our glitter picture, we're going to need to increase
our contrast. So, to do that, I'll open Levels with Command + L or Control + L. I'm going to
pull the middle slider all the way over to the right, maybe right about 0.07 or 0.08, and we'll
say okay. That number is going to vary depending on what your images are, but you want something
like this where it kind of looks like chunky snow. So right now, we've got our two layers. We've got
our glitter layer, and we can turn that off and on, or we have our background layer down here,
and we can turn that off and on. Next, we want to blur this so it looks like it's falling from
the sky. I'm going to come up here to Filter > Blur, and then Motion Blur. Now, I'm going
to increase the Distance by quite a lot. I'm really liking it right here at right around 150,
and then the angle—I don't want it to look so windy, so I'm going to move the angle so it
looks like it's falling more downward instead of sideways. Okay, this looks really good,
and we're getting some really realistic rain this way. So, we'll say okay.
And now, the final step: if it's still looking too unnatural, you can change the opacity of
this layer right here. So, make sure you're clicked on it, and then come up to Opacity,
and I'm going to put this at about 80%, and this is perfect. So, at this point, I want
to save two files. I'll save my Photoshop file by going to File > Save As. I'll call this one
"Rain," and I want this to be the Photoshop file with the layers, and I'll say Save and then okay.
And now, if I want to upload this to Facebook or make a social image out of it, you'll want to also
save a version as a JPEG. So, I'll go to File > Export > Export As, and then JPEG. And here we can
change the width. I'm just going to make this 1000 wide and Export. And I usually call the two files
the same thing, so we'll go ahead and save that. And now you have both files, one for use online
and then one where you can make changes easily with your smart layers, your motion blur, and
your levels still intact. Saving as a JPEG gets rid of all that, and that's it. It's that easy.
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