| In this tutorial, I show you how to add rain to a photo with Photoshop! The motion blur effect along the edges of the image, especially along the top and bottom, doesn't look right | And by creating it in Photoshop, there's no risk of bad weather damaging your camera |
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| Step 6: Convert the Rain layer into a smart object In a moment, we'll turn the noise into falling rain using Photoshop's Motion Blur filter | The reason is that we cropped away all the noise outside the canvas, so the Motion Blur filter bumped up against the edge and had nowhere to go: Clipping the adjustment layer to the smart object below it |
First, to reduce the amount of rain, click on the black slider on the left and begin dragging it towards the right.
| To adjust the rain effect, we only need the black and white sliders: The black point left and white point right sliders below the histogram | To do that, go up to the Select menu and choose All |
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| This reopens the Motion Blur dialog box where you can increase or decrease, if needed the Distance value | So to reduce the file size, we need to crop away all the noise that now extends outside the canvas the viewable area of the document and into the gray pasteboard area surrounding it |
Step 5: Crop away the hidden areas The problem with making the contents of the Rain layer so much bigger is that we've also made the document's much bigger.
| And in the center of the panel is a , a graph showing the tonal range of the image | Click OK when you're done to close the dialog box: |
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| You can enter a value directly or click and drag the dial to rotate it | And we'll turn these dots into our raindrops |
You'll probably need to go back and forth with the two sliders to find the settings that work best: The effect after enhancing the rain with Levels.
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