Here's my tutorial on how to make rain. It's all about the *rain dance* i tell ya. :smileywink::smileyvery-happy::smileyvery-happy:
Let's use this Club Succubus as our background layer.
1. Create a new layer. Select Black as you foreground color and white as background color. Use the Paint Bucket tool and paint the new layer black.
2. Select Filter/Noise/Add Noise. Amount at 15%. Distribution is Gaussian and check Monochromatic.
3. Choose Filter/Blur/Gaussian Blur. Radius at 0.5 pixels. Select Image/Adjustment/Threshold. Move slider slightly to the left until few white dots pops up. The more the dots, the heavier the rain will look but don't put too many dots though.
4. Select Filter/Blur/Motion Blur. Angle at 65 degrees. Distance at 45 pixels.
5. Lower Opacity at 50%. Bam! you got rain. now name that layer "Rain".
6. Hide the Rain layer and let's make the puddles. Create a new layer on top of the background layer. Select a Lasso Tool and draw small puddles on the ground. For realism, the farther it gets, the flatter the puddles should be.
7. Select on the eyedropper tool and pick a color that you can easily see. You'll be hiding or deleting this layer in the end. Press "ok."
8. Select the Paint Bucket tool and click on the marqueed puddles to fill them in with color.
9. Now that we have the basic shape and color of our puddles, let's make it more real by putting reflections on them. Create a new layer and put it on top of the Puddles layer. Name this Reflection layer. Select our background layer and create a rectangular marquee (slightly larger than the puddles) to the base of any free standing objects (lamppost/bldgs/wall/RSI).
10. Copy and paste to the new layer. Hide the background layer to see the selections. Use the rectangular marquee tool and select one of the boxed imagery. Click Edit/Transform/Flip Vertical. (flip)
11. Drag a guide to the bottom of the selected image. Press the SHIFT key while moving down the image until it hits the top part of the image to the guide. Do the same to the other boxed images. (boxed move)
12. Press CTRL and select the Puddles layer. This will create a
marquee around that layer. Select the Reflection layer and Click on
Select/Inverse. Use a big eraser tool and erase everything that's
not going to be part of the puddle. (erase)
13. Click on Select/Inverse once again to select the puddles.
Select Filter/Distort/Ripple. Amount at 200% and Size is Small.
(ripple)
14. Last thing to do is brighten up the puddle a bit. Click on
Image/Adjustments/ Brightness/Contrast. Brightness at +15. Contrast
at +15 as well. Hide you puddle layer then you're done.
15. Here's the final project. Hope you all like it as much as i did. Next project i'll add lightning to this one.
