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I use Photoshop 7 and I've been thinking that there must be some way of creating the appearance of rain. Currently when I want rain I just draw the standard diagnal lines in black ink. But is there a photoshop way of doing this? There has to be. I saw an ad for a Playstation 2 game that had rain in the picture and it was beautiful. The rain was actually off white which gave it a very stunning affect. So how could I create something like that?

Thanks.

I've had occasion to draw rain from time to time, and the first time I just drew it onto the original picture and scanned it all in. It turned out okay...

Recently when I had cause to feature a bit of rain again I just drew the original picture without rain. Once I'd scanned it in and fixed it up with colour and dialogue and stuff I then made a separate layer and on that used the line tool to draw a few diagonal rain lines. A then copied and paste that layer several more times and dragged them to different positions and then merged those rain layers into one.

It turned out like this...

For the rest of the panels that required rain in this sequence and story, I just dragged the rain layer from each panel on top of the next one so it's basically the same rain in each picture in that sequence of strips.

Of course, you can fiddle with the colour of the rain however you wish.

Just one way to do it, of course.

It's like this site has a tuturial for everything.

http://www.polykarbon.com/tutorials/effects/rain.htm.

Great tutorial. Walks you right thru it.

How to make rain:

1. Complete whatever drawing it is.

2. Make new layer. Fill layer with black and set to either "darken" or "overlay"

3. Go to Filter>Noise>Add noise. Pick "Gaussian" and "Monochromatic" and hit Ok.

3. Go to Filter>Blur>Motion Blur and fiddle with it until you get a smear pattern that looks kinda like rain. I had to set it to 100 pixels but I make my pictures rather large.

Hope it's what you wanted.

CW

First, you need a mass of warm, humid air, the warmer and more humid the better.

Then, you need a cold front, preferably a very cold front with extremely dry air.

As the cold front collides with the warmer air, the warm, humid air is pushed higher and cools off rapidly. It can no longer hold all the moisture it once could. Clouds begin to form. Then it rains.

Alternatively, you could warm a patch of ocean water until clouds form above it and it begins to rain.

You could 'salt' a big cloud with very small particles, allowing the water to cling to the particles and rain when otherwise it might not.

Finally, you could sprinkle water from a great height, causing the water to rain down.

You could ursurp the throne of a monarch; that wouldn't be making rain, but it would make you the reigning monarch...

Hope this helps.

designer drugs gives my favourite way of producing rain.
http://www.designerdrugs.be/php/main.php?ps=rain

Pee off a roof.

RA wrote:designer drugs gives my favourite way of producing rain.
http://www.designerdrugs.be/php/main.php?ps=rain

Heh, site is made by my roommate.
I'll tell him u like it :)

RA wrote:designer drugs gives my favourite way of producing rain.
http://www.designerdrugs.be/php/main.php?ps=rain

I thought you were just being funny, like, "If you wanna see it rain, take some ecstacy." Turns out that's actually pretty good. I should really have more faith in today's youth.

yeahduff wrote:

RA wrote:designer drugs gives my favourite way of producing rain.
http://www.designerdrugs.be/php/main.php?ps=rain

I thought you were just being funny, like, "If you wanna see it rain, take some ecstacy." Turns out that's actually pretty good. I should really have more faith in today's youth.

oh no. if i were to make that joke, i'd say DMT or LSD ;)

Right.

*holds off on the "putting faith in the youth" thing for the time being*