Rain in Photoshop

[Bwana Kahawa]

Hiya,

anyone know a good technique for achieving a decent rain effect in Photoshop? I can't model rain using particles as we model in FormZ (doesn't have particle systems).

 

The model can handle wet tarmac / grey skies, etc. but not the rain itself.

 

I'm guessing motion blurring translucent dots or something? Just wondered if anyone knew a better way?!

[Sketchrender]

Use the snow effect very small settings, in formz, render it out as black on white or white on black and then motion blur it in Photoshop, grey it out or use opacity .

 

works quite well.

not as good as particles though.

 

formz is good to a point.

 

phil

[Ian P]

HI You could try creating a new layer in photoshop 50% Grey then add noise

motion blur the noise to preffered direction then add a layer mask of clouds or more mtion blurred noise to get it nice and random and mess with the levels.

Have had a play with an old render of mine to check it works the render was done for a sunset scene so it doesnt look great on this but combined with shiney road surfaces etc it should be convincing, Tried the same effect on an animation with after effects once and it worked a treat

[DennisB]

Hiya,

anyone know a good technique for achieving a decent rain effect in Photoshop? I can't model rain using particles as we model in FormZ (doesn't have particle systems).

 

The model can handle wet tarmac / grey skies, etc. but not the rain itself.

 

I'm guessing motion blurring translucent dots or something? Just wondered if anyone knew a better way?!

 

Most rain efx I've seen use a flattened nib. Here's one approach you can modify as needed.

 

Try painting on a layer so you can tweak, erase or modify transparency as desired.

 

If you want to use a layer as a rain texture, you'll likely want to harden the edge on the brush nib.

 

Dennis @ DigArts

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[jophus14]

http://www.good-tutorials.com Excellent site, great tutorials

[Bwana Kahawa]

Excellent, cheers guys - I'm sure between those techniques I'll get something!!

[Bwana Kahawa]

Cheers for the help guys - thought you might be interested to see the finished image!

 

Rendered a second image with the building reflected on the tarmac and blended it in photoshop - seems to get somewhere towards a nice reflective wet tarmac effect!

[Brian Cassil]

Looks pretty good but at that resolution it's a little hard to make out any fine details like rain. There's a fantastic image on CGTalk that has rain for reference. Here's a link to it

[DennisB]

Looks pretty good but at that resolution it's a little hard to make out any fine details like rain. There's a fantastic image on CGTalk that has rain for reference. Here's a link to it

 

The foreground street surface (droplets, high reflection depicting a dark wet surface) is what sells the rain IMO. Conversely, the yellow cast to the sky tends to conflict with the context, particularly in an urban center. Nice image/render though.

 

Per Bwana's image, why the blurred figures? Do they work, particularly the one in the street given the very crisp nature of the static objects behind her? Nice work.

[Bwana Kahawa]

Wow,

love the linked image - very impressive! He's definitely got the wet foreground look sorted! Looks like he rendered it that way whereas I tried doing the wet surfaces afterwards in Photoshop. See what you mean about the yellow sky too.

 

As for my blurry people, I'm not convinced about them myself! We tend to do them in all our studio images as a rule, but I'm not so sure about them, personally! It sometimes gives a good feeling of movement and draws the eye towards the building more, but doesn't always work!

 

Glad you like the render though - cheers!