Make It Rain

There are many ways to make rain animation. Most of them include the use of a plugin or outside program. Here is a way to do it without either though.

1. Open a new image 500X500. Flood fill with a favorite color then add a tube as a new layer. Here is what I have:

2. New raster layer. Go to your airbrush tool with these settings:

Shape: Round Size: 500 Hardness: 33 Step:25 Density:45 Thickness:100 Rotation:0 Opacity:65

Set your foreground color to white.

Now click on your tag, about 4 times, to cover your layer. You should have something like this.

3. Go to Adjust>Blur>Motion Blur and use the following settings:

Angle: 30 (you can change the angle to your liking, just depends on where you want your rain to come from)

Strength: 80%

Your image should now look like this:

4. Add a new raster layer. Go back to your airbrush with the same settings, but this time click in 4 different areas. Then apply motion blur with the same settings. Add one more raster layer and repeat the steps once again clicking in different areas with your airbrush.

5. Hide the 2nd and 3rd rain layers. Go to Edit>Copy Merged. Go to Animation Shop and paste as a new animation. Go back to PSP hide the 1st rain layer and unhide the 2nd one. Edit>Copy Merged. Go to AS and paste after current layer. Back to PSP one more time hide the 2nd rain layer and unhide your last rain layer. Edit>Copy Merged. Paste after current layer in AS. I set my frame properties to 20, but you can play with this to make it rain faster or slower, depending on what you want. Play your animation and it should look something like this.

Have fun!

Mae