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Making Rain in Photoshop That Actually Looks Like Rain (Not TV Static)
A client sent me a lifestyle photo last month. Nice shot, good light, decent composition. The brief said “make it moody.” Vague creative direction is basically a freelancer’s natural habitat, so I nodded, charged my coffee, and started poking around. What they actually wanted, it turned out after two rounds of revisions, was rain. Dramatic, cinematic, this-city-is-brooding rain. Not “slightly desaturate the sky” moody. Rain moody. I’d faked rain in Photoshop before, but my results always looked like someone sneezed on the lens.