Rain Drops

In this tutorial, Corey not only creates the raindrops, but also the splashes that are formed with the raindrops hit the hands.

Corey Barker is Executive Producer of PlanetPhotoshop.com and is an Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. Corey has also made numerous appearances on the highly rated podcast, PhotoshopUser TV, and is co-host of Layers TV.

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78 Comments

Parth said on — September 11, 2009 @ 10:39 pm

Great Tutorial!
mohd said on — September 12, 2009 @ 12:11 am

wow you are good developer i love your web i hope to you sucss
5stringer said on — September 12, 2009 @ 1:53 am

All i wana say is thank you so much!, for all these tutorials
Ben said on — September 12, 2009 @ 2:27 am

Very nice tut Corey!
AndrewP said on — September 12, 2009 @ 2:40 am

You have some serious talent Corey, well done!
MkAndersson said on — September 12, 2009 @ 3:00 am

Love your tutorials and I like the effect but the raindrops that bounced looked very flame like when u added so many. I think having a random opacity change on the brush makes it more realistic and varies so it doesn’t look like every splash is at the same time.
Rol320 said on — September 12, 2009 @ 11:19 am

That’s great!
Thank you Corey!
Matt said on — September 12, 2009 @ 3:02 pm

Molte bene!
Alom said on — September 12, 2009 @ 6:13 pm

wow corey u are a photoshop guru… i have learned so many things on photshop because of you. you know the image of the hands could you please make that a download. thanks
Connor said on — September 13, 2009 @ 7:16 am

Could do with a lower opacity, I’ve been in need of this tutorial for a long time =D
Jess said on — September 13, 2009 @ 11:11 am

I check your site every weekend. I love your tuts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You are very talented!!!!!!!!
Being Halloween is coming up, I would love to see some horror effects.
jadee said on — September 13, 2009 @ 11:53 am

some problam on your site vedio is not work on microsoft internet Explorer i love your tuts i check your site every weekend but there is very problam pls ok your site thax
lanena mutante said on — September 14, 2009 @ 8:22 am

cool!
Kim said on — September 14, 2009 @ 12:27 pm

Corey, you rock. I found your site several months ago and I have probably learned more from you and your site than a whole semester about Photoshop in college. Keep the amazing tips and tutorials coming!!

~Kim
jadee said on — September 14, 2009 @ 12:47 pm

Great Great Tutorial thank’s ok vedio on Microsoft Internet Explorer
Jay said on — September 14, 2009 @ 4:10 pm

That was cool!
Faizan said on — September 14, 2009 @ 7:10 pm

Hello,

Great tutorial yet again
But there’s one small thing i see missing in it for some reason, i was just imagining myself doing this in real, i mean feeling the rain on my hands, a thing came into my mind, that there will be drops dripping from the bottom of my hands and this thing is missing in this tutorial, is there any way you can give some hint to make those drops as well ?
Luke McCoy said on — September 14, 2009 @ 7:17 pm

Great tutorial. I followed along in photoshop and created a template I can refer back to. Thanks.
Sherwin said on — September 15, 2009 @ 5:40 am

thanks!! it was awesome!
dandy said on — September 15, 2009 @ 5:57 pm

The tutorial is very detailed. Very nice effort.
Regards.
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arenacreative.com said on — September 16, 2009 @ 10:52 am

What a cool effect!
mimi said on — September 16, 2009 @ 11:54 am

very nice !!! great!! keep it up!
Teena said on — September 18, 2009 @ 4:59 pm

WOW. amazing effects and so easily done.
Great tutorial, thanks a million for making Photohopping even moer fun!!
gratis said on — September 19, 2009 @ 8:59 am

very nice effect! thanks for the tip!
jack said on — September 22, 2009 @ 6:57 am

cheers mate, really helped me out alot!!!
Crystal said on — September 22, 2009 @ 4:08 pm

YOur just to gangster!!! i love your tutorials i’ve learned more watching them then i have in the books i do for class… THANKS!!!!
Daneyra said on — September 23, 2009 @ 12:29 am

That was really amazing…
Tphane said on — September 28, 2009 @ 11:50 am

féllicitation, simple and efficient.
DigitalSmigital said on — September 28, 2009 @ 5:40 pm

Not only a great teacher who understands his subject, but the Lad is really fluent in English! lol
KateNguyen said on — September 30, 2009 @ 10:54 pm

Thank you so much!
raziq said on — October 1, 2009 @ 3:15 am

nice tutorial. thanks
olti otr dibra said on — October 2, 2009 @ 10:46 am

wow this very impesible but i wanna to have this program but i haven’t money to buy can you help me
olti otr dibra said on — October 2, 2009 @ 10:49 am

wow this is impossible i like this man but i wanna to buy this but i haven’t money can help me please?
kay said on — October 2, 2009 @ 11:18 pm

AWESOME
Ari said on — October 4, 2009 @ 6:46 am

Wow, great tutorial. I love rain drop tutorial. Any suggestion where to learn all these kind of things? thank you
Nelly said on — October 4, 2009 @ 4:17 pm

watched it with my jaw dropped down … tysm
lucky to live said on — October 5, 2009 @ 7:27 am

Wow Nice tutorial..
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paul said on — October 21, 2009 @ 1:04 pm

you have SAVED my life with these tips and tutorials…. thank you thank you thank you!
handheld shower head said on — October 22, 2009 @ 4:26 am

Interesting blog, i have bookmarked it for future referrence.

Greetings from Tim.
Ayu Tri said on — October 23, 2009 @ 12:44 am

great tutorial..can’t wait for your another tutorial

thanks…
Sudha said on — November 2, 2009 @ 8:13 am

It is very artistic. I am learning more from this planet. Thanks. Sudha
hdq said on — November 5, 2009 @ 8:43 am

you are a great man in my mind
Byron said on — November 24, 2009 @ 1:24 am

Just plain AWESOME!

Thanks for sharing.
Jen Miller said on — November 24, 2009 @ 1:44 am

Great tutorial! Can’t wait to check out more. Thanks!
Nanticha said on — November 24, 2009 @ 5:44 am

T^T how do we open the fill dialog?!?
Sharon said on — November 24, 2009 @ 10:01 am

Thank you!
Darren said on — November 28, 2009 @ 3:13 pm

What a Legend!
Nash said on — December 2, 2009 @ 2:25 pm

Great tutorial! Love it….

I also found that if you take the eraser with 55% opacity and 75%flow and hit the first rain drops to lessen the intensity and then adding more raindrops gives it a nice depth.

Thx again for the TuT!
justin said on — December 15, 2009 @ 11:24 am

is there any way to get a step by step in writing??
sherri regalbuto said on — December 17, 2009 @ 12:14 pm

Love it, amazing.
john said on — December 19, 2009 @ 5:43 pm

Heyy just needed to ask how do you do the fill grey 50% thingy in the beginning in steps for example filter–>adjustments etc… thanks.

ps. your tutorials are amazing!!
Pearl said on — December 23, 2009 @ 12:32 am

wow! great tutorial.. thumbs up!
sudhan said on — January 4, 2010 @ 8:13 am

hi,
does this only work with black background?????
arooj said on — January 9, 2010 @ 8:30 am

wowwwwww!its amazing
Fiore said on — January 9, 2010 @ 10:55 pm

My god!! Nices Tutorials..

OMG! I love you ♥ =P
BOB said on — January 12, 2010 @ 12:20 pm

WOW WHAT THE HELL EM I DOING HERE?
ARON said on — January 12, 2010 @ 12:22 pm

I LOVE THIS WEBSITE ITS AWESOME!!!!
الصفحة العربيه said on — January 23, 2010 @ 4:46 am

very cool! thanks
Kassie said on — February 6, 2010 @ 10:52 pm

I love your tutorials, however can somone tell me where to find the same images?!?!?!
Loris said on — February 12, 2010 @ 4:20 pm

Omg love this tutorail!
but theres one thing, when you say use shift + control it doesnt work for me :/ it just does nothing any reason why?
but thanxs for this!
nabil print said on — February 14, 2010 @ 11:41 pm

great,i love it
aungthan said on — February 17, 2010 @ 3:40 am

Verry eassy learning and useful. So thank you.
Don said on — February 25, 2010 @ 5:39 am

God created man in his image,and creator is part of that image,clearly you sprung close enough….you the best so far Corey Barker
keep baking that creative bread and make lots of dough from it….
Troy said on — February 28, 2010 @ 8:29 am

Why did you make it all blue? would have looked better if it was normal…and the rain kinda looks like blue fire in rain with it all blue…is it any more difficult to make it in a different color?
sadig said on — March 4, 2010 @ 1:54 pm

thank you
sayed said on — March 16, 2010 @ 2:25 am

wow you are good developer
TKCreme said on — March 20, 2010 @ 4:51 pm

hey ur tutorial was great!

But could someone please tell me how to open the fill dialog on PC? XD i tried shift+delete but thats only for mac.

(as you can see in a begginer at this)
win said on — March 28, 2010 @ 2:47 am

nice tut dudes… kept up for helping people…5 star
Sanja said on — April 1, 2010 @ 5:13 pm

You my idol!!!! I love your tutorials, and I love you for them!
ViVi said on — April 8, 2010 @ 4:37 am

Thanks so much!
sajid said on — April 9, 2010 @ 7:48 am

nice but dont u think that the bouncing rain drops are more that rain?
Nicole said on — April 12, 2010 @ 11:34 am

hey your hott!!
gk said on — April 17, 2010 @ 6:16 pm

Hi, this is a brilliant tutorial, where can I find a picture of those hands?
kayla said on — April 19, 2010 @ 2:21 pm

i was not able to use or try. what happen?
Muguer said on — June 15, 2010 @ 4:44 am

Nice tutorial… Can we use a lighter image here? Some cloudy day image maybe? Will this work?

Thanks!
Thomas said on — July 28, 2010 @ 5:27 pm

I’ve been watching alot of the tutorials you have on here and there AMAZING! Thanks for posting!

Excellennnttttt