Creating atmospheric layers – the rain overlay

Now we can apply the same filters and techniques we have discussed with brushes to apply them to full-blown atmospheric effects. In this case, we will be making a rain layer effect that you can apply to your images.

I have included a CiA video of the entire process (see the Technical requirements section for the link).

Setting up the effect

My layer stack is shown on the right-hand side of Figure 15.20; we have discussed all of the adjustments and live filter layers previously, so you can see how I applied them:

Figure 15.20 – Setting up for a rain layer

Let’s go over the steps now:

1. Open a layer on top of the image you want to apply it to (in this case, I have given you a practice image in the downloads – see Rain layer base image).
2. Fill the new pixel image with black using the fill bucket.
3. Then, go to Filter | Noise | Add Noise.
4. Max out the noise and...