Adding falling rain effect part 2
The picture that we had used for the Rain effect video had been sitting in my ‘Working’ folder for sometime as I felt there was a little more we could get out of it. In this video we take a look at how removing a distracting colour along with non-destructive dodging/ burning and painting in colour can help to transform this image further.
Adding falling rain effect part 2
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Photoshop gives a 101 ways to do anything, I guess it’s all down to finding a way that suits.
At the new layer stage I fill with 50% grey and set to soft light and use the dodge and burn tools, using Alt (or option) to switch between them … correcting any mistakes or reducing the effect by setting the foreground colour back to 50% grey and painting out,
Depending on how intricate you are with the dodge and burning can give some cool effects on the 50% grey layer by turning the other layers off
Thanks Ed, 101 plus!
I use to use that method with 50% gray but couldn’t find any advantage empty layer set to softlights. Using Alt or Option? That’s the Eye dropper/colour picker tool when working with a brush? X swops the default b/w to doge and burn. The important thing is to keep the opacity low and build it up slowly. Like the idea of turn layers off.. sounds kool 
Hi David
A possible advantage(or disadvantage)? Using the paint brush on an empty layer effects 100% of the pixel information lighter or darker … using on a 50% grey layer with the dodge and burn tools (or brush) is that you cannot exceed 50% of the pixel information darker or lighter on the image … the dodge and burn tools still give access to shadow, midtone and highlight functions when used on a 50% grey layer … either way both methods are non destructive which is an advantage in itself
Ed