This guide was made for entry: Rain In Contest: quotes
step 1 of 5
Background extracted
step 2 of 5
Sky added, colours matched, background haze added using a soft brush with a colour sampled from the sky.
Model extracted and imported, then masked with the default grass brush
step 3 of 5
Lighting matched on the model and entire image heavily cropped. I wanted to concentrate mainly on the falling water, and vertical space was therefore very important.
step 4 of 5
Rain added using the usual Noise - Motion Blur method.
On the umbrella i really wanted to show the water hitting the umbrella, and so i got a default brush and scattered small white dots around to create that look. For the haze, i simply duplicated the layer, blurred it and set the mode to "Screen"