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Posted on 19/03/12 05:07:55 AM |
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Judy
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Flunking rain making...Please help
I just bought the book today. I am trying to add rain to a scene I am making for a photoshop class. I made a blue color fill layer, a cloud layer, and a lightening layer. I am trying to add rain to my stormy sky. I was starting on pg. 251 step 6. I added a new fill layer (gray), blending mode hard light. But then I got lost. Cannot find Gaussian Noise. I tried Noise and Gaussian blur but both said the layer had to be rasterized. What am I doing wrong? I am using CS5. |
Posted on 19/03/12 08:31:30 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Re: Flunking rain making...Please help
Judy, Hi and welcome to the forum. Color fill layers are a particular kind of layer that add a colour wash that can be easily changed. You can't apply filters directly to them. Instead, make a regular layer and fill it with mid grey. The best way to do this is, when making the new layer, to choose Hard Light mode and then check the box at the bottom of the dialog that reads "fill with hard light neutral color". This will fill it with exactly 50% grey, and it will be invisible because the layer will have been created in Hard Light mode. Change it to Normal to see the layer, and then you can change it back to Hard Light after you've added the effects. Use regular Filter > Noise > Add Noise. The Gaussian option is a checkbox at the bottom of the Noise dialog. Hope this works for you! Steve |
Posted on 20/03/12 7:08:39 PM |
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Judy
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Re: Flunking rain making...Please help
Thank you so much for the help. You were right, of course. Once I made the layer the correct way, it worked. |