Photoshop Tutorial: Rain Text! How to Write on a Foggy, Rainy Window Pane

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hi this is Marty from Blue Lightning TV

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I'm going to show you how to quickly and

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easily create the look of handwritten

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words on a foggy rainy windowpane I

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provided this image for you to download

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so you can follow along it's link is

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located in the video description or

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project files open a nighttime outdoor

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photo that you'd like to use to place

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behind the window it'll add color

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contrast and depth to our final image to

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get it into our window pane document

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press V to open your move tool and hold

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down shift as you drag it onto the

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window pane tab without releasing your

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mouse or pen drag it down onto the image

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and release pressing shift will keep it

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centered to reduce or enlarge it open

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your transform tool by pressing ctrl T

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on windows or command key on a Mac if

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your photo is too large to see the

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entire transforms bounding box as in

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this case press ctrl or command 0 to fit

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it onto your screen go to a corner and

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when you see a diagonal double-arrow

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hold down shift and alt on windows or

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shift + option on a Mac as you drag it

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in or out once you're happy with its

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size and position press Enter or return

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to see your image at a hundred percent

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again press ctrl or command 1next will

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blur the photo but to do it

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non-destructively will convert the photo

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into a smart object click the icon at

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the upper right corner of the layers

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panel and click convert to smart object

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go to filter blur and Gaussian blur blur

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it 10 pixels and click OK change its

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blend mode to overlay

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as you can see when I toggle back and

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forth our window now has more contrast

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depth and color click the thumbnail of

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the background to make it active and

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open your horizontal type tool choose a

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font i'm using yellowtail regular if

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you'd like to use it I provided its link

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as well for this font I'll use a size of

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284 points sharp Center alignment and

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black for the color click on your

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document and type out your text to

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reposition it open your move tool and

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move it to angle it open your transform

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tool go to a corner and when you see a

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curved double-arrow rotated

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counterclockwise then press Enter or

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return to add drips to your text you can

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either draw them in with the pencil tool

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or as in this example you can use the

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liquify filter go to filter and liquify

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when you see this message click OK to

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rasterize the type when liquify opens

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the default tool is the forward warp

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tool will use it to make the drips on

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the right you can adjust the brushes

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size and pressure make the pressure 104

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this font I'll use a size of 40 drag the

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tool downward over your type to create

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drip light shapes

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when you're done click OK and change the

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blend mode to overlay if you have a

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couple of lines of text and want to make

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an area pop a bit more make a copy of

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your text by pressing ctrl or command J

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click the layer mask icon to make a

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layer mask next to the text copy invert

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the layer mask by pressing ctrl or

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command I the black layer mask is now

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hiding or masking out the text copy well

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going to brush across the top of the

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text which will reveal the text copy

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through the layer mask make sure white

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is your foreground color open your brush

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tool make the size large the hardness 0%

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and the opacity between 25 and 50

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percent now brush across your text this

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is Marty from Blue Lightning TV thanks

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for watching