This is a new addition to the PSDTUTS PLUS section. Learn all about how to manipulate images and combine them to create surreal scenes, in this case a rainy scene. Also, numerous details are covered in this tutorial such as adding highlights, shading, excellent photo-manipulation techniques, and more. Learn all about it at the jump!
New PLUS Tutorial – Design a Dramatic and Surreal Rainy Scene with Photoshop
Jan 21st in News by Alvaro Guzman
New Exclusive PLUS Tutorial on Creating a Surreal Rainy Scene
This new PLUS Tutorial is titled "Design a Dramatic and Surreal Rainy Scene with Photoshop," by Alvaro Guzman. I wanted to create a rainy scene a long time ago, but didn't wanted another boring landscape image, so I added a fantastic and surreal style to this one. I'll show you how to manipulate stock images according your needs, add realistic lightening effects, design rain from scratch, and some quick design tips.
Members can Log in and Download! Otherwise, Join Now! A preview of the final image is below. You can view the large version here.
This is an Awesome Tutorial that Uses Detailed Photo-Manipulation Techniques
This tutorial details how to create a surreal rainy scene, and it also provided detailed photo-manipulation explanations. Below is a sample of adding splashes to the main objects in the design. It's a subtle effect that adds to the overall realism of this stylish illustration. Members can Log in and Download! Otherwise, Join Now! Below are some sample images from the tutorial
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( ADD YOURS )Gotti January 21st
Thanks for this great tutorial
( )OpenSourceHunter January 21st
Nice, i like this tut!
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BroOf January 21st
This looks cool. I like the snakeskin on the hand.
( )Timothy January 21st
Looks cool, but I don’t really dig the extended snake finger…
( )Tadd January 21st
Looks pretty cool – but I’m with Timothy. I just don’t get the reasoning behind the snakefinger. But – it’s an artists vision not mine.
Glad I have the Plus membership!
( )kevin October 22nd
ur so hot,man
( )Sjoap January 21st
Looks nice, I just don’t really like the hand. I think a reaching hand would be nicer and more like just a hand not snakehand. Nice concept but could be alot better.
~Sjoap
( )Gotti January 21st
I don’t see the tut in the plus section ?
( )geir b nystad January 21st
me neither,where is it?
( )Frederik January 21st
It’s not the result that matters, but the techninques used to obtain it. Mix the techniques learned here and your creativity, and you have something worth paying for.
( )Robert Stenbom January 21st
“Looks cool, but I don’t really dig the extended snake finger…”
Artists doesn’t see things as they are, if they did, they wouldn’t be artists – van gogh if I remember right ;>
( )Aaron Miller January 21st
The hand looks great, great tones and shadows
( )loswl January 21st
Cool imagery, I love the atmosphere, details on the hand, including the weird snake fingers, which adds a bit of character to the image
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( )Isis January 21st
I really think the tecniques are most important in this case. But, to me, is clear that an “reaching” hand, softly opened could give a more interesting result for the composition.
=)
( )Lee Milthorpe January 21st
Very dramatic! Nice results!
( )Roshan January 21st
That’s great.
I am going to jump in psdtuts plus membership section!
( )insic January 21st
Another Alvaro’s masterpiece. Keep it up!
( )Wojciech Pijecki January 21st
Very nice.
( )Tim Soret January 21st
I’ve suscribed, thanks to this impressive tutorial.
( )J January 21st
I´d never pay for tutorials like that
( )DKumar M. January 21st
Nice and simple Article Alvaro….. Thanks for sharing good stuff !!
( )geir b nystad January 21st
yeah thank alot, this i good stuff
( )geir b nystad January 21st
i think i was a little fast there, but i just can’t find it, where did you guy find the TUT?
( )Ranim January 21st
it’s very nice thank you
( )TopFlySecurity January 21st
Damn s*** looks crazy.. i need to be a plus member, its alot of great tuts it seems..
( )Alexander January 21st
Great. Another PLUS only tutorial.
Torrent link please.
( )Dale Smith January 21st
Guys… i don’t see the tut… am I missing something?
( )miloli January 21st
Why i can’t see it in the PLUS section? it’s not there.
( )Kuldar Kalvik January 21st
Looks really in depth.. If only I had Plus membership.. : D
( )electriccelt January 21st
Sorry… where is the tutorial on Plus?
By the way, my previous query has been deleted from this list… why?
( )Misael January 21st
Great, will download immediately, glad to me plus member.
( )Wes D. January 21st
Now that is how you put together a photo manipulation! Beautiful work Alvaro. The attention to details is what sets a good manip apart from a bad one…and this is definitely a good one!
Keep up the good work and thanks for the tut!
( )Alvaro January 21st
Thanks guys!
( )Ariful Alam Khan January 22nd
I don’t have plus account. But I think it will be a great tut. Thanks.
( )nobody January 22nd
good photoshopping, but the composition is terrible.
( )crystalprocovers minisite designer January 22nd
i hate reptiles , make the bird win, please
but the editing result looks fantastic….
I bet it will be a useful tutorial you have…
Regards,
( )eeewww January 23rd
wow this site is a rip off
( )Sarah-lee January 23rd
it looks like cut and stick
( )BB January 24th
You do know how to use Photoshop, but I don’t like the result. Actually, this tutorial didn’t really interest me and I would not buy a PLUS membership for this one. It may sound sentimental but: where are the ‘good old days’ of PSDtuts, when there were actually USEFUL tutorials posted? E.g., tutorials that inspire you, let you think ‘ah, that’s the way they do it, I’m gonna learn this technique and make it look the way I want it to look’.
( )I think a lot of the other PSDTuts readers think the same; just look at the amount of comments!
This tutorial -> +/- 36 comments
‘older’ tutorial, Advanced Glow Effects -> 777 comments
Honestly, I am not very interested in the kind of tutorial that was written here.
I hope the next tutorials will be better.
aMs January 26th
BB you obviously have no idea how hard it is, to keep up site like this. PSDTUTS needs to have few fresh tutorials each weak. It means they are making tutorial schedules for every month. They approve only quality tutorials with some artistic value or good techniques.
Writers need now to be above creativity, because most great effects was achieved long time ago, like the glow effect. Thousands of people go through this site, do you think you can satisfy them all?
Ishhhh, dude, start thinking a little, and apperciate what’s given to you for free. And if you don’t like the PLUS? Don’t buy it.
( )neil January 26th
it’s rude to point
( )justin January 29th
wow, pretty amazing… really easy to follow which is a real pleasure being that i am fairly new to photoshop (1 year) im really happy at the way it turned out. i was able to make my image almost an exact duplicate as yours, and thats hard to do when following tutorials. 8.5/10
( )subin February 13th
o very greate
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