rain on camera

[Steve Roberts]

If you have access to a camera, you can point it at an overcast (white) sky and spritz water on it. Then you comp that over your shot. If not, you could try Foam in AE ot CC Mr. Mercury, also in AE.

Keep in mind, they’d be blurry unless you’ve done a macro shot of a flower or something.

[Mike Clasby]

You might want to click on Andrews head and scroll down to:

Fun with Ink

Then duplicate the layer you want to have the splatters on, and apply CC Blobbylize (top layer), and for the “Blob layer” choose the layer that is the finished product from Andrew’s tut (2D? you probably don’t need the whole 3D thing). You will now have water spots on your image.

Running down is a bit tricky, but instead of using stills like Andrew does, when you’re using CC Particle World, try these settings:

Birth Rate: .01
Longevity: 2
Radius X and Y: change to fit your lens size
Velocity: 0
Gravity: .1 (this is speed of drops sliding down the lens.
Birth Size: .6
Death Size: 1

Then just precompose the layer that Particle playground is on and again reference it as the Blob layer on the top layer with Blobbylize.

All the drops are round, so in that precomped layer with the Particle World, click the little Constrain Proportions symbol (looks like an Infinity symbol) and make the Y Scale 160 or so, this elongates the drops.