Photoshop- Raining effect

Rain Effect
Learn how to create an artificial rain effect. Follow this simple tutorial that gives a rain effect to any image using Photoshop CS.

Step 1

Open an image and on the layers panel add a new layer by clicking on the fifth icon below the layers panel. A new layer is created with the name 'layer 1' and your previous layer would have the name 'background' These names can be changed by you. For now we'll leave them as they are.

Step 2

With the new layer selected click on Filter>Render>Clouds. Change the Opacity to 63. (This is present on the top right of the layers panel)

Step 3

Click on Filter>Noise>Add Noise. Your image looks grainy! Don't panic. We'll turn

these grains to rain drops in a moment. Give the settings as in the image on the left.

Amount - 60

Distribution - Gaussian

Check Monochromatic

Step 4

Click on Filter>Blur>Motion blur. The Motion blur window appears. Give the values Angle - 73 and Distance 10 as seen in the snapshot below. You can try varying the values and when a suitable image appears you can click OK.

Step 5

With 'layer 1' still selected, move your mouse over the Layers panel. There is a drop down menu on the top left of the panel, this is used to set the blending mode for the layer, now set the blend mode to 'screen'. Check your image now.
Can you make out the difference now!

Here is my result with the artificial rain effect!

Photoshop- Embossed Effect

Step 1 Open an image on your canvas by clicking on File>Open and selecting the image you want to emboss.

Step 2 Click on Image>Adjustments>Desaturate to make it gray. Step 3 Right click on the layer and select Duplicate layer. (a duplicate layer will be created) Rename it if you wish to. Step 4 Click on Image>Adjustments>Invert. (You'll get an x-ray image) Step 5 On the layers panel, set the opacity to 50%, now you'll have a blank gray image. Step 6 Click on the move tool on the tool bar (it's the second tool on the first row of the tool bar) Now press the down arrow key, then the right arrow key (for beveling) The left arrow key also does the same but gives an inner bevel.

Here's my result, the embossed image.

Photoshop- Ripple Effect

Give a ripple effect to an image using filters:

• Open an image on your canvas.
• Click on Filter>Distort>Zigzag. The ZigZag window will open.
• Give the settings as follows : Amount - 6, Ridges - 14, Style - Pond Ripples and click OK. Here's your final image.

All About Neptune

Depending on its orbital position, Neptune is often the eighth, sometimes the ninth planet from the sun. The planet Neptune is the smallest of our gas giants, or the planets in our solar system whose mass is primarily made up of gas. It is, like the other gas giants of Saturn, Jupiter and Uranus, without a well defined surface. Therefore, descriptions such as diameter and volume generally refer to the outermost layer.

Although Galileo first spotted Neptune in 1612, Urbain Le Verrier is credited with the official discovery on September 23rd, 1846. While Galileo believed Neptune to be a star, Verrier proved that it was in fact Neptune the planet. It is named after the Roman god of the Sea.

The composition of hydrogen, helium, and methane gives Neptune its unique blue color. It also has faint rings surrounding the planet. For many years, it was believed these rings were not complete. However, when the Voyager 2 reached the Neptune planet on August 25, 1989, their completion was confirmed. Nine moons have been documented in Neptune’s atmosphere, and 4 more are believed to be present.

Because of Pluto's strange orbit, Neptune is sometimes the most distant planet from the Sun. Since 1979, Neptune was the ninth planet from the Sun. On February 11, 1999, it crossed Pluto's path and once again become the eighth planet from the Sun, where will remain for 228 years.

Neptune data (averages):
Diameter: 30,775 miles
Time to rotate: 19 hours, 12 minutes
Orbit: 165 Earth years

Compared to Earth:
Mass: 17.2 times Earth's
Diameter: 3.9 times Earth's
Distance from Sun: 30 times as far

NEPTUNE: ROMAN GOD OF WATER
Historical notes

Neptune was discovered in 1846 after mathematical calculations of Uranus' movements predicted the existence of another large body.

All About Planet Uranus

The mysteriously tilted planet of Uranus is one of the 4 gas giants, or planets whose gas composes the majority of its mass. The planet Uranus is the seventh from the sun. Its 51,117km diameter classifies it as the third largest planet in the solar system. By mass, Uranus is the fourth largest.

Despite not being certain how the planet Uranus inherited its 98° axial tilt; we are able to study the effects of this uneven heating. Hypotheses suggest this unique aspect is due to a major collision during formation.

John Flamsteed first recorded the planet in 1690, but believed it was a star. Almost 100 years later in 1781, Sir William Hershel made the formal discovery. Although originally mistaking it for a comet, Hershel quickly corrected his error and established Uranus as a planet. After much debate about what to call it, Uranus was named after the Greek god of the sky.

Although there are no current plans to physically explore Uranus, the planet was visited in 1986 by the NASA spacecraft, Voyager 2. The surface composed of rock and ice is surrounded by an atmosphere of hydrogen, helium and methane. Uranus’ average temperature is -218°C, or -360° F. So far thirteen rings surrounding Uranus have been found. The planet Uranus has 27 moons, each named after Shakespearean characters.

All About Saturn

Saturn is the second largest planet in our solar system, making it about 95 times larger than the Earth! The sixth planet out from the sun, it takes Saturn about 29.5 years to orbit the sun one time, traveling a distance of roughly 1,426,000,000 kilometers for one single revolution!

Space.com allows you to discover the planet Saturn like you never have before! Check out our comprehensive articles, photos and interactive features to further explore this distant planet famous for its rings and more than 30 discovered moons!

Learn more about the Cassini spacecraft’s findings of liquid water on Saturn’s moon, Enceladus, and see how this revelation changes the range of sustainable environments for living organisms in outer space. Watch an animation of the Cassini Saturn orbital insertion. Study the latest Cassini findings with our amazing satellite photos of craters, cracks, volcanoes and much more on Titan, which is Saturn’s largest moon. Zoom in on the first radio occultation observation of Saturn’s rings and see them unraveled right before your eyes!

Learn more information about Saturn by clicking on any article, photo or other interactive feature below.

All About Jupiter

The planet Jupiter is shown in the adjacent Hubble Space Telescope true-color image (Ref). Jupiter is by far the largest of the planets. It is more than twice as massive as all other planets combined; if it had been only about 100 times more massive at birth (not so much by astronomical standards) it would have become a star instead of a planet. Then the Solar System might be a double star system instead of a single star with a planetary system.

Jupiter has features very different from terrestrial planets. Its composition is more like that of stars, and if it has any solid surface it is hidden deep at its center: Jupiter is apparently almost entirely gas and liquid. It also has an internal energy source and enormous magnetic fields. Finally, the 4 largest moons of Jupiter (the Galilean Moons) are sufficiently interesting in their own right that they are among the most studied objects in the Solar System. We shall devote a separate section to studying their properties.

Our most detailed information concerning Jupiter has come from the space probes Pioneer 10 (1973), Pioneer 11 (1974), Voyager I (March, 1979), Voyager II (July, 1979), and Galileo (1995-present). The first 4 were flyby missions; the Galileo probe was inserted into orbit around Jupiter December, 1995, and launched a probe into the atmosphere that transmitted information before being destroyed. The Galileo orbiter is in a complex orbit that has been examining Jupiter and the Galilean moons.