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Add rain or snow to a photo

Add rain or snow in one tap

Soft streaks of rain or drifting snow, drawn to fit your photo at any size.

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  • Photos stay on your device
Before
A view over Rome from a glass table with fine streaks of rain falling across it+ Rain
How this page handles your photo

Rain is already falling when the photo opens — fine streaks in three depths on Screen — with Downpour, Snow and Blizzard on the shelf and density, size and lean beside the blend rail.

Open the photo. Rain and snow are generated in this tab; nothing is downloaded.

The controls arrive with the photo. Nothing here asks you to sign in, and no picture is sent anywhere — the drawing all happens in this tab. The site makes exactly one request of its own, and only if you press for it: the cut-out feature downloads a 6.2 MB model from our model file server, after showing you the size and the licence. No photograph goes with it.

Why this stage opens differently

Rain and snow are light in front of the lens, so this stage opens with rain already on Screen over a black tile that disappears: only the bright streaks are added, and the photo underneath keeps its own shadows.

Each pattern is drawn in three depths — small, faint drops far away and long, bright ones up close — and every position comes from a seed, which is why the preview can promise to be the saved file.

Step by step

  1. Open the photo. It stays in this tab. Rain is already falling on it when it opens.
  2. Pick the weather. Rain, Downpour, Snow or Blizzard from the shelf.
  3. Tune it. Density, drop length or flake size, lean and Another pattern on the Blend tab.
  4. Keep it off faces. A fade or the brush on the Mask tab clears drops from where they look wrong.
  5. Save. Drawn again at the saved size from the same settings.

What it does, and what it does not

Patterns
Rain, Downpour, Snow, Blizzard.
Controls
Density, drop length or flake size, lean (−60° to 60°), pattern seed, strength, mode.
Opens
Rain on Screen at 85%.
Pattern
Seeded: reproducible at any size.
Saving
PNG, JPG or WebP.
  • Drawn drops do not wet the scene: there are no reflections or puddles, and a sunny photo stays sunny underneath.
  • Very dense settings on a very large photo take a moment longer to draw when you save.
  • Drops fall straight across everything, including faces; mask them away where they look wrong.

Questions about rain and snow overlays

Which mode does rain open on, and why?
Screen. A raindrop or a snowflake in front of the camera only adds light, and Screen can only lighten — the black around each drop counts as nothing.
Is the rain a downloaded image?
No. Every streak and flake is generated in this tab from a seed. There is no stock texture and nothing to licence.
Will it look the same at full size?
Yes. Positions are shares of the frame and the seed fixes every choice, so the same settings draw the same storm at the saved size instead of stretching the preview.
How do I make it look like it is really raining?
Lower the strength to 60–80%, add a little lean, and pair it with a Colour overlay (Darken for text) at a low strength to dull the sky. Heavy rain also lifts the shadows slightly, which the Downpour pattern does for you.
Can I make the drops fall the other way?
Yes. Lean runs from −60° to 60°: negative leans the fall to the left, positive to the right.

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