Project: Rainy Days [Stage 3]

The image as it is now looks quite plain, I want to add some depth to it and to so I'll be adding a texture. I remember that I have some photos of rain, a shuffle through and find one, it looks similar to the one on the right (it is from Through The Eyes...). After adjusting the brightness and contrast I set the layer property to 'multiply', this way it merges in with the background image.

I don't like the way the drops on the light grey bit of the image so I change the layer order and have the light grey on top of the background layers.

The top left looks empty. I try to add different things in that corner like the moon, little designs and other trinklets. None of these seem 'natural'. I play around with the idea of the flowers being picked, I go along with that and end up with some (slightly creepy) skeletal hands. They can be made by simply varying the pressure - I find this to be the most effective and if you choose the right colours you can make them look like x-rays.

The cover is nearly finished, all it needs now are a few minor touches which I'll explain in the next post.

-Abhinav