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Introduction: This is a Photoshop tutorial for intermediate users. To use and understand this tutorial completely you should already know how to use certain Photoshop techniques, including where to locate tasks in the program. Of course like any other tutorial you need patience.
Image Requirements:
It's best if the photo does not have a lot of sun in it. Obviously the image would look odd with both rain and sun in it at the same time. Also, sometimes to get good results you should make the image a tad bit smaller (especially in this case). I prefer to work with the image around 600×800. You can choose to work with a fullsize image of course, just understand that the rain will only look good when the image is viewed full sized to do the fineness of the rain drops.
Step One: Open up the image you want to work with on a blank canvas in Photoshop. Flatten this layer if it's not flattened already. You need to start out with only one layer instead of the image and the canvas layer.
Step Two: Next duplicate the layer now so you have the same image twice. (Layer>Duplicate Layer).
Step Three: Go to Filter>Noise>Add Noise. Set the amount to about 15%. The higher the amount, the thicker the rain so you can set this to whatever you feel is best for your image or taste. Make sure the distribution is gaussian and that the monochromatic box is ticked, otherwise your rain will be rainbow colored and look odd.
Step Four: Now go to Filter>Blur>Motion Blur. The angle should be at about 70, and the distance should be around 10. This will give you a nice stormy effect.
Step Five: Put the rain layer on Lighten. This will lighten the top layer and make it slightly transparent to the bottom one. This is when you'll start to see the rain effect on your image.
Step Six: This time flatten the two layers together so they become one. Then duplicate the flattened layer again making two new and similar image layers.
Step Seven:Image>Adjustments>Desaturate the top layer. This should leave the top layer black and white only.
Step Eight: For the top desaturated layer, go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian blur and put it on a radius of 2 pixels.
Step Nine: Put the top layer on Soft Light, and then your image should have a rain effect and a slight glow effect as well.
Then you're done and you have a realistic looking rain effect on your photo. Step Six-Eight are not neccessary, but add a nice glow effect in Photoshop.
Today a Security Bulletin has been posted in regards to the January 12, 2010 quarterly security update for Adobe Reader and Acrobat. The update addresses critical security issues in the products, including a patch to resolve CVE-2009-4324 previously discussed in the Adobe PSIRT blog on December 15, 2009 (”Security Advisory APSA09-07 update”). Adobe recommends that users apply the updates for their product installations. Please note that support has ended for Adobe Reader 7.x and Acrobat 7.x for Windows, Macintosh and UNIX, and Adobe Reader 8.x for UNIX.
For more information on other security enhancements included in this update, please refer to the Adobe Reader blog.
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Today, we announced the availability of Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.3 and 8.2. For more information regarding the security details in these releases, please see Security Bulletin APSB10-02.
As mentioned in a previous blog post titled Adobe Reader and Acrobat Updates Include New Security Improvements, we have been shipping a new “beta” updater technology in a passive state since our October 13, 2009 quarterly update. The purpose of the new updater, once activated, is to keep end-users up-to-date in a much more streamlined and automated way. Today, we are testing the new updater with a subset of our end-users, who previously signed up for the beta program. This is the first time we've exercised the new updater with “official” updates, which allows us to test a variety of network configurations encountered on the Internet in order to ensure a robust update experience. Over the next few weeks, we will be analyzing the test results and will continue communicating important details with you, including when we expect it to be active for all users, which could be as soon as our next update.
We also talked about the introduction of the Adobe Reader and Acrobat JavaScript Blacklist Framework in that same blog post. The Framework provides customers granular control over the execution of specific JavaScript API calls. The purpose of the new JavaScript Blacklist Framework is to provide protection against attacks that target specific JavaScript API calls. As mentioned in Security Advisory- Adobe Reader and Acrobat, we were able to recommend this risk mitigation strategy during our recent zero-day exposure window. The JavaScript Blacklist Framework worked as planned and we had positive feedback from customers who were able to utilize the mitigation effectively.
As mentioned in Adobe Reader and Acrobat JavaScript Blacklist Framework Mitigation for Security Advisory - APSA09-07, if you deployed the mitigation to a “non-locked down” area, Adobe will automatically reset the Blacklist Framework with the 9.3 and 8.2 updates. But, if you deployed the registry key setting to a “locked down” area, then you will need to reset that value yourself.
Finally, as described in an earlier post, Adobe Reader and Acrobat Version 7 End of Support, support for Adobe Reader and Acrobat 7.x (as well as Adobe Reader UNIX 8.x) has ended, and Adobe strongly recommends updating to newer versions.
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