Dang! Vice_, I'll get to the signature at some point. Nearly finished it just now but GIMP crashed due to awesomeness overload
Wow LoN, the rain fall is really impressive. May I ask, is it as annoying to make as it looks?
Thanks! Feel free to ask any questions you wish
That applies to anyone really, as long as they're sensible ones.
The rain was, surprisingly, relatively simple.
What I did was finish the signature off first, text, border, etc. I then stuck it all in one layer, and sent it to a new file, so I have just the one layer with the completed image.
Next, I duplicated it twice, so I had 3 layers of the same completed image.
After that, I used a tool that creates random pixels of red, blue and green on the image. I did that for each duplicate, so I had 3 lots of random pixels. I desaturated that trio, making them all various shades of gray and black.
I then motion blurred each layer in the direction of the rain. That way I had 3 random streaks of rain (soon to be animated).
Finally, for each blurred rain I had to add the white droplets which are just random pixels added to the appropriate places, to a new layer for each trio of rain layers.
Then I merged each of the sets of layers (image, blurred pixels and white pixels) together, to end up with 3 layers. Each layer had the completed image, one lot of random rain and one lot of random droplets.
Then, animate and you're done!
Hmm... sounds more complex in text form, but it really only took a couple of minutes, so in answer to your question, not really annoying, no.