Create Realistic Rain in Photoshop

Create a new document  fill the background with black colour. Create a new layer and grab a 1px, hard round brush:

On the new layer, choose a point, hold down the Shift key and use your mouse/or tablet pen, flick it upwards:

Rotate this layer slightly to the right via Free Transform Tool (Ctrl + T):

Then turn off the background layer, and go to Image > Trim and apply the following trim setting:

After the trim, you will have only the brush area left. Hit Ctrl + A to select the brush layer:

Go to Edit > Define Brush Set and define a brush set, name it “rain brush” and hit ok:

Press F5 and bring up the brush dynamics window, apply the following brush dynamics:

That’s it! Now you can use this brush to paint on a new layer and you will have this rain drop effect below:

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