Rain Overlay: How to Add Free Rain Effects to Photos/Videos Online

Are you ready to captivate your audience's attention and transport them to a world filled with dramatic rain showers? Discover the secret ingredient to mesmerizing videos – adding a stunning rain effect that will instantly hook your viewers and make them feel relaxed.

In this blog, we reveal the simple yet powerful techniques to create immersive rain scenes in your videos, unleashing a torrent of excitement and curiosity. Get ready to make a splash in the world of videography! Let's dive in and learn how to make rain magic happen on your screen.

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Part 1. Best Tool for Rain Effect Overlay Editing

To add rain effect overlay to your videos or pictures, you'll need a video editor to superimpose the rainy picture, animated rain element or video clips over the background frame. When it comes to selecting video editors, there are loads of options with different features on the market. Among them, FlexClip is the easiest solution to make a gorgeous rain effect online for free.

Firstly, FlexClip has loads of rainy videos, animated raindrop elements and raining photos to create the effect of falling raindrops to your video. The best part is that you can control the speed of rain falling, imitate the freezing frame on camera lens and even make color correction in matter of a few clicks. If you want to add some extraordinary things like thunder sound effects to your rain video, a royalty-free music stock is ready for help.

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Besides extensive rain effects, FlexClip has much more to offer:

Part 2. How to Add Rain Effect Overlay to Photos Using FlexClip

1) Add Rain to Photo for Aesthetic

Looking to evoke emotions and create a dramatic or romantic ambiance in your Instagram posts with a rain effect? Follow the steps below to add different rain effects to your photos using FlexClip's rain effect photo editor online.

Click " Add Rain to Photo" below to enter the editor page and then go to the "Media" panel to upload your photos. After that, drag and drop the photos to the timeline. If you're still searching for the right images, head to the Image section to find one you love.

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Add Rain to Photo View Templates

The easiest way to add rain to a photo is by superimposing a rainy image on top of the original. To do this, find a rainy image and tap the "Add As Layer" button to place it above the original. Then, resize and adjust the opacity of the rainy layer to blend it seamlessly with the background.

Add Rain Picture Above the Original Photo

Apply a filter to enhance the raining atmosphere or add aesthetic text to enhance nostalgia or melancholy ambiance. When you finish editing, right-click the mouse and choose Export Frame option to download the rainy photo.

Make Additional Editing to Perfect Your Rainy Photo

2) Add Rain Effect to Photo GIF for Fun

Looking for a rain GIF to express your sadness in your Discord, WhatsApp, or Telegram chats? Or maybe you want to add a rain effect to an existing GIF for fun? With FlexClip’s online photo editor, you can easily add an animated rain effect to GIFs or create your own looping rainy GIF in just seconds. Here’s how to make it:

Access FlexClip editor page and upload your GIF photo to FlexClip. Once it's loaded, drag it to the timeline.

Add GIF Photo You Want to Add Rain Effect to FlexClip

Navigate to Elements and type in rain in the search box. Browse through the animated rain sticker and place it to your GIF photo as you like.

Add Animated Rain to Photo GIF

To make the rain GIF effect more dramatic, consider adding text to convey the emotion you want to express. For example, you can use "Happy Happy" to create an ironic twist on a rainy day.

Add Text to Rain GIF Photo

Once you're happy with the result, tap on Export > GIF to download your looping rain effect video as a GIF with resolution and frame rate you want.

Download the Rain Effect GIF to Local

Part 3. Two Ways to Add Rain Effect Overlay to Videos Using FlexClip

In addition to add rain effect to photos, FlexClip also allows you to add rain video or animation to create a rain effect effortlessly. Let's see how it works below:

How to Use Rain Video to Create Rain Effect

Step 1: Upload All the Footage

Click on Create Rainy Video icon, import all your footage and place them to the timeline. If you already have the ideal rain overlay video, upload it to create a rain effect. Otherwise, FlexClip will provide massive rain overlays to perfect your videos.

Upload All the Footage You Need to FlexClip

Create Rainy Video View Templates

Step 2: Add Rain Overlay to Video

Move your mouse to the "Video" panel and type in "rain" to get massive results. Choose the suitable one as your solution to create a rain overlay, then adjust the overlay to look more realistic by changing the opacity, speed and more.

Add Rain Overlay to Video

Step 3: Edit Videos with Ease

Here you can make adjustments by adding dynamic text, altering adaptive filter, inserting background music and trimming as you like. With everything settled, export the video for sharing.

Edit Rain Effect Video with Ease

Bonus Tips: Looking for a more creative way to create a rain effect video? Dazzle your audience by placing a rain video inside text for a stunning effect. This technique is popular in vlogs, travel videos, and other aesthetic projects to help you stand out. With FlexClip, you can easily create a custom text mask in your preferred font and overlay rain videos to generate eye-catching visuals.

Simply upload your rain video and go to Text to add your letter. Then tap on Style > Create a Text Mask to convert your text into a mask preset. After that, put your rain video inside the text mask. Congrats! That's done.

Get Creative Rain Video Using FlexClip's Text Mask Feature

How to Apply Rain Effect Animation to Your Video

Want to add rain effects to your Instagram stories? Need to use rain effect with an animation? Simply follow steps below to configure it.

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Make more edits to level up your video. When finishing editing, click on Export icon to save it.

Add Rain Animation to Your Video

Tips for Making Better Rain Effect Overlay Video

1. If you wish the rain overlay displayed in a particular way, apply the Frame or Mask feature which offers loads of special shapes to assist you in making unique videos.

2. The rain effect works better with melodious background music since it helps the audience better integrate into the video.

3. FlexClip will automatically save the edited video to cloud storage and it allows you to share the video by link or one-click destination.

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Full of vitality, curiosity and hope, Bella is an energetic copywriter at FlexClip. She mainly concentrates on video creation and troublesome issues related to video editing, providing users with practical solutions and tricks. Personally, Bella loves novels, sci-fi movies, cooking and travel. And, she believes that all her life is the best arrangement from God.