Foggy Window Effect in Photoshop

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Select the background layer and the group with the drops and merge them into onlayer. After that go to Image>Adjustments>Levels. Change the Black Input to 124

and the White to 161. The values might vary depending on the drops, so justmake sure that you get rid of the blurry edges.


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With the Magic Wand Tool (W) select the black area, then go to Select>Similar to makesure all the black areas get selected. Then delete this area.


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Step 6

Import an image to use in our design. Duplicate this layer because wewill use it a few more times with different blur values.


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Go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur. Use 20 pixels for the Radius.


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Go to Layer>Layer Styles>Color Overlay. Use a dark grey for the color and changethe Opacity to 60%.


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Go to Layer>Layer Styles>Blending Options and change the Fill Opacity to 0. After that selectInner Shadow. Use white for the color and LInear Dodge for the Blend Mode, for the Opacity use

50%, for the angle 90, then for the Distance use 3 pixels and for the Size use 5 pixels. Alsochange the Contour mode to the Cone one.


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Step 11

Select Bevel and Emboss. Change the Depth to 350%, the Direction to Down, the Size to 7pixels, the Soften to 5 pixels, then over the Shading options use 54 for the Angle and 42 forthe Altitude. Also change the Gloss Contour to the Cove Deep one, the for the Highlight Mode

use 80% with white and Color Dodge for the Blend Mode, then for the Shadow Mode useMultiply with black and 50% of Opacity.


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Select Inner Glow then for the Blend Mode use Darken with 40% Oapcity and blackfor the color. Change the Source to Edge and the Size to 25 pixels.


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Step 13

Now select Color Overlay and use (#907f72) for the color with Color

Dodge with 45% Opacity.


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The last layer style option will be Drop Shadow. Use Multiply for the Blend Mode,black for the Color and 20% Opacity. Change the Angle to 90 and use 9 pixels for

the Distance, 5% for the Spread and 10 pixels for the Size.


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Make the photo without blur visible again and go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur. Use 5 pixels this time. Then over the Layer Palette click with the right button of the mouse on the thumb of the water dropslayer, then select "Select Pixel" to select just the water drops. Select the photo that we applied the 5pixles Gaussian Blur and go to Layer>Layer Mask>Reveal Selection. This way the image with 5 pixels

blur will be only visible beneath the water drops.


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Select the layer mask that we created in the previous step and go to Filter>Blur>Motion Blur. Use-90 for the Angle and 80 pixels for the Distance.


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After the motion blur, go to Image>Adjustments>Levels. Change the black and white inputs againto get rid of the blurry edges caused by the blur. You will have an effect like the image below as if

the water drops were running down on the window.


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Step 18

Duplicate the layer with the photo that we applied the Gaussian Blur with 5 pixels for the radius onlyand delete the layer mask. The with the Horizontal Type Tool (T) add a text with a handwriting font, or if

you have a tablet or is really good with the mouse you can write with your own handwriting. Againselect just the pixels of the text like we did in the Step 15. Then mask this new photo with the shape of

the text, so again the photo will be visible only beneath the text area.


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Add a new layer and with the Brush Tool (B) and the same brush we created the water drops,add more water drops and especially over the text area like the image below. To apply thesame layer style of the water drops, just click with the right button of the mouse over thewater drops layer and select Copy Layer Style, then on the new layer with the small water

drops click again with the right click of the mouse and select Paste Layer Style.


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Step 21

Select all layers and duplicate them, after that merge all the duplicated layersinto one. You can also use the keyboard shortcut Command+Alt+Shift+E. Then

go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur. Use 20 pixels for the Radius.


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Change the Blend Mode of this blurry layer to Overlay with 40% opacity.


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Step 23

Duplicate the previous layer and just change the Blend Mode to Screen,keep the same 40% of Opacity.


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Step 24

Add a new layer on top of the others and fill it with a radial gradient using dark greyand light grey for the colors. Also use Multiply for the Blend Mode.


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Here is the outcome of the tutorial. As you can see the technique used is pretty simple it was all about LayerStyles, Masks and basic filters. The most important thing was to understand how to recreate the effect usingthe tools available in Photoshop, in this case I spend hours analyzing a foggy window trying to get the basic

characteristics to make the effect realistic. Now it's up to you.

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