# Rain Drops

Gerhard
Kulzer

    gerhard at kulzer.net

The digiKam image plugin Raindrops puts beautiful raindrops on your picture.

KDE
Digikam

# Introduction

The digiKam image plugin Raindrops is nice little tool to put raindrops onto your images. Naturally, it renders your picture in a kind of wet look. It use an algorithm copyrighted by Pieter Voloshyn.

## Using the plugin

Three sliders give you control over the effect filter:

Drop size obviously allows to change the size of the drops. As the drop size doesn't automatically scale with the image size it is often necessary to reduce the size for small images. Number changes the number and densitiy of drops. Fish eye changes the optical effect of the drops across the image.

You can keep a zone clear of raindrops with the digiKam Image Editor Select tool. Selecting the area to avoid (for example a face) before launching the RainDrops filter will keep it free from rain drops.

## The plugin in action

This is an example of the raindrops filter. The original image (1) shows a quiet sunset, the transformed image (2) indicates a sunset after a thunderstorm. Default values have been used for this example.

### Rain Drops Image Effect Preview