Creating Running Water from Scratch
Water is one of the hardest things to replicate, especially from scratch. This tutorial will show you how to recreate running water as if coming out of a tap.
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We will be working with a document of dimensions 400x400px. Let's start by making sure our colors are default (black and white) by pressing D, and then we will goto Filter > Render > Clouds.
Next, we will goto Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur, choose and choose between 5 and 6 pixels. Then goto Filter > Motion Blur and choose angle -90° and around 80-90px.
Now let's make the image thinner - goto Image > Image Size, uncheck Constrain Proportions and set Width: 250px.
Now goto Filter > Artistic > Plastic Wrap and experiment with the values. Use a Highlight Strength between 15 and 20, Detail somewhere between 5 and 10, and Smoothness somewhere between 10 and 15.
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Next up is the Filter > Sketch > Chrome. Choose Detail 0 and Smoothness somewhere between 5 and 10. Then goto Edit > Fade Chrome. Set Opacity to 100% and Vivid Light.
Now we will goto Image > Image Size, and set the height to 600px. Now we need to Edit > Transform > Warp, so that we can mold it into a running water shape. Something like this will work:
Now to color the water, we can add a background layer and fill it with a blue gradient (or solid color, but gradient works better) and set the water layer's Blend Mode to Hard Light. This is what it should look like:
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lOL said on 10/05/2008 at 2:52 PM
my transform thing is grey and i cant click it. Why?
The Admin said on 10/06/2008 at 8:18 AM
Make sure you select the right layer before trying to transform.
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