October, 2007
In this tutorial we will show you how to create a water running effect in Photoshop CS3.
Start a new document about 300 width and 600 height.
Then, create a new layer, and use the paint bucket to fill the new layer with grey color.
After doing so, press "D" on your keyboard to reset the colors to black and white.
Then go to Filter/Render/Fiber
Set:
Variance: 20
Strength: 5
Then apply: Filter/Blur/Guassian Blur
Set: Radius: 6px
Then apply: Filter/Blur/Motion Blur
Set:
Angle:90
Distance:100
Then, go to Filter/Artistic/Plastic Wrap
Set:
Highlight Strength:15
Detail:10
Smoothness:10
After that apply: Filter/Sketch/Chrome
Set:
Detail:0
Smoothness:8
After that go to: Image/Image Size
Set:
Height:800
Make sure the "Constrain Proportions" is not checked:
Now go to Edit/Transform/Warp
And move the anchors around, inward, up and down, you have to make it look like running water:
Finally, add some blue gradient color to the background layer, and change it's water layer's blending mode to "Hard Light" Mode:
Aint this a cool effect or what? =)
Enjoy!!
Download the original source files from this tutorial in Zip format Here
Copyright (c) 2007, Beatriz Mariniello, All Rights Reserved
