View Full Version : Making a realistic water ripple effect in photoshop



looksvivek
4th August 2007, 06:17
Now start by having your object loaded in the picture, for me it is an apple.
With the rectangular selection tool make a selection as in the image below and with the colors white and black set as for and background go to filters -> rendere -> clouds

looksvivek
4th August 2007, 06:19
while still having the new made clouds layers selected go to filters -> distort -> twirl and twirl it about 176, then go to filters -> distort -> zigzag and set it as in the image below.

looksvivek
4th August 2007, 06:19
Then go to edit -> transform -> perspective and drag the top part a bit in and the bottom part far out as in the image below.

looksvivek
4th August 2007, 06:21
Then go to image -> adjustments -> hue and saturation and check colorize and drag the handles to blue colors like below.

looksvivek
4th August 2007, 06:24
Zoom out so you get a bigger view and use your free transform tool to drag out the edges to the left and right as shown in the image below. While you’re at it, drag down to fill the bottom white part.

looksvivek
4th August 2007, 06:25
Grab the single row margin tool and click top most of the blue layer and right click inside the selection choose layer via copy to copy the selection to a new layer.

looksvivek
4th August 2007, 06:27
Choose edit -> transform -> scale and scale the selection to the top, covering the white part of the image. give it a gaussian blur with about 2, then go to filters -> distort -> wave and set the handles as in the image below, then go to filters -> filter gallery and give it a plastic wrap with not much detail (we do not want a lot of white spots here).

looksvivek
4th August 2007, 06:27
Now select the bottom water ripple layer and go to filters -> filter gallery -> plastic wrap and set its handles as in the image below.

looksvivek
4th August 2007, 06:31
Select the top water layer again and go to filters -> distort -> pinch and set it as below. (Remember to have the selection first as holding down ctrl and click the layer)

looksvivek
4th August 2007, 06:32
Make a copy of your object layer, (the apple) and place it under the original, go to filters -> blur -> motion blur and set it as the image below and make a copy of it, merge those to together, to give the object a falling motion look.

looksvivek
4th August 2007, 06:33
Now you can make a copy of the original apple again and go to edit -> free transform drag the upper middle handle down so it becomes a reflection as the image below.

looksvivek
4th August 2007, 06:34
Go to filters -> distort -> ripple and set it as the image below and then your finally done.

:supz:

mguerra79
26th March 2008, 07:09
Hi, very nice! keep up the good work, i might give you some of mine some day!

benjiro_isozaki
20th January 2009, 07:16
woooww nice tutorial, i'll try this one for sure!