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who knows how to add a water ripple under her finger so it looks like shes touching water?  Aug 10 09 06:38 pm Link photoshop-filter-distort-ripple! now you know how Aug 10 09 06:40 pm Link First select the water, then apply ripple filter. Aug 10 09 06:42 pm Link I tryed that but I'm not getting the effect I want. I want it to look like water after you throw a stone in the lake. a water ring. Aug 10 09 06:54 pm Link Ah, then you'd want the inappropriately named "zigzag" filter. Use the "out from center" option. Aug 10 09 07:05 pm Link mikedimples wrote: +1 Aug 10 09 07:07 pm Link Flaming Pear Flood plugin, you can download a demo but must pay 29 bucks for the full version. Aug 11 09 06:34 pm Link I have a stock set of drips in every piece of the drip cycle that I shot... and I use them for the desired effect . - Stephen Aug 11 09 06:40 pm Link Thanks everyone. you have my permission to have a go at it if you like. I'd like to see how you photoshop guru's would do on this. Aug 13 09 09:28 pm Link Try googling an image of a ripple that you like and would work well in your image. Then paste it into your image and play around with the layer styles (overlay or soft light come to mind). Also, maybe converting the ripple to Monochrome B&W might help. Keep in mind that I have not actually tried this so I'm not sure how it would work, but it would be the first way I would try it. You may have to eventually merge the "ripple" to a layer of the original image and play around with some blending and opacity as well. Let me know if this works...I'm not promising it will since its just an educated guess. EDIT: Just saw the original image, overlay or soft light will NOT work over black, but try a few others. Aug 13 09 10:19 pm Link isnt there a pond ripple effect in photoshop.. Aug 14 09 08:19 am Link I created my own ripple brushes in ps and change the blending modes . Aug 14 09 09:49 pm Link like this ?  Aug 17 09 04:32 pm Link IMO I would maybe change the angle or direction of the ripple. It looks a lil unnatural as is. Aug 17 09 04:37 pm Link do you have any idea how hard this is to do? Aug 17 09 04:40 pm Link I sure do, I just spend about half an hour in photoshop trying to figure out a way to make the zig-zag filter ripple out from NOT the center. How did you manage to do it so well? The only problem is your perspective, which should be like this: Please tell me how you did it, I'm dying to know! Aug 17 09 05:07 pm Link I just googled ripple photoshop plugin then downloaded a plugin Aug 17 09 05:21 pm Link couple layers and a mask presto 2 minutes later Aug 17 09 05:22 pm Link Cool, which one was it? The first that came up? Aug 17 09 05:23 pm Link yup Aug 17 09 05:41 pm Link is this better  Aug 17 09 05:45 pm Link do you mind if I use this in my retouch port? Aug 17 09 05:47 pm Link The GIMP has a filter built-in that will do what you want. Waves. It doesn't allow a center point selection but you can resize your canvas so the finger is centered and go from there. Aug 17 09 06:21 pm Link Photons 2 Pixels Images wrote: I'm trying to picture how that would work, and I'm drawing a blank. How would you resize so that the finger is centered? Aug 17 09 06:53 pm Link mikedimples wrote: You don't resize the image itself, just the canvas. Think of it like this.... Aug 17 09 07:24 pm Link That makes perfect sense. Thanks once again! Aug 17 09 08:10 pm Link final try  Aug 18 09 04:23 am Link Is this what you wanted? Aug 18 09 09:48 am Link o Aug 18 09 04:10 pm Link better lighting studio wrote: In terms of composition and interest, I really like the first one you did. Aug 18 09 06:16 pm Link Click Hamilton wrote: Yeah, the first one is the bomb! Aug 18 09 06:18 pm Link Silvia mentioned Flaming Pear. It's a good software that's very inexpensive with lots of options. This is a typical Flaming Pear kind of reflection without much modification. If you use plugins, I think the trick is to do it on a layer and modify on your own so it is not so recognizable as a plugin.  Aug 18 09 06:22 pm Link You could also use a stock image of rippling water, find one that looks exactly as you want (because there are a gazillion images to choose from), darker colors/tone will work best for layering on your image... then duplicate it as a layer into your PS file, set the mode to Lighten or Luminosity, lower the opacity till it reaches the desired effect, and then mask/erase our the water/ripples where you don't want it to be. Will probably need a few more layers and filter/tweaks, maybe some creative distortion, to get the ripples to work best on her face... but that's the general idea. Aug 18 09 07:09 pm Link For those who don't like the perspective like she's touching a vertical water wall, another option to explore might be to rotate the photo so the real finger is pointing downwards in a more natural direction, then add the ripple layer parallel to the ground. Let gravity have it's peace. Aug 18 09 07:21 pm Link Click Hamilton wrote: looking at this image... that's a great idea Aug 18 09 07:22 pm Link That's a great idea, but it would still look strange because of the angle of the reflection. There's not much that can be done unless the perspective of the reflection is altered, which wouldn't be all that hard actually. Part of the problem with the two updated versions is that the reflections are forming perfect circles, when in reality they'd become slightly smaller towards the right of the image, and slightly larger towards the left side, like the perspective grid is angled. Aug 18 09 08:17 pm Link Click you are the MAN!!! Aug 19 09 06:21 am Link better lighting studio wrote: Thank you yes it is and thanks to all. now i need to figure this out. Aug 19 09 07:46 pm Link better lighting studio wrote: NICE!! Aug 20 09 08:01 pm Link One way is to take that layer duplicate it. create several rings with your selection tool. hit the mask button. Go to your fx button on the layer pallete, use bevel and emboss, play with your gloss contour and global lighting to get the desired effects. Use linear burn and linear dodge instead of screen and multiply. change the opacity and color if you want. Once that is done, you can always throw in a slight ripple effect out of your filters, for a bit of distortion. Aug 21 09 02:28 pm Link |
