One of the hardest elements to replicate in PhotoShop, particularly when building from scratch, is water. This tutorial will show you how to create realistic-looking water droplets. With some tweaking, they can also be made to look like bubbles.
Click on the Create New Action button. Name it whatever you want, I suggest keeping the similar naming scheme stated before. Click Record. You'll be able to tell that the Action is recording by the little red button on the bottom of the Actions Palette. From now on, everything you do will be recorded by Photoshop. Then secretly emailed to your mom. Remember, Jesus sees what you do at night alone.
With a high quality digital camera, a steady hand, and a keen eye you can capture some truly amazing photographs of nature at its most beautiful. But what happens when you can't find a suitable scene to photograph, or it isn't quite suitable for your exact purpose? Well, this is where Photoshop and the right techniques can help. This tutorial details a simple method for creating realistic water droplets that can be added to any image. All you need is Photoshop, an underlying picture, and a sense of realistic perspective. Interested? Read on...
In this tutorial, you will learn how to add water droplets to your pics by using the Elliptical Marquee Tool and adding layer styles. Learn how to use blending options while working with layers to get a realistic water drop.
TIP/IDEA: You can use this idea very well with Howard's previous �cartoon� tutorial, I bet. I would try it out right now, but I'm at a friend's house who does not have photoshop =/
We're going to create a realistic looking water droplet with a quick and simple technique that can be applied in minutes. To start off with, we'll need a photo to apply our droplet to. I'm using a leaf. Feel free to use mine for the purpose of this tutorial. Go ahead, I just grabbed it off StockXchg anyway.
In this tutorial we'll learn how to make wet looking text along with very realistic looking water drops. This effect is quick and easy to achieve. Here's an example of the finished product:
To start off with, we will open up our image that we want to overlay with bubbles or water droplets in PhotoShop, and we will create a new layer to create the droplets on. We will select a small round brush (color black) and draw onto our layer the droplets we want. We can create round droplets or strokes of running droplets.
2. Now we need to make a few changes to your brush to make it appear like water droplets. In the top right of Adobe Photoshop, their are a few tabs, such as Brushes, Tool Presets, and Layer Comps. Select the brushes tab, and set up your brush as follows:
Batch processing. Doing the same thing repeatedly in the same way. People don't seem to know that Photoshop can do this, and how easy it is. Droplets can solve your batch processing problems easily.
Photoshop?s ?Droplet? functionality, on the other hand, essentially takes an action and wraps it in an external application that can then be used to launch Photoshop and automatically perform certain tasks on the image or images which have been dragged onto the it (hence the term ?droplet? since you literally ?drop? your images onto the droplet?s program icon).
One of the hardest elements to replicate in PhotoShop, particularly when building from scratch, is water. This tutorial will show you how to create realistic-looking water droplets. With some tweaking, they can also be made to look like bubbles.
TIP/IDEA: You can use this idea very well with Howard's previous �cartoon� tutorial, I bet. I would try it out right now, but I'm at a friend's house who does not have photoshop =/
We're going to create a realistic looking water droplet with a quick and simple technique that can be applied in minutes. To start off with, we'll need a photo to apply our droplet to. I'm using a leaf. Feel free to use mine for the purpose of this tutorial. Go ahead, I just grabbed it off StockXchg anyway.
In this tutorial we'll learn how to make wet looking text along with very realistic looking water drops. This effect is quick and easy to achieve. Here's an example of the finished product:
Batch processing. Doing the same thing repeatedly in the same way. People don't seem to know that Photoshop can do this, and how easy it is. Droplets can solve your batch processing problems easily.
First open an image,then bring up the actions window from the Window -> Actions, or with the keyboard shortcut ALT+F9.
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Photoshop?s ?Droplet? functionality, on the other hand, essentially takes an action and wraps it in an external application that can then be used to launch Photoshop and automatically perform certain tasks on the image or images which have been dragged onto the it (hence the term ?droplet? since you literally ?drop? your images onto the droplet?s program icon).
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