4 By holding the key ALT, drag your mouse at the bottom left of Photoshop Where you se doc.( document ) it will give you the size of your flag image. Remember that size. Create a new image by going to File/New .Make it the same dimension of your flag image. 5 Select the Marquee tool and, after clicking on the Marquee Options tab, set the Shape to Rectangular and the Style to Normal. 6 Starting in the upper-left corner select about half of the image. Select the Gradient tool and click the Gradient Tool Options then click the Edit button to bring up the Gradient Editor dialog box. 7 Add 3 sliders near the middle by clicking underneath the gradient bar and set them to white by clicking on them one by one and choosing white in the color swatch. Once you've got the gradient set up, click OK. 8 Click-and-drag the mouse from the left side to the right side of the selected area by holding down the Shift key . 9 Choose Select, Inverse. Fill this side with the same gradient. 10 Choose Image, Adjust, Invert to invert the gradient on the right side of the image. 11 Select/ Deselect. Choose Filter, Blur, Gaussian Blur and set a fairly high value. The value you choose will depend on the size of the bump map you've created and its resolution. For this one, set the value to about 10.0 or higher. 12 Save the bump map as a PSD file and note the name and directory you saved it in. The Flag: 1 Make the Flag image current by clicking on its title bar. Change to RGB by clicking Image=> mode=> RGB. 2 Choose Filter, Distort, Displace. Set the Horizontal Scale to 0% Set Vertical Scale to 10%. You can ignore the Displacement Map settings, because the displacement you created is the same size as the image, and set the Undefined Areas to Repeat Edge Pixels. When you click OK you'll be presented with a "Choose a displacement map" dialog box. Choose the bump map file you saved above. The Highlights and Shadows: 1 Make the bump map file current by clicking its title bar. Choose Select, All and Edit, Copy. 2 Make the Flag image current by clicking on its title bar. Select the Channels tab and create a new channel by clicking on the small bent-cornered icon at the bottom of the channels palette. 3 Choose Edit, Paste to paste the bump map into the channel. 4 Go back to the layers view by selecting the Layers tab. Make the flag layer active by selecting it in the Layers palette. Choose Select, deselect. 5 Select the Magic Wand Tool and click anywhere outside of the flag. Choose Select, Inve...
2. Now that the basic flat flag is sorted, its time to make it wave. First, we want to create the shadows that make it appear waving. To do this hold CTRL and click on the flag layer to select it. Press X, then D to reset your colors. Now make sure you are using the reflected gradient as shown in the picture. Create a new layer. Now, drag the gradient horizontally a few times to get a pattern like mine. Try to match mine as close you can to get a realistic outcome. It may take a few tries.
There is always a way to make things in Photoshop, this tutorial will teach you how to make a smooth wavy selection, also it will teach you how to make any selection with rough corners smoother. Normally if you want to make a wave and if you don't know how best to do it, you would try to do it with Elliptical Marquee Tool, which would not bring a desired result.
Step 10: You should have a pretty good heat wave going now, but to make it a little hotter looking, open your "Heat wave.psd" file and drag or copy the white, wavy layer to a new layer on your train tracks (or whatever) image. Give it a blend mode of "Overlay", set it at 30% opacity, and in layer styles, give it the default gradient (black on bottom fading to white on top) with a blend mode of "Soft Light". You should have something like this:
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6. Now for the second layer, the layer you just duplicated do the same thing but with -50 (Twirl effect) and change the blending mode to Lighten, it should look something like this
Title: Create cool wavy text effect In this computer cs2 dummy photo shop tech tutorial learn how to make text made of waves or zigzag linesUse photoshop techniques - photo shop wavy or zigzag lines text effects
1. Create a new image, using any settings you want. This time I won't use a square document, because this technique produces best results for wide images, and you can create excellent banners or forum signatures with it, for example.