Plug-in for rings of 'waves'. 1

[Guest_imported]

Falling stone (or coin,..., etc.) into standing water - creates rings of 'waves', and distort the reflections.
Does someone knows about a plug-in (or another way) for creating such rings, and the distorted reflections?
I will appreciate any help/advice,
Thank you,
Hezy

 

[SPYDERIX]

Hi,

Make a new document size 500*500 pixels and fill in with black. Make sure the foreground is black and the background is white on the tools bar.

Then do the following:
- FILTER|RENDER|DIFFERENCE CLOUDS (ONLY ONCE)
- FILTER|DISTORT|GLASS| (set distortion to 3, smoothness to 3, texture to frosted, scaling to 100%)
- FILTER|DISTORT|ZIG-ZAG (set amonut to 100%, ridges to 10, and style to pond ripples)
- EDIT|FREE TRANSFORM (Ctrl+T)
- hold SHIFT and drag the bottom middle box half way up the page, then press [ENTER]
- Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+W, N, Ctrl+N, Ctrl+V
(that's my way of cropping something - you select all, copy, close the document without saving, and make a new document with default settings, then paste)

Now you will want to make this the color of water.
- Ctrl+U (click Colorize box, then set HUE-234, SATURATION-anywhere between 30 and 60 roughly, and LIGHTNESS-0)
- IMAGE|ADJUSTMENTS|AUTOLEVELS (Shift+Ctrl+L)

And that's it!

Hope this helps! NATE

design@spyderix-designz.com

http://www.spyderix-designz.com

 

[hezy]

Dear NATE,
I am a quite heavy surfer, but this is my first time of using the net for help - and I am moved and excited from your long and detailed answer.
A real sense of community.
Huuuge thank you,
from Hezy.

 

[Pixelchik]

Hey SpiderIX,
Thanks! That was a great little tutorial! How did you figure that out?

 

[mscallisto]

Thanks SPYDERIX

I very new to photoshop (2.5 years and still a Rookie) but smart enough to recognize a very neat tutorial...Great job!

Certainly going into my PS-Notes and worth a star.

 

[mscallisto]

I forgot to add a comment..

I find that when all done, adjusting the curves is a nice way to make final adjustments.

Image
Adjust
Curves

 

[SPYDERIX]

Hi,

I adjusted the curves too to get a nice effect, and I found that the difference clouds gave off too much white, so I went to SELECT|COLOR RANGE highlighted each white part while holding down shift. Then pressed "OK" and I got a marquee (it will look very weird), then I added some more adjustments with the brightness/contrast and the hue/saturation.

Glad it was so helpful to you guys. How did I know how to use that? Well I use this program every day and I'm contstantly learning new things and trying to be more creative with using the different native photoshop techniques without needing 3rd party filters.

Have a nice day (or night whereever you guys are)! NATE

design@spyderix-designz.com

http://www.spyderix-designz.com

 

[SPYDERIX]

Hi again everyone,

I thought I would show you a neat effect that you can add to your ring of waves.

- After you have your picture with the ripples, make a new layer and using the circular marquee make a small circle and fill it with with your blue color but use the paintbrush so that the color isn't perfectly even.

- Then make an identical circle on another new layer but fill it in with black and then duplicate that layer.
- Then load the selection and move the selection over to the left 5 pixels or so and press delete, then move it back to the original spot then move it over the other way the same amount but delete the other black later. You should end up with 2 sepetate black layers that only show little half moon edges that face inwards.
- Merge the black layers together.
- Make another new layer and make a tiny little circular marquee and paint it white (not perfect), and put that layer almost at the bottom of the circle.
- Then merge the circle layer, the black half moon layer, and the white circle layer together and then duplicate it
- Make make the duplicate smaller.
- Then if you paste a whole bunch of circles and use the arrows keys you can position a simple line out of those many different circles.
- Then merge the many circles together and then cut some arcs out of the sides
- Put the other 2 circles above it to simulate the water drop.
- Once you have your water drop, place it in the center of your ripples.

If it looks out of place then:
- take the bottom layer with your ripple and put a guide half way up
- free-transform the image so that the image is half the height.
- Then goto EDIT|TRANSFORM|PERSPECTIVE,
- then hold shift and grab the top right edge inward so as to get the effect that the bottom layer is becoming flat.
- Then the edges will look like angles
- you will want to select a square marquee and delete those so that the picture is square or rectangular
- then merge all layers together.

Here is what I made doing that:

Hope this helps! NATE

design@spyderix-designz.com

http://www.spyderix-designz.com