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
NATE