Creating Water From a Tap |
| Start by opening an image of a tap. We’ll create water flowing from the tap. |
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| Using pen tool create path of a water. |
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| Create a new layer and Ctrl+click the path layer to get the path selection. |
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| Fill the selection with white color. |
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| From select menu apply modify>>contract. |
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| Contract the selection by 2 pixels. |
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| Fill the selection with black color. |
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| Similarly contract again and fill it with white and then with black color. |
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| From filter menu select distort>>glass. |
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| Apply settings as shown. |
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| Dupliacte the layer and change the color mode to color burn. |
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| Select blur tool from the main tool bar. |
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| Select both the water layer and press Ctrl+E to merge. Blur the merged water layer. |
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| Press Ctrl+U to open hue/saturation window. Apply settings as shown. |
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Creating Water From a Tap
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This is a grest tutorial - a very realistic looking result. Thanks guys! Keep ‘em coming!
Comment by Jack — February 16, 2006 @ 11:41 am
great very clear and realistic effect
Comment by cliff — February 18, 2006 @ 1:12 pm
Very nice tutorial there.
Simple, yet impressively effective.
Definitely one of the better PS tutorials I’ve seen in a long time.
Comment by KJah — February 19, 2006 @ 9:06 pm
Me impressed, ya?
anyway when i was scrolling down this page, i thought; Another crappy tut with bad result..
but when i was on the last step i said WOW
great tut man:)
(Dont care if anybody says that it doesent look real, theyre just a pack of wannabe’s)
Comment by Jack-Jack — February 20, 2006 @ 8:01 am
Yeah me too Jack. Not sure when I’d use this but the result is awesome and very realistic. Great job.
Comment by Alex Is Legend — February 20, 2006 @ 9:54 am
Very nice tutorial. As I scrolled down the page I got more impressed. Learned a purpose to some effects that I have never imagined how to use. Thanks.
Comment by Luis — February 20, 2006 @ 12:24 pm
An orininal idea, well executed and nice writing: top!
Comment by Paul-Serge — February 20, 2006 @ 2:08 pm
A surprisingly realistic effect. Well done!
Comment by zenscope — February 20, 2006 @ 4:22 pm
wow! that looks stunning!
Comment by The Information Bank — February 20, 2006 @ 6:32 pm
it’s an excellent effect. the only problem that i can see is that after trying it out, i can assure you that this only works on black/dark backgrounds
Comment by Chris — February 20, 2006 @ 6:34 pm
Nice job, but it seems like a lot of work. Wouldnät it have been simpler just to turn the water on then take the picture_
Comment by Mike — February 20, 2006 @ 6:51 pm
Nice, very cool tutorial.
Comment by Couchart — February 20, 2006 @ 8:32 pm
Do you have any good tricks for fire? I use the masks for fire but would like somthing that looks a little better.
Comment by roomba — February 20, 2006 @ 8:37 pm
Great job mate
Comment by Ivan Minic — February 20, 2006 @ 10:05 pm
Hi it is a great tut, but i am having trouble filling the water in with white section 4 i get a circle with a line going through it as if saying no go can you help in anyway
thank you
Comment by Nicole — February 20, 2006 @ 11:46 pm
Nice tut. I think it looks even better if you apply a layer filled with the same color set to color burn on top of the finished product.
Comment by Samu — February 21, 2006 @ 10:46 am
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Pingback by SIXFACE » Blog Archive » links for 2006-02-21 — February 21, 2006 @ 1:23 pm
It didn’t work for me at all. I wound up with a bunch of blurry black-and-white blobs inside blocky white pen-lines.
Comment by LB — February 21, 2006 @ 5:27 pm
wow that looks cool, keep adding new tutorials
(Y)
Comment by lbc — February 21, 2006 @ 8:12 pm
after doing the contract process, I can’t do the filter->glass process, glass is disabled, any ideas?
Comment by Josep — February 21, 2006 @ 11:18 pm
Great Tutorial, although it has some minor flaws- take the glass filter for example where you specify the user to use a specific value, how ever the same setting there will be drastic differences between the original in the tut and the user generated.
9/10 ^_^
Comment by Graham — February 22, 2006 @ 3:22 pm
that’s good idea, i like it
Comment by anaz — February 22, 2006 @ 8:23 pm
Best tutorial i’ve ever gone through..Effect is so realistic,,its juz great..Thanks alot
Comment by Moti — February 28, 2006 @ 10:56 pm
The bad thing is that it only works with that one tap and black background.
Comment by Mohsin — March 2, 2006 @ 4:09 am
Wow that was amazing!!! And I just got PS today and it made me learn a lot about layers etc. I did not do this sucessfully as i am only 11 years old lol but looks great when done right!
Comment by WOw — March 3, 2006 @ 12:29 am
Not bad
. Not bad at all 
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Comment by MrNewt — March 3, 2006 @ 12:33 pm
Create a new layer and Ctrl+click the path layer to get the path selection.
Fill the selection with white color.
I have no clue what I’m doing wrong, but it’s just not working.
Comment by Dgn — March 7, 2006 @ 10:48 pm
i like it.
well done.
Comment by Paul Caine — March 8, 2006 @ 6:55 am
great yar!
but i could not do it in photoshop, mybe i has less knowledge. I will try again n again
Comment by shahid — March 10, 2006 @ 4:10 am
this is for Dgn
just ctrl+click on thumbnail of the layer in layer window.
u’ll see a moving ants selection.
Comment by kory — March 12, 2006 @ 3:44 pm
what a beautiful photo making very nice it will helps to phptoshop creators
Comment by ramakrishna — March 19, 2006 @ 11:39 am
Nice one. Trokara
Comment by Trokara — March 21, 2006 @ 1:07 pm
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Pingback by Santhosh Dot Net » Blog Archive » links for 2006-02-21 — March 26, 2006 @ 10:02 pm
this is great.
Comment by saurabh — June 15, 2006 @ 7:02 am
not lookig like water
Comment by arpit — November 16, 2006 @ 4:30 am