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AUGUST 01, 2002 Photoshop Compositing: Water Effects
Creating the final composite Now, in your displacement map image, select all (Command-A), and copy the image. Then go to the main image and Command-click on the layer in the Layers palette that contains your mirror image. (Do this even if it's already selected because this act will clear out the feathering we applied earlier.) This will select the lower portion of your image. After this, follow these steps. [an error occurred while processing this directive] 1. Select the command Edit > Paste Into. This will place your displacement map over the selected portion of your main image. 
2. Now, in your Layers palette, change the Blend Mode of the displacement layer from "Normal" to "Multiply." 
3. Now click on the layer directly beneath your displacement layer, and then Command-click on it. Choose Select > Feather, and enter a value of 40. 4. Choose Filter > Distort > Displace. Set the horizontal value to 50 and the vertical value to 20. (You'll have to mess with these values a bit to get the image to look right.) Then, after you click "OK," when it asks you to choose a displacement map, select your displacement image, which you should have saved in the previous section. (The two images below show the effect of the displacement without and with the displacement layer showing.) 
Cleaning up The biggest potential problem at this point is the waterline. You might need to lighten up the upper portion of the displacement layer a lot to make it blend properly with the sky or other elements. Use the dodge tool for this. In my case, I was unsatisfied with my waterline because it lacked detail. Do I simply selected a portion of the original image, feathered the selection and pasted it on top of the composite to add some crispness. I also added a little noise (Filter > Noise > Add Noise) to try to match the film grain of the original image. But it's likely you won't have to deal with it. 
Other than the minor cleaning up that needs to take place, we're done. Be sure to visit me in the Photoshop forum here at the WWUG (http://www.wwug.com/forums/adobe_photoshop/index.htm) if you have any further questions. Contact the author: Dave Nagel is the producer of Creative Mac and Digital Media Designer; host of several World Wide User Groups, including Synthetik Studio Artist, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe LiveMotion, Creative Mac and Digital Media Designer; and executive producer of the Digital Media Net family of publications. You can reach him at dnagel@digitalmedianet.com. Prev 1 2 3 4 Related sites: • Animation Artist • AV Video • Creative Mac • Digital Media Designer • Digital Producer • The WWUG Related forums: [an error occurred while processing this directive] 
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