Photoshop Synthetic techniques-water effects (3)

Technique three, synthesis

Now, our image body and displacement diagrams have been completed, and the work to be done is to put them together without leaving traces.

1, in your replacement map file, select All, copy to the Clipboard, back to the main image, select the mirror layer, load its non-transparent area, the Clipboard image paste the selected area. Photoshop will create a new layer for it. (Figure 13)

Figure 13

2, change this layer of blending mode to "multiply" (Figure 14). Leave a snapshot on the history panel.

Figure 14

3, select the mirror layer, load its constituency, performs a filter > Distort > Permutation within a selection, setting the horizontal ratio to 50% in the Permutation dialog box, the vertical scale to 20%, and the displacement chart stretching to fit, undefined area repeat edge pixels; In the next dialog box, select the save path for the replacement diagram you just made. Click to open, the replacement diagram will be added to the light on the reflection layer. (Figure 15)

Figure 15

4, if some parts of the replacement effect is not satisfied, we can use the snapshot just saved to restore. Here, the part near the water level loses some ripple details due to the permutation relationship, we can restore the details with the history brush, remember to set the source of the history brush on the snapshot just saved. (Figure 16)

Figure 16

5, if the effect is still not obvious enough, you can copy the corrugated layer, with a low transparency of the eraser will be too deep color erase, retain ripple details. (Figure 17)

Figure 17

6, finally, flatten all layers, using fuzzy tools on the horizontal surface smear, eliminate the blunt edge, so that the image more integrated. (Effect Figure 1)

Effect Figure 1