Tut for Dew Drops

[Lance Warley]

Does anyone know of a tut for creating dew drops glistening with reflected sunlight, where the drops can be "transparant" and show the color of whatever leaf or background where they reside?

Thanks.

[mom to 4]

Someone was looking for something similar last month I think........sweat, I think.......I don't think they found it, but yeast on Panosfx site I see he has a rainy day plug in, but I believe that is for photoshop, not elements.....

Good luck, hope someone can help.....

[Codebreaker]

Does this help...

http://www.photoshopsupport.com/tutorials/cb/water-drops.html

Colin

[Lance Warley]

Wow.

Thanks, Colin.

[Codebreaker]

Lance....

It suddenly occured to me - I use this on CS, I hope it works in Elements.

Colin

[lindajay]

Lance, after you try it, let us know :) I'd love to be able to reproduce that effect, myself.

[Lance Warley]

It didn't work too well. There were two places where I had to diverge from the tut:
1-the Wave filter only let me take amplitude up to 35 & 35. I don't know how significant this is.
2-I couldn't tell from the tut exactly what the styles were. So I used low inner glow, low inner shadow, and simple pillow. I did them all on one layer, because when I used multiple layers, Screen didnt work.

The drops appeared with a black outline that is too dark. Not at all shiny like the ones in the psd.

Bummmer, but thanks for the info anyway.

[Wendy]

Ok then ...

A workaround ... and a quick one :)

download the PSD

Drag the drops layer into your image
erase the drop that are on it
Select a hard brush
and paint in your new ones ...

Wendy
PS if you know someone who has Photoshop then ask then to save the the layer style for you ... you will then be able to add it into your styles palette.

[Codebreaker]

Wendy....

Could you elaborate on how you add layers styles from CS to the Elements Palette, please?

Colin

[Wendy]

Hi Colin ...

Download the PSD
Open it in CS2
double click on the little (f) next to the drops layer
when the box pops up use "new style" to store it as a layer style

Go to presets manager and save the style in its own set (I saved it to the desktop)

Then install the .asl file into Elements (Presets>Styles)
Restart Element ... and there you go :)

Its now just a layers style you can apply in Elements

Wendy

[Lance Warley]

Cha-Ching!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks, Wendy.

[Codebreaker]

Thanks Wendy

[Wendy]

No problems ... :)

I did that tut a while back then added the style into one of my style sets ... it is a good one for water drops.

Wendy

[NMarti]

Wendy
You are brilliant!

[NRiceDesigns]

Hi Lance! I don't know if this is close to what you want to try, but you might want to check out MyJanee.com

http://www.myjanee.com/tuts/rain/rain.htm

The link is a TUT for making raindrops - you could edit it to make dewdrops.

[Wendy]

Only problem is that its a Photoshop tutorial ... and you will neeed to find a couple of workarounds :)

Wendy

[NRiceDesigns]

Only problem is that its a Photoshop tutorial ... and you will neeed to find a couple of workarounds :)

Wendy

OOPS - I was checking MyJanee.com's Elements TUT's & guess I clicked the wrong link.

No problem though - we have Wendy, The Enlightened One when we need workarounds.

THANK GOD FOR WENDY!!! :D

[Wendy]

Hi Nita ...

You can actually do it in Elements just takes a little "adjusting" ... :)

Wendy