creating water droplets

[DebCam]

Hi,
Does anyone know a tutorial for creating water droplets in PSE5? I have found a couple on the web but they seem to be for CS2. I also searched the forums and found a couple of threads on the subject, but they are a couple years old and one also involves creating and saving a layer style in cs2 and then using it in elements. I only have elements so that one won't work for me. I'll be patiently waiting for an answer, I know someone out there has it for me. I just love this forum, it's like an online dictionary for photoshop. And the people are great to boot!

[jo]

Try the "beaded sweat" video in the subscriber section -- December 22, 2006

[GaryK]

Deb

If you are a subscriber Corey did a beaded sweat Dec 22 06..:)

[Tina_B]

I was just going to suggest the Beaded sweat tut .
Give it a try and see if you can addapt it to what you want to do.
Tina B

[GaryK]

Jo

Ya sure... beat me by a minute, why dontcha...:D

[jo]

Gary, maybe 30 seconds. :cool:

[Wendy]

... and I am far too late to suggest that one :)

Wendy

[lindajay]

Here's another tutorial -- actually for Photoshop, but I've adapted it, as I'll describe below, for Elements (I'm using 3.0). http://www.lunacore.com/photoshop/tutorials/tut006.htm

http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1S1UiSPJkLmUERbYT7I7JRa4TaJ4L0_thumb.jpg (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1S1UiSPJkLmUERbYT7I7JRa4TaJ4L0)

My adaptation is as follows:

1. Open your background. For my example I just used a scrapbook paper.
2. Create a new layer.
3. On the new layer use the Eliptical Marquee to draw a circle (doesn't have to be a perfect circle)
4. With the circle selection still active, set foreground color to white, bacground to black, and do a linear gradient from upper left to lower right of the circle.
5. Deselect the circle.
6. Add a low drop shadow.
7. Change this layer's blend mode to Overlay.
8. Create a new layer above the drop layer.
9. On the new layer, using a small, hard, round brush, add a small white highlight in the upper left portion of the droplet.
10. Merge the highlight with the droplet.
11. Do control (command for mac) click on the thumbnail of the droplet to make a selection.
12. With the selection still there, click on the background layer to make it active.
13. Go to Filter>Distort>Liquify. Using the Bloat tool, bloat the background a bit.
14. You're finished! Now you can duplicate the droplet layer as many times as you wish, resize, even go back to Filter>Distort>Liquify and using the warp tool, change the shape of a droplet. You'll need to repeat steps 11-13 to distort the background for each droplet.

[sdewenter]

I just ran across these awesome water droplet photos. I think they are the real thing...but could serve as some inspiration for you.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevewall/


Susan D

[DebCam]

thanks everyone. I tried the video tutorial and it looks ok, but not quite what I'm after. But, Linda's written tut looks like what I want. I haven't tried it yet but am going to after while. The water droplet photos from flickr look awesome!