Feather under the water, a beautiful effect
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(17 votes, average: 4.41 out of 5)Yesterday, I watched my favorite movie “Final Fanatasy: Advent Children” again, and one of its scenes is the main character’s mobile fall into the water slowly, and the scene continued with the animation of the phone under the water. And, bum, a new photoshop tutorial has come, but this time will be a feather instead.
Step 1 : Prepare a white background (size of the canvas is 800×900)
Step 2: Use gradient,yes,gradient :).First select the foreground color as #3567a6 and then the background color as #0a1b30.Then fill gradient on the new layer so that you have the result like below :
Notice: This is an additional step in case you later see that your water is too dark at the bottom,not a must.But i recommend this although it may be kind of a hassle to do and nothing much will change for you to notice until later.
Duplicate the Gradient layer and add a quick mask to the duplicated layer (and this layer will be on top of the original one of course).Adjust the Opacity of this duplicated layer to 65%,then use a soft round brush (the size of the brush is depend on you,doesn’t matter much) and the its opacity will be around 10-25% only,use it to brush around in the Mask with Black Color (in Quick Mask,black means erase),brush it until you have something like below.
Quick Help : in case you don’t know where is the quick mask button,it is in the same line with the “Create new layers” button,and it looks like this 
Step 3:Now,next we are going to use cloud filters.Use selection tools (rectangle one) to draw a selection that have a shape similar to the canvas but smaller,and then Filters>Renders>Cloud (on a new layer of course and named it “Water”,i actually don’t name it but i say it here so that it will be easy to follow since i will mention about it again in step 4)
After that,enlarge/resize the new layer all the way like the below
Then,use Filters>Artistic>Plastic Wrap (value like this from up to bottom : 14,3,11)
Free Transform>Distort,make it become something like below:
Draw a selection like the pic below:
Then go to Filters>Render>Lighting Effect
Lightype will go to : Omni
The value of intensity should be around 30+ only,too much will be bad,and keep the circle in the middle.
After you have added Lighting Effect,use soft round brush,opacity 100% to erase around,follow the perspective,make the bottom looks like it is gradually disappearing
Note: You will probably notice that the cloud filters below is different.I will explain : the steps above is just a guide for you to know how to come to this step,plus as you know Cloud Filter is very random,so you will have to Ctrl+ F a lot before you can get what you want.The Cloud Filters i use below and till the end of the tutorial is what i have tried a lot before come across it.
And,so,you change the Blending of the layer to Linear Dodge and adjust the “Fill”(under opactiy) to 60%,you will have this :
Step 4 :Additional Details
Duplicate the “Water” layer to increase the brightness (change the duplicated layer Blending to Color Dodge)
Duplicate the “Water” layer again,but this time you move the new duplicated one down to bottom of the canvas and “Flip Vertically”,and put it so that you will have something similar to the pic below(ah,don’t forgot to also change the blending to “Color Dodge”and adjust the fill to 74%) :
Create a new layer on top of all the layers.Then use a soft round brush with size around 900px,opacity should be kept low like around 10-25%,and then brush from the top to bottom in the middle.
And then add something to the picture in some new layers,there you have it,a nice picture :3 (don’t mind what i add,i only use those as example)
If you all still see that there is something is missing,well,then what are you waiting for,feel free to add more into it.
Anyways,the tutorial ends here,thx for anyone that has been very patient to follow till the end.
Cilck here to see te final Result
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