bEPIK Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 (edited) This tutorial is available as a PDF. Click here to view or download it This is what you will learn to make: And this is what you can do with it (timber, ???, hair, more timber, sunset): 01. Draw a greyscale linear gradient with the Gradient tool (shortcut: G). Hold Shift whilst drawing to keep the gradient straight. The lower 10% of the image should be completely white. The white will be the dark part of the water, and without enough of it the water looks depthless. The darkest shade the gradient should have has a colour Value of about 25. Colours darker than this produce water which looks over-exposed (light saturated). 02. Make a new layer (shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+N) above the gradient layer and change the Blend Mode to Negation (double click layer > Blending > Negation).03. Reset the primary colour to black and the secondary colour to white.04. On the new layer, render Clouds (Effects > Render > Clouds) with the default values except for the blend mode which should also be set to Negation.05. Type Ctrl+F seven times to repeat the effect.06. On the same layer use Outline (Effects > Stylize > Outline) with a Thickness of 14 and Intensity of 60.07. Flatten the image (shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+F).08. Use Curves (shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+M) to colour the image, set the Transfer Map to RGB and move the colours as illustrated (Blue: (119, 139); Green: (143, 113); Red: (165, 98)).09. Duplicate the layer (shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+D).10. Use Curves (shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+M) to colour the top layer as illustrated (Blue: (119, 143); Green: (119, 143); Red: (144, 119))11. Change the Blend Mode of the top layer to Overlay (double click layer > Blending > Overlay).12. Flatten the image (shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+F).13. Resize the image (shortcut: Ctrl+R), ensure Maintain Aspect Ratio is unchecked and increase the width to 350% of the original. Smaller width increases produce “rougher seas” and larger width increases produce “calmer seas”. 14. Select part of the image that is as tall as the canvas and as wide as your desired final image.14. Select all of the image (you can crop later, and it is easier to find a good combination that looks like water)15. Copy (shortcut: Ctrl+C) and paste onto a new layer (shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+V) and change the Blend Mode of the new layer to Darken (double click layer > Blending > Darken).16. Move (shortcut: M) the copy horizontally (click and hold on the image the use the left and right arrow keys) until you get something that looks watery.17. Select a new part of the bottom layer, copy (shortcut: Ctrl+C) and paste onto a new layer between the current layers (shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+V).17. Select all of the bottom layer, copy (shortcut: Ctrl+C) and paste onto a new layer between the current layers (shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+V).18. Set middle layer’s Blend Mode to Lighten (double click layer > Blending > Lighten) and Move (shortcut: M) it directly behind the other copy.19. Select the part of the image you wish to keep with the rectangle select tool (shortcut: S) and crop (shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+X). Edited June 24, 2019 by bEPIK Added new results 2 Quote Water, Wood and Hair Tutorial Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barbieq25 Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 Very nice outcomes brad.pike Quote Knowledge is no burden to carry. April Jones, 2012 Gallery My DA Gallery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FreakKingX Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 Love it! Thanks! Quote -------------------------------------------------------------\ LOL O_O -------------------------------------------------------------/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FreakKingX Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 Eyo brad.pike, (sorry for double post) I've been trying to get that wood effect you created all day, and I can't find the recipe for it. Can you maybe show us, please? Quote -------------------------------------------------------------\ LOL O_O -------------------------------------------------------------/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bEPIK Posted March 2, 2012 Author Share Posted March 2, 2012 (edited) Eyo brad.pike, (sorry for double post) I've been trying to get that wood effect you created all day, and I can't find the recipe for it. Can you maybe show us, please? If I get around to making it, the wood tutorial will be independent from this one; I wrote "And this is what you can do with it" because several unusual techniques are common to both textures, not because there is an additional step (so now that you've finished making the water, press F13 and it becomes wood). Unfortunately, all I have to recreate the texture from are six incremental PDNs with a big gap between step 3 and 4. The settings need a bit more tweaking, but it does look close. P.S. Post your water results, I'd like to see them P.P.S. Please Edited March 2, 2012 by brad.pike Quote Water, Wood and Hair Tutorial Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FreakKingX Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 If I get around to making it, the wood tutorial will be independent from this one; I wrote "And this is what you can do with it" because several unusual techniques are common to both textures, not because there is an additional step (so now that you've finished making the water, press F13 and it becomes wood). Unfortunately, all I have to recreate the texture from are six incremental PDNs with a big gap between step 3 and 4. The settings need a bit more tweaking, but it does look close. P.S. Post your water results, I'd like to see them P.P.S. Please It might be a selfish request, but I'd REALLY love to see how it was done. I hope you can find the steps again. (^_^) I used the water effect in one of my Deviant artsies. There's a gradient(ed) blur there. Here's the pure water effect. 1 Quote -------------------------------------------------------------\ LOL O_O -------------------------------------------------------------/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barbieq25 Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 I hope you start your own gallery here too. Very nice outcome here. Quote Knowledge is no burden to carry. April Jones, 2012 Gallery My DA Gallery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W@@dy Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Mother of god that's amazing... By step 6 I was thinking "Dude! Spirochetes!" Hidden Content: And by step 10 I was thinking "Microscopic view of Velcro!" Overall very impressive tutorial with many many applications beyond what you listed. The hair you made made my jaw drop and the textured wood dislocated my jaw entirely Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bEPIK Posted April 15, 2018 Author Share Posted April 15, 2018 Step 19. Copy a layer and flip vertically Step 20. Stretch horizontally Step 21. Flatten and Sepia ????? Use stretch repeatedly ????? Do some stuff ????? Flatten, copy layer, emboss, increase contrast of embossed layer, set layer to multiply, flatten, use curves to make image less dark ????? Step 200? Save and wonder what the hell you did. If anyone figures out how to get the timber in the original post, let me know 1 Quote Water, Wood and Hair Tutorial Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bEPIK Posted April 15, 2018 Author Share Posted April 15, 2018 (edited) Here I took that water image in the above reply, duplicated the layer, repeated the outline effect and then multiplied. Then I copied that layer and stretched it. And then like 20 recursive things. Copy layer, stretch, flatten, copy, unflatten, paste onto new layer, copy that layer, emboss, contrast, et cetera. Also, the soft saturation plugin is your friend. The wood part is possibly untutoriable, but maybe not. Yay or nay? Edited April 15, 2018 by bEPIK Quote Water, Wood and Hair Tutorial Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scooter Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 bEPIK The wood effect is impressive. It has a "nearly looks like Walnut" look to it. I realize that this effort is a work in progress, but consider a longer "stroke" for the "wood grain" (as is, the "wood grain" looks too short or "chopped up" for all but some unique wood ). I realize I'm not very clear, but thought I'd give you my thoughts for your continuing efforts. 1 Quote Scooter Age is only a number --in my case a Really BIG number, but there you have it When the prefect paint.net image is created, I will still be wondering "How they Do that?"- sigh☺️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bEPIK Posted June 24, 2019 Author Share Posted June 24, 2019 (edited) On 4/20/2018 at 9:27 AM, Scooter said: I realize that this effort is a work in progress, but consider a longer "stroke" for the "wood grain" (as is, the "wood grain" looks too short or "chopped up" for all but some unique wood ). I realize I'm not very clear, but thought I'd give you my thoughts for your continuing efforts. Like this? I made this from the flat PNG version of the picture from my previous post. Duplicating the layer, sliding the top one right, colour dodge, another layer glow, flatten, copy, undo, paste, difference, copy layer, colour dodge, flatten, copy, undo, paste, emboss, additive, flatten, copy, undo, paste, flatten, duplicate layer, stretch (vertically and horizontally), slide, difference, copy that layer, normal, lower opacity, copy base layer, stretch, additive. (Or something like that for those interested.) Edited June 26, 2019 by bEPIK Better picture 1 Quote Water, Wood and Hair Tutorial Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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