How to edit water in photoshop

Download PDF: Water Reflections Effect

Written by Steve Patterson.

As we'll see, there's three main parts to creating the water reflection effect.

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We'll start by creating the basic reflection itself by making a copy of our image, dragging it below the original, and then flipping it so that the image on the bottom mirrors the image above. We'll add motion blur and even a bluish tint to help the reflection look more like water.

From there, we'll create a displacement map, a special type of document in Photoshop that we can use to bend, warp and reshape our image. And finally, we'll take our displacement map and apply it to the water reflection to create realistic looking waves and ripples!

We'll even add a shadow along the shoreline to make it look like it slopes into the water. There's lots of steps, but as always, I'll walk you through each one so you can easily follow along

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