Trippy Water Background

[gillpill]

create a new document about 500 px by 500 px and fill the background with black. (fill tool, set the foreground colour to black). go filter, render, lens flare and use the 50-300mm zoom flare. use this a few times scattered over the background.



next is easy. go filter, sketch, chrome. use the default settings detail 4 and smoothness 7.



next hold ctrl and u to access the hue/saturation levels. click the colorize button and with a saturation level of 70, choose whatever colour u like. ive chosen a blue (250). next go filter and liquify. make sure the warp tool is selected (press w). then warp the lightest areas and move them around to customize your background. dont go overboard ... your image should look slightly like mine:



ur done ... very simple.

[Jelan]

simple,but nice to know

[Atolar]

thats really sweet. i'm definitly gonna try this one out.

[zade one]

not a bad outcome looks kinda good

[sceptileex]

if you read a few of tacoX or dunno who's tuts b4 he dis sth on this, but it is aquite nice and easy tut, good job. Juz browse thru the history next time to avoid doubles

[Xtremerunnerars]

Well..it's not the best but i guess if you're starting out and need some experimenting techniques to show you around photoshop it's good.

[RoughDraft]

sweet! i like the effect simple but clean nj B)

[AgainstAllOdds]

Its ok but I dont see a purpose for this background.

[Ginger]

Originally posted by AgainstAllOdds@Jun 7 2005, 09:54 PM
Its ok but I dont see a purpose for this background.

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I think its a really good effect but i have to agree not much purpose for the background

[the_dude_of_darkness]

Its pretty cool, but it doesnt look like water at all...