Abstract Water Tutorial

Although this doesn't look much like water, its still a pretty cool abstract effect!

Step 1
http://www.gfxvoid.com/tutorials/water/1.gif
Create a new image, I filled the background with a blue/dark blue gradient - do as you wish.

Step 2
http://www.gfxvoid.com/tutorials/water/2.gif
Create a new layer, and with the paintbrush tool create white lines similar to the above picture.

Step 3
http://www.gfxvoid.com/tutorials/water/3.gif
Go into the liquify menu, shown above.

Step 4
http://www.gfxvoid.com/tutorials/water/4.gif
On your white-line layer, liquify it to look something like this.

Step 5
http://www.gfxvoid.com/tutorials/water/5.gif
Double click your liquified, white-line layer and adjust the blending settings to the above (Just change to overlay)

Step 6
http://www.gfxvoid.com/tutorials/water/6.gif
On the current layer, go to the wave distortion filter shown above

Step 7
http://www.gfxvoid.com/tutorials/water/7.gif
Inside the wave filter, use the above effects.

Step 8
http://www.gfxvoid.com/tutorials/water/8.gif
Copy your current layer.

Step 9
http://www.gfxvoid.com/tutorials/water/9.gif
Apply the above wave-distortion filter settings to the new layer

Step 10/Final Product
http://www.gfxvoid.com/tutorials/water/10.gif
Copy your new layer multiple times and move around the image to create the above image (or something similar). Try experimenting!

If you have any questions or comments, please post below so we can help!

simple but nice result.

i agree, simple, but it comes out pretty awesome! im gonna try that sometime