making+a+wate+scene

Making a water scene []


 * Step 1.** Find an image:

**Step 2**. use the Rectangula Marquee Tool to select the are of the picture you want to use. Before selecting the part you want you need to set the Rectangular tool to fixed ration so that you select a perfect square.




 * Step 3 .** push Ctrl J to copy the selected part of the picture into a new layer. Then click the eye next to the first layer so that you can't see it anymore.



Step 5: ** line up the photos. You may need to make your canvas size bigger so that you can see the whole picture. You do this by clicking Image-Canvas size and increaseing the height. **Step 6**. make sure **layer 1 copy** is still selected and click Shift+Ctrl+x......Now Drag the brush back and forth keeping away from the edge of the picture. Try to make the picture look like a reflection in water. This may take some time! You may need to change the brush size to get it just right...after you are done click ok Note: You may need to push ctrl+T to select the rocks and make them smaller or bigger.
 * Step 4. ** Push Alt and drag the photo to make a copy of it. Then While **layer 1 copy** is seletced go to Edit-Transfor-Flip verticaly.
 * Step 7.** you can stop here is you like but to make the picture more realalistic you might want to add in some rocks. For this i used this picture and used the rectagular marquess tool to only select a piece of it. Then you copy the setected area or the rocks (ctrl+c) and past into the water image (ctrl+v).
 * Step 8. ** Now you need click in the rocks then puch Alt and drag over the picture so there will be two. Then you go to Edit-Transform-Flip Verticaly. make sure the images all line up like this:
 * Step 9 .** Depending on the pictures you use you may also have to change the shades of colors to make the pictures match. in this case I clicked on the Creat New Fill or Adjustment Layers button and selected black and white.


 * Step 10 **. To make the picture look more realistic you will need to you the eraser tool and erase some of the harsh lines from the rock photo. sometimes it helps if you change the hardness of the eraser brush [[image:eraser.png]]


 * Step 11. ** Now if you want to get rid of the checkerbored thing just clikc on the crop botton and crop around the picture.