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Subject: ripple effect

shante opened this issue on Jun 12, 2008 · 9 posts
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shante ( ) posted Thu, 12 June 2008 at 3:09 PM · edited Sat, 28 December 2024 at 5:02 PM

Hi!
First time in this forum and need help.
Been using PhotoShop since version 3 and despite thinking i have been pretty proficient in it, I feel real stupid asking this but I don't remember how I did it and desperation drove me here.
I am now using version 7.
I need to create a figure in a pool and need to create receding ring ripples in the water around the figure in the pool . I have looked through all the darn filters and all the tools i could think of and even tried looking through the various "PhoroShop WOW!" books I have collected through the years for some hint how this done and have pulled a bigger blank from those resources that I have from my aging brain!

Can someone...ANYONE...PLEASE....direct me to the correct filter or procedure or plug-in if there is one, that will allow me to do this?
As I said I did do it once years ago with an earlier version of the app but for the life of me do not remember how the frell it was done!  :( 
Thanks in advance for any help!

dreamer101 ( ) posted Thu, 12 June 2008 at 3:31 PM

Attached Link: Redfield

Redfield has a pretty good freeware water ripples plug-in. There is also a ripples magic plug-in.

shante ( ) posted Thu, 12 June 2008 at 3:47 PM

Yeah I read about the Redfield stuff but unfortunately I am on a mac and all the interesting plugins are .exe files. I guess many Windows plug-ins, FX and utility creators think Windows is the only way to do things!  :(

If they were in .zip format or more universal I would have gotten ALL the stuff there especially that hand drawn look like filter.  >sigh<

dreamer101 ( ) posted Thu, 12 June 2008 at 4:27 PM

Ohhhh a mac person. Then there is always the more expensive DreamSuite AutoFX software that supports both PC and Macs. Or Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Nature has a ripple plug-in.

www.autofx.com/products/Dreamsuite1/effects/ripple.html

www.alienskin.com/ec5n/

shante ( ) posted Thu, 12 June 2008 at 4:33 PM

OK!/
But when I created the ripple effect some years ago...still have the image in my face printed on my mousepad, I had no Alien Skin filters...in fact I still have no Alien Skin filters..or any other filters for that matter.  :(
So I guess there is no way to do that right in PhotoShop?  :(

dreamer101 ( ) posted Thu, 12 June 2008 at 5:16 PM

There are always ways to create the effect with some playing around. Using the Blur > Radical Blur (sliding the spin up quite high) then Artistic > Plastic Wrap and tweaking it with a bit of Liquify would do the trick.

Ravyns ( ) posted Thu, 12 June 2008 at 5:37 PM

Attached Link: Good Tutorials for Photoshop

Lots of Photoshop tuts here.. You might find one for ripples..

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bobbystahr ( ) posted Thu, 12 June 2008 at 8:03 PM

Quote - Hi!
but I don't remember how I did it and desperation drove me here.
I am now using version 7.
I need to create a figure in a pool and need to create receding ring ripples in the water around the figure in the pool . I have looked through all the darn filters and all the tools i could think of and even tried looking through the various "
Can someone...ANYONE...PLEASE....direct me to the correct filter or procedure or plug-in if

I think you are looking for ZigZag...go Filters>Distort?ZigZag and in the dialogue you have 3 choices. I suspect this is what you used in times past. It's been there for a while, at least 4.0.. ...

 

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shante ( ) posted Thu, 12 June 2008 at 8:21 PM

Yep. Dats da Ting!
Thanks so much my head feels better!
It took me a while to frell with it but I did finally gots it!  :)

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