![]() Then, use the Erase tool to remove any part of your photo, using both the Magic Wand and precision Erase tools. In the Studio, click the Transparent option under Background Color to make your canvas transparent. Start by uploading any image to the Kapwing Studio from your device, or paste a link from anywhere on the web. Kapwing supports a background removal process that allows creators to create a transparent PNG from a JPG. Apply a colored gradient and tune the colors.While any JPG can be saved as a PNG image, one main advantage of the PNG file format is that it supports an opacity channel, which will allow PNG images to be transparent while JPGs are not. Press Cmd/Ctrl+G tp put them in a group, or Layer>merge layers (Ctrl/cmd+E) to make a single layer out of all the splashes.Ĥ. Select all the water layers in the layers panelĢ. (to do this, I just selected the water layers into group and applied a colored gradient over the topġ. This is the same process used to make the funky colored splashes like you see here. Here is the final result where I have pushed the colors a little bit using Camera Raw. This is what the layers panel looks like. (Feel free to use liquify too).Īnd this is what it looks like when I show the original background (watch the video at the top to see all the painting in real time).Įach splash is on its own layer. ![]() Keep adding more splashes, all of these are behind our dancer.Īlso, add some splashes in front of our dancer and manipulate the water to do what you want it to do. Drag around the bounding box to scale, rotate and stretch the water into the position you like. To manipulate splashes, choose a new layer and tap with another brush. This time I chose another brush and added more splashes on a new layer. Here I have made the background black, just so you can see the water better. Feel free to reposition, rotate, and scale the water. With Opacity turned up to 100, I tapped once with the brush to create the water.ĭ. In this case I made the layer behind the dancer image.Ĭ. Choose white as your foreground color, so we will make white water.Ĭ. Continue these steps with different splashes to make a series of brushes.ī. Here are some painting tests to see it works. Pressing the keys will change the brush size. Tap on your page to paint with the brush. Move the Black triangle to the rightĬhoose the bush tool from the toolbar and select your new brush. (I’ll be doing a second tutorial next week that shows another method that preserves the colors).Ī: Open your image that contains your splashes, here is the stock photo, linked above.ī: Make a selection around it with the rectangular marquee tool.Ĭ: (Optional) If the image lacks contrast, then press Cmd/Ctrl+L for levels. The disadvantage is that you don’t get to keep all the original colors. The advantage to this method is that its really easy to reuse the splashes for other things and it’s really fast to work. In this case, we are going to make brushes out of the splashes. Then we really make it pop with the water splashes (watch the video tutorial at the top of the page) Step 2: Create the splashes I combined the dancer with the background, (How to combine a person with a background tutorial) Check out the video above and read the text below to see all the steps.įor this tutorial, rather than use my own photos, I decided to grab a couple of images from Adobe stock: This way you can grab them yourself and follow along.īecome an Adobe Stock Contributor: 10 free images from Adobe Stock Step 1: prepare the image This tutorial gets directly to the point and I show you exactly how I make my water splash effects. I then Added the water splash and 3D effect for a tutorial that I wrote in the magazine.īecause this effect was so well received, I decided to make a quick Photoshop tutorial here at PhotoshopCAFE. This was a photo of model Llana that I captured in my studio. Its free to enter and you could win a free premium PhotoshopCAFE tutorial.Ī while back, I was fortunate to have one of my photographs featured on the cover of Photoshop User Magazine. We are having a contest for the best water Splashes images over in our CAFE Facebook page (join here – it’s safe and free). This Photoshop tutorial shows you how to make those exciting water splashes and add them to photos to really make them pop! Spoiler alert, these are much easier to do that you think, check out the video and see for yourself and then share your water splash effects with the rest of us over at the CAFE Facebook page (join here – it’s safe and free).
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