Splashing Water Text Effect

a tutorial from: 

http://www.psdvault.com

 

Step 1

• Create a new document .
• fill the background layer with black. 
• Load the Lake stock image into Photoshop.
• use the Lasso Tool , draw a selection of the lake portion

• Copy and paste the selection on to canvas

• Duplicate the water layer twice,.
• move the duplicated layer to the left and right of the original water layer, as shown below: (set the layer opacity to slightly lower than the original water layer to create depth)

• Duplicate the original water layer once more.
• resize it to a smaller piece and position it to the center.
• increase the layer opacity to 100%

• Add the following two adjustment layers on top of all layers created so far:

Curves 




Levels

Step 2

• use any font you like
• type a single letter on the canvas as shown below:

• Apply the following layer blending options to this text layer

Bevel and Emboss



Gradient Overlay




Stroke

• and here is the effect so far:

Step 3

• add some noise to the text .
• Create a new layer on top of the text called “noise”
• load the selection of the text layer and fill the selection with black colour, go to Filter > Noise > Add Noise and apply the following setting:

• The effect after you apply the noise filter:

• Change the blending mode of thie noise layer to “screen”
• drop the layer opacity to around 35%

• Create a new layer on top of the noise layer, name it “light and shadow”
• use a combination of black and white brush
• paint it as shown below

• Change the blending mode of this light and shadow layer to “Overlay” 
• add some lighting contrast to the text:

Step 4

• paint some water splashing effect around text.
• Create a new layer called “water splash” 
• load the water splash brushes into Photoshop (download)
• choose some brushes from the set and paint around the text, as shown below

• Make sure when you paint the water splashing effect, use a combination of big and small sized brush sets
• adjust the flow and opacity of the brush
• DO NOT just use one setting for the whole thing

• Keep adding more water splashing around the text 
• to be more creative, paint some water streams dropping from the edges

• For the water streams, used a 6px, soft white brush to paint in addition to the water splashing brush

• Use the same technique to paint the water stream on the left:

• You can use a small, soft white brush to draw around the edge of the text to create some waterflow/highlight effect

• Highlight effect for the text edges

Step 5

• make the water splash around the text sharpen a bit. 
• duplicate the water splash layer you’re painting on once
• Apply the following Smart Sharpen filter setting to the duplicated layer

• the water splash sharpened and become more visible

• create a new layer called “shadow” under the original text layer
• grab a black soft brush and paint some shadow on the water and under the text

• To make the text effect more dramatic, add some misty effect by create a new layer named “mist” above the background layer 
• use a Lasso Tool ,draw a selection around the text

• Render some cloud inside the selection,
• drop the layer opacity of this mist layer to around 50%,

Step 6

• create a new light on top of all previus layers, use a small white soft brush to paint (single-click) to the points shown below

• use the Distrot option (Ctrl + T, then right-click) to adjust the shape of the light, to fit the angel of the latter

• added one Color Balance image adjustment layer

• Layer Mask on the Color Balance adjustment layer:

final effect

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