Streaming water effect

Charles wrote:

How can I create a special effect of streaming water like this: http://www.auriance.com/FOTOHYDRIA.jpg ? Do I have to use something else than photoshop, or maybe use a special plugin? How can I do it?

Oh – try this:

A white wall
A bucket
a glass of WATER
A camera

Take pictures as you pour the water into the bucket, with the wall as a backdrop. Now you have a "streaming water effect’ that you can use again and again.

Or, you can do what they did and just take the lid off and pour it out …

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Charles wrote:

How can I create a special effect of streaming water like this: http://www.auriance.com/FOTOHYDRIA.jpg ? Do I have to use something else than photoshop, or maybe use a special plugin? How can I do it?

Oh – try this:

A white wall
A bucket
a glass of WATER
A camera

Take pictures as you pour the water into the bucket, with the wall as a backdrop. Now you have a "streaming water effect’ that you can use again and again.

Or, you can do what they did and just take the lid off and pour it out … Actually, I would say that they created or enhanced the water in PS or

somewhere. And, I’ll say, it looks like crap. It might be some watered down karo syrup or something.

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Charles wrote:

How can I create a special effect of streaming water like this: http://www.auriance.com/FOTOHYDRIA.jpg ? Do I have to use something else than photoshop, or maybe use a special plugin? How can I do it?

Oh – try this:

A white wall
A bucket
a glass of WATER
A camera

Take pictures as you pour the water into the bucket, with the wall as a backdrop. Now you have a "streaming water effect’ that you can use again and again.

Or, you can do what they did and just take the lid off and pour it out … Actually, I would say that they created or enhanced the water in PS or

somewhere. And, I’ll say, it looks like crap. It might be some watered down karo syrup or something.

Chances are that the photographer, or stylist, either added, or substituted glycerine, or a similar product to/for the liquid, and then did some Blur on the pour.

Hunt

Charles …

How can I create a special effect of streaming water like this: http://www.auriance.com/FOTOHYDRIA.jpg ? Do I have to use something else than photoshop, or maybe use a special plugin? How can I do it? Thanks,

If you experiment a little with making the "water" in gray on a transparent layer, then run "plastic wrap" on it and set the layer’s blend mode to "Hard Light", you may get something like you want. You’ll have to distort he background with the Smudge tool or the Liquify filter. There is a way to use a copy of the "gray" water as information to distort an image, but the exact sequence escapes me.

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Charles wrote:

How can I create a special effect of streaming water like this: http://www.auriance.com/FOTOHYDRIA.jpg ? Do I have to use something else than photoshop, or maybe use a special plugin? How can I do it?

Oh – try this:

A white wall
A bucket
a glass of WATER
A camera

Take pictures as you pour the water into the bucket, with the wall as a backdrop. Now you have a "streaming water effect’ that you can use

again

and again.

Or, you can do what they did and just take the lid off and pour it out

….

Actually, I would say that they created or enhanced the water in PS or

somewhere. And, I’ll say, it looks like crap. It might be some watered

down

karo syrup or something.

Chances are that the photographer, or stylist, either added, or

substituted

glycerine, or a similar product to/for the liquid, and then did some Blur

on

the pour.

Hunt

hmm, didn’t I just say that?

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Charles wrote:

How can I create a special effect of streaming water like this: http://www.auriance.com/FOTOHYDRIA.jpg ? Do I have to use something else than photoshop, or maybe use a special plugin? How can I do it?

Oh – try this:

A white wall
A bucket
a glass of WATER
A camera

Take pictures as you pour the water into the bucket, with the wall as a backdrop. Now you have a "streaming water effect’ that you can use

again

and again.

Or, you can do what they did and just take the lid off and pour it out

…

Actually, I would say that they created or enhanced the water in PS or

somewhere. And, I’ll say, it looks like crap. It might be some watered

down

karo syrup or something.

Chances are that the photographer, or stylist, either added, or

substituted

glycerine, or a similar product to/for the liquid, and then did some Blur

on

the pour.

Hunt

hmm, didn’t I just say that?

If I read correctly, the statement was "karo syrup or something," and I’m filling in the "something." While it could have been simple syrup (boiled distilled water and Light Karo," if you had to do more than one shot, you would have some of the crystalized sugar. Had you said, "Karo syrup, or glycerine," I would not have added to the comments. Having done hundreds of liquid pour shots, I thought it might benefit anybody who wanted to know how it was done, with the probable ingredients. I did not mean to step on your toes.

Hunt

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Charles wrote:

How can I create a special effect of streaming water like this: http://www.auriance.com/FOTOHYDRIA.jpg ? Do I have to use

something

else than photoshop, or maybe use a special plugin? How can I do

it?

Oh – try this:

A white wall
A bucket
a glass of WATER
A camera

Take pictures as you pour the water into the bucket, with the wall

as a

backdrop. Now you have a "streaming water effect’ that you can use

again

and again.

Or, you can do what they did and just take the lid off and pour it

out

…

Actually, I would say that they created or enhanced the water in PS

or

somewhere. And, I’ll say, it looks like crap. It might be some watered

down

karo syrup or something.

Chances are that the photographer, or stylist, either added, or

substituted

glycerine, or a similar product to/for the liquid, and then did some

Blur

on

the pour.

Hunt

hmm, didn’t I just say that?

If I read correctly, the statement was "karo syrup or something," and I’m filling in the "something." While it could have been simple syrup (boiled distilled water and Light Karo," if you had to do more than one shot, you would have some of the crystalized sugar. Had you said, "Karo syrup, or glycerine," I would not have added to the comments. Having done hundreds

of

liquid pour shots, I thought it might benefit anybody who wanted to know

how

it was done, with the probable ingredients. I did not mean to step on your toes.

Hunt

Not a prob. Personally, I would not have done it that way. I would have set the objects in place, run a hose through the jar from a pump so that the liquid ran continuously, and fired away with the camera. The you could mess with the lighting, apertures and all else, to get the pic. The real deal, not a poorly created PS item.
Like I said, I don’t think that pic is very good at all, from a professional standpoint.

My money says the flowing liquid is a rendered or drawn effect, using a displacement map or liquefy to create the refracted background. —

Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
www.geigy.2y.net

I think you’re right.
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My money says the flowing liquid is a rendered or drawn effect, using a displacement map or liquefy to create the refracted background. —

Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
www.geigy.2y.net

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I think you’re right.
"Mike Russell" wrote in message

My money says the flowing liquid is a rendered or drawn effect, using a displacement map or liquefy to create the refracted background. —

Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
www.geigy.2y.net

THAT’S IT! You use the grayscale image as a displacement map. Now, where’s that tutorial…

Bill Jackson wrote:

"Watashee" <watashee@{delete}one.net> wrote in message news:…

I think you’re right.
"Mike Russell" wrote in message

My money says the flowing liquid is a rendered or drawn effect, using a displacement map or liquefy to create the refracted background. —

Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
www.geigy.2y.net

THAT’S IT! You use the grayscale image as a displacement map. Now, where’s that tutorial…

Looks like KPT 6 gel filter was used.

I can’t get to the image, but there’s some tuts for water drops here: http://www.extremephotoshop.com/index.aspx

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