Flaming
Pear Flood
Water
effects for Adobe Photoshop
by
David Nagel
Executive
Producer
dnagel@digitalmedianet.com
Flaming
Pear is a company that you might not be familiar with but that
has put out some pretty serious effects filters for Photoshop.
I've previously reviewed two of their products, BladePro and
Super BladePro, both of which are designed to generate general
material effects like stone and metal. This week we'll look
at a plugin of theirs that has a much more limited scope but
that might prove pretty useful to you compositing folks out
there. It's called Flood, and its sole purpose is to place bodies
of water onto an image.
Not sure
what this means? Well, take a look at the before and after shots
below.
Flood is
a compositing dream, assuming that you have a need to composite
water around a subject. If you do, then this is certainly a
better solution than doing it manually with a piece of stock
photography. It's just as realistic, and it lets you customize
the appearance so that you can build just about any kind of
water body you need, from rice paddies and mud holes to big,
wide seas.
This filter
is incredibly easy to use, and it requires very little tweaking
to get it to look right. The skyscraper image above and the
castle image below used essentially the same settings, but the
filter automatically match the water to the scene.
You simply
set the horizon to match the original image, and all of a sudden
you're done. Unless you want to customize the look of the water,
of course.
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