Flaming
Pear Flood
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But customizing
isn't difficult. The plugin itself matches the water to the
scene, so all you need to worry about is the shape and density
of the waves, the undulations of the ripple (if any) and the
angle and perspective of view. You can also change the wave
color, select random settings or load (and save) presets.
How it
works
Flood operates off a single filter located in the Flaming Pear
directory of the Photoshop Filter menu. Once you're there, you
see a preview of the effect on your image and are given 11 adjustable
parameters, all of which are pretty easy to get the hang of.
The Horizon setting lets you set the position of the horizon,
while the Offset parameter allows you to move the effect down
away from the horizon, while still maintaining the horizon.
Perspective and Altitude settings are also included.
The Flood
interface. Click image for larger view.
For wave
control, you're given options for Waviness, Complexity, Brilliance
(similar to highlight brightness) and Blur. Blur is particularly
useful for "muddying up" the water and just generally
bringing in more of the dominant colors from the original image.
Finally,
you also get to add in a ripple, if you'd like. To do so, you
simply click somewhere below the horizon line in the image preview.
Then you get to set the Size (diameter), Height and Undulation.
(Undulation determines how many ripples will flow off the main
ripple.) You can adjust the overall look of the ripple by adjusting
the altitude and perspective of the view.
You can
save your settings (and load them) from within the Flood interface;
you can apply random settings; and you can choose the "glue"
(apply) mode, including normal, dissolve, screen, overlay, "superlay,"
multiply, add and subtract.
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