This is my first tutorial!
The tutorial shows you how to make a fairly simple yet effective water drop effect on a leaf texture! The tutorial teaches you advanced techniques as well as beginner-level tips. The tutorial is pretty easy to follow even though you are a beginner at photoshop.
Leaf Drop
Get yourself a close up pic of a leaf or something like that..
I chose this one, I found it on google images.
Create a new document at 800×800 px.
Create a new layer and paste the leaf picture into it.
Now get your Elliptical Marque Tool hold shift and drag so that you get a circle like this.
Now go to Filter -> Distort -> Spherize.
You’ll get a popup window and the settings should be:
Amount: 100%
Mode:Normal
Get your marque tool and rightclick on the “marking” and press “select inverse”.
This will mark everything else but your current “circle” or “sphere”, now press delete.
Now you should have something like this.
Lets set some blending options to the layer.
Rightclick the layer you’ve got the sphere in and press “Blending Options” or just double click the layer and set the following settings.
Now duplicate the layer so that you have 2 sphere layers. Create yet another layer between the two, now press the newest sphere layer and merge it down to the empty layer by pressing ctrl+E
Then get your Elliptical Marque Tool once more, but this time just make a marque that covers about 40 percent of the sphere like this. Use the gradiant tool to create a nice gradiant that goes from white to transparent.
Go to Filter->Blur->Gaussian Blur and set the Radius to 3,9 pixels.
Now your sphere should look something like this.
Now use the Dodge tool to lighten up some parts of the original “Sphere-layer”.
When you’ve done this you’ll have to create a new layer that will be beneath all the other layers except the background layer. Here you will paste your “original leaf pic” Then go to your original “sphere-layer” ctrl+left-click the layer that we used the dodge tool in and press ctrl+T. right click and press warp, or go to Edit in the menu then -> Transform ->Warp. Press+hold and drag your mouse down to the right and you’ll get a similar effect as this one.
The only thing you need to do now is to go to the “white->transparent sphere-layer” and lower the layer opacity a bit (you can find top left of the layer box) .
This was my final result:
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Your blog is interesting!
Keep up the good work!
Thank you for your website
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take care and thank you again!
Hello! Your Post “Drop Tutorial” is very interesting for me. Unfortunately my written English is not so good so I write in German: Dir, meinem liebsten, geh
Nice post u have here
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hey nice work dude.this tutorial very usefull me. thanks a lot.
Thanks for the Nice comments. I haven’t had much time for my site for a long time since I’m a student. I hope I’ll have some more time for it in the future!
Glad you liked it all
I want u to show about the full lesson about this work. A the way how to create the water blow.
@thearith: I’m sorry I dont understand exactly what it is you want? A more detailed tutorial?
Great tut. used to effect in a logo i am making and was great help
i want to say something about you
you are as good as your work
your water effect so good yaar
thanks
@cepsi:
Glad I could help
@ravi
Thanks alot! Glad you liked it
To create a leaf drop is soo good post. Thanks for this nice post it. The steps to do the process which is given here is easy to understand.
Dude,
At the step with the little gradient, after you grapped your marque selection for the second time, on wich layer are you then, it doenst work at my drop :/. i cant get a gradient to transparant. i only get that when i make a mask
halp me out
reply here, i dont have an email
Can’t seem to get this to work with CS5. What am I doing wrong.
Also not sure what you mean by “marking”. Is this the “selected” area
Hello Poggs, I used CS3 in the tutorial so there may be some differences in CS5. And you’ll have to excuse my english.. the “marking” is the “selected” area as you said. Could you explain more about what you are experiencing as difficult and what isin’t working for you?
Thanks
Cizal
In the tutorial I actually try to be clear in what layer I am in but I also understand it can be hard to follow my thoughts in writing.. Here is what I wrote in the tutorial: “Now duplicate the layer so that you have 2 sphere layers. Create yet another layer between the two, now press the newest sphere layer and merge it down to the empty layer by pressing ctrl+E”.
What I mean is that I duplicated the layer which contains the cutout of the leaf image (the sphere). And because I wanted this duplicated layer to be a “flat layer” with the blending options no longer editable, I created another layer above this one and pressed CTRL+E to merge the duplicated layer of the leaf image and an empty layer in order to do just that. A further explanation to what I mean by a “flat layer” is that if I’d just duplicated the layer and tried to create a gradient, then the gradient would have been affected by the blending options and the result I was trying to achieve would not have been possible.
I hope I clarified this for you! And I am really sorry that you did not get an answer to your question until now! I have been really busy lately and have not really had time to maintain this blog. Although I promise to keep answering all your questions from now on!
Thanks
Cizal
can you do this on a video???
if you can please send me the video.
i’m from spain and i don’t understand very good english.
pls send me the link
10q
Hello PRUNEX!
Well my short answer is no.
I hope you understand!
I just dont have the time to do that even if I wanted to
Thanks
PSD File download location?
As a beginner all the tutorials I found so far are just a crap the publishers don’t give everything it’s like they’re keeping themselves secrets and throw you to a labyrinth besides you’ll never get what it’s shown to you, so please cut the crap!
Hi Vassily!
I understand your frustration, I’ve felt the same way about some tutorials I’ve visited in the past. The leaf tutorial was the first tutorial I ever made, and I didin’t try to hide anything. I just simply wasn’t thourogh enough when I created it. I’m sorry you didin’t like the tutorial. But please do try another tutorial on the blog, or try out psdtuts.com (this is where I learned as a beginner). Just dont give up hope :-p you’ll find a site which has what your looking for!
//Cizal
I like the design and making tips is helpful for me, It’s great.
good but not better
NICE !. Am trying…. thank you.
I couldn’t get the transform to work along with everything else you did in 2 sentences… You did ALOT more than just that and it’s very complicated if you don’t go into more detail. It’s like reading math homework. I know this sin’t with cs5 but there very similar…
I’m really sorry you couldn’t get it to work. It’s probably because I missed a lot of things when I wrote the tutorial. I think I’ll remake the tutorial when I remake the blog from scratch! //Cizal
this is a very good tutorial, don’t see any problem. Is the easiest way to make a very good drop and the final is perfect. From now I will use this technique. thx very much mate !