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Add water effects to the foreground
Use our free Water Reflection Kit to add realistic reflection effects in Photoshop CC
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Jon Adams
Jon is a professional photographer and writer. He also provides one-to-one and smallgroup tuition in both digital SLR and Photoshop image-editing skills.
I f you want to give an image a brand-new look, this cool technique may be right up your street! It effectively ‘floods’ the foreground of any scene with a computergenerated water reflection effect, giving a perspective as though the scene is photographed from a low angle on a body of water.
All you have to do is choose the baseline of the source picture, and this becomes the ‘waterline’ in the new, flooded image. Take care to choose a horizontal line that could actually be a waterline – and for a convincing result, avoid anything breaking this line that would stand out as inappropriate when reflected.