Not Much New

I'm still working on Illustrator stuff - none of it's finished.
Things are going slow - I have a short attention span for it and I have other things to attend to.

The past few weeks I've been gathering tutorials for Valentine's Day photoshop artwork.
It's all silly abstract focused around a heart.
I'm trying to figure out how to do the shiny part / reflections on objects, so when I finally get off my butt and do it I should learn a lot.

I am thinking of doing multiple things... it just hasn't all come together yet.

There's not anything for today, unfortunately.

Next time is the beginning of the 3-day-V-day marathon of Valentine's Day stuff.
I'll post some related artwork then, for sure, whatever I've done by then.

Creating Water With Photoshop

A few days ago I learned to work with displacement maps in creating a water effect. Unfortunately the only good image I could find already had water.

The image on the top is the original. The one on the bottom I added some green water to. It's not perfect, especially when you compare the two, but it's pretty good, for being made from scratch. The top half of the original is all I used. I found the tutorial through PhotoshopRoadmap, as I usually do. You can assume that's where I find everything, unless I happen to say otherwise.

You basically have to learn to make displacement maps... after that, it's just a matter of copying and flipping the scenery, scaling it up, adding the displacement map, and scaling it back down. I think it's cool. I'll probably use it for projects in the future.