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How to Add Water Reflection Effect in Your Image

Open the image in Adobe Photoshop.

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To add more canvas sizes to canvas select Image Canvas. Select "Relative" checkbox and set Width = nil %, Height = one hundred percent and click within the square in the middle of the top row.

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Copy the layer. Select Edit Transformation Flip Vertical to rotate the new layer inverted.

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Grab Move Tool and use it to pull the reflection under the first layer. Hold down Shift while pulling to ensure you drag it vertically.

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Set white as foreground color, click Create New Layer in the layers palette and press Alt + Del to fill it with foreground color.

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Select Filter Sketch Halftone Pattern and Set the values like this: Size = eight, Contrast = forty five, Pattern Type as Line and then click OK to apply these settings.

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Select Filter Blur Gaussian Blur and set Radius = 5.9 pixels, click OK to apply this effect.

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Right click Layer two in layers palette and select Copy Layer.

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Choose Document new and name the document as ripples. Save new document as a Ripples.psd.

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Select the ripples layer and remove it. Choose the reflection layer and go to Filter Warp Displace. Set Horizontal Scale = four and Vertical Scale = zero, click OK and then select the Ripple.psd you simply saved.

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And you will get this.

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Go to Filter Blur Gaussian Blur and set Radius = 5.9 pixels, click OK to apply the effect.

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Press Ctrl + J to copy the reflection layer as a new layer. Select the new reflection layer and the first photograph layer, press Ctrl + E to combine them as a single layer.

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Select the reflection layer and drag it on top of the layer list in layers palette. Select Image Adjustment Hue / Saturation and drag the sliders to adjust the reflection effect.

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Change the reflection layer's opacity till you get the one desired.

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Finally, we add a pragmatic water reflection to the image.

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