Click the Tick button or press Enter or Return to confirm. Keep Reference point location at Center and enter Angle: 0.2. Go to Select > Modify > Smooth., enter Sample Radius: 5 pixels, and click OK.Īgain go to Select > Transform Selection. Click the Tick button on the top toolbar or press Enter or Return to confirm. Keep Reference point location at Center, and enter Width: 3% and Height: 80%. Then, go to Select > Transform Selection. Go to Select > All, and you'll find that the whole canvas area will get selected. Your Actions and Layers panels should now have the above structures. Then, go to Layer > Create Clipping Mask to add the Overlay layer as a clipping mask to the Water Drips layer. Now, click and drag it above the Water Drips layer. and rename the duplicated layer to Overlay. Select the Original layer and press Control-J or Command-J to duplicate the layer. Go to Layer > New > Layer. to add a new layer above Blurred. Go to Layer > Layer Mask > Reveal All to add a layer mask to the Blurred layer. Then go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur., enter Radius: 50 Pixels, and click OK. and rename the duplicated layer as Blurred. Now, select the Original layer and again press Control-J or Command-J to duplicate the layer. Right now, your Actions and Layers panels should have the below contents. We'll add all our further layers into this group to keep everything organised. and rename the group as Wet Glass Action. Make sure only the Original layer is selected and press Control -G or Command -G to add it to a new group. and rename the duplicated layer as Original. With the Background layer selected, press Control-J or Command-J to duplicate the layer. Press D on your keyboard to reset swatches. Then click the Begin recording icon again to continue. The last thing you'd want is to have a messy action filled with unwanted steps. If you make a mistake, click the Stop playing/recording icon, and delete the unnecessary step from the Wet Glass action. 2. How to Record an Actionįrom this point onwards, everything you do will be recorded, so please be careful and keep an eye on the Actions panel. Step 3Ĭlick the Create ne w action icon and name it Wet Glass Action.Ĭlick Record to start recording all the subsequent steps in Photoshop. Then, click the Create new set icon, name the set Wet Glass and click OK. Go to Window > Actions or press F9 on the keyboard to open up the Actions panel. We'll put it in a separate set for easier management. Now, let's start preparing the base for our action. Make sure Add "copy" to Copied Layers and Groups is checked. Click the fly-out list of the Layers panels and click Panel Options.If it is not, go to Layer > New > Background from Layer. Your photo should be the Background layer.Your photo should be in RGB Color mode and 8 Bits/Channel.Now, before we get started, we need to check a few things: To open your photo, go to File > Open., choose your photo, and click Open. The following resources are needed during the tutorial:įirst, open the subject photo on which you want to work. The complete action has additional features like finger-drawing-on-wet-glass effect and other functionalities. If you'd like to buy it, you can head over to GraphicRiver and visit Wet Glass Photoshop Action. The action we'll be creating is part of the Wet Glass Photoshop Action. I'll try to explain everything in much detail so that everyone can follow along, even if this is your first time with Photoshop. This effect works with images of almost any size and resolution.
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Changing the default behavior is useful when you work with line drawings and often need to select objects that appear beneath other objects.In this tutorial, I'll show you how to create a wet glass effect on any photo. At the end of the tutorial, you'll have an action which will automate the entire process with a single click. However, you can change this default behavior so that you can select unfilled objects only by clicking on their outlines. By default, all objects are treated as filled so that you can select any unfilled object by clicking on its outline or the area surrounded by the outline. Usually, you select objects by using the Pick tool. You can add objects to a selection group. You can also select and zoom into all objects in a selection group at the same time. When you press the number associated with a selection group, all objects in this group are selected. Selection groups are associated with numbers from 0 to 9 and are saved with the document. You can create selection groups that let you select specific objects simultaneously without grouping them. Marquee selecting objects using a rectangular selection area (top) and a selection area of irregular shape (bottom)