Tips and Tricks: 3

Andromeda artists filled this water bottle by partially stretching it over a sphere inside the Series 2 Three D Filter. Series 2 easily allowed for proper viewpoint control, surface manipulation, and shading to match the original bottle.


To create the illusion of a blow out, artists used PhotoShop to select a tear
(lasso tool) and then shade its edges (air brush). After selecting and dragging a few small pieces (option key down) of the expanded bottle surface away from the tear, they lassoed all the small pieces and inverted the selection. Enter the Velociraptor filter! Converging, multi copying, and creating feathered motion trails with one pass.


Back in PhotoShop, a blast zone was selected (lasso tool) and the Series 4 Techtures Filter exploded on the scene. First an Explosive Environmental Map was applied, followed by a Watery Displacement Techture. Our new Series 4 Techtures even allowed for just the right aqua tint on each pass.


Once things calmed down, we used PhotoShop's (lasso tool) to select a pool shape below the exhausted bottle and applied Reflection (one of the Series 1 Photography Filters). The reflection filter instantly filled every drop with just the right intensity.

More Tips?
Learn to create the dazzling effects shown here using the Star Filter, one of our ten Series 1 Photography Filters.