Making Liquid Effects in Photoshop
Interested in making some slick looking liquid effects with Photoshop? Well read on, because in a few easy steps we’ll show you one of the best methods of getting that look.
Creating The Liquid Water Drop Effect
First take the document that you want to create the liquid effect on. Create a new layer. In the new
layer take the lasso tool and draw the shape that you want the liquid drop to be. Fill that shape
with black.
Then set the “Fill” opacity of that layer to 3%.
The next set of steps are really just refining the layer styles for that new layer.
Double clicking on the layer will bring up the Layer Styles Window. First thing we want to do is give
our layer a lifted effect. So Click on “drop shadow” and change the settings to this.
Note the quality setting has the contour changed. The next two settings will give us a lifted feel
(when we are done) first is the inner shadow.
Note that the “blend mode” has changed to Color Burn. The Second Step is inner glow, note that the
color has been changed to Black and the Blend Mode is now Overlay.
The next step is what makes it pop. Bevel and Emboss. Note the changes in “technique” and the color
changes in the shading area.
Conclusion
THE MOST IMPORTANT STEP!!! SAVE THE STYLE! This will give you the ability to reuse this effect at
any time and QUICKLY! Your final effect should look something similar to…
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