Ocean Wave

In this opportunity, I wanna show you how to make a simple ocean wave in Photoshop. The first time you do this you may think that is a hard thing to do, but once you catch the moves it’s easy and fun. OK, enuf with mongkey talk, let's start the lesson :)

Jump right in and create a new 700X600px document. Fill it with the dark blue color. See first screenshot below for your guide about filling the layer with dark blue color thing.

Again create another empty layer by pressing Shift + Ctrl + N and name it wave. Set a light blue color for a foreground and dark blue color for a background.





Press G key then hit Alt + Backspace to fill your workflow with that light blue color.

After that, you can apply Filter > Render > Fibers with the following settings: Variance = 23, Strength = 7. If you go it right, your wave layer should now look like mine..





Go to Menu Filter > Distort > Shear with the following settings:





That tricky part depends on your image size. Explore your own then! Now you should choose the Rectangular Marquee Tool (M) and create a simple rectangular selection on top of wave Layer you've created earlier.





Go to Menu Edit > Transform > Warp like shown on the picture below:





Ok, with my compulsive organizational speech out of the way, lmao, I realized that this wrap thing, is a mess.. Yupp I know that, but hopefully it gets the point across at the end of the tut. Now.. Press Enter and then Ctrl + D to Deselect it. SHAZAM! This is the result..





Create a new layer or you can simply press Shift + Ctrl + N again as usual. Choose Brush Tool (B) and try to create water splashes on a wave crest. You can turn the Layer Opacity for this paint in about 79% or something. Then apply Blur > Gaussian Blur to your wave layer in about 1,7 radius px. And that's it.




and with simple organisation right here and right there, becomes like this: