With your new blank layer active and the selection has marching ants on the bottom portion of your canvas, select your Flood Fill tool to add your water. I have used #30A8FF as my foreground color, and set your texture pattern to Ocean. Like so:

You may need to click fill about 7 times to get a nice shade of blue. Now hide your wavy line layer. And rename your water layer to water1. This layer needs to be duplicated 2 times, and rename your 2 duplicates water2 & water3 respectively. Now you need to hide water 2 & 3.

Next unhide your text layer and duplicate it twice as well, renaming each layer so you have text1,text2,text3. And hide text 2 & 3 for now. You should have a total of 8 layers listed on your layers palette including layer 1 and backdrop. All hiding except Text1 & your backdrop if used. With Text1 active, go to select All/Float/Defloat and Selection/Save To Alpha Channel, and click OK. This will save an outline of your text. Selection/Select None.

Now let's position the water on your text. Unhide water1 and duplicate it, hiding the copy you just made. With the Mover tool, position your water over your top row of text as desired, I set mine about halfway down:

I have used yellow as my backdrop so you can see easier what's going on.

When you have the waterline set where you like it, go to selection/load from alpha channel and you'll see your text has marching ants, click on Selection/Invert and make sure your on your water1 layer, and hit your delete key. This will cut away the water from your top lettering! But you still have the bottom letters filled with water so you need to Invert your selection again and take out your Eraser tool, set it rather large like 25 and 100% and erase away all the water from your bottom row of letters. Rename this layer water1top.

Next hide the water1top for a moment and unhide it's copy you made, and position this water layer over your bottom row of lettering, here you want it to sit the same way as the top row, once animated you want the 2 rows moving in the same direction or it spoils the effect.

Repeat the Load from Alpha Channel/Invert/Delete step and there, you should have both rows partially filled with water! Renaming your lower lettering water layer to water1bottom.

Don't forget to Save Your Work ;-)

Now we're going to repeat the above procedure for text layer 2 with one exception. When you position your top water2 layer (remember to duplicate it? you need 2 copies *s*) line it up exactly matching up on top of Text1's water line, then hide Text 1 and unhide your blank Text2. With the water layer active go to Image/Rotate using these settings I found makes a pretty good rocking motion:

Same setting is used on the lower lettering as well. So both Text2 water lines are rotated the same direction.

And repeat the wholeeeee thing for layer Text3, except lol reverse the rotation from Right to Left!!
This is important to achieve the fluid effect! You can get an even more fluid motion by adding more layers and rotating more gradually or more drastically (depending on the turbulence your looking for), but for the size of this animation, I found 3 total frames does the trick pretty well :o) Be sure you pay attention here or your going to end up with a jumpy animation.

When you have all your text layers filled with water, you should have a palette like this one:

Next we need to add a final layer to add some depth to the lettering. Go to Selections/Load From Alpha Channel and add a new layer, using Effects/Cutout with these settings:

Duplicate this cutout layer twice and rename all 3 layers cutout1,cutout2, & cutout3.

Now we can begin merging all the components for each layer!
Hide all layers except those with 1's and your ready to Merge All visible

Rename this newly Merged layer TEXT1

Repeat Hide all layers except those with 2's and your ready to Merge All visible,
Rename this newly Merged layer TEXT2
Repeat Hide all layers except those with 3's and your ready to Merge All visible,
Rename this newly Merged layer TEXT3

Now your layers palette ought to be looking a bit more manageable *g*

You should have TEXT1,TEXT2,TEXT3,backdrop,Layer1(your blank layer) listed from top to bottom on your palette.

Save your work and let's move onward :o)

Click Here To Continue Please

This tutorial is Copyrighted by Fluttrby Designs © 2000 ~ 06 for the sole purpose of sharing instruction of this technique with other PSP users online. No part of it may be reproduced in any form. All graphics and content used are the property of Fluttrby Designs © created specifically for this tutorial. Please seek permission for any other purpose.
Questions or interest related to this tutorial should be directed to Fluttrby Designs ©

All Rights Are Reserved

Fluttrby Designs © 2000 ~ 06

All pages at Fluttrby Designs© are optimized for best viewing using IE5 or higher
with a monitor resolution of 1024 x 768