Not my tutorial, just found it somewhere and it seemed to be the kind of thing everyone should know and everyone should be able to do because it's so simple.

Very nice Jolie love the effects. I used my own colors.

That was easy and fun.

Hey "O"...... Is that my leaf floating around in YOUR water....

Well, doggone Molly, no. Should have put yours in there.

By way of explanation, I have a fall leaves brush with different leaves in it. Then Molly kindly took pictures of maple leaves from her golden maple and I added two of hers to the brush.

Then ... long story ... it was really windy here and one of the leaves from the maple tree behind my house blew onto my porch and I took a picture of it and added it to the brush.

We had leaves all over our desktops and in our emails.

Sorry, Molly, it's one of the "other" leaves.

Wow, thats better. amazing what can be done with a few leaves.

gave water swirl a try...very pretty effect. I also tried bump mapping my leaf, could look better depending on where you place it.

very good 2-ton. I like the idea of bumpmapping the leaf so it does look partially under water.....

1-ton?

sorry, typo

i made another swirly with the paintbrush and reran the blur,whirl and pinch, and waves filters and got a glowing effect...pretty cool.
Great tutorial and very easy to do. =)

thx

nice example of using a greater contrast between the light and the dark blues!

lol, thought maybe I lost part of myself!

2 variations on this tut