This is the water drop tutorial I put together, taken from the original video done by TheGimpWiz, Geous
water-drop

Water Drop Tutorial

- Open new layer
- Fill with background of your choice
- Do some text (white) in a fairly rounded font.
- Center Font <Place random white dots around and between text.
Circle (11) brush. Scale 1.00 > 2.00 > 3.00
- Alpha to Selection
(leave selection on until the end of tute)

Channels
- New Channel
- Fill Opacity 1.00
- Initialize from Selection (checkmark) OK
- Filters - Blur Gaussian 15 - 15
Click off eye of new channel

Layers - select text layer
- Filters - light and shadow- Lighting Effects
- Bump Map - Enable mapping (New Channel #)
Untitled - Linear 0.10

Material - Glowing 0.50
Bright - 0.25
Shiny - 0.10
Polished - 10.00

Light1
- Point > Directional 1.87
- color -1.52
- Intensity 1.00

Light2
- Point > Directional -1.57
- Color 1.51
- Intensity 1.00

Colors to Alpha -0-0-87-222-222-222 (dedede) OK

- Filters > Blur
- Select BG layer > Filters > Map > Displace > x displacement 8.00 (Untitled) (New Channel#)
y displacement 8.00 (Untitled) (New Channel#)
Select cartesian and Wrap

Add New Layer (above BG) Bucket tool - fill with black
Layer > transform > Offset > x = 4, > y = 4 > wrap > Click offset
Press delete key (removes the black) > Select > invert > filters > blur > Gaussian > 15 - 15 Ok
Select NONE. (Keep your selection on throughout the whole tute down to this last line.

I was thinking of doing this...you beat me to the punch
thanks

Vids are fine but I find that it takes a lot of time pausing, writing, pausing writing, this way, it can be printed and followed easier, for me anyway, I was too lazy to do the scrn shots but the video will help for that.

Thanks for doing this Molly.

There is a lot about this particular tutorial in Draconian's introduction thread here.

Gave your plug-in a try, ofnuts. I generated random ellipses, used the color picker to get rid of the gray bg using color to alpha, then did alpha to selection on the white ellipses, made a new layer and filled it with white so they were solid. Deleted the blurred ellipses layer.

Then made white text go to with them and did the tutorial. The random ellipses work great for this. I think I could have made them just a bit larger. I was afraid of having them too large so erred the other way.

I'm so lazy that I've (since I found out about it a few years ago) used the FX Foundry's Liquid-Water Script-fu for quite a long time. Never tried to figure out how they do it (because I'm lazy; lol).

I tried my hand at making blood. First I made the text and splats in white, then did alpha to selection and made red ones on a new layer. Used the white one to do the Channel, then turned off the white layer and used the red for the rest of the steps.

I used white in color to alpha to make the blood just a bit translucent. If you look closely, you can kind of see the edges of the checks showing through. It was Colonel Mustard in the Parlor with the Candlestick.

O, love your bloody checkerboard, Lyle, love your lazy tiled bathroom wall. lol