Water Reflection

dinasset · **Posted:** Sun Oct 26, 2014 3:23 am **(#41)**

sallyanne wrote:

Dinasset I ran your script on a picture that was for play at DPreview
https://www.flickr.com/photos/115367823 ... 35/sizes/l

Sally, who are those two "personages"? A very nice girl and a "talking" dog!

dinasset · **Posted:** Sun Oct 26, 2014 3:24 am **(#42)**

molly wrote:

Cool Sallyanne, thought I would give it another try.

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Thank you Dinnaset for the cool script

excellent results, Molly! I like them...

dinasset · **Posted:** Sun Oct 26, 2014 3:40 am **(#43)**

oldmangrumpy wrote:

Impressed with the reflection results above, so I tried out the script with a photo of a dingo on a rocky ledge in a sanctuary in mellow light. Changed it to look like it was at the waters edge and ended up using the Black 3d gradient to get a smoth reflection. Thanks again for an excellent script Dinasset.

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excellent, oldman!
for the problem of the too "precise" separator line, it could be helpful just paint over that zone here and there a little bit...

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molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

@grumpy, I love your first one very much. I like the reflection when it is lighter like that one. good job.

Sallyanne, I didn't do anything except run the script by changing the gradient into one that fit with the colors in the picture, then lowered the opacity on the water.

sallyanne · **Posted:** Sun Oct 26, 2014 6:34 am **(#45)**

oh ic. I did the gradient to match colours in a couple but not my last one.

dinasset · **Posted:** Sun Oct 26, 2014 9:50 am **(#46)**

Molly,
I took one of your images and played a little:
- added a sky
- added an overall "nuance"
- run the filter selecting an appropriate gradient (as you recommended)
This is my outcome:

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dinasset · **Posted:** Sun Oct 26, 2014 10:16 am **(#47)**

why not to play with the second one also?
here it is...(added nuance and used an appropriate gradient as you suggested)

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dinasset · **Posted:** Sun Oct 26, 2014 10:23 am **(#48)**

oldman, today is Sunday, so I like to play with images of other people...hehe, I'm lazier than ususally...

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dinasset · **Posted:** Sun Oct 26, 2014 10:31 am **(#49)**

Sally,
I couldn't miss this one of yours

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dinasset · **Posted:** Sun Oct 26, 2014 10:45 am **(#50)**

oh! and the nice couple girl+dog?

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dinasset · **Posted:** Sun Oct 26, 2014 10:46 am **(#51)**

that's all from my side, for today...

pirate541 · **Joined:** May 27, 2011 **Posts:** 707

Reflection of my team The Juventus Football club(with water animation)

oldmangrumpy · **Posted:** Sun Oct 26, 2014 9:42 pm **(#53)**

Thanks Molly and Dinasset for your kind words.

Dinasset you said ..."for the problem of the too "precise" separator line, it could be helpful just paint over that zone here and there a little bit..." - well, whilst I am trying to learn Gimp as quickly as possible I am still really a newbie, and I am sorry but I do not understand just what you mean!!

dinasset · **Posted:** Mon Oct 27, 2014 1:18 am **(#54)**

Oldman, if you look at the "variations" of the nice posts here (from you, Molly and SallyAnne) you see the effect of what I mean:
- choose a brush having a "non continuous" aspect (you find types of those trying to imitate smoothed lines, smokes, waves, and so on)
- maybe you need to modify the aspect ratio to loook more rectangular with a width larger than the height
- use it to apply small "clones" from the water area to the original area and viceversa as well as to apply small painting touches, all of that just close to the separation line
Experiment...good luck!

dinasset · **Posted:** Mon Oct 27, 2014 1:20 am **(#55)**

Pirate, like my older son: "forza Juve!"
(the other one would not appreciate, he cries "forza Inter")
hehehe...

oldmangrumpy · **Posted:** Mon Oct 27, 2014 3:02 am **(#56)**

dinasset wrote:

(the other one wold not appreciate, he cries "forza Inter")
hehehe...

Thank you for your helpful advice on 'painting the waterline' - looks like I have a lot more learning to do!!

Also re 'forza Inter' and Inter Milan ... in 1969/70 I was the goalkeeper for North Sydney Inter, yes black & blue striped gear all the way from Italy!!

dinasset · **Posted:** Mon Oct 27, 2014 4:44 am **(#57)**

oh, nice memories!
(btw, when you will experiment remember to set the opacity of the brush to something like 30-50%, depending on the brush intensity, otherwise you will see too much the strokes...)

sallyanne · **Posted:** Tue Oct 28, 2014 6:05 am **(#58)**

Thought I'd try this out on a recent snapshot I took. I ran the smudge tool along the seperator.

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Very nice and very spooky sallyanne. All you need now is some Spanish Moss hanging from the trees.

dinasset · **Posted:** Tue Oct 28, 2014 10:51 am **(#60)**

nice outcome SallyAnne!
imo it could have been excellent with a less strong smudge (easy to say, difficult to apply...)