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Applying liquid styles

Applying liquid styles - Photoshop Tutorial

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Applying liquid styles

Now I'm going to be showing you how to build up a series of four layer effects, starting with Bevel and Emboss, and then we'll add a Drop Shadow, an Inner Shadow and a Color Overlay Effect, in order to transform these black blobs that we're seeing here inside my progress file, which is called Black droplets.psd, and those layer effects will ultimately transform the blobs into this pristine water pattern here, found of course inside that final file Slippery when wet.psd, both found inside the 21_layer_FX folder. But before we build up the effect together, option for option, I want you to get a sense of what you're in for. So I have another file full of layer styles ready for you to enjoy. Switch back to Black droplets.psd, or your file in progress; make sure that that droplets layer, the one that has the black blobs against the transparent background, make sure that it's selected. Then bring up the Styles panel, and if you can't see it, then go to the Window menu and choose Styles…

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