what tool to wriggle a straight line ?

[Merlin3]

Hi,

CS6

I have copied flipped vertical a boat hull bow and using it as a reflection in water but it needs to not be straight.

Q1. What tool can I use to wriggle it a bit ?

over its length it needs several wriggles.

Being CS6 I hope the tool is in my arsenal.

I have flipped the hull and rubber stamped it into the water as a layer, knocking out the white tops of the ripples by using that area placed into channels and whte/black contrast maxed out carefully.

then made the layer multiply 48% to get the darker reflection.

The brown was hand crafted in !

needs some white edging perhaps at the hull,

Then darken the hull in places to show the water has gone up that high.

Q2. Wondering whats best to do that darkening, burn tool perhaps.

Its my friends scale model boat Revell/Airfix and some surgery.. (dry land display only) photo'd then edit paste into the local docks !

Carefully photographed scale height and angle. Got the angle a bit wrong so now it must go away from the dockside ! (rotate deck to be level with dockside then skew made it appear to be sinking ! ). Out on the water the angle relative to dockside is less of an issue.

Cheers

Merlin

[Merlin3]

Um ???

I want to make a straight line wavy or wriggly so it matches the ripply water, and you say to draw a straight line use a ruler ?

anyone else care to add such jewels of wisdom ?

Merlin

[jane-e]

Um ??? ...you say to draw a straight line use a ruler ?

By Merlin3

The reply from Royala contained a spam link and the nonsense post has been removed.

Jane

[Stephen Marsh]

What about the wave filter, you may need to rotate the layer first depending on the orientation. Hope I'm not thinking of Illustrator (not in front of a computer to verify).

For a more organic wiggle, there is also the liquify filter.

[Semaphoric]

How about the Glass or Ocean Ripple filters, in the Distort section of the Filer Gallery.

[Merlin3]

Hi,

@jane-e 

I clicked that link and saw a non english alphabet all over the page, and hit the back button within a second, have I infested my pc with spam ?

That person, single cell amoeba, lowlife, must be legally tracked down and eliminated from posting, will that be done ?

Filter >distort >shear and add in a lot more nodes has given me this.

If the grid was larger one would be able to place more nodes where needed to match the water, its far too small, why not give us a decent sized box. its 30mm wide which at 2ft from the screen is very small to move a mouse about in.

Also try zigzag but no manual control over where the zig and zag go,

I need them to coincide with the water patterns.

Frustrating no decent controls so user gets the pattern to match where the distortion has to go.

Wave has what looks to be controls, BUT after some playing around none gave the number of ripples I needed . needs an extra slider.

Bottom line is Pshop needs a tool where as one clicks and drags, where one needs the wriggle to go,  it warps just that area with the limit decided by a radius around the click point when starting.

Smudge smudges.

Also none of these preview on the image so I can’t see if the distortion is where the waves are.

They preview in a piddly small box and its only showing the selection layer and not the layer below it.

Wish these things were designed by actual users.

Merlin