How to create this water effect?

#1

hi!

I’m wondering, how to create this underwater / above water line, water effect ?

http://hanspeterkolb.deviantart.com/art/Pisces-68734785

I’m talking about the line of water.
Is that painted or photo nicely blended ?

second example
http://tit0.deviantart.com/art/pirat-60041438

how to achive that effect ?

#2

I think that both of those photos use both digital painting and photo manipulation/compositing. I think it would be fairly easy to take a water level photograph and composit it into your scene.

Here are some tutorials digital painting if you’re interested:

http://www.3dtotal.com/team/Tutorials_3/makingof_taishu/taishu_01.asp

http://www.3dtotal.com/team/Tutorials_3/my_world/my_world_01.asp

I’m not sure if you want a quick and easy way to do this - but I played around and I have a way to do this with layer styles and a few brushes. All in all it should take about 10 minutes to create. PM me and I’ll send you the PSD via email. I’ve attached an image for reference.

#3

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