Running Water

How I did it...

• PSP Version 7
• Promoted background to a layer
• Duplicated Layer 1 and used 100 opacity and Darken
• Duplicated Layer 1 again and used Glowing Edge [Intensity 2, Sharpen 1] with 28% opacity and Hardlight
• Duplicated Layer 1 again and used Texture #60 [Bark] at 100% with settings of Smoothness 50, Depth 15, Ambiance 100, Shineness 27, Color cococo (grey), angle 309, Intensity 63, elevation 31. Then I had 36% opacity and overlay.
• Merged Visible Exported as JPG with 25% compression.

My first thought was to have the water running out of the frame going *everywhere* but I don't know how to do that yet. I wanted to keep the feeling of moving water and keep the image recognizeable as a river. I only used PSP v7 and the project took about 1 hour.