I have a senior that I would like to be able to produce the same effect as on the Gaterade commericals - sweat that looks neon green or yellow. How do I do this? I tried to get the sweat to show in the pictures, but I am not sure how to select it onto another layer and modify the color.

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Wendy

Here is a URL for creating water droplets. This may or may not be of help.

http://www.biorust.com/tutorials/detail/151/en/

The book I'VE GOT A HUMAN IN MY THROAT has a lot of optical delusions for photoshop.

dc

heres another good one:

http://www.photoshopsupport.com/tutorials/cb/water-drops.html

Making the water droplets it the easy part now does anyone know how to color them? I'v tried different blending modes at lower oppacities but it still seems to look fake.

-Emily

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After using one of the tutorials here to make drops you paint the drops the color you want with the brush tool on a blank layer and and use overlay blending mode and adjust color of drops to your taste.

This is all great informtion, but I already have sweat/water droplets on the picture as I used a spray bottle to achieve the look. I guess my question is how do I isolate the water droplets from the rest of the picture and then how would I add color to them?

Thanks,

Wendy

some old fashioned masking and color correction...

Hi wendy... not very good at this type of thing but what the heck never stopped me before.

I spent 5 minutes on the example below... it looks it too

I just opened a blank layer set to multiply and picked a bright green color

I looked for water or sweat stain on the existing picture and colored over it with a soft brush... then a layer style bevel and some paint with light.

Butch

I used eye candy water drops setting.
It could look better with the saturation increased in the color and the highlights brought out a bit more.

Place the color version of your pic under the B/W one.
Mask the sweat on the B/W layer.
Place adjustment layer (color balance) on top.
Copy mask from B/W layer to Color Balance layer & inverse it.
Do your color adjustments.

Wolfman told you the correct easy way to do what you want

you paint the drops the color you want with the brush tool on a blank layer and and use overlay blending mode and adjust color of drops to your taste.

Then click the mask icon and paint black with a soft brush to clean up the borders of your painting

click the mask icon and paint with black and a soft brush to clean up the borders of your painting

Thanks.... I realized what you are saying but I was doing a quick illustration to get the point across without spending much time on details. Should have.

first of all good attempt at what is a hard feat to accomplish. Second here are some tips to try a second time around.
1. it is very hard/cumbersome to minpulate water droplets in photoshop
and nor is the fun way to go about this.
2. a spray bottle is an o.k. tool but i have one better
I brought this question up to my photo teacher and showed her some reference material and she knew just what to do:
3. glycerin is the key!!!!!!!!!
glycerin or "glycerol" is (quoted from dictionary) -a
colorless, sweet, viscous liquid formed as a byproduct in soap
manufacture. It is used as an emollient and laxative, and for making
explosives and antifreeze. WILL NOT HARM YOU, JUST THICK LIKE
OIL.
4. use this instead of water. it is thicker than water but you can thin it
down if nessicary.
5. get a dropper and place "sweat" like droplets on the subjects face.
You can dye with food coloring and place on the face/ whatever also. [or edit in
photoshop]
6. light, meter, compose, and take the shot.

may research glycerin on your own to find out more. works great.

If you don't want to re-shoot. In the Layers pallet use the adjustment layers icon (see attachment) and choose "solid color" choose the color you would like and then fill the mask with black. Use a soft white brush and brush in the color. You can play with blending modes. The photo attached is really too small to see if this work-around is what you are looking for I only played with it for a couple of minutes.
Hope this helps
~Nancy
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