Waving Flag

In this tutorial, i'll show you how to make a flag look like its waving in the wind. .

Open your flag. If you want to use the one im using, click here to download it.

Make sure your flag is on its own layer and you have some room around the flag to work with.

Make a selection of about 95% of the flag to the RIGHT, leaving only about 5% of the flag on the left unselected (see picture below).

Now go to Select » Feather and enter 50px.

Choose the flag as the working layer and go to Filter » Distort » Wave (CLICK HERE TO VIEW).

Note:The reason we use the feather and selection in the above step is so we apply the wave to the flag, while leaving the left edge of the flag slightly straight, in case we want to hang it on a pole. Without the selection step above, the left end of the flag would look something like the right end of the flag, which is not very realistic.

- Create a new layer. Set your foreground color to dark grey (#575757)

- Next we want to apply some shadows to the flag. Use the brush tool and select brush size to 13 HARD EDGE. Then make 4 vertical strokes around the waves. Do all 4 of these strokes on the new layer you just created

Now apply the wave filter to it. Filter » Distort » Wave (CLICK TO VIEW)

Now go to Filter » Blur » Guassian Blur. Set radius=9

Now set the blending mode of the shadow layer to "Soft Light"

Here is mine with a pole attached. (DOWNLOAD PSD FILE)

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oliverr garcia Dec/27/2011 06:14its great very educational,we need more learning techniques from you..thanks a lots

Adam Senour Jan/27/2011 07:39Nice tutorial! One minor adjustment, though...if you're doing this with a checkered flag (as I was), the soft light blending method for the blurry lines won't work as it doesn't show anything. You'll need to use the Multiply blending method instead. If you want to use the flag in a graphic, make sure you're in the blurry line layer, select the contents of the flag layer, select the inverse, and then Cut the contents of that area out. That will remove the excess blurry lines that aren't part of the flag.

town67 Sep/10/2010 21:05dowmload and listen free Music

ZAKS-K Feb/05/2010 04:00Good job try this link: http://www.hesido.com/base.php?page=tutorials

joe Nov/21/2009 08:10do a mexican flag fag

Gwiz Apr/25/09 01:02I did it with german flag.

bob Apr/23/09 04:27go play Wow World Of Warcraft WOoT! ='}

John Jan/29/09 21:39well done! AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE OI OI OI!

TRT Nov/18/08 04:31HER H

Noorahimi Aug/21/08 01:32Xellent

lex luther Jul/2/08 07:23thanks, helped a lot!

micko May/13/08 05:13jebo te tutorijal

mike Feb/9/08 17:55ur great

steve Nov/14/07 09:19i think u did a good job im gonna try it now. and if anyone is wondering what unashurel is .... i think he's tryin to say unnatural. If you want to negatively criticize someone's tutorial, you really should learn to spell correctly otherwise no one will take you seriously....like me for instance.

Don juan Oct/25/07 02:51thanx im the greatest lover who ever lived

sue Oct/4/07 05:08Thank you. Your tutorial helped me so much!

SjoerdJeh Jan/27/07 10:22Now one with the Dutch flag ;)

io Jan/26/07 17:19Sometime more quick and simple than dedicated softwares to create the same result ! Specials congratulations for the gaussian-vawe-stripes !! How old are you ? Young "quick-expert" or many years experienced. I use Pshop since v. 2.0 and i am discovering much more each day ! Bravo !

jon Oct/25/06 08:18yo mamma

atiq Sep/8/06 04:02Really Goooooddddd

Bugzy88 Aug/28/06 13:04Great tutorial... I added another layer with white strokes instead of grey and created a nice 3-D highlight.

! Aug/6/06 23:54it look unashurel! it look not like rite like crap flag

Blake Delanney May/31/06 22:54Blake DeLanney is queer. I mean GAY.

FAKKING NObtutorial May/16/06 04:59wtf when i put it to soft light the shadows dissapair totally >.< my flag is red if it has somthing to do with it.. >.<

Mr. B. C. Phukan May/8/06 11:50Nathan! I think more dramatic effect could have been achieved by isolating the image using Magic wand and then applying Liquify Filter.

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