Creating Water Ripples Effect and Reflection, using CorelDRAW

In this CorelDRAW tutorial, we will learn how to easily add water reflection effects and realistic water ripples into any image. To create this effect with CorelDRAW is very easy and we can add it to any photo we like, even though the image we had no water at all objects in it. In this tutorial let us together create a water reflection effect and water ripple effect.

The following photos are original photos that will give us water reflection effects;

After the effects of water and water ripple reflection, the result will be like the picture below;

Step 1: Create a Background

for background, we create an object box with the Rectangle tool located in the toolbox, and we give a black color by clicking on the Color Palette on the choice of black.

Furthermore Import photos and put into position on top of the background black box.


Step 2: Duplicate and Mirror Attractions Photos

Then duplicate the transformations, this feature is located on the Menu Bar> Arrange> Transformations> and select the Scale and mirror or the short way we can press Alt + F9 on the keyboard and the docker command box set as shown below in;

After we set as above, the result is as shown below.

Step 3: Provide Transparent Effect On Photo Attractions

The next selection on the duplicated object image and select Transparency tool in the Toolbox;

Move the pointer over the object image and drag in the direction diagonal to the bottom, so it will create a transparent effect as shown in the figure below;

Step 4: Giving Water Ripple Effect In Attraction Pictures

To make the water ripple effect that could use the positioning features Ripple on Menu Bar> Bitmaps> Distort> Ripple select ...

Set the dialog box by dragging the slider and click preview to see the display temporarily, If it is felt suitable enough we hoped click OK.

So the final result will be like the picture below.