1.

To start, open Photoshop CS and use the Photoshop CS file browser to open the Waterfall.tif image from your Photoshop CS samples folder. When the image is open, your Photoshop screen should look something like this.

Make a duplicate of the image, and name it Practice7. Close (X) the original image.

2.

The first thing to do is to make a duplicate of your Background layer. To do this, simply choose Layer->Duplicate from the menu bar.

In the dialog box that appears, click OK to create the layer with the default name Background copy.

Your Layers palette should now look like this.

Before you continue, make the original background layer invisible by clicking its eye icon.

3.

Next, enter 100 into the zoom field in the status bar at the lower left and press the Enter key to make the image assume its actual size, and then click the magnetic lasso button in the toolbox to select it. (The tool group is just underneath the rectangular marquee in the upper left of the tool box.)

Use the Magnetic lasso to carefully create a selection around the stream, something like what is shown below.

Note that the selection does not surround the entire stream. Your goal is to select roughly the lower half of the stream as shown.

4.

When you have completed your selection, click Layer followed by New followed by Layer Via Copy from the menu bar. Your layers palette should now look like this.

5.

Next, create a new layer by clicking the new layer icon at the bottom of the layers palette.

After you create your new layer (called Layer 2) drag it with your mouse and place it below the Background copy layer in your layers list. Your Layers palette should now look like this.

Make sure that the new (Layer 2) layer is selected and highlighted in blue. Next, choose the paint bucket tool from the toolbox.

Press and hold the Alt key while you click the eye icon next to Layer 2. This will make all of the other layers invisible.

6.

Now, move the paint bucket tool onto the large checkered area where the image was and click to fill the layer with your foreground colour (you may want to select a foreground colour of your choice before doing this.)

Your Photoshop Layers palette should now look something like this. Layer 2 should be filled with your foreground colour and it should be beneath the Background copy.

Next, make Layer 1 and Background copy visible by clicking their respective eye icons. Leave the original Background layer invisible.

7.

Make the Background copy layer active in your Layers palette (highlighted in blue).

Next, choose Edit->Transform->Distort from the menu bar.

This will place small square move handles around the perimeter of your image.

Now, drag the move handle in the upper left towards the center of the image carefully, distorting the background copy layer. Also drag the lower left move handle towards the center, until your image looks something like the following.

It should appear as if the waterfall is “spilling” out of the image.

8.

Select the clone stamp tool from the toolbox. When the following alert appears,

click Apply.

When the distortion move handles disappear, make Layer 1 the active layer, and use the clone stamp or healing brush tool to hide any artifacts left from the distortion. Also do this with the Background copy layer if need be.

Your final image should look something like the following.

9.

Choose File -> Save As from the menu bar to invoke the Save as dialog box.  Save the image in your practice folder under the name Practice7 as a TIFF file. Photoshop will allow you to preserve the layer information in your image if you save your image as a PSD or TIFF file.

When you see the TIFF options box after clicking the Save button, specify the byte order corresponding to the platform you work with. Click OK to save the file , and then close (X) Photoshop CS.