Woodcut effect for the ocean

[Coyotemax]

Now we could easily leave it right there, that's the basic technique from the original tutorial (or at least as best I can remember it since I don't refer back to it anymore.. there may be some things that are done differently).

The wavy lines got a lot of good feedback though, so here's how I did that part.

With the woodcut layer selected, I opened the Eyecandy Jiggle filter and used the following settings:

Bubble value - 999
Warp 29
Twist 50
Movement: Brownian

You could of course play with the settings to your liking. The lower the bubble value, the more distorted they get (seems counter-intuitive, but there you go)

Those particular settings give the following look, at 100% and 50% (which I think looks wonderful)



If you set the lines to multiply in the layer effects, it works out rather nicely - especially if you go over the colour and change it to a nice medium or dark brown instead of the black.
How do I do that? Lock the transparency in the layer palette, grab a really large brush (hard round 600 does wonders) and paint away.

Moutarde joins in at this point with the following helpful comment:
"Just as a helpful 'speed-it-up' tip, a quicker (and less destructive) way of changing the colour of a whole layer is to set the layer's fill to 0% [editor's note for those new to this aspect of photoshop - notice to the right of the red circle, there's a spot that says Fill 100% - change that to 0%], then give it a colour overlay [layer effect] of whatever colour you like. That way if you don't like your colour the next day, it's super easy to change it to something else "

[moutarde]

Great stuff CM!

If you set the lines to multiply in the layer effects, it works out rather nicely - especially if you go over the colour and change it to a nice medium or dark brown instead of the black.
How do I do that? Lock the transparency in the layer palette, grab a really large brush (hard round 600 does wonders) and paint away.

Just as a helpful 'speed-it-up' tip, a quicker (and less destructive) way of changing the colour of a whole layer is to set the layer's fill to 0%, then give it a colour overlay of whatever colour you like. That way if you don't like your colour the next day, it's super easy to change it to something else