How to Create Cool Water Effect Typography

In this tutorial I will show you how to create cool water typography effect in Photoshop playing with stock photos, blend modes and filters. We will also use some water splash brushes and smooth gradients to give a splish-splash feel to our design.For this tutorial I have downloaded a few things; water splash brushes from Brusheezy.com, stock photos and one font.The water splash brushes can be found here: Brusheezy Water BrushesFor the stock photos I went in search of water splashes in glasses and water splashes in general, a good source was istock.com for cheap stock photo. Lastly the font was sourced from dafont.com it is called Val: Val FontStep 1:First off start a new document 1920×1200 pixels.Then Fill the background with black using the paint bucket tool (G).Step 2:Using the Rectangle Tool (U), on Shape Layer option (this option is the top left-hand icons, the first one is Shape Layer) draw out a rectangle to fill the entire bottom half of the screen. When this layer is created double click it to bring up the Layer Styles, then select Gradient Overlay option and select the handles of the gradient and change to a light grade of navy to a light blue, here I have used #325372 (light navy) – # b9d2e6 (light blue).Then add a Drop Shadow of # a8c1d5, Opacity 100%, Angle -4, Distance 4px, Spread 0, and Size 10px.Step 3:Again using the Rectangle Tool (U), on Shape Layer option (this option is the top left-hand icons, the first one is Shape Layer) draw out a rectangle to fill the entire top half of the screen. When this layer is created double click the layer in the layers palette to bring up the Layer Styles, then select Gradient Overlay option and select the handles of the gradient and change to a light blue to an even lighter blue then white, here I have used # c7d8ea (li

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