how to draw anime in photoshop - ripple effect

 Choose a picture.

 Create a new file.

Create a new layer, and put the picture in the layer.

Create a new layer, use ellipse tool to draw as following picture.

Ellipse tool

Press ctrl and click on the layer C's thumbnail to select this layer.

Press Alt+Shift+D to open the Feather Selection window.

Set as following.

Go to "layer1", Press Ctrl+J,copy the selected part.

Go to Layer 2, Press Shift+Ctrl+X to Open the Liquify window.

Use Bloat tool draw on the circles.

Go to Layer "C", Ctrl+T to transform this layer. Set as following picture.

Press Ctrl, and click on the thumbnail of Layer "C" to select it.

ame as before, Ctrl+Alt+D open feather selection window, set radius 6.

Go to Layer 1, press Ctrl+J copy selected part.

Press Ctrl+Shift+X again, Open the Liquify window and then use bloat tool to draw on the circles.

Repeat 4 times. (Don't forget to transform layer "C" each time.)

Result.

Go to Image ready. Open the Animation window.

Press the Duplicate Current Frame tool 5 times.

Duplicate Current Frame Tool

Set each frame stay 0.2 seconds.

Set each frame's layer option as below.

Save it as Gif, Done!

Result.

Cecilia.

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