In this adobe photoshop tutorial we will make a text water effect fast and easy, I have seen a lot of techniques on how to make shapes look see through and like water, but this one I think must be the easiest one.

First load in your leaf image (if you have one).

Now type in the text you want to apply this effect to, make sure to make it quite bold.

Now go to the layers panel, right click the text layer and choose rasterize layer.

I just used the selection tool and dragged/rotated the text a bit so its not all aligned.

In the layers panel look at the top, there is a percentage value called fill, set it to 0.

Now double click the text layer in the layers panel to get to the layers styles panel and give it settings as shown below.

Now you can use the brush tool and draw around the text to make it more smudge.

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