glassy/watery surface reflection

[rationill]

just wondering if anyone out there knows how to make a watery/glassy reflection of words, like the words are hovering out over the water and there are waves in the water, but you can still see a reflection. i've used some of the filters and transformed the perspective, but then the ripples look very flat (like you set a picture of the ocean at perspective - it just looks like a picture of waves tilted away from you rather that waves receeding in real space) - anyway thanks for listening!

 

[Tron]

Welcome aboard rationill

Not to sure what your after but here is an example done with one of Photoshops default actions - maybe this is what you are looking for [confused]

 

[Tracy]

Try making a displacement map from the part of the water where the reflection will be. make sure to flip it before you save the displacment map, then create the text on a same sized file and load the displacement map?

 

[Welles]

Another option is to use (gasp) a third party filter called Flood by Flaming pear. It is quite inexpensive and well worth the money, I believe.

http://www.flamingpear.com/flood.html