Bring rain and snow to still images

The landscape of mountains standing on the lake surface will be more attractive when you add ripple wave effects. Figure a person walking in the snow will be more lively when there are flying snowflakes . This can be done with just a few simple clicks.

To begin, here download Sqirlz Water Reflections software with a capacity of 1.88 MB. This program has many effects such as creating ripple effects and circles on the water, creating rain and snow.

The first step is to choose a neat photo, without too much detail to make the product look the most natural, usually lakes, rivers and streams, snowy mountains . there is a clear horizon.

Then, open the Sqirlz Water Reflections program, select Open in the menu bar to bring the image to the processing window.

Click on the red elliptical icon in the vertical menu and then use this mouse to select the closed area to create an effect on the image, by clicking the left mouse button on the starting point and the next point, ending with the right mouse button.

The first 3 options in the menu as shown below correspond to Basic Ripples, Ring Ripples and Rain / Snow (Rain / Snow).

Here, users can change many characteristics of waves such as magnitude, contrast between waves .; of the circle (must be combined with rain) such as number of circles, width, speed spread .; of rain / snow like snowflakes, movement speed, travel direction, transparency .

Example of ripple : The picture below has a fairly clear horizon. Users can select the area along the foot of the mountain border adjacent to the water surface and border. Click on the Basic Ripples icon: one is to click OK to accept the default settings, the other is to test each item. Click on the 4th icon, Rain / Snow and Ripples Combination > Basic Ripples Only > OK . Press the yellow arrow to view the result.

The original image.

Shimmering water effect.Screenshots.

Example of creating snow : The selected image has a roof, so when choosing a snowy area we avoid this part. After that, click Rain / Snow> check Snow box then select snow thickness, the size of the snowflake, the main snowfall direction (rotate the red arrow parallel to the direction of the walker) and the ability to fly multiple directions of one number of snowflakes (create variety to look more real). This example selects small snowflakes, moderate speed . In these sections, users can adjust freely to achieve the most reasonable results. Click on the 4th icon, Rain / Snow and Ripples Combination > Basic Ripples Only > OK . Press the yellow arrow to view the result.

Choose a suitable area for the photo and the direction of the snow. Notice the item
Within Outline Only for snow to fall only in the selected area.

This picture leaves the number of frames to 20, if it increases to 50 - 80, the snowflakes will fall softer.

Users can save the product as flash, avi movie or gif image by selecting the corresponding item on the horizontal menu. If you leave a large number of frames in the Period of animation, then the final image will be softer.