Creating Waterfall from Stationary Water

Learn to create waterfall from an existing stationary water

Step 1: Open a image that contains some stationary water. I have selected this image.

Step 2: Now select the water area with the eleptical marquee tool and make the selection as follows.

Step 3: Go to Filters>Distort>Polar Coordinates.. and use the following settings.

Step 4: This is what I got.

You can already see the waterfall, there but those sharp edges at the starting of the waterfal llooks unreal so to fix that all you have to do is take the blur tool (R) select the brush size as 19 px.

Step 5:

Now you can see it looks better, but still at the center of the waterfall it looks a bit odd. Now we need some cloning to fix it up select the Cloning Stamp Tool (S) { size: 29pix } and ctrl+click on the right side of the waterfall to select the starting point of the Cloning. Like this

Now hold your left mouse button and brush it towards right so the cloning is done. You need some practice to get it right.

Step 6: This is what I got after performing cloning.