School of Fish

   This project was done to show us the technique of using the blur tools. First we had to create a gradient background from light to dark. After that we saved a picture of a fish from Google, opened it, turned it to gray-scale, deleted all the white, and saved the new image as a brush preset. Then you went back into the picture with your gradient, selected the paintbrush, and painted in different sized fish that were also different colors.  Once that was done we went onto a new layer and added the streaks of light. To do this you used the paintbrush that looked like dirt, using white, then used the blue filter. Next you had to make the sand, you used a yellow brown, added noise, changed the opacity so that it blended in better. Then the bubbles had to be put in. To do this you made a circle, filled it with white, added a black highlight along with a black border. Next you had to turn this into yet another brush preset. Lastly we saved another picture of a texture so that it gave the effect of it looking more like water and not just paint.