Water

1. Start by opening Photoshop and creating a new image of 400x400 pixels.

Hit D to set your colors to default: black as foreground and white as background.

Go to Filter>Render>Clouds to make what will be the base of the water texture.

 

2. Go to Filter>Blur>Radial Blur and use these settings:

Amount: 38
Blur Method: Spin
Quality: Good

Then go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur with a radius of 2.

3. Go to Filter>Sketch>Bas Relief and choose the settings:

Detail: 13
Smoothness 10

Filter>Sketch>Chrome and select the following options:

Detail: 5
Smoothness 2

 

4. Image>Adjust>Channel Mixer, and choose Output Channel>Blue .

Move the Blue slider to the right, then the red and green to the right to get a deep shiny blue. Click OK.