Add eye-catching water effects to your pictures
Adding water effects or ripple effects to videos is one of the coolest ways to give your videos an extra touch of class.
Sqirlz Water Reflections allows you to add rippling pools of water, rain or snow effects, to images or AVI videos. The pools can be any shape and you can define several factors such as the wave size, perspective and water transperency. You can also change the ripple shapes and wave details plus even add snowflake effects and add depth to other ripple effects. Unfortunately, there are not a large amount of output format options to choose from. Animations can be saved as Adobe Flash files, animated GIFS, AVI video clips and for images, bitmap, JPEG, PNG and TIFF files. The latest release has added some extra effects which are quite interesting which include general rainfall and glossy reflecting areas of water in cincentric circles. Some of the effects you can create are truly stunning - check out the developer homepage for a few examples - although it can take some time to render photos correctly, it's certainly wrth the effort.
If you want to impress friends with your photos or just have a very unique photos collection, Squirlz Water Reflections produces stunning results.
User reviews about Sqirlz Water Reflections
by Phan An
Very good but need some improvement to be better.
It's very useful for me.
But the size of rain drops or snow flakes should has larger variability More
by Anonymous
pretty good, documentation lacking.
overall, it works well and the price is right :) took me a while to figure out how to do a number of the things I wanted to, the documentation for it beyond VERY basic getting-started info is pretty much non-existent. has done almost everything I needed it to, including creeks, waterfalls, and lakes. fairly convincing effects if you turn the transparency all the way up and use the actual water surface in the photos. letting sqirlz create the water surface results in very unrealistic mercury ponds.the alpha channel function does some weird behaviors where it throws away (blocks out in all white) portions of the photo inside the alpha layer that it thinks you don't need. if you're letting sqirlz create the water surface for you this works, but if not it SUCKS. I had to create a work around using masks in flash... not ideal and pretty pointless.i've used it on several computers, some of them fairly decent fast processors.. and the preview mode is really sluggish and makes it tough to get an accurate guage of your settings. usually have to export a swf and then view it outside of sqirlz to test. kind of a hassle.
Pros:
pretty versatile, possible to create pretty realistic effects, and FREE.
Cons:
poor (no) documentation, strange undesirable behavior when using alpha channels, sluggish settings previews More