How to Create a Water Reflection Sports Poster in Canva

Welcome y'all. Today we are just going to jump right on into this and start designing our poster. So for this, I've got a regular poster size design from Canva. You can use any size. The technique is going to be the same. So the first thing you want to go and grab is your three images. So I need a football player, I need a stadium, and I need some water. So this water is called Marco water. There's not a lot of good water ones in there but that's the one I use. It's called Marco water and this image is just called stadium. So what I want to do is because I want my water over top, I'm gonna make sure my water fills the bottom and my stadium fills the top. I'm going to go in a position. I'm going to grab dude man. I'm going to put him at the top for the second and I'm going to background remove him and then I'm going to take this extra space off real quick and shove him inside. So now that I have these kind of lined up of how I want it to look. I'll make sure I got a little room here in the top. I don't want to get rid of. So this is going to show you kind of where your water is going to come up to and what's going to show at the bottom of this image. So when they blend together. So the next thing I want to do is I want to head over to apps. I'm going to type in image blender enter and they'll be like this purple icon which might change over time. But for now it is purple and I want to go into here. I am going to grab my water picture. I'm going to go into linear. Now I want my face to be at the top. So I'm going to take this bottom piece and swing it on around here and then I'm going to kind of like see where it's going with this and then I can move it to see how much I want to fade it. I'm going to keep it at 50 between 40 and 50 for here for my strength and then I'm going to add it to the design. Now I'm going to grab my first one. As you can see the little lines didn't pop up. So a way to fix that is just go into radial and then come back out into linear. So just click radial and then click back to linear and then you'll see that. So now I want to go and I want to fade this down to around here and I want to keep it. Let's keep it in between 40 and 50. And that's just going to be a preference. You can play around with it and see what you like the best. So I'm going to save that. Now as you can see because they're faded together right here. I'm going to do I'm going to go into my position tab. I am going to grab the background and I am going to change it to black right here. And that's going to take that and get that all faded out and kind of help that blend go together better. So now we're done with our image blender. What I want to do now is I want to duplicate my water and line my water back up over top. Once I've done that I want to grab my player and as you can see he's sinking into the water. So we can go and then we're going to make him as large as we want to make him. Let's make him that large. Center him up. And there you go. We're going to go and go into positions tab. So if he's not sinking into the water what you want to do is you want to have a water on top your player in the center and a water behind. So there you go there. That's your player in the water. Now let's work on the reflection. So I'm going to grab dude man. I'm going to duplicate him. I'm going to come up here and flip him vertically. And then I am going to reduce him down to where I want that reflection to come from. So we're going to do elbows. Let's do elbows. I'm going to do elbows. So that's good. So I want to turn the transparency down. Let's turn the transparency down down down down down down. And you can leave it like that. I also go a little bit a step further when I do it. So I'm going to leave this between 15 and 20 for my transparency. I'm going to go into edit. I'm going to go in and adjust. I'm going to take the sharpness up some because when you do that some of the lines in the photo will get kind of crisp and the clarity sort of crisp them up. So it kind of gives it that little water thing. So if you kind of look at this it almost starts to look like it's almost like I don't know more like a cartoony hand drawn thing in there. And the other thing I want to do after that is go in here and just add a smidge the whole image of blur not too hard. We'll go to you can see just a little bit of blur coming in the photo and then add that to the image. Come on. All right. Well and there you go. And there is your reflection. So. And that's how easy that is. It's really simple. Once you get the technique down it's only going to take you a few minutes to do. Very easy. And then you can add whatever bells and whistles if you want to add some light color. We'll just go down a little teeny rabbit hole for a second. Go to elements. Let's recently use. What did I do. You can add if you want to kind of darken the bottom up and add some smoke at the bottom there to even make it even more. And then what else did I do. Here's some of my water things. No I had a cool other smoke thing I use. Let's just see. Smoke. Yes I'm I'm rabbit holing with you as I call it. And you can grab something like some smoke and something and maybe put that behind there. Put it behind his head and then have some smoke. And let's say your smoke looks a little too large. Here's a little trick to go and edit and then just take that blur. If you hear there's a German shepherd yelling at something I don't know what. And just get that and then just get that like little like wispy stuff behind him. So that's like some little tricks you can do to kind of spice it up a little bit. And that's how you do it. Easy peasy lemon squeezy. I'm Michelle. Thank you for stopping by. I hope to see you on the next one. Bye.