Waving Flag
7) Create two new layers and name the one Highlights and the other Shadows.
Select the highlights layer, pick the “Rectangle Marque Tool” (M) and make sure that the option checked is “Add to selection 
Then select four vertical rectangles and fill them with a dark grey. After you have done this you should have something like this
9) Without deselecting select the shadows layer and go to “Select” -> “Inverse” and fill the selection with the same color and finally deselect (”Select” -> “Deselect”)
10) You should now have the shadows layer selected.
Go to “Filter” -> “Blur” -> “Gaussian Blur” and use a radius of 15.
You may need to play around with the settings depending on the size of your original file. For reference, the image that I used for this tutorial was 1000*600 pixels.
11) Go to “Filter” -> “Distort” -> “Shear” and use the settings we last used for the flag
12) Select the highlights layer and repeat steps 10 and 11
13) Click on the flag layer while having Ctrl pressed. Invert the selection. Now you should have a selection that includes everything but the flag. First select the Shadows layer and hit Del and then the Highlights layer and hit Del again
14) Set the blending mode of the Highlights layer to “Screen” and the Opacity at 60%. Finally set the Opacity of the shadows layer to 40% (leave the blending mode to normal). We are all done, you should now have your waving flag on a transparent background ready to be used for your graphic or web design projects.
This is my final result
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November 14th, 2005 at 6:59 pm
nice tutorials, thanks for sharing your knoeledge in photoshop
November 15th, 2005 at 7:03 am
thanks u very much i shall try this tutorial
November 16th, 2005 at 4:04 pm
Thankyou! that is so fun.. cept I have a problem that’s keeping me from doing it, that maybe you could help with..
The part were you select the objects, and the “add to selection” button.. okay.. umm.. A couple of months ago, that tool bar dissapered.. and I have been looking for it ever since… do you know how I get that back?
THANKYOU!!!
-Jenn
November 16th, 2005 at 4:22 pm
not bad…
November 16th, 2005 at 6:04 pm
nice
this is gorgeous and ever so patriotic, i will forever thank you.
November 16th, 2005 at 8:13 pm
I’ve tried out the tutorial - I’ve achieved a similar but better effect!
Thanks mate!
November 18th, 2005 at 11:31 am
Thanks for the nice comments
November 29th, 2005 at 2:50 am
thanks for the wonderful tutorial. photoshop is very interesting… it makes a photo to a real image view
November 29th, 2005 at 2:52 am
That was a nice tutorial. A new lesson that i learnt…
November 29th, 2005 at 10:27 am
this thing is narnley like bob marley
November 30th, 2005 at 5:30 am
such a nice and easy tut
November 30th, 2005 at 10:06 am
nice tut…………hey jenny…..the tool box is in window option on top…….
December 1st, 2005 at 2:37 am
thanx for this tutorial it enhanced my interest
December 3rd, 2005 at 10:46 am
thanxs this is a new type and very creative tutorial
December 7th, 2005 at 4:55 am
nice and creative….
December 11th, 2005 at 8:35 am
really nice tutorial. thnx.
December 12th, 2005 at 5:49 am
Really very fantastic and great go ahead
December 14th, 2005 at 2:22 am
nice try but the shadows need a 3d effect at least
December 14th, 2005 at 3:10 pm
Dear PSLOVER:
Thanks for the awesome photoshop tutorials. I will especially use the wavy USA flag technique in my future computer drawings.
Thanks
Sara
December 18th, 2005 at 11:04 pm
Very good totorial.. I really enjoyed..
December 20th, 2005 at 2:53 am
Nice way to wave a Flag