Spring Woods - Animated

(*~plz hit view larger or download to see this moving! ~*) My friend wendy took this pic. Go to her gallery at wiebkefesch.deviantart.com to see the orginal. she gave me gracious permission to play with this great thing. it's an awesome shot to begin with, and you feel as thought you are standing there.....and i wanted to extend this idea a bit, and make you REALLY feel as though you are standing there. if you wonder how i did this, i selected the water (using the mask tool and paintbrush tool in a small size helps select hard to select areas like small twigs/branches!!) then, i went to distort>ocean ripple, and chose settings that were as realistic as possible. i slightly changed the settings for each frame, then added sunshine by going to render>lens flare, and did the same slight settings for each frame. this is how you make your gif move sucessfully, small adjustments (or big ones if your images requires it, but a series of small adjustments looks more realistic.) then i put the set of frames into animation shop, and worked the frame properties for that. and...viola!