I am much more familiar with Adobe Illustrator than Photoshop so I'm looking for some tips on how to add a fountain/water spray into a photograph. I will attach one of the water sprays I have that I hope can be used. And a screenshot of the photograph where I'd like to apply it. Please walk me through the steps to make a natural fit for this effect, if possible. Thanks in advance!
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Copy the couple to a new layer and place above the fountain layer
Set the fountain layer to Screen
I removed the white border from the fountain because it would have shown.
I changed my mind. There is an edge with the fountain set to screen
So I Ctrl clicked the layer to load as a selection
Added a layer mask
Unlinked the mask from the layer.
Free Transform mask to make it smaller than the layer, and feathered the edge in Mask properties.
Edge gone
You could set the fountain layer to Lighten, but you loose the top half of the spray.
You look again at something like this, and you realise that something is missing. Where is that water going? It goes up, so it has to come down again (unless it is Kinder Downfall)
So copied the fountain layer, and free transformed to invert vertically, make it wider, warp to give the falling water a curved path, and masked a hole through the middle to let the original layer through.
I don't know if you'd call Kinder Scout a mountain. It is only 636 metres high, and as you can see from the topo map below, the top is almost flat. The prevailing wind comes from the west, and hits the bluff that extends about three kilometres but with that pronounced cleft, so funnelling the wind to ever greater speeds. I've walked it several times, and with the conditions like in the video, it would be difficult to stand close to the waterfall. So this is a guess, but at least 40MPH I'd say.
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