2 mins? Man, you sure can do a lot of damage in a short time.

Thats the plan

get a new leaf
blur it a bit,
and do what marco did.

add some noise or texture, then paint the highlights with a "lighten" or "overlay" layer.. blur and blend (on a new layer)..

then create a new layer and merge visable (cnt-alt-shft-e) on it.. set that on overlay and blur!!! quite a bit!!.. lower the Opacity to taste (perhaps lower the saturation too)

Merge visable on a new layer and use "sharpen more".. set to luminosity and set the opacity to taste.. mask out the bad spots..

merge Visable again on a new layer and set that to color.. blur alot..., and set the opacity again..


the above would be my way..

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if you really want easy depth then create a path around the bug.. and bevel with layer options.. then mask.

either way.. get a new leaf

Rey did you use graidents to get that shiny ARMOUR-ALL look......or wet i guess is the word i am looking for....ARMOUR-ALL. ...is that even in the PS dictionary.....it should be.

yep. selections made with pen tool, Gradients and airbrush.

RR and FF made it glass-like. I wanted to give it just a polish

original


update

thanks for the replies guys it's been very helpful...

i see that there are many different aproaches to this...

so now i'll have to experiment

Voks got his industrial bug buffer out I see... Bliiiiiiiiiing

Are the water drops upside down? I thought the light comes through to the lower side....same side as the shadow?

YES.... ....i am learning this stuff..... .now i just need to work on being able to use it.....ooohhh well.... what's life without a few challanges.

well i may have been wrong about the drops... i'm not too good at telling where the light comes from most of the time

That's why I fixed them in my image. See on page 1

There's a happy bug" in your world you can make him any way you like.

dang if he did'nt... ...i am like Nevet....it's hard to tell where the light source is, at times....if i don't have any shadows to go by.....i just go with the lighter colored part of the picture.

Nevet...are the bug and leaf.....the reason you wanted to know about water drops the other week.....if so....you did do a good job on making the drops.


EDIT: Mikey.....AND...maybe ..... he has a little friend right over here......because everyone needs a friend....even our little bug buddy. I love me some BOB....he was more laid back than the Dali'lama. I'm thinking POT...i don't want to say he was smoking it....but i would bet, he could smell it from time to time.