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You might have wondered about the Animate and Animate Fast when using Wave 3D. By repeatedly pressing either, it creates a sort of 'flag effect', like a surface rippling and waving in the breeze. It seems to suggest only a surface undulation. To get something like a pool or water movement, it would have to be a small amplitude and the waves would have to hit just right on the crests and shadows of the water in the seamless image in order to suggest a realistic wave action, albeit under a light breeze. Otherwise, it will just look like a large blow up poster waving in the breeze, just with water printed on it. As for automatically saving the animation, it's not available yet in version 4.04. You'll just have to press, say, Animate Fast, copy the image, and paste into the next frame in the program you use for animated gifs. Then go back and hit Animate Fast again, copy, paste, and repeat. Time consuming, but since you generally don't want a lot of frames in any animated gif, anyway, there's a short upper limit, perhaps. But it's not automated, as of yet.
Very simple.
Take something like the Glazed Board
image and set the Relief as shown, here - just for example.
Without any color, it's a standard gray emboss.
In this example, it's just a slight emboss in 60% color, and
a little darker. The "light both sides" doesn't always work so well, but with
a slight 10% intensity, it smooths out the emboss a little.
Press the little green check mark to save it.
Then bring up the filter box again, but select bumps - and set
as shown here.
Slight pitmarking effect, which is kind of neat.
Also, furthermore, you can click the check mark to save, and then bring up the Colors menu and hit the Replace tab. Just press down and slide the mouse around in the "New color" palette (and see how the title bar color changes to match), and it will look like there's some lit background trying to 'peek' through the cracks in the image. Also kind of neat (original color defaults to black, so it just happens to work straight off, here).