Complex Water Reflections

I have to start off by apologizing for asking a question on my very first visit here... :( Sadly, I don't have a choice and if I don't find an answer to this question/figure out how to do this, my brain is going to explode and it's going to be messy.

(Working with Photoshop 7.0) Here's my problem: I have a picture of a woman coming out of a river. The river is banked with snake-like, winding ground with good sized grasses and a small layer of dirt layering to the water level.

For the life of me I can not figure out how to get the land to reflect onto the water.

It's not a simple matter of copying the land and flipping it to fit, you see, or at least I don't think it is because I've tried it an failed so miserably...for two bloody days. Because of the fact that the ground touching the water isn't a straight line, and is instead clumpy and wiggly--as ground is--general procedures have failed me and I haven't been able to find any tutorials online.

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Is there any way someone could help me? Please?

Sound like you know your way around PS. Have you looked into displacement maps (like bump maps in 3D), not sure if they would help but it'w worth a punt.

I suppose you could try the shear or distort filters of some kind too, not sure if you are trying to emulate a rippled surface to the water.

As always a link to a picture would speak a thousand words.

Welcome to the forum

Yea hermit is right you should post a small picture so we can get a better understanding of what your working with...

Doesn't the liquify tool have a mirror option? Maybe you could draw the strokes in the shapes of the waves of water.

Sorry! I was so sleepy last night...Anyway, I added the picture above. The resolution in that screen shot is so terrible...

You might want to crop it, so 56kers don't download the useless parts of the image.

Ok, I cropped the picture. I really need help with this! *pathetic face*

try cloning just the brown portion and then blur/distort the cloned parts...

Look these tutorials: http://www.johnpaulcaponigro.com/masterclass/displacements_apple/index.html
(I know, apple removed some pages on its servers) or http://www.creativemac.com/2002/08_aug/tutorials/pswater1020801.htm and tis follow up: http://www.creativemac.com/2002/08_aug/tutorials/pswater2020822.htm