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1. Open your image. If the image already have a lake, select it: click the freehand tool, point to point, feather 0, antialias unchecked. Then, Selections, Save to Alpha Channel. 2. If the image don't have a lake, do the following to create one: Copy the image to clipboard, Image, Add borders, Symetric unchecked, add 50% percent of the image height in bottom, ok. 3. Edit, paste as new layer, Image, Flip. 4. Click the deformation tool and stretch the height of your image, then accomodate to fit as the lake area. 5. Open your layer palette and hide the background. Click your new layer, click the blank portion of canvas with magic wand and Selections, Invert, Selections save to alpha channel. 6. Show up your background again. Keep the lake selected (marching ants). If at one point you don't have the lake selected, just click Selections, Load From Alpha Channel. Layers, merge all. We are ready to apply the special effect! The following example show the lake selected with freehand tool:  7. Click Image, Deformations, Wave:  8. Use the following settings for the first effect (remember you are going to save 3 or 4 images:  9. Be sure you have merged all the layers. Save the image as 1.psp. Undo to apply the second effect and repeat step 7. Do the same to the other images. Just keep Amplitude (I recommend to use 2 - 4 here) while you add 1 to Wave Length everytime. Do nothing to Vertical Displacement (keep 0 and 1), we are going to use the Horizontal Displacement only. Do it to every image you are going to add effect for the animation. Remember, simply undo and apply effect with above settings, then merge the layers and save as 1.psp, 2.psp, 3.psp, 4.psp 10. Run the Animation Shop. Use the Wizard with these settings checked: Same size as the first image frame, Transparent, Centered in the frame, With the canvas color, Yes, repeat the animation indefinitely and 22th of a second. Use your .psp images and test the animation. Save as .gif using high quality This is your animated lake using PSP 6 or 7 only!!!
With more practice, you can start playing around with the settings of step #8 to get the perfect effect for your own image. Here another example:
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