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Question Reproducing Underwater Sunbeams

Basically I just want to know the steps you would take to reproduce this water scene - especially the sunbeams - in Photoshop.
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Not having tried this exact thing, this is generally what I'd try:

At first glance, the sunbeams look like the fibers filter, faded out and set on one of the "light" opacity settings, ex. hard light, soft light, pin light, etc. Experiment with that and see what you get.

As for the water, start with three water layers. One is the background, probably with a gradient, starting light at the horizon and deepening as it goes down. Next, have a layer for flotsam and particulates. Put your light and intermediate objects (like the water balloons) on top of this one.A filter should be useful for this. Lastly, put a layer of a solid color in front to indicate a tint from the color of the water.
EDIT: flotsam layer: monochromatic, gaussian noise on middle gray bg, then gaussian blur 1.2 px. Blend mode: multiply 60%
I'm not sure about the various blending modes, so those will obviously need some tinkering. I'm also not sure about generating the surface from this angle using filters, but there are tutorials on that from directly below here.

Hope that helps! I'll weigh in again if I figure out a good way to get the surface from an angle, but try making a really big version of the tutorial, then using the perspective filter.

EDIT: Here's a really cheap demo of the water effect to illustrate the idea. Took about 20 mins. because I figured it out as I went. Starting from the tutorial, stock settings.
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Here are a couple of tutorials for creating sunbeams, which you might be able to adapt:

Photoshop Tutorials - Adding Sunlight Through The Trees

How to Break Sunlight Through the Clouds - PSDTUTS

and here is a tutorial that gives an "underwater" effect:

Underwater Room in Adobe Photoshop

Mix and match these techniques and I think you'll be most of the way there.
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Thanks guys, I'll try those.
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Here's Culann's excellent image, with sunbeams added by me - following the "Adding Sunlight Through The Trees" tutorial.
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Messing around I came up with this.

Kinda cool I think
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Hey, there you go! Good job!
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Yep - that looks pretty good to me.
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love your steampunk sig tamlin!
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love your steampunk sig tamlin!
Thanks - I was rather pleased with the way it turned out.
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