Auqa effect, how do u make it?

Ok, i have Photoshop 7 and i have no clue how u all do the auqafying effect. I can do it in Corel DRAW 10, but it looks crappy. Plz hlp. Ive tried everything!!!
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Try Googling for some tutorials...

'Aqua Effect Photoshop 7 Tutorial' or the like.
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Here's a few that I've used:

http://www.savva.com.au/forums/savva/forum/photoshop.asp
http://www.iheartny.com/xicons/tutorials/aqua.html
http://www.extremephotoshop.com/tutorials.aspx
http://home.zonnet.nl/epragt/tutorials/photoshop/index.jsp.htm

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Sometimes I do the really bodged method of creating a white ellipse and reducing the opacity to 45%.

Be warned though, it will only look acceptable on smaller images.
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http://www.zimmertech.com/tutorials_aquapills.html This is a PSP tutorial for Aqua Buttons, but it's very easy to follow and could probably be done just as easily in Photoshop