How to give ripple effect in Photoshop

Ripple Effect
Preview:

Step1. Choose a picture.

Step2. Create a new file.

Step3. Create a new layer, and put the picture in the layer.

Step4. Create a new layer, use ellipse tool to draw as following picture.
Ellipse tool

Step5. Press ctrl and click on the layer C's thumbnail to select this layer.

Step6. Press Alt+Shift+D to open the Feather Selection window.
Set as following.

Step7. Go to "layer1", Press Ctrl+J,copy the selected part.

Step8. Go to Layer 2, Press Shift+Ctrl+X to Open the Liquify window.

Step9. Use Bloat tool draw on the circles.

Result:

Step10. Go to Layer "C", Ctrl+T to transform this layer. Set as following picture.

Step11. Press Ctrl, and click on the thumbnail of Layer "C" to select it.

Step12. Same as before, Ctrl+Alt+D open feather selection window, set radius 6.
Go to Layer 1, press Ctrl+J copy selected part.
Press Ctrl+Shift+X again, Open the Liquify window and then use bloat tool to draw on the circles.
Step13. Repeat 4 times. (Don't forget to transform layer "C" each time.)
Result.

Step14. Go to Image ready. Open the Animation window.



Step15. Press the Duplicate Current Frame tool 5 times.
_ Duplicate Current Frame Tool

Step16. Set each frame stay 0.2 seconds.

Step17. Set each frame's layer option as below.
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Step18. Save it as Gif, Done!

Result.