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undefinedundefinedundefined I found this article on the internet and I have not gotten the "Best" results from it. I am going to try playing around with it some more. :
undefinedundefinedundefined I found this article on the internet and I have not gotten the "Best" results from it. I am going to try playing around with it some more. :
Hello, Annamaria:
Welcome and thanks for sharing your thoughts.
By "undefinedUNDEFINEDundefined" did you mean you were unable to click the link in the post and get to the tutorial? Worked fine for me just now, but who knows.
RE: You haven't gotten the best results.
Well, that happens. Not all techniques work on all photos. Fact is watercolor is very difficult to achieve using Photoshop.
On this one I used a combination of methods:
1. I made a copy of the image and used this tutorial as a basis. Note: I used a 36 px chalk brush, blend mode lighten and opacity of ~25%. I duplicated and flattened the final result.
2. I made another copy of the image and applied Mike Finn's Watercolor action (see previous post for link). Flattened this version, too.
3. Using the Image > Apply Image command, I combined these images (blend mode, Hard Light) at about 80% opacity.
4. Added a layer for the stroke frame.
Note: The final outcome is highly dependent on the Art History Brush (first) image.
This is billed as a "watercolor" technique (Todd's title, not mine), but if you know anything about true watercolor paintings or have ever seen one up close, this isn't even close. That said it is an interesting method that might come in handy someday...
Although the method in this tutorial is described in terms of Corel Painter, it will work in Photoshop or PhotoPaint or any application that supports layers and blend modes.
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