watercolor effect
Eric Schweikardt
I'm fairly new to PS and could use some help. Can anyone tell me how to
get a watercolor effct on a photo.
Thanks Eric
Roger A. Moncrief
Eric,
You can play with the Gallery Effects watercolor filter. I understand it
shipped with PS 4. If you have an earlier version you will have to
purchase Gallery Effects seperately if you can find it.
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Bob Curwood
Eric Schweikardt <e...@localnet.com> wrote:
:>I'm fairly new to PS and could use some help. Can anyone tell me how
This probably isnt what you had in mind Eric, but I once (accidently)
printed a photo that came out looking like a Van Gogh painting - by
using HP plotter paper in my HP inkjet!
The result was hilarious - though it took weeks to properly dry...
Bob
Brandon Blatcher
In article <346d0afe....@news.millennianet.com>,
lja...@diversify.com wrote:
>Eric Schweikardt <e...@localnet.com> wrote:
>
>>I'm fairly new to PS and could use some help. Can anyone tell me how to
>>get a watercolor effct on a photo.
>
>With version 3.0.5, it came on the CD as the Gallery Effects sampler.
>In version 4.0, it's part of the included filters.
That filter looks like crap.
Trying laying vellum over the photo and doing watercolors on the vellum,
based on the photo reference. It doesn't have to be exact or great. Then
scan the watercolors in and layer them with the photo. Play with opacity
and layer modes. You'll find something intereting.
But for god's sake stay away from the filter.
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Eric Schweikardt <e...@localnet.com> wrote:
>I'm fairly new to PS and could use some help. Can anyone tell me how to
>get a watercolor effct on a photo.
With version 3.0.5, it came on the CD as the Gallery Effects sampler.
In version 4.0, it's part of the included filters.
Doesn't anyone look through the menus any more?!? (And RTFM, eh?)
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In article <nomadicSPAMBLOCK-ya024...@news.mindspring.com>, nomadicS...@mindspring.com (Brandon Blatcher) writes:
|> In article <346d0afe....@news.millennianet.com>,
|> lja...@diversify.com wrote:
|>
|> >Eric Schweikardt <e...@localnet.com> wrote:
|> >
|> >>I'm fairly new to PS and could use some help. Can anyone tell me how to
|> >>get a watercolor effct on a photo.
|> >
|> >With version 3.0.5, it came on the CD as the Gallery Effects sampler.
|> >In version 4.0, it's part of the included filters.
|>
|> That filter looks like crap.
|>
|> Trying laying vellum over the photo and doing watercolors on the vellum,
|> based on the photo reference. It doesn't have to be exact or great. Then
|> scan the watercolors in and layer them with the photo. Play with opacity
|> and layer modes. You'll find something intereting.
|>
|> But for god's sake stay away from the filter.
I would say to stay away from the filter unless you know what the filter
will do and *that* is what you want. I wouldn't call it watercolor,
though. The same is true for a number of other Gallery Effects imports.
But for those of us who are pretty much restricted to working in Photoshop
(as opposed to working offline and scanning), what are the possibilities?
These are some things I've tinkered with. Some of these are described
pretty well in some basic books (e.g., Adobe's Classroom in a Book); others
are from playing around. (note: "playing around" is a basic Photoshop
skill, too.)
One trick is to desaturate the photo (or parts of it), then on a new layer,
paint with a wet-edged brush. Experiment with things like setting the
layer mode to "color" and with reducing the opacity of the brush tool
(tool options palette).
In a very different context, I've been able to apply texture to a photo
by adding a texture layer beneath the photo, then changing the photo
layer's mode to "color." The underlying texture should be entirely in
grayscale; if you import a colored texture, desaturate it. This might work
for creating a paper texture and "printing" the photo on that paper.
(Note that you can kill the "background" attribute of a background layer
by double-clicking on the layer and renaming it. Once you've done that,
you can move the layer or move layers under it just as with any other layer.)
Another trick for eliminating the "photorealistic" nature of a photograph
is to duplicate the photo layer (as many times as necessary) and apply
different filters to some of the layers, then to drop the opacity of the
upper layers *way* down (25% or so) so that the different effects build on
each other. A good base layer (keep at 100% opacity) is the cutout filter
with controls set to preserve as much detail as needed (more edge fidelity,
more levels). Putting the photo on top of that at low opacity restores
some detail but keeps the "blocking" of colors done by the cutout filter.
You can even stack the watercolor filter effect this way, but do keep the
opacity low on this layer!
I don't know that any of these would approach a true watercolor effect,
though. Anyone else have some possibilities?
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