Water Color Painting Effect in Photoshop

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I recently learned how to do a pretty neat water coloring effect within Photoshop. I used this on a Hawaii Picture of mine, but it is especially good to use a picture with high detail and many different colors/blends.

Here is the Before picture
Pic From Hawaii Before Effect

Here is the picture with the Water Coloring Effect!

Hawaii Water Color

Here are the steps.
1.Duplicate the background layer (your image) 3 times. (Cntrl + J or CMD + J is the shortcut)
2. Turn off the top 2 layers by clicking on the Layer Visability Icon (Eye Icon) in the layers palett.
3. Select the layer named ‘layer 1′ and Apply the Cutout Filter via Filter -> Artistic -> Cutout. The Settings are Levels = 4, Edge simplicity = 4, Edge Fidelity = 2. Then you will change the blend mode of layer 1 to ‘luminosity’.
4. Goto ‘Layer 1 Copy’ and allow visibility by clicking on the Eye Icon. Then, Apply the Dry Brush Filter by Filter -> Artistic -> Dry Brush. When the Dry Brush filter’s dialog box appears, set the Brush Size to 10, the Brush Detail to 10, and the Texture option to 3.
5. Finally you want to change the Blend mode option on ‘Layer 1 Copy’ from Normal to Screen.
6. Wollah! Your done! I hope you enjoyed this tutorial!

February 26, 2008 | Filed Under Photoshop

 

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One Response to “Water Color Painting Effect in Photoshop”

  1. Nick on February 27th, 2008 8:48 am

    That is pretty cool. I wish i had photoshop to do this.

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