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ErickN
i'm kinded of new here. (been awhile) ya did really good. Thanks this is why I'm back here.
changing Handle to BCh250-255 soon.
http://www.qix.net/~eash/shooting_by_histogram.htm
Michael
SD10, 24-70mm EX, 70-200mm EX, 20mm EX, 2x TC, Flash 500 DG Super SA-N
i'm kinded of new here. (been awhile) ya did really good. Thanks this is why I'm back here.
--wrote:
Thank you all for your nice words !
My workflow was kind of trial and error, trying to mimic the
real-world watercolor workflow, that is :
To recreate this in photoshop, I did the following :
- choose a nice textured paper
- draw a rough sketch showing the main outlines
- paint the large flat areas with a large soft brush and lot of water
- paint the details with a smaller brush
- bright areas almost receive no paint at all (the paper show through)
1. Paper :
2. Paint and water :
- create a layer and fill it with flat white
- add a Hue/Sat. adjustment layer to fine tune the paper color
- add a textured layer on top of all layers (overlay blend mode)
3. Sketch drawing :
- duplicate the original photo and apply the watercolor filter
- add a layer mask to mask the whole layer
- add a Hue/Sat. and curves adjustment layers to fine tune the colors
Here's a screenshot of the layers panel :
- duplicate the original photo and convert it to B/W
- apply an smart blur to the B/W, with edge detection
- invert the layer to get black on white strokes
- add a layer mask to clear the outer borders
- adjust opacity to make the outlines more or less visible
When those layers were set up, I selected watercolor brushes and
painted with white color in the "Paint layer" mask to reveal the
colors underneath. The brushes I used are called (in French)
"Aquarelle humide à pointe plate" and "Aquarelle à petite pointe
ronde", which could be translated to "Flat wet watercolor brush"
and "Small round watercolor brush" (don't know the names in english
version of PS). The opacity of the brushes was set to 100%, but I
made it sensitive to my tablet pen's pressure.
Try not to fill the whole painting with a flat and uniform layer,
but rather work by adding up thin layers of "paint" as you'd do
with real watercolors. If you've been too "heavy handed" on some
parts, you can always fix it by painting back the layer mask with
black.
Well, in fact, the workflow is simpler than it sounds. But for
those who are frightened by all this stuff, I made an action (PS
CS) which sets up all the layers automatically (with customization
steps), so all that's left to do is select your prefered brush and
begin to paint. While recording the action, I changed all the
default names (new layers,...) because I work on a french version
of PS. So it should run flawlessly on other language versions.
Here it is :
http://ggw.online.fr/dpreview/Actions/ErickN%20Watercolor.atn
Hope this helps,
Have fun !
Erick
changing Handle to BCh250-255 soon.
http://www.qix.net/~eash/shooting_by_histogram.htm
Michael
SD10, 24-70mm EX, 70-200mm EX, 20mm EX, 2x TC, Flash 500 DG Super SA-N
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