Watercolor look in PS, please help!!!!

Jennie53231 · Jan 10, 2002

Hi Everyone

I own my own photography studio and I love the "watercolor look" on watercolor paper. I currently have PS 5.0LE and i've been trying to learn this technique in the last few days. I know very little about PS.

Please come check out my samples at my web site at tell me what you think. If there is anything you add? change? and if so, how would you do it (need directions!)

Also, if anyone knows "how" to do this with PS5.0LE i'd love to learn!

Thanks, Jennie
http://www.pbase.com/babycakes/inbox&browse=Y
--Murph

Jack A. Zucker · Jan 10, 2002

The wc effect looks blotchy in the baby's skin tones. Water color effects are really tough to do for portraits. Another thing to experiment with is the dry brush filter. It produces effects that yield the same feel as the WC filter in my opinion.

Remember that your filter settings need to change for each print or screen size.

Jaz-- http://www.jackzucker.com

Jennie53231 · Jan 10, 2002

I was using the dry brush in all the photo's i did. Anything else you'd recommend? Thanks, jennie

PS: which is blotchy?

Jack A. Zucker said:
The wc effect looks blotchy in the baby's skin tones. Water color
effects are really tough to do for portraits. Another thing to
experiment with is the dry brush filter. It produces effects that
yield the same feel as the WC filter in my opinion.

Remember that your filter settings need to change for each print or
screen size.

Jaz
--
http://www.jackzucker.com

--Murph

Jack A. Zucker · Jan 10, 2002

Jennie said:
I was using the dry brush in all the photo's i did. Anything else
you'd recommend? Thanks, jennie

PS: which is blotchy?

The bottom right one on your pbase page had blotchy skin. What settings were you using for the dry brush? -- http://www.jackzucker.com

Jennie53231 · Jan 10, 2002

I believe it was 5 10 1 or 10 10 1 ...
that was the one i was not "happy" about..

i used the gaussian over it a little too to try & smooth out

what settings do you use?

can you tell me what you do when you do this affect? have any samples?
im practicing now with another photo

thanks, jennie

Jack A. Zucker said:
Jennie said:

I was using the dry brush in all the photo's i did. Anything else
you'd recommend? Thanks, jennie

PS: which is blotchy?

Click to expand...

The bottom right one on your pbase page had blotchy skin. What
settings were you using for the dry brush?
--
http://www.jackzucker.com

--Murph

Rick Murtha · Jan 10, 2002

Jennie

Checkout the plug-ins at this URL:

http://www.fo2pix.com

These work very well

Rick

Jennie said:
i used the gaussian over it a little too to try & smooth out

what settings do you use?

can you tell me what you do when you do this affect? have any samples?
im practicing now with another photo

thanks, jennie

Jack A. Zucker said:

Jennie said:

I was using the dry brush in all the photo's i did. Anything else
you'd recommend? Thanks, jennie

PS: which is blotchy?

Click to expand...

The bottom right one on your pbase page had blotchy skin. What
settings were you using for the dry brush?
--
http://www.jackzucker.com

Click to expand...

--
Murph

Bernie I. · Jan 10, 2002

I'm a wedding/portrait photographer and I've been doing digital watercolor and oil

effects on my images and printing them on canvas & watercolor paper for about 6 yrs

and my clients love it. I use Painter 5, a natural media painting program, I love the results. If you'd like to see a sample email me at;
[email protected] I.

Jennie53231 · Jan 10, 2002

I did DL it earlier, but it's not working? is ther something im suppose to do? If i DL the "trial" plug in again & it works.. what are the "steps" in that program for doing it?

Rick said:
Checkout the plug-ins at this URL:

http://www.fo2pix.com

These work very well

Rick

Jennie said:

i used the gaussian over it a little too to try & smooth out

what settings do you use?

can you tell me what you do when you do this affect? have any samples?
im practicing now with another photo

thanks, jennie

Jack A. Zucker said:

Jennie said:

I was using the dry brush in all the photo's i did. Anything else
you'd recommend? Thanks, jennie

PS: which is blotchy?

Click to expand...

The bottom right one on your pbase page had blotchy skin. What
settings were you using for the dry brush?
--
http://www.jackzucker.com

Click to expand...

--
Murph

Click to expand...

--Murph

Barry14748 · Jan 10, 2002

Here's a link to some interesting software if you're into watercolor (Photoshop plugin):

http://www.fo2pix.com/

Barry14748 · Jan 10, 2002

Here's a couple of quick samples with buzz Professional:

MaryJK · Jan 11, 2002

http://www.reallyusefulpage.com/techniques/pen-ink.htm
Mary

John Davis · Jan 11, 2002

If you are after a soft-portrait-look you may want to investigate the following jes' soft-focus "dreamy" PS action:

http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/coolato/digitaltechniques.html

John

Jennie said:
Hi Everyone

I own my own photography studio and I love the "watercolor look" on
watercolor paper. I currently have PS 5.0LE and i've been trying
to learn this technique in the last few days. I know very little
about PS.

Please come check out my samples at my web site at tell me what you
think. If there is anything you add? change? and if so, how would
you do it (need directions!)

Also, if anyone knows "how" to do this with PS5.0LE i'd love to learn!

Thanks, Jennie
http://www.pbase.com/babycakes/inbox&browse=Y

--
Murph

Jennie53231 · Jan 11, 2002

Barry.. I've visited this link & have tried to DL the plug in. Im having problems though. WHICH plug in do you DL ?? Im doing the lite one. After it's DL then what? I have PS 5.0LE. I open PS up, and a photo, then look under "filters" and there is nothing there. That was w/the Buzz Pro plug in, now im DL the lite one.

Jennie

Barry said:
Here's a link to some interesting software if you're into
watercolor (Photoshop plugin):

http://www.fo2pix.com/

--Murph

Jennie53231 · Jan 11, 2002

One more question. Do I extract the file??? then what?

Jennie said:
Jennie

Barry said:

Here's a link to some interesting software if you're into
watercolor (Photoshop plugin):

http://www.fo2pix.com/

Click to expand...

--
Murph

--Murph

Jennie53231 · Jan 11, 2002

Thanks Mary

Mary said:
http://www.reallyusefulpage.com/techniques/pen-ink.htm
Mary

--Murph

Jennie53231 · Jan 11, 2002

John, YES that is awsome. Do you know how they do this? What S/W they use? Jenniue

John Davis said:
http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/coolato/digitaltechniques.html

John

Jennie said:

Hi Everyone

I own my own photography studio and I love the "watercolor look" on
watercolor paper. I currently have PS 5.0LE and i've been trying
to learn this technique in the last few days. I know very little
about PS.

Please come check out my samples at my web site at tell me what you
think. If there is anything you add? change? and if so, how would
you do it (need directions!)

Also, if anyone knows "how" to do this with PS5.0LE i'd love to learn!

Thanks, Jennie
http://www.pbase.com/babycakes/inbox&browse=Y

--
Murph

Click to expand...

--Murph

Jennie53231 · Jan 11, 2002

Barry, that is really cool. Can you show me that affect on a person? Do you mind??? Im TRYING to DL this plug in trial, and I can't get it to work

Jen

Barry said:
Here's a couple of quick samples with buzz Professional:

--Murph

Anh Nguyen · Jan 11, 2002

It is a Photoshop Action (in other words, an automatic filter or "macro") that you download from the same site.

Unfortunately, it doesn't work with LE, you have to have the full version of Photoshop.

Jennie said:
John Davis said:

If you are after a soft-portrait-look you may want to investigate
the following jes' soft-focus "dreamy" PS action:

http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/coolato/digitaltechniques.html

John

Click to expand...

--Anh Nguyen

Barry14748 · Jan 11, 2002

If you've got a photo that you'd like for me to use the plugin on, post a link or email it to me and I can either repost the results here or send it back to you. I'll look for a good people pic on my end also.

As far as getting the plugin to work for you, it should be under "Filters" down at the bottom of the list. When you installed it, it did point to the correct plugin folder for Photoshop, right? I don't think it would have a problem working under PS5 LE but I'm using PS6. I'll check the readme file to see.

Jennie said:
Barry, that is really cool. Can you show me that affect on a
person? Do you mind??? Im TRYING to DL this plug in trial, and I
can't get it to work

Jen

Bill Brosen · Jan 11, 2002

Jennie said:
Hi Everyone

I own my own photography studio and I love the "watercolor look" on
watercolor paper. I currently have PS 5.0LE and i've been trying
to learn this technique in the last few days. I know very little
about PS.

Please come check out my samples at my web site at tell me what you
think. If there is anything you add? change? and if so, how would
you do it (need directions!)

Also, if anyone knows "how" to do this with PS5.0LE i'd love to learn!

Thanks, Jennie
http://www.pbase.com/babycakes/inbox&browse=Y

--
Murph

One thing I do for a water color effect is too put a gaussian blur to the image in Ps then convert useing the filter for water color that comes with Ps. Use gaussian blur spareingly to blur the finer details, experiment until you get the look you want, it works well for me..hope this helps, email me for any questions...ps u can even enhance the colors too to help with the effect either before or after the watercolor filter is applied -- http://www.pbase.com/wbrosen/photoart

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