Watercolor look in PS, please help!!!!

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If you click on history brush and hold it down there will be a pop up menu then you will se the art history brush--dogcrazyD 400 ZOOMpbase.com/dogcrazy http://www.pbase.com/dogcrazy

Jennie,

I don't know if you're asking for opinions about the photography on your website, or the whole thing in general. If it's the former, I think your photos are lovely, but I do have one little problem with the website design.

This is just me, and may not bother others a bit, but I don't like scrolling horizontally in order to see everything that's there. This probably would not occur if I had my monitor set at a higher resolution, (mine's at 800x600 on a 19" monitor) but my eyes just aren't good enough to see detail that small.

Hi Jennie,

I haven't looked in to your album yet, but I have bookmarked it and will go there soon.

As I tried the watercolour look the first time last Thursday I haven't tried so many motives yet. But here is two samples of

people. One of my daughters second-cousin, little Julia on her 4th birthday. She is very much into being a Princess now, so

we bought her a Princess dress, that's the one she's wearing on the pic. She was soooo happy.

The other one is of my daughter Niki. It's not changed so very much, I kept the natural colours, but if you look at it closely
you will see it looks a bit like a painting, notably the background.





Bye,

Eva

freeman, I appreciate your feedback. i had someone do the web site for me. what exactly do you mean? how would it look "better"?? Thanks, Jennie

freeman said:

Jennie,

I don't know if you're asking for opinions about the photography on
your website, or the whole thing in general. If it's the former, I
think your photos are lovely, but I do have one little problem with
the website design.
This is just me, and may not bother others a bit, but I don't like
scrolling horizontally in order to see everything that's there.
This probably would not occur if I had my monitor set at a higher
resolution, (mine's at 800x600 on a 19" monitor) but my eyes just
aren't good enough to see detail that small.

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--Murph

Eva, very nice!!!! Email me off line, I'd love to discuss this with you, see how "your" doing it, and show you some more of mine I've done, to hear what you think? It would be nice to share our ideas, if you'd like. Thanks, jennie

[email protected]

Eva Åström said:

Hi Jennie,

I haven't looked in to your album yet, but I have bookmarked it and
will go there soon.
As I tried the watercolour look the first time last Thursday I
haven't tried so many motives yet. But here is two samples of
people. One of my daughters second-cousin, little Julia on her 4th
birthday. She is very much into being a Princess now, so
we bought her a Princess dress, that's the one she's wearing on the
pic. She was soooo happy.
The other one is of my daughter Niki. It's not changed so very
much, I kept the natural colours, but if you look at it closely
you will see it looks a bit like a painting, notably the background.





Bye,

Eva

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--Murph

Hello Everyone,

I've been so impressed by this process, that I tried it myself.........

http://www.pbase.com/image/989143

Your thoughts, suggestions?

David Perry

Jennie said:

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Eva Åström said:

Hi Jennie,

I haven't looked in to your album yet, but I have bookmarked it and
will go there soon.
As I tried the watercolour look the first time last Thursday I
haven't tried so many motives yet. But here is two samples of
people. One of my daughters second-cousin, little Julia on her 4th
birthday. She is very much into being a Princess now, so
we bought her a Princess dress, that's the one she's wearing on the
pic. She was soooo happy.
The other one is of my daughter Niki. It's not changed so very
much, I kept the natural colours, but if you look at it closely
you will see it looks a bit like a painting, notably the background.





Bye,

Eva

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--
Murph

Click to expand...

--David Perry

Try using the median filter. That filter gives you blocks of color rather than keeping much detail. Duplicate the layers then go to Filter> noise> median fool with the settings until you like the result. Select the unfiltered layer and run the filter> blur> unsharp mask set to edge only (high quality). Then invert the result. Put the edges over the other layer and set the layer style to soft light. Use white and the paint brush to get rid of some of the edges for a softer look.

This is basically the same technique as is talked about on the web page about pen and ink but it gives a softer result.

You can also run the median filter and then use the water color filter in PS to make it look more like water color.

There are so many ways to acheive similar results in PS.

Cricket