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Subject: Watercolor / Oil Plugin that gives realistic results... or for that matter even

Superlite17 opened this issue on Jun 06, 2006 · 4 posts
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Superlite17 ( ) posted Tue, 06 June 2006 at 4:39 PM · edited Thu, 09 January 2025 at 10:13 AM

Hi everyone, and thanks for your time! I have some photos i need to do in simulated watercolor for a hospital. I have tried SEVERAL plugins and most of the results look psychadelic... like i dropped the camera in a lake, dried it out, and bam... wierd images. Not what they are lookin for, can you help me?

retrocity ( ) posted Tue, 06 June 2006 at 10:45 PM

Hi Superlite,  welcome to the forum. 

i've never really gotten good results via plugins but you can experiment with different filters and you might get the outcome you're looking for.  a couple of recommendations i have would be:

  1. make plenty of duplicate layers

  2. use different blend modes

  3. use quick mask to expose different parts of the image.

i know this isn't much help but alot of great stuff happens when you experiment

;)
retrocity

Superlite17 ( ) posted Tue, 06 June 2006 at 10:51 PM

Hi there, and thank you. I have not used quick mask... pardon my ignorance,,, but where is it??? And what does it do?

dreamer101 ( ) posted Tue, 06 June 2006 at 11:42 PM

I don't use a 3rd party plugin for watercolor. Each image is different when trying to make it look like watercolor. Here is what I do. You will have to play with the settings to get what you want.

  1. Filter > Stylize > Find Edges

  2. Edit > Fade Find Edges .. You can play with the opacity .. 20-25%

  3. Filter > Artistic > Dry Brush set at Brush Size = 0, Brush Detail = 10, Texture = 1 OR Watercolor set at Brush Detail = 14, Shadow Intensity = 0, Texture = 1

  4. Edit > Fade Dry Bush or Watercolor (whichever you chose to whatever opacity looks good)

  5. Filter > Sharpen > Unsharp Mask

Or what retrocity said. lol

 

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