crabtrem Posted October 9, 2015 Share Posted October 9, 2015 Being an novice, this is my first success at trying to get a watercolor splash view. I didn't see this anywhere else, so I decided to post my attempt. There are probably better ways to do this, but I haven't gotten to that point yet. First. start with your image of the watercolor splash you want to use. I also loaded my image I wanted to use of the girl on a separate tab. So I copy the image of the girl and paste it over my watercolor splash image. I select the girl layer and I reduce it to a black and white. I used HSL adj layer and set saturation all the way down, but you can also use B&W adj layer too. Now I add a curves adj layer. I take the master channel. I slide the highlights (right top) node to the left. I adjust the shadows (left bottom) node to the right. I adjust for a high contrast image. Now in the layers menu, I rasterize to mask. You will now have the watercolor showing through the black and gray areas, all white areas are transparent. Now I unlock the watercolor layer and move, rotate, resize to adjust my display. I didn't modifying the mask, but I suppose you can. Once I get the picture to where I like it, I paste another copy of the girl photo in a new layer. I add an HSL or B&W adj layer and make a nice looking detailed image. I add a mask. Invert the mask, and now paint in the parts of the image with a hardness of zero, a flow I set to 12, and opacity I set to 12. You can play with this. Once I paint in hints of detail to complement the image, I then flatten this document. Last I added a rectangle shape placed it at the bottom, you can adjust color to choice, add a gradient, or whatever. And you are done. I hope you can find something useful. It is my first success at this, so I haven't figured out anything to simplify the process yet. Cheers. A_B_C, kja17, GrahamHCB and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted October 9, 2015 Share Posted October 9, 2015 That’s nice, crabtrem … cheers … :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrograde Posted October 9, 2015 Share Posted October 9, 2015 Nice effect! Lot's of potential. Quote http://www.kevincreative.com https://www.behance.net/kevincreative https://dribbble.com/kevincreative https://www.instagram.com/kevincreative/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter Posted October 9, 2015 Share Posted October 9, 2015 Wonderfully balanced tones, the spillages really add to the realism. :D Quote MacBook pro, 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB, OS X 10.11.6 http://www.pinterest.com/peter2111 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmac Posted October 9, 2015 Share Posted October 9, 2015 I really like what you have done here and I appreciate you including the step by step you used to get there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crabtrem Posted October 9, 2015 Author Share Posted October 9, 2015 I wanted to update this with some more specific items to remember for all my fellow novice users. If you are a novice like me, I some times forget to make sure the placement of my filter layers are in the right place. This can have devastating effects if you aren't watching your placement. Especially when you start rasterizing layers. So here is my procedure list for the watercolor splash, and I changed the final product by adding a gradient to my rectangle object. Watercolor splashtest Start with you watercolor photo layer I opened up my subject photo, copied it, and pasted over the watercolor photo. I added an HSL adj layer and took the saturation down to 0. I added a curves adj layer. Slide the top right node to the left, and the bottom left node to the right until they are almost vertical. Adjust for a high contrast display. Make sure your adj layers are moved onto your subject photo layer. Invert the layer. Rasterize the layer to a mask. Paste another subject layer in. Resize to fit. Use the difference blend mode to make sure alignment is good. Use either B&W or HSL adj layer to make a grayscale image. Make sure you move the adj layer to the second subject layer Set a mask, invert the mask. select a brush. I used hardness to 0%, flow to 10%, opacity to 50% Paint in some selective detail to you subject to taste. Flatten the file. Now you can add a rectangle shape for a background in the color of your choice. Or add a gradient to it. macmello 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamHCB Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 Hi crabtrem, I really like this and thanks for showing how you did it. Did you create the watercolor splash in AP/AD? If so could you share your procedure with us? Graham Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anon1 Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 I'd also like to ask where the splash comes from? Besides that I really like your descriptions! CircularWebs 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 If anyone is interested … there are nice resources on the web, for example: http://www.smashingapps.com/2013/04/15/45-free-watercolor-ink-and-splatters-brushes-for-photoshop.html The .abr brushes do import very well into Affinity Apps … :) Cheers, Alex macmello and anon1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macmello Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 Great job, congratulations! Quote ¬ MacBook Pro i5 2.5Ghz | LED 13.3" | 16GB RAM | 240Gb SSD CORSAIR Force GT | Caddy 500Gb HD | MAC OS X 10.11 ¬ MacBook Air C2D 1.6Ghz | LED 13.3" | Cache 4Mb | 2GB RAM | 60Gb HD | MAC OS X 10.7.5 www.evosigncriacao.com instagram.com/evosigncriacao Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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