Water colour effect

[pilothaz]

Great tutorial on this. Love the effect that you get from it and it does save pictures that you think won't look that good just on their own. Would be a nice effect to take and run with to make some kind of get well card for anyone if you wanted to print it off.

Welcome to the group and keep on shootin'

[metalcharisma]

gotch.. till now i still dont understand how to make/edit layer..

u make it so easy but still i cant follow.. anyway, nice pic and tutorial.

[McMum]

Metal, sorry, but to give a complete visual tutorial with step by step pics, at the moment i just do not have the time for that.
But, if you go and search for "beginners photoshop video tutorial" you will find enough material to teach you those vital first steps.
You add a new layer at the layer pallet, which is located at the right side.You can see each layer has its own little icon.
If you do not have a layer pallet, go to window, (find it at the top bar) and chose "Layer"
At the bottom of the layer pattel, you will find a few little icons, one of them is for new layer. You can also go at the top bar, und Layers and chose new layer.
But i think a few tutorials to teach you the basics will help you along the way. Happy new year to all of you.... May this year be a good one

[ShepherdLady]

You did a beautiful job on this. Reminds me of a thank you card or as someone else said, a get well card. IMO it is certainly worth printing!

[pepe]

does anyone have an idea how to do this in GIMP?? I get to the sponge saturation part (gimp does not have) and not sure how to replicate it. This is such a great technique, I'd love to be able to do it.

[McMum]

perhaps you can go over with a low opacity brush in a darker colour. I do not know anything about Gimp. Perhaps you can darken it with another tool somhow like a saturation tool. Or your can overlay another texture a darker one and erase parts of it.
Perhaps getting an older version of adobe elements, which would not be to expensive... and it does almost everything photoshop does.
Usually under 100 australian dollars.
I know, it can be a lot if you are on a budget.

[sarahdavis]

Wow, these are both awesome. Definitely something I'd like to try sometime...And convert it to Paint.net as I went since that's what I use. This is very cool though, beautiful job!

[30yrs later]

This effect is beautiful. All I have right now is Picasa. Can this watercolor process be done in Elements or do I need to go Photoshop CS4?

[McMum]

Elements would be fine..... if you do something like that, show us

[30yrs later]

Thank you so much for replying! A giant leap for me in software, I think -- I can't wait to produce something share-worthy!