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DIY Clothes. Urbio - Welcome. Urban Gardening: How To Grow Food In Any City Apartment Or Yard No Matter How Small (Growing Indoors, On Rooftop, Small Yards, Balcony Gardens, Planting ... Gardening Systems) (Gardening Guidebooks): Will Cook: Amazon.com. Windows 8 Preview 2012 Tricks & Tutorial. How to Create a Watercolor Portrait in 3 Simple Steps. Recently I began experimenting with a quick technique for creating a watercolor style portrait with some of the brushes that we’ve created here at WeGraphics.

How to Create a Watercolor Portrait in 3 Simple Steps

After some trial and error I’ve come up with a 3 step process that ends in a nice effect that works on just about any portrait. Here’s a look at what we’ll be creating. I’ve used an assortment of watercolor brushes available here at WeGraphics, including the free set linked below. Free Watercolor BrushesInsane Watercolor Brush Set Step 1 – Create the Texture For the portrait, I’m using this free image from Stock.Xchng. Open the image in Photoshop. To create the texture, I used a custom brush of solid text.

Create a new blank document 700×700 pixels and fill the document with a block of black text. Now click (Edit | Define Brush Preset) to create the custom brush. Fill the layer mask with solid black, which will make the girl disappear. Step 2 – Add the Watercolor Step 3 – Add a Little Color Related Posts. Breanna rose / for creatives : faux watercolor. Water coloring is nice.

breanna rose / for creatives : faux watercolor

But sometimes – there just isn’t enough time to whip out the good old paint + brushes to get something great! That’s where I’m here to help. I’ve started a collection of water colored photoshop brushes that come in handy every once in awhile. It takes a little more patience to line up the brushes in a way that you may enjoy, but the fact that you can “edit > undo” is always a nice plus, huh?? Oh – and photoshop layers are your friend. Check out a few of my favorite resources right here ( 1, 2, 3, 4 ) and give them a shot. How to Create an Easy Dispersion Effect in Photoshop. Giving a subject a dispersion or splatter effect can create an incredibly dynamic image.

How to Create an Easy Dispersion Effect in Photoshop

The best part is, it’s very quick and easy to do with a few Photoshop brushes, but the end result can look very complex as if it took you hours to create. In this tutorial, I’m going to walk you through 3 easy steps to create this dispersion effect. Here’s a look at what we’ll be creating. WeGraphics members will want to grab this brush set for the tutorial: Splatters Volume 2 For non-WeGraphics members a good free alternative can be found here: Splatters Brush Set Step 1 After a little bit of searching I found this photo of a guy jumping in the air by Camera Eye Photography. Copy and paste the photo into a new PS document. Content Aware did a pretty good job of removing the guy from the background. Step 2 Lets go ahead and duplicate the guy layer one time.