Turn a Photo into a watercolor in Photoshop
In today’s tutorial, I’m going to take you through the process of creating a watercolor effect in Photoshop from a given image
using 3 easy steps: applying Find Edges filter, reveal some of the underlying image, and intensify the contrast.
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Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:23 Apply Find Edges filter
00:44 Reveal some of the underlying image
01:30 Intensify the contrast
Steps to do a watercolor in Photoshop:
1. Apply Find Edges filter.
Choose Layer-Duplicate layer (Ctrl+J).
Applied the Find Edges filter to the duplicate layer.
Choose Filter-Stylize-Find Edges.
2. Reveal some of the underlying image.
Add Layer Mask to the Duplicate Layer.
Click on the duplicate layer to make sure it's selected.
Click the Add layer mask button at the bottom of the Layers panel (Layer-Layer Mask-Reveal All).
Grab the Brush tool (or press B).
Choose a large, Soft Round brush, Normal mode,
and an Opacity below 50% on the Options bar.
Press D to make sure that the Foreground color is black.
Using your mouse, apply brush strokes to the layer mask to reveal some of the underlying image,
and choose Hard Light as the blending mode for the duplicate layer.
Lower the Opacity of the duplicate layer.
Access the Opacity slider by clicking the right-pointing arrow
or by entering a percentage value in the Opacity text box.
Change the blending mode of the duplicate layer.
Try Lighter Color, Vivid Light, Hard Light, Pin Light, or Luminosity,
until you get the watercolor result you’re looking for.
For this image, I'll stick with Hard Light.
3. Intensify the contrast via a Levels adjustment layer.
With the duplicate layer selected, Choose Layer-New Adjustment Layer-Levels.
Darken the shadows by moving the black input shadows slider (left slider) to the right and
brighten the highlights by moving the white input high lights slider (right slider) to the left.
Click the clipping mask icon to clip the levels adjustment to the layer below (not all layers below).