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    Ecuadorian
    last edited by 9 Feb 2009, 09:53

    Oh, well, since the thread has just been revived, here's my try, using an action I found on the Web:
    full.jpg
    detalle.jpg

    Of course, I did some manual preparations before applying the action (Resizing to about 1500px wide, whitening the border, applying Gaussian blur to the border and to several random spots)

    And here's the action I found. The text file says it's OK to re-distribute as long as you keep it intact.
    The documentation says it works better on images around 3000px in the biggest dimension, but I think it works equally nice on 1500px images.


    WatercolorTintAction.zip

    -Miguel Lescano
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      Ecuadorian
      last edited by 9 Feb 2009, 19:28

      Yet another try.
      layered_watercolor.jpg

      This time I applied the effect to a completely blurred version, and put it beneath the regular version. I made another copy of the regular version, and started to alter the curves of the bottom two layers, making them yellowish. I then used layer masks to hide all layers, and revealed them using Photoshop's wetmedia brushes and this brush collection:
      http://fbrushes.com/2008/11/05/watercolor-1-brushes-pack/

      Here's how my layers look:
      layers.jpg

      A tip: When you use the brushes I linked to, instead of dragging the brush, just apply it in spots. If the brush borders become too distracting in certain parts, blur those parts. Remember that all this work is done in the layer Mask, not the layer itself.

      -Miguel Lescano
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        Amfab
        last edited by 10 Feb 2009, 21:36

        HA, I thought this was a recent thread, I read the year wrong, anyway, I messed with it some more and came up with this:


        Watertry.jpg

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          majid
          last edited by 16 Feb 2009, 14:05

          nice job u did. I've done some recent experiences and soon will share them ๐Ÿ˜‰ . but in short :u can have more/less lost-fond edges (depending on suject) in your render.. and also color variations tahat makes yr job more like watercolor job.
          majid

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            majid
            last edited by 1 Aug 2009, 16:40

            just to inform you about my refiend trick, not as an action , but using SU+Ps, soon would be published,
            here is a sample:detail

            My inspiring A, B, Sketches book: https://sketchucation.com/shop/books/intermediate/2612-alphabet-inspired-sketches--inspiring-drills-for-architects--3d-artists-and-designers-

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              MALAISE
              last edited by 1 Aug 2009, 17:34

              Magic ! Majid , i like this effect really;

              MALAISE ๐Ÿ‘

              La Connaissance n'a de valeur que partagรฉe

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                majid
                last edited by 1 Aug 2009, 18:54

                Thanks MALAISE ! ๐Ÿ˜„ .we hada good discussion here and learned alot from each other, and now after a while the refined simplified trick is ready. I've tried to do the "smart" part by human, so that the Photoshop does it's "fool"ish job, excellent!!!!.
                also I've tested the trick over several 3dwh models, all were acceptable and so guess it will rock!!!

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                  utiler
                  last edited by 1 Aug 2009, 22:53

                  look forward to it majid!!!

                  purpose/expression/purpose/....

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                    Coronel
                    last edited by 2 Aug 2009, 13:06

                    Great work

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                      majid
                      last edited by 21 Sept 2009, 16:32

                      recently I progressed a simple tricky NPR way , you can read about it here:
                      http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=22093

                      My inspiring A, B, Sketches book: https://sketchucation.com/shop/books/intermediate/2612-alphabet-inspired-sketches--inspiring-drills-for-architects--3d-artists-and-designers-

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                        valerostudio
                        last edited by 31 Mar 2011, 15:43

                        What ever happened with Moxi? I Googled it but found nothing.

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                          Pixero
                          last edited by 1 Apr 2011, 15:35

                          @valerostudio said:

                          What ever happened with Moxi? I Googled it but found nothing.

                          Apparently not much. Adobe licensed it I know but I havent seen anything yet.
                          The guy behind Moxi (Nelson Chu) has been seen in a Microsoft video featuring "project Gustav", a painting application in development.
                          The images show tools like oilpaint so I don't know if there will be any watercolour tool in it. We can just hope...
                          http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/gustav/
                          Still it looks cool.

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                            Pixero
                            last edited by 1 Apr 2011, 16:02

                            After some more Googling I found that it has gotten a real name and site: http://www.microsoftdigitalart.com/index.html
                            Doesn't appear to have watercolour though... ๐Ÿ˜ž

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                              Ecuadorian
                              last edited by 13 Apr 2011, 19:59

                              I guess there's no chance of it becoming an iPad app. ๐Ÿ˜‰

                              -Miguel Lescano
                              Subscribe to my house plans YouTube channel! (30K+ subs)

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                                ramsy_libra
                                last edited by 11 Sept 2011, 01:37

                                Thank you so much for giving a step by step instructions!the results were mindblowing!!!!!thanx!

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