Digital watercolor technique

[canoek]

have been messing around in ps with this quick sketch and have gotten some nice watercolor results. not as involved as the "dennis technique" and yet, to me anyway, seems convincing.

what do you think?

jb

[tomsdesk]

I think you bes' 'splain it to me...very nice indeed! Best, Tom.

[Durant Hapke]

Brothers, and Sisters,

These are germs. I've seen them in my colon.

Yeah, looks like wet wet paper.

Durant "I need a sponge" Hapke

[canoek]

tom -
exported hidden line to jpg at 3000 wide pixels. used ps 4.0 to select regions to color. colored with 50 opacity with multiple passes using a brush on new layer. deselected region. used virtual painter plugin with color pencil filter set to screen with subtle settings. then used virtual painter plugin with water color set to screen with subtle settings except for focus and deformation set to normal. repeated watercolor filter again. repeated this for all regions to be colored all on separate layers. would adjust hue as neccessary. once all areas colored then flattened image. then duplicated layer and applied pencil filter and water color filter again. changed opacity of this layer to allow detail of previous layer to desired effect. flattened image again and ran standard ps watercolor filter with brush detail at 9, shadow intensity at 0, and texture at 1.

seems complicated typing it out but actually only takes 5 or so minutes to do. anyway it seems to be the most realistic watercolor effect i've been able to come up with that doesn't take hours to complete.

hapke - uh, thanks. you've seen the inside of your colon? man - that's messed up. good luck with that.

jb

[tomsdesk]

Hmmmmm...so you actually "painted" the painting. (No wonder it looks so good! :`) Thanks a bunch for the ideas now smolderin', Tom.