Watercolour tutorial

davidh

From twilight to final image

twilight render

fotosketcher

fotosketcher and line work

colour overlayed

background added

foreground added

shadow added

pilou

Fotosketcher by a cool French guy
A new version is released 5 days ago !

@unknownuser said:

Two new cartoon effects

Full undo/redo function

Improved interface (with twelve different skins)

New application and toolbar icons

German language added (translation by Josef KASPARBAUER)

Full PNG support

Bug fixes

pbacot

David,

Thank you for the great step by step. I have a question on the Photoshop work. It appears that Fotosketcher has added an all-over texture to the image. If this is on the original image coming into PS, how is the background and foreground so well integrated with this texture? They are also well-blended with the palette.

Peter

davidh

The background and foreground planting are primarily photographs in .png format taken thru fotosketcher seperatly and consequently have the same all-over texture as the main image.As I work,I normally overlay colour(which are just blobs of colour with a strong gaussian blur filter applied and transparency reduced) over the entire image which helps to integrate the final image.One trick I often do is to take the final finished image in jpeg format thru fotosketcher a second time and overlay this fotosketcher image with the finished photoshop image (normal blend or softlight blend,with a transparency of as little as 15 %).Its all about overlaying layers and playing with the transparency.