[from Internet] How to Create an Amazing Watercolor Artwork in Photoshop

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Preview of Final Results

Tutorial Resources

• Model

• Paper 1

• Paper 2

• Watercolor 1

• Watercolor 2

• Watercolor 3

• Watercolor 4

• Watercolor 5

• Branches 1

• Branches 2

• Flowers

• Butterflies

• Halftone images

• Wiresframes

• Splatter brushes

Step 1

Create a new document and fill it with white. I use the size with 1200×800 but feel free to make your own. Open paper 1 stock, move it into our white canvas then rotate it (choose Edit-Transform-Rotate 90 CCW) . Right click this layer, choose Convert to Smart Objects. Then choose Flip Horizontal:

Lower opacity to 30%:

Step 2

Open paper 2 stock, use Rectangular Marquee Tool to make a selection on the top left of it and use Move Tool (V) to drag it into our picture and lower opacity to 30%:

Step 3

I use an adjustment layer to change color of the picture. Go to Layer-New Adjustment Layer-Hue/Saturation:

Step 4

Extract model and place her at the center section then I use layer mask to remove hard edges and blend her with background:

Step 5

I use some adjustment layers (Hue/Saturation, Color Balance, Curves) with Clipping Mask for model to reduce saturation and brighten her:

Then I use soft black brush with opacity 100% and 20-30% to erase some parts on Curves layer mask. You can see how I did it on the mask and result on picture:

Step 6

Drag watercolor 1 into top of our picture, place it under model layer. Convert it to Smart Objects and change the mode to Multiply 100% then remove some hard edges with layer mask:

Duplicate this layer and move it to the right after flipping it horizontally. Use layer mask to create the look below:

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