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[Russell Preston Brown in..]
[The Russell Brown Show]
In this episode of The Russell Brown Show,
I'm going to be working here with Adobe Photoshop Touch.
This is version 1.2 with some great new features.
In this project I'm going to be discussing the new watercolor feature.
I'm going to start with an image that you see here,
and I'm going to turn it into a watercolor painting here
where it's overlaid over a piece of watercolor paper.
In this project I need 2 things.
I need my original image you see here,
and I have this watercolor paper here in the background.
It gives you a really nice quality to your finished illustration here as a watercolor image.
Okay, let's get started.
I want to go ahead and close this file and open up my original background image here.
This is my watercolor paper.
This is how I originally brought it into Adobe Photoshop Touch.
I want to show you first of all a great new feature.
Here from the ampersand at the top of my menu bar,
I'm going to tap right here, and then I'm going to go ahead
and show you that you can now rotate images very easily.
I'm going to click on Rotate, and in this case let's do a clockwise rotation, just like that.
It's a great new feature, and it allows me to bring in verticals or horizontals
and quickly switch their orientation.
In this project I'm going to bring in a second image here of some flowers.
It's a really nice image that's going to work well for this watercolor project.
I'm going to go ahead and zoom in here a little bit more.
My first step in a project like this is to blend my top photograph or my top layer
into my background texture of my watercolor paper.
Targeting this layer right here, I can go to this menu right here,
and I'm going to change the blend mode.
In this case I'm going to change it to Multiply. Watch what happens.
It's really nice how it's now printing my colors onto the paper,
and I can see the texture and quality of the watercolor paper through this image.
Let's go ahead and click away from that, and let's continue our project.
There are a few things I need to do to this image before I apply the watercolor effect.
Up here from this flyout menu, my Adjustments menu,
I'm going to go in to Levels right here.
I want to make it a little bit more higher contrast.
I'm going to change my black point here and have a really nice quality of black there,
and also my white point I'm going to move to the left
and start to burn my image out a bit.
It's starting to have a little bit more of that watercolor look to it,
a little bit more high contrast.
I'm going to select the Apply button.
So that's my step 1.
Now let's go right up here to the Effects menu right here,
and over here under the Artistic setting right here
we're going to select Watercolor Paint right here.
Wow! That's cool. That's instantly turned this into a watercolor painting.
You can notice here that I can adjust the quality here to the left down to a value of 0
and up here to the right.
It's adding in more values and shades within my watercolor.
I'm going to go all the way over here to the right.
I like the dark qualities I'm achieving here with this effect.
I'm going to click Apply.
You could stop there, but I'm going to go a little bit farther with this project.
Over here you can see from my Tool menu I've selected down here at the base the Blur Tool.
Let's take a look at my Blur Tool settings.
Clicking on Brush, you can see that I have a fairly large brush,
hardness value is set, but my flow and opacity are set here.
I have the flow down to 88 and my opacity to 73.
That's important as you watch me paint here on the surface.
It lets me slowly start to dissolve the paints.
Notice how I can then blend this green leaf into the background
as if they're really watercolors.
You wouldn't have any strong corners or edges with a watercolor painting.
Everything would tend to drift and blend into your background.
The more you do this, the better the quality.
Let's blur it a little bit here on this bottom edge.
Let's break up this edge at the bottom
so it really looks like I've come in here with watercolor paints on this watercolor paper.
It's really starting to look nice.
But wait. There's always 1 thing more.
There's another feature here under the Effects menu.
Clicking on Effects, I'm going to go over here to Photo
and then down here to HDR.
You normally wouldn't use this on a project like this, but check this out.
With the HDR controls you can add yet another quality:
a little bit more contrast and a boost in the colors.
I'm going to click Apply.
So there you've seen it.
I've used 2 great new features found here in Adobe Photoshop Touch:
the new HDR feature here under Photo
and under Artistic I've used the Watercolor Paint.
There you have it.
Give this technique a try on some of your images
and turn them into watercolor paintings.
[♪♪] [Executive Producer - Bob Donlon] [Producer - Karl Miller]
[Director - Kush Amerasinghe] [Post-Production - Erik Espera]
[ADOBE TV Productions - tv.adobe.com]
