Another Watercolor Painting by Northernshadow

Another Watercolor Painting by Northernshadow
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/5355.html

Lead preset.

Thanks ronviers, jffe
The old combine turned out great, came out perfectly

I found during testing that some images had too much detail come though to look like a true watercolor, I still wanted that really soft, wet effect in the background, so redid the filter to allow for a method to do this.

Here's a
Simple Watercolor Tutorial

1. Open the image in Photoshop (or your image editor of choice)

2. Duplicate background twice (name your layers 1 and 2, with 2 being the layer on top)

3. Run preset 1 of "Another Watercolor Painting" on Layer 1

4. Run preset 2 on Layer 2

5. Add a layer mask to Layer 2 and paint on it with black where you want the detail to show though. For this picture I used Soft Round 27 at about 50% Opacity. An alternate method is to just erase with a soft brush where you want to see the details but I prefer the mask method because it's so easy to reverse by switching the paint to white.

6. You're done! drop your layers and save.

Here's one I did with this method...

Here are 2 more

Curlyhair

Nathaniel
used Kochubey's Watercolor Frame
on this first!