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    Watercolour / Ink Blot Effect

    on Oct 17th 2008 with 25 comments

    A simple and cool effect to make your photos look like they have been painted / made out of an ink/watercolour mark.

    Gavin Steele is godonholiday on Themeforest
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    Gavin is from Douglas, Isle of Man and currently teaches ICT in a secondary school in London. He compiles screencasts for Psdtuts+!  

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    • http://davidsuriano.com David Suriano

      Amazing! And so quick to produce such a rad effect!

      Thanks for sharing!

    • http://www.wakkos.wa Wakkos

      Great way to go. It’s the first real archievement on this effect i see =)

    • http://www.1stwebdesigner.com Dainis Graveris

      Nice! Very good and fast effect..awesome! :)

    • http://www.dowsettdesigns.com Vicky Dowsett

      I’m definitely going to try this effect – it’s great! Thanks so much for all the great tutorials.

    • http://URL(Optional) Jikeb

      awesome, easy and beautiful ! :)

    • http://URL(Optional) Gavin
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      Thanks! I came across this technique when I was playing around with stenciling. Its so quick and easy I thought i’d share it.

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    • http://URL(Optional) m

      I use this girl in a recent work too! It’s really pretty!! ;)

    • http://www.megathy.com Megathy

      This is awesome! I got some really nice effects and posted them in the flickr group. I did try using threshold instead of posterization, which gives a little extra control over the black/white balance.

    • Ant ne_skaju

      Nice tutorial;

      you could also use your own aquarelle blobs, for variety :)

    • Isis

      Exactly like I love: quick, easy and amazing!

    • http://www.aplaceformyhead.co.uk Matt Fairbrass

      I just tried out this tutorial and it worked a treat. Very impressed with the results and very simple. Screencast was well presented and easy to follow. Great tutorial!

    • spooky

      im having trouble loading the brushes on my pc, can somebody help?

    • Zargam

      That was a real awesome tutorial…thanks!

    • Roland

      How do you guys make it look so easy!? Great job!! Thanks for tutorial!

    • http://www.myspace.com/jpgraphicartist JP Graphic Designs

      Great tutorial. I have been curious about how to achieve this affect. Thanks for sharing.

    • http://www.onebrightdayconsulting.com TDurant

      very nice. For as rich as the graphic is it was so easy, thanks

    • anonymous

      edit:
      can you reupload this video please

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    • Scotty

      Hey, the video keeps stopping at 1.06 :-( any chance you could re-upload the video again? I really want to achieve this effect. Thanks

    • Naan Oromo

      Simple and so creative I like it thanks for the tips

    • annymal

      thank you soo much for this great tutorial!
      just amazing

    • mango

      Thank you. This was the easiest and simplest watercolors effect.

    • drodrigu04

      I am completely new to Photoshop & I was able to recreate this easily. Thank you so much for the fun tutorial that left with me with a nice little nugget of knowledge!

    • Alex Vergara

      I love this tutorial, but I can’t find the sample for those watercolor brushes. If you still have them, could you send them to me please?

    • Ruby

      I really wanna create a simmilair thing,,but like alex vergara i cant find the brushes eiher…
      so if someone has them..please send em to me..