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A simple and cool effect to make your photos look like they have been painted / made out of an ink/watercolour mark.
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( ADD YOURS )David Suriano October 17th
Amazing! And so quick to produce such a rad effect!
Thanks for sharing!
( )Wakkos October 17th
Great way to go. It’s the first real archievement on this effect i see =)
( )Dainis Graveris October 17th
Nice! Very good and fast effect..awesome!
( )Vicky Dowsett October 18th
I’m definitely going to try this effect - it’s great! Thanks so much for all the great tutorials.
( )Jikeb October 18th
awesome, easy and beautiful !
( )Gavin October 20th
Thanks! I came across this technique when I was playing around with stenciling. Its so quick and easy I thought i’d share it.
( )m October 24th
I use this girl in a recent work too! It’s really pretty!!
( )Megathy October 26th
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 November 2nd
Nice tutorial;
you could also use your own aquarelle blobs, for variety
( )Isis November 6th
Exactly like I love: quick, easy and amazing!
( )Matt Fairbrass November 14th
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 November 24th
im having trouble loading the brushes on my pc, can somebody help?
( )Zargam December 21st
That was a real awesome tutorial…thanks!
( )Roland January 14th
How do you guys make it look so easy!? Great job!! Thanks for tutorial!
( )JP Graphic Designs January 21st
Great tutorial. I have been curious about how to achieve this affect. Thanks for sharing.
( )TDurant March 4th
very nice. For as rich as the graphic is it was so easy, thanks
( )anonymous March 5th
edit:
( )can you reupload this video please
dilatedjunKie March 9th
Very cool tutorial
Here is my version
( )http://dilatedjunkie.deviantart.com/art/waterdali-115392294
Scotty June 19th
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
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