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Amazing Watercolor
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n this tutorial I will show you how to create a really

cool effect using some watercolor brushes mixed

with photos

The image we will create is inspired by the

works of Bruno Fujii

Pony

Margot Mace

Rapha

and Stina Person

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STEP 1
Open Pixelmator and create a new document

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select an image for the background

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the document and then go to

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1440900 pixels. Then

Place the image in the center of

Edit>Transform>Scale and reduce its size to fit the

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it to fit the image s size and then change the

Blending to Multiply.

Again

resize

STEP 3
Now that we have our background done

be the model for our painting

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Import the photo to your document and place it like the image below

STEP 4
Go to

Layer>Add Layer Mask. Then, with a very soft brush using black as the color,

start painting over the layer mask

You will be hiding some areas of the image

need pretty much just the face for now

STEP 5
Go to

Filter>Quartz Composer>Stylize>Color Pencil.

We

STEP 6
Image>Desaturate. Your image will become black and white. Then select the
Brush Tool (B) and white for the color; paint over the girl s layer mask to show
Go to

some of the masked areas

especially the neck and part of the hair

exactly like the

image below

STEP 7

Now let s start painting some watercolor splatters

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Create a new layer and

using black

paint the first like the image below

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Paint another one in a new layer

does so using the brushes

The idea is that it simulates the girl s hair

but

STEP 9
Add another one and go to

Edit>Transform>Free Transform, or just Command F.

Rotate and scale the brush to match with the girl

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The last one and we have a nice image already

But it needs some color

STEP 11
Gradient Tool (G); the one I used was the
Purple one. Then select the Brush Tool (B) and, using the watercolor brushes,

Add a new layer and fill it with the

Pink

paint with different colors like red

orange

blue

green

and yellow

Use the image

below for reference

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CONCLUSION
Change the

effect

Blending to Screen and there we go

we have a super cool watercolor

You can add your logo and also try a different color to see how it works

Also

if you try different blendings you will produce different results that are really cool as

well

OTHER EXAMPLES
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Here is our example without the background image

only the canvas texture

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Light

I changed the layer with the gradient and brush splatters to Soft

a much darker but really nice effect

Here is an example using Multiply for the Blending

a really crazy result

though not

my style

This example uses only one color instead of that pretty colorful layer

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