Photoshop Tutorial: How to Transform your Photos into Unique, Hand-painted WATERCOLOR Paintings.

[@peachesandolivia]

Your tutorials are always so clear and well done. I can understand your voice and your direction. Showing the directions on the screen would be very helpful to a Photoshop newbie.

[@ИгорьИльин-ь4ш]

Your tutorials on watercolor styling are among the best on the Internet...Perhaps only one other blogger has interesting ideas. But you also have an excellent methodological leadership!

[@nalera81]

The best watercolor tutorial i have ever seen, and have seen them a lot, so easy and quick and fantastic result! THANK YOU SO MUCH!

[@543dp3555]

Thank you Marty!!! I am using old PS CS3 and could never get through any other tutorials to achieve this. They kept using options I couldn't find. You got me 99% of the way there. I did not have a vibrance option from the adjustment layer icon but I think I figured it out! My first attempt looks pretty good. Thanks for taking the time to help.

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[@roosenleonie7468]

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[@earlybirdcatchestheworm8598]

nice on spot focus of all windows that you opened for easy and clearer instructions to follow.

[@bobburk3]

This is a great tutorial. It is so easy and the results are amazing. The larger I make the finished image, the better it looks. As it gets larger the watercolor look becomes more prominent.

[@DisneyJF]

Superb. Absolutely wonderful.

[@BobHowes]

Thank you. I've been looking at endless Watercolour effect tutorials and the results on most were pretty blah. This one works well!

[@reran]

Thank your for making such clear, concise, and short video tutorials!

[@lamen8]

Great Job Marty, you are very thorough, the command keys are very helpful I just have to go over it a few times to get it all down path. Your skills are Great. Thanks again

[@NorbertGrill]

I got it. It is really a great way to get a watercolored pictures. looks very good. Thanks for this tut. Norbert

[@barrystepp]

great tutorial! very simple and easy to understand.

[@tjchan77]

The best watercolor technique I have seen so far!

[@BLTV_Photoshop]

RichardBriggs...Yes, Elements does have a different set of challenges. Glad it worked out!

[@RDYS]

Thanks, I learn something every time I come here.

[@predator-20244]

excelent tutorial, just 4 minutes , too much info and technique, great result at the end. Thank you

[@redrobin2167]

I really like the style of your videos. Quick and to the point. I can't wait to try this, thank you!

[@QYXP]

I still use your technique nearly four years later! I still much prefer it over standard PS filter.

[@angiep.5729]

One of the best tutorial I have even seen :) Thank you.

[@lindamarie358]

This technique is wonderful. I am enjoying your tutorials, thanks so much.

[@BLTV_Photoshop]

Jennifer Lam... Don't know why the "Normal" mode doesn't work in some cases. I went over each step again in my PSD file and the Normal mode worked perfectly. In any case, I'm glad the "Clear" mode worked for you! :-)

[@0beejay]

Like always, Marty's onpoint with his tutorials..

[@paappraiser]

Thank you. I applied this technique to a few images last night. It was a lot of fun. I played with the opacity of the wet brush and got some fantastic results. Defiantly one of my Favorite tutorials. Im going to play some more. .. I would love to see a tutorial on turning photos into airbrush/drawings like to old vargas pinup style. Thank you again.,

[@yvettecheri293]

PERFECT!! Just what i needed! Great tutorial and very easy to follow. The results are amazing! Thank you so much!! :D

[@ShabnumAminKhan]

Thanks for useful tutorial. I really love your techniques

[@madhusud]

after seeing, immediately i have subscribed to ur channel Fantastic work, thanks for sharing, u r very creative

[@abelsincain]

Cool tutorial, things well explained without getting wordy, Congrats.

[@RichardBriggs]

Brilliant. You get right to the point. Works pretty much with Elements 10 as well. I had following problems though. Firstly in Elements there is no Adjustment Layer for Vibrance (not that I can find anyway). I used Saturation instead (but not at maximum). But result doesn't seem to need this. Also, I found Foreground/Background colours have to be Black and White when working on the Brushes layer. Took my ages to figure that one out. Maybe this is just an Elements thing.

[@macarows4014]

Absolutely fantastic video. Bravo!

[@paappraiser]

great great tutorial... at :58 you said depending on your image size.... do you have a rule of thumb of radius / threshold for larger / smaller images?

[@andonisr]

Thank you for this cool technique...used it for one of my pictures, (picture of a landscape), to turn it into a business card...cheers...!!

[@margerywarder4028]

Thank you so very much. I hope to use this for images for a children's book. I've taken photos and wanted to make them into watercolor, so by doing a search, I found this. I wrote out a step-by-step based on your guidance and will be using that as I work with my photos. If you'd like to see the "almost transcript" for people to download if you think it is correct, I would be glad to share it. Your call. Thank you for sharing the information.

[@NabilAbdulla07]

Thanks a lot. I've turned these steps into an action set so I can make it easily. A great tutorial.

[@ankitasheth998]

awesome! thanks for the lovely, clean, neat, crisp tutorial! loved it!

[@deafmama]

Wow easy tutorial!! Beautiful artwork! Thank you!!!!

[@BLTV_Photoshop]

tamer ezzat...Basically, the steps are the same in CS6. Make sure you have the correct layer active when you brush over the image.

[@joanielewis]

Thank you so much for this wonderful tutorial!

[@izabelabem6675]

Really good job !

[@veronicavandenburg9888]

excellent, can't wait to try it! thank you.

[@Mohit-zd1im]

Great Tutorial :) worked like a charm

[@rja5497]

AMAZING TUTORIAL! Thank you!

[@KristineFranklin]

GREAT tutorial. Thanks.

[@thomhandley7238]

Thanks for a great tutorial. If I plan to have my work printed on canvas I assumeIskip the texturizer step

[@akrieger2]

Best tutorials on youtube!

[@igibi011]

Great tutorial!Thanks!

[@carlkristensen8398]

It is awesome for many images, but for fullsized raw images it gets heavy to work with due to the smart blur. Anyway it is one more tool in the workbensch, and I like it.

[@haritarao9522]

I could not find the brushes you have on Photoshop CC 2018.

[@BLTV_Photoshop]

Kuri Matsuki...Yes, but only up to just before you use your brush tool.

[@pat.weblearner3486]

O, another good tip from you one after one.

[@sharatkum1]

Excellent technique. Thanks

[@rikimaru9398]

OMG!!! awesome technique Thank you very much!

[@mineralwells]

Thank you for this helpful and wonderful tutorial. I'm so grateful! Bless you! :-)

[@arturoli]

Very good tutorial. Thank you.

[@TomLong]

Everything was working perfectly. After the last PS CC update, when I get to the dry brush stage, the brush doesn't uniformly reveal color anymore.

[@narumi650]

Same here. . .

[@TomLong]

I changed my Preferences to show all of the filters in the Filter Gallery and made sure my foreground background colors were black and white and it all worked again.

[@JerryFess]

***** THANK YOU! Mine was doing the same thing. I followed what you did and it's working again! thanks!

[@Davelichtauthor2451]

That's ABSOLUTELY AWESOME! LOVE THIS!

[@bangoaibaongu2304]

Thank you for this video, it's a very good tutorial

[@Alib123456789100]

Fantastic, thank you so much.

[@rwilbourn99]

Very helpful. Thanks!

[@martinpetho4687]

all good find cheers martin

[@tarak6]

Great one, Marty.

[@mdjahidulhasan9559]

its so so helpful. thanks to shear

[@peacerebelgirl]

Marty, it's a genuis tutorial.

[@Zygon2004]

Thank you for making this video. I found it very helpful! :-)

[@appbreeder]

Thank you! Great results.

[@midou9]

truly great !!

[@reubendunn1]

Does the resolution have to be 72 pixcels? Can l increase to 300 afterwards so l can print out to 5X7 and larger, or would that effect the finished artwork? Thank you for this tutorial. I have had several compliments on the artwork l morphed using this technique.

[@BLTV_Photoshop]

The resolution can be any amount.

[@flowerfiend12]

Hi, at 1:19 on video, it says edges window will open, at which point you adjust edge width, brightness and smoothness, but on my photoshop there is no edge window that opens and so I don't see where to adjust edge width, brightness, and smoothness. Help please.

[@BLTV_Photoshop]

The "Glowing Edges" filter comes with all versions.

[@vladisk]

very nice!

[@flowerfiend12]

At the pencil lines stage, after inverting and desaturating it's much too light, but this may be because my image is mostly white and cream flowers. How would you recommend that I alter the measurements in order to get nice desaturation like you've achieved with your boat picture?

[@BLTV_Photoshop]

If the original photo is too light, try increasing its contrast (Ctrl + L) before you invert it.

[@haddock54]

Having problem while using brush. After selecting dry brush and setting the opacity to 10 when I try to brush it does not allow saying "could not use the history brush as the canvas size does not match that of the history state"

[@tamerezzat6269]

i made all the steps as you say but at the final step of painting with ( watercolor texture surface ) the colors of the sky is still with no change although all the parts are fully colored !

[@hayashireiko]

tamer ezzat and mbamaral1, I have the same problems as you do but I found the solution. When you want to paint on the 2nd brush, choose "Clear" from the "Module" which is next to the brush opacity, the rest just follow suit from the video. I don't know why we have this problem when I followed exactly the instructions, redo it over and over again but problem still persist until I experiment with the "module". Have fun! :)

[@TheIndecisiveWigWearer]

I am 2:33 in the video and when I switch brushes it goes back to painting white..am I doing something wrong?

[@BLTV_Photoshop]

Make sure the correct layer is active and that the foreground color is black.

[@eemiii]

In CC 2018, I am having problems finding the same DRY BRUSH. I believe I had it in an older version. Can anyone help?

[@fekrielmahtouchi7501]

Good explanation thank you

[@juanrobalino3624]

muy buen tutorial gracias

[@s.alateeq]

wow gooooood ❤️❤️❤️

[@mickellemastra]

what program you use to make this tutorial plz?

[@RoderickPrins]

Thank man great stuff

[@FinnaeusEasterly]

Wonderful tutorial, thank you so much! I had just a couple issues, one of which I figured out on my own (and others on here have struggled with the same thing, so I thought I'd try to help), but the other is continuing to plague me. If you're using "the latest version of Photoshop", it's likely Photoshop CC. There are 2 steps where the directions are different in Photoshop CC than in this tutorial - the glowing lines step and the sandstone texture. Both of these will be found by going to Filter - Filter Gallery - and then to Stylize and Texturize, respectively. Just get into the Filter Gallery and continue to follow the instructions from there. The second problem is one I can't figure out. I've tried it repeatedly to see if I missed a step and tried multiple photos of different styles/ISOs and the same thing happens each time and very similarly in each photo - I'm only able to get about half of the color to appear when I use the dry brush and watercolor textured surface brush. On every picture, the backgrounds fail to regain any color by "painting" them in. Only about half of the rest of the picture is colored, but the background is always completely colorless. I'm at a loss. Help? I'm assuming it's caused by a variation with Photoshop CC as my picture looked exactly like yours (even the thumbnails in the Layers window looked like yours!) until this step. I'm left with a mostly white picture. I'd love some feedback on a possible solution here, if you can?

[@BLTV_Photoshop]

It's possible the Blend Mode is incorrect. FYI: One of the reasons I'm offering my viewers to subscribe to my Nooma.tv Photoshop Learning Community is that we'll be able to screen-share LIVE, so I can actually see your file and speak with you. It's difficult to determine a problem in PS unless I can inspect your document. www.nooma.tv/n/bluelightningtv/

[@FinnaeusEasterly]

I figured it out, lol. I didn't have the foreground set to black and background to white. What a difference that makes! Thank you so much, Blue Lightning TV Photoshop​!

[@howardpearson6281]

These videos are Great ,to the point no waste of time. A lot of input by other would take 15 -20 min full of crap just to fill it out.

[@mohdsaeed22]

Brother I am thankful to you

[@robertmeyerson1618]

I'm having a problem when I get to the Wet Media Brushes stage. When I brush over the image it subtracts the color. I've gone over the lesson many times, making the adjustments to match yours and it doesn't seem to work for me. Suggestions?

[@JimProng]

Great instruction video. Thanks.

[@cepideeghtedari4441]

Hey, Thank you that was great. but I have a question. I have an image too similar to watercolor painting but I don't know how to make a photo to a picture like that. it has very nice and tidy black hatches and very nice sketch.I was wondering If it is possible to send that image for you to see it and help me figuring out how make such images. thanks again.

[@lnelson143]

Working great, except when I get to the "Brush" layer, I invert it just fine, but when I click on Layer type "Color Dodge" - mine stays the same: dark and inverted. It does not go light like yours does. Help? Many thanks...this will be super cool if I can get it finished.

[@amymead713]

I had the same problem too on the brushes.

[@martinpetho4687]

thank you for what you do.

[@aplsharusha]

Thanks a lot!

[@usmc0491]

Marty, I'm using PhotoShop CC. I can't find the Glowing Edge option under stylize. Any idea how I might find it? Thanks!

[@DarlyFofa]

This is awesome!

[@javedsultan4830]

a bit complicated but pretty good technique.. good result

[@tamerezzat6269]

i am using photoshop cs6 , is it the same steps you made here or not , because i tried many time but it failed with me at the last step

[@cepideeghtedari4441]

Yeah, I do understand totally. thanks for answering

[@russk8091]

Is this method similar to the ACEO paintings I see on EBay for sale called a hand rendered wet watercolor?

[@BLTV_Photoshop]

Don't know. Sorry.

[@martinpetho4687]

thanks for your help last time but there is no paper texture under filter? PSCC15 where could I find it to finish thanks againmartin

[@BLTV_Photoshop]

Photoshop CC15?

[@IIIlllBravo]

i can't find it either and I'm running the latest photoshop

[@FinnaeusEasterly]

You guys will need to go to Filter - Filter Gallery - Texturize, and then follow his instructions. Photoshop CC uses a filter gallery, so for this step and the Glowing Lines one, that's where it will be found. Hope this helps.

[@MaxBet1808]

Hi, thank you for the video. I have used this twice now and created a set of actions up to the brush tool. When I use the brushes, I am left with a very blue & white photo only. I am not sure why the colour is not showing the same as the original (same as your greens etc from your photo). Any ideas please (or has anyone else encountered this??)

[@BLTV_Photoshop]

cepide eghtedari...I receive numerous requests every week from subscribers asking me to do Photoshop projects or favors for them, but I barely have enough time just to answer the emails receive. I trust you understand.

[@reubendunn1]

Did you have another version of this, l am looking for it, but can't seem to find it.