REMOVING watercolor paper background ✿ Make seamless patterns in Photoshop!

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@rajarshiroy5534 9 ай бұрын

This video is a treasure, being a surfacepattern designer who handpaints the motifs this is gold, I've worked in the industry for a couple of years now and this is by far the best method, that too you're sharing it for free. Underrated channel!👑

@pepostudios 9 ай бұрын

🥹🫶🏼 thanks so much, Rajarshi!

@melsgil484 10 ай бұрын

This is exactly what I’ve been looking for! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!

@pepostudios 10 ай бұрын

YAY I’m so glad to hear it!! 🫶🏼

@miladyamalia6446 4 ай бұрын

I concur! Some courses where one pays so much and still they fail to teach an effective and simple way to clean up the background. You are a natural teacher! Thank you for sharing your knowledge so generously!

@alexagnic 10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for this tutorial, especially minute 23:00, that watercolor paper getting into all the nooks and crannies was driving me crazy, because I was doing the feathering during the selection. And then, of course, it looked terrible on a darker background. Omg, your advice just made my day, I can't wait to try this 😍

@pepostudios 10 ай бұрын

Aah, I'm SO glad to hear that this was helpful!! So many of those little quirks can be so frustrating 🙈 If you remember, let me know how it goes when you give this technique a shot!

@wonakonful Ай бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing. It helped me a lot..❤❤

@jenniferanderson2420 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for this video! I’m happy you used light color paint motifs in your demonstration. I usually have a hard time with the light watercolors and removing the background so I can’t wait to try your process.

@pepostudios 10 ай бұрын

They can be really tricky!! I love this technique and still use it all the time. It can be a little tedious, but totally worth it especially with those lighter motifs. Would love to hear how it goes for you when you have a chance to give it a try!

@sheilasinghal2922 Жыл бұрын

Oh my gosh! Fantastic step-by-step. Thank you! 😊

@pepostudios Жыл бұрын

Thank you!! You’re too kind, Sheila!! 🫶🏼💕

@KaterinaBuscemi 3 ай бұрын

This is the most helpful video, thank you so much!

@theimaginativeartstudio 9 ай бұрын

This video is priceless, Thank you so, so much for that! I am a fan of your work!

@pepostudios 9 ай бұрын

So glad to hear you enjoyed it!! 🫶🏼

@TheTanyaManeki Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this video!!! An incredibly useful lesson. And I have never seen such detailed instructions anywhere. You are great!

@pepostudios Жыл бұрын

Wow, thanks so much Tanya!! I’m so glad you found it valuable! When I first figured out this technique it was such a game changer, so I’m happy to be able to share it!

@Annushka_at48 Жыл бұрын

Very helpful! I also always smoothed at the same time when contracted and feathered and was getting the paper corners everywhere. Will try the way you described next time. Thank you!

@pepostudios Жыл бұрын

It’s worth a try - let me know how it goes for you!!

@LouiseIsabel-lq4ip 9 ай бұрын

Hey! A really helpful video when I was struggling with a pattern repeat course on Domestika as I could not isolate my individual painted images! (a massive oversight in course content!), so thank so much! I look forward to following you, and already see other videos of interest!!!! Brilliant you are sharing your knowledge and skill!

@pepostudios 9 ай бұрын

That’s wild that that wasn’t included in the Domestika course you were taking!! Glad this video was helpful!

@rheaogrady8470 6 ай бұрын

This tutorial is amazing, thank you so much for sharing, you share the technique in such a way it's straightforward to follow :) Thanks!

@pepostudios 6 ай бұрын

Yay I’m so glad to hear you found it valuable!! 🙌🏼

@aricar325 10 ай бұрын

Excellent tutorial with some very helpful tips. Thank you for creating and sharing :)

@pepostudios 10 ай бұрын

I’m so glad to hear you found it helpful! 🫶🏼

@sublimationandprint 5 ай бұрын

Best video on this topic! Thank you

@laraharrisson8992 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so so muchhh 😭 I've started to scan my artworks to make prints out of them, but I struggled soo much with the background.. I used watercolor too and the white background was getting me crazy. When I printed my work, it was always coming out blue-ish and not white white.. but now, I'll try your technic! So much easier then doing it manually. (Also, I'm really proud of being your 501 follower hehe 😌) Thanks again and have an amazing day!!

@pepostudios Жыл бұрын

Ahh thanks so much, Lara!!! Definitely give it a try and let me know how it goes! It’s so nice when you get that crisp white background. And, yay!! So glad you’re number 501! 🥰

@violetanavarro1784 8 ай бұрын

Awesome. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

@pepostudios 8 ай бұрын

You’re welcome! Glad it was helpful!

@alized6568 9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! This helped a lot.

@pepostudios 9 ай бұрын

So glad to hear it!! 🫶🏼

@comfortandjoy9489 10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much. I have affinity design so I’m going to have to translate some of this…but it’s still helps. I’m so beginner level at this.

@pepostudios 10 ай бұрын

Yay, you’re so welcome! So glad my videos have been helpful!

@theserendipitouscrafter3532 Жыл бұрын

Wow that was alot 😂 for my brain to process. Plus I haven’t used photoshop…still trying to learn Illustrator

@pepostudios Жыл бұрын

Hah! I’m impressed you powered through as a non-PS user! But I promise you if you do decide to dip your toes into the Photoshop world, it’s totally doable. Your illustrator skills will translate over so well!

@trszkwcz Жыл бұрын

hi! Thank you very much. I've looking for this kind of video for some time:) Exchange tip for you: If you want to select your cutouts. You can easily push control button and click on your cutout icon on the list of layers. Right on this small image of your cutouts layer, not the title of it:) greetings!

@pepostudios Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for the tip!!

@ievaseven 9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for this video!😇I've been trying everything before but because of being too nitpicky with details I always get stuck in manual labor for days. Also, is there a way how to make cleared watercolor elements more translucent? To take out paper whiteness from the elements themselves? So they can be used on darker backgrounds...

@pepostudios 9 ай бұрын

Good question! You could play with unchecking the “contiguous” box (but you may need to do more cleanup with some of the lighter areas of your painting), and you can also slightly decrease the opacity of your layer… that might work!

@nandithashivaram Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the very descriptive video! I followed all the instructions. However, I ended up getting a little bit of the water colour paper surrounding the motifs even after clean up. Not sure what I did wrong. I just used a phone camera and not a scanner though. Maybe that's why?

@pepostudios Жыл бұрын

Hmm, what you could do is select all your motifs (command + click on the thumbnail of the motifs layer) and try select > modify > contract. Play with different pixel numbers until you remove the paper outline. Then, you can cut out your motifs with command + x and paste in place with command + shift + v, and delete the paper outline layer. Let me know if this works!

@Thegingerbass1 Жыл бұрын

SO helpful thank you! One question, is this free software that you are using for those of us hoping to start learning the basics? If not, do you know of any free tools to that we can use? Thank you again so much, such a well organized and perfectly orated video.

@DforDela Жыл бұрын

This is great info - now just gotta find a scanner that can do a better resolution!

@pepostudios Жыл бұрын

Facebook marketplace is a great place to start!! I put my scanner info in the first video of this series, but it’s a Canon LiDE 300 - quite inexpensive (I got mine used for $35) but has done a great job!

@DforDela Жыл бұрын

@@pepostudios I conveniently forgot that my laser printer is also a scanner and copier. I looked in the settings and it can get to some really high ppi! I got this thing at a garage sale for $5 in 2015

@pepostudios Жыл бұрын

@@DforDela amazing!! I bet you can put that thing to work! I'm all about good bargains 😄

@michellemorton2239 3 ай бұрын

At -4:59 my new layer doesn't have the color what did I do wrong?

@Ann-lj4nn 7 ай бұрын

Couldn't you have pressed ctrl and then clicked on the thumbnail of the layer to select everything instead of selecting them each individually? I just discovered your channel today and I am very much enjoying all of your videos. Thank you for sharing!

@Ann-lj4nn 7 ай бұрын

Ah, I see why you did that now. But also I think it would have been much quicker to make those white instead of black and then add a black background underneath so you could see each little unwanted dot. And then just erase. ❤

@pepostudios 7 ай бұрын

@@Ann-lj4nn I learned the ctrl+click trick after I made these videos! I love it! I personally don’t think that erasing manually makes things faster because sometimes (especially when you use cold pressed watercolor paper) there are a LOT of extra little dots you have to clean up. But there really are a million ways to achieve the same end result, which is one of the beautiful things about photoshop!

@klalazarian1 10 ай бұрын

Is it possible to remove the paper background on motifs and work on it exactly as is with just a sketch in Illustrator? Thank you!

@pepostudios 10 ай бұрын

Hi! I'm wondering if you can elaborate a little bit to make sure I understand your question. You can certainly remove the background and isolate the motifs in Photoshop and bring those pieces into Illustrator, but ultimately those pieces will still be rasters (aka, pixel-based) and Illustrator is a vector-based program. Lots of folks will use the Image Trace feature of Illustrator to vectorize their raster artwork, so that's always an option. Let me know if I misunderstood your question!

@lttlod1 Жыл бұрын

Can I ask what kind of laptop you are using? I think I may have made the mistake of purchasing a Dell that has muted colors in Photoshop. I'm considering just giving it to my brother and getting something really good.

@pepostudios Жыл бұрын

I use a 2018 MacBook Pro! Hmmmm, are all colors muted? Is it only in Photoshop, or is it across every app/browsers etc on your computer?

@lttlod1 Жыл бұрын

@@pepostudios It looks like colors are muted across everything not just photoshop. Dell is replacing my laptop but I think the real problem is just overall quality on the display. I didn't realize it would make a difference (I'm new to all of this). My friend showed me his macbook air m1 yesterday and it's something I might consider. I'm trying to do what you and Cat Coq are doing, taking my watercolors to spoonflower etc, so I'm finding the colors have to be spot on!