WATERCOLOR TUTORIAL

Created January 26, 2003 © Copyright Moon's Designs
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This tutorial is written thanks to Blaze, who has posted his results and how he achieved these results in several PSP Newsgroups. Blaze has allowed me permission to create a tutorial using his technique along with my own, so I guess this is a collaboration tutorial ~smiles~. Unfortunately, Blaze does not have a website of his own so I can't link to him.

We will be using only PSP7 Effects including blend modes, artistic brush and textures. My tutorials are only guidelines to help you accomplish a certain creation. Please feel free to be inventive and take whatever liberties you would like. I encourage each of you to do your "own thing" and make your creation yours! Your finished creation is yours to do with as you please.

Screenshots are resized and compressed for faster loading. Don't forget to SAVE your work often.

This tutorial is written in and for PSP Version 7.04 and assumes you have a working knowledge of PSP at a beginners level. I am sure this can easily be done in Version 6 with a few adjustments in paths but I have only used Version 7 so I can't make promises *S*

FOR THIS TUTORIAL YOU WILL NEED:
JASC's PSP (30 day free trial)- You can get it HERE
A Graphic ~~ Colorful pictures seem to work out better. I am using a Purple Flower that my friend Terri took in her backyard last Spring. Terri is an excellent tutorial writer as well. You can visit Terri's site HERE. If you use this graphic, please right click and save to your hard drive.

Step 1:
Open your graphic in PSP and make a copy of it (Shift+D). The main reason for making a copy is in case I want to use the image again and forget to change the name when I save *S* You can close out your original graphic. Remember to save often.

Step 2:
Go to Layers-->Duplicate. Right click on your Copy of Background layer and rename the layer Detail. Change your blend mode to darken. You will find the blend mode on your layer palette on the far right side. Click where it says normal to get the drop down list. Your layer palette should now look like this.

Step 3:
Activate your background layer. Go to Layers-->Add New Raster Layer. BEFORE clicking OK, name your layer Surface and change the blend mode to Multiply.

Step 4:
Hide your Detail and Background layers by going to your layer palette and clicking on the eye glasses next to the name. A red X will appear and you will only have your transparent surface layer showing. Your layer palette should look like this.

Step 5:
Change your foreground styles color to a beige. I used #DCD5C6. Flood fill your surface layer. Go to Effects-->Texture Effects-->Textures and apply the following settings. The texture I used is called lines.bmp and is number 37 in my drop down menu, however your number may be different depending on the amount of textures you have in your folder.

Step 6:
Activate your Background layer and make it visible, there should be no red X on the eyeglasses now. Your graphic should now look like it has the texture from your surface layer. Here is how mine looked. It isn't a large difference and, of course, you can always change the texture if you aren't satisfied with the way it looks.

Step 7:
Now to make the painting. With your background layer active, go to Effects-->Artistic Effect-->Brush Strokes. I chose the Watercolor preset and used the default settings. You can change the settings or use another one of the presets if you like, remember this is YOUR creation. ;-) Here is how mine looked after applying the brush settings. I hope you have been saving!

Step 8:
You may like your graphic as it stands, with the detail layer still hidden. Let's activate your Detail layer to unhide it. See how the detail shows through? You can adjust the layer blend mode to get more or less detail. Here's how mine looked changing the blend mode to Color.

Add a frame or a border and just have fun! Don't forget to resize your graphic to your groups specification before sending it in. Here is another one that I did keeping the detail blend mode at Darken.

I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial as much as I did creating it for you. I would like to thank my testers from my PSP_Dynasty group.

If you have any problems, comments or questions please do not hesitate to E-mail me.

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