Photoshop | Watercolour canvas effect

Hi Everyone. My name is Michele and in this tutorial I’m going to show you how

to do this. Creating a watercolor effect with one

button. Let’s get started. So once you’ve open up a drawing which is 300 pixels

per inch. Size, any size is up to you. Then you choose, you don’t have to have a

watercolor brush. Just pick any hard edged brush. I am using hard round pressure

size as I’m using a tablet. Then you just create a blob of color. Now we will start

recording the action for watercolor effect. First of all make sure that

you’re in painting workspace. Then, you open up your action panel this is my

previous action. I’ll just delete it and we’ll make our own new one. Go to the

last action that you have in your panel. If you don’t see this you have to turn

off your button mode. This is the “button mode” Turn it off, Go to the last action,

create a new layer and name it watercolor effect. Then start

recording.

Collapse it and then turn on your layer. Every time you click something it will

record. So the next time that we draw we just need to press the play button to

create the effect. Let me show you, okay we want this to be in a folder, so we

will create a folder first. Just drag and drop it into a folder then the

“Watercolor effect” will record “make group” then inside this group effect make sure

the group is selected. Create a layer mask this button. Add layer mask and then

go to Fill. Select your favorite… Select your favorite texture watercolor paper

texture. And then you click OK you will see that

effect immediately applied. And then next we want to create a washed-out effect of

light and dark. Some area has darker patch of blue. Some area has lighter

patch of blue. Click on effects and then click on pattern overlay, this time we

will use Cloud. Pattern, Select Cloud. If you don’t see this, it should be inside,

you click on patterns and you click append but it should be inside your list this

is cloud and I make sure the size is as big as you want. Too small it looks a bit

odd. So increase or reduce opacity to your preference. I think this will do

maybe a little more. Ok. Overlay the blend mode is Overlay. A bit more because

whenever a watercolor dries edges are usually a bit darker because that’s

where the color pools so we’ll create that effect with

Inner glow, with grey. Then choose Color burn. Now, for

this one we need to play around with it.

You see how the edges are getting darker because we are using gray so it’s a bit

like alpha channel so darkens wherever it’s darker. Since you are.. since you have

chosen grey so the inner glow…the effect that the inner glow create is.. the edges,

are darker so depends on how dark you want to be, the darker the grey the

darker your blue is. Okay? and then size adjust the size to your preference and

then maybe it’s slightly too dark then go back to a pattern overlay to adjust

your patches of water that bleeds in your paper

Once you’re done. Click OK and it will be recorded in this layer so basically done.

So click Stop and now watch the magic happen. Go and find your

“Watercolor Effect” let’s remove this and then create a new layer let’s move this aside and

then you color with only any solid color and then press the button and it will

create the water color effect. That’s all for today and I’ll leave a link to

download the water color effect if you want to download it instead of doing

yourself I’ll see you in the next video. Bye