

Choose the location of watercolor brushes and load it. Click to the small down arrow next the brush’s size, choose the wheel icon and select import brushes.

#PHOTOSHOP WATERCOLOR BRUSHES FOR MAC DOWNLOAD#
If not, I’ll leave the brush file in the description for you to download and import. If you already have it on Photoshop, please skip this step. Next, we will import watercolor brush (B shortcut).

Select top layer, hold ALT or OPTION and click to layer mask to create a layer mask to top layer with black. Create a new stamp visible layer again, hold CTRL or CMD and click to choose a new layer, and press CTRL or CMD + Delete to fill the new layer with white in background. Change blending mode from normal to overlay and go to Filter > Other > Highpass with radius at 8 pixels. It looks pretty good right now, duplicate the stamp visible layer with CTRL + J. Fill the amount of these options as below – Stylization: 6, Cleanliness: 6, Scale: 5, Bristle: 5, check to Lighting box, Angle is 117 and Shine is 0.2. Next, head up to Filter > Stylize > Oil Paint. After that, create a stamp visible layer by CTRL + ALT + SHIFT + E or CMD + OPTION + SHIFT + E. I think it’s now quite bright so I’ll reduce the brightness with Curves, Open curves layer, reduce a bit of highlight and shadow. Change to screen in blending mode and adjust the watercolor layer until it’s perfectly matching with model. Paste it onto our project, then use CTRL + T to resize, rotate and move it to cover the subject. Moving to watercolor photo, select it (CTRL or CMD + A) and copy it (CTRL or CMD + C). Select Watercolor, in the Artistic folder with Brush Detail: 14, Shadow Intensity: 0, Texture:1. Next, make sure your foreground is black, background is white. This way, you can see the photo is having lots of contrast. Then, using Curves by pressing shortcut CTRL or CMD + M and increase black and white by dragging white triangle to the left and black triangle to the right. At first, Convert the background layer to Smart Obejct so that we can be non-destructive editing, duplicate our background layer (CTRL + J) and remove the color of it by using Black and White with CTRL + ALT + SHIFT + B for Win or CMD + OPTION + SHIFT + B for MAC.
#PHOTOSHOP WATERCOLOR BRUSHES FOR MAC HOW TO#
Hi there, in this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a beautiful watercolor portrait effect in Photoshop.
