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Combine the Watercolor and Water Paper filters

Combine the Watercolor and Water Paper filters - Photoshop Tutorial

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Combine the Watercolor and Water Paper filters

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- [Instructor] In this movie, I'm going to show you how to create this Watercolor effect using a combination of Watercolor-related filters. This is my starting point. And the problem with the Watercolor filter, there are two. There's Watercolor, and there's Water Paper. I'll be using both along with Sponge and Underpainting. But the problem with the Watercolor filter I feel is that it always give a very dark result. If we come to the Filter menu and Artistic and then choose Watercolor, this the result that we're going to get. And I would like my result to not be as dark as that. So here are the steps we need to take. First of all, let's Convert the Background Layer to a Smart Object. Now I'm going to be using two Layers of the horse and blending them together. So I'll press Command or Control + J to duplicate those Layers. And let's name them, and the first one, or the top one, I'll call watercolor. And the other one I'll call underpainting. Now, I want to add a Layer of paper beneath…

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