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Easy Watercolor Effects in PhotoShop

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1. Create a new document, I used 1440x900.

2. With the background layer, make it editable and apply the Layer Style>Gradient Overlay. Create a gradient from white to a light beige.

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3. Open the vector face file. Apply the Filter>Artistic>Poster Edges, you can either use the values I used or play with the setting to create your own style. The idea here is to give a sort of painting style to the vector.

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4. Delete the whites of the vector image.

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5. Using a mask, hide the light skin of the girl.

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6. Back to the watercolor file, place the girl in the middle of the gradient. Create a new layer beneath the girl and paint only where was the face with white, like the image below.

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7. Paint using the BittBox Watercolor Brushes. The most important thing here is color. You will have to choose carefully. My first one was yellow. Then pink, green, cyan and a beige like the images below. Remember to create one layer for each color and apply multiply to their blending mode.

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8. Using another layer, choose another watercolor brush to make the hair of the girl longer, as in the picture below.

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9. Cyan line, using a basic brush draw a straight line (holding Shift) like extending the blue stain.

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10. Use a very thin typeface and write what you want. After that go to Layer Style>Gradient Overlay and create a gradient with 3 colors, first cyan, green and pinky. The angle of the gradient is 0.

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Final Result:

Easy Watercolor Effects in PhotoShop
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