Hi. This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV.
I'm going to show you how to create the look of watercolor and pastel mixed media drawings from photos.
Open a photo you'd like to use for this project. I downloaded this one from Shutterstock.
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I provided a link to a custom brush set we ll be using later that you can download.
The link is in my video s description or project files.
To ensure your results will look similar to mine, its resolution should be 72 pixels per inch.
To check it, go to Image and Image Size.
If it isn't 72 pixels, once you type it in, you'll notice that the width and height changed, as well.
Feel free to increase its width and height if you want.
Unlock the background and temporarily hide it.
We'll make a new layer under it by Ctrl or Cmd-clicking the New Layer icon.
We'll fill it with 50% gray.
To do this, press Shift + the F5 key at the top of your keyboard or go to Edit and Fill.
Click "50% Gray".
Go to Filter and Filter Gallery.
Open the "Artistic" folder and click "Rough Pastels".
The Texture is "Canvas", the Stroke Length is 40 and the Stroke Detail is 1.
The Scaling is 200, the Relief is 50, and the Light is Bottom.
Click the Adjustment Layer icon and click "Levels".
In the Input Highlight field, type in 136, which brightens the gray base to white while
retaining the texture.
Shift-click the bottom layer to make it active as well and press Ctrl or Cmd + G to place
them into a folder.
Let's name it "Paper base".
Make your photo visible and active.
Go to Filter and Filter Gallery.
Click the "plus" icon at the lower, right which adds an additional "Rough Pastels" filter.
We'll replace it with "Paint Daubs".
Make the Brush Size: 6 and the Sharpness: 20.
Presently, the Paint Daubs filter is affecting the Rough Pastels filter, however, we want
the filters reversed.
Drag Paint Daubs under Rough Pastels.
Now, the Rough Pastels filter is affecting Paint Daubs.
Convert it into Smart Object.
We'll make a copy of it by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + J. Change its Blend Mode to "Luminosity".
Go to Filter and Filter Gallery.
Close the "Artistic" folder and open the "Texture" folder.
Click Texturizer . The texture is "Canvas", the Scaling is 200%, the Relief is 4 and the Light is from the top.
Hide "Paint Daubs" and click OK.
Open the Adjustments panel.
If you don't see it, go to Window and Adjustments.
Click the "Vibrance" icon.
Drag the Vibrance all the way to the right and for the Saturation, I'll type in 40.
You may want to adjust the amount of saturation for your image depending on the color intensity you want.
The main difference between Vibrance and Saturation is this - Vibrance only affects the less saturated
colors, while Saturation boosts the intensity of all the colors in a photo.
Click the Adjustments panel again and click the Photo Filter icon.
These filters essentially give our image a color cast.
If your image is too warm, as in this example, I'll cool it down by clicking any one of the cooling filters.
Conversely, if your image is too cool, you can warm it up by clicking a warming filter.
I'll pick "Cooling Filter (80)".
We can also increase of decrease it "Density" or intensity.
Shift-click the bottom image to make it active as well and group them into a folder.
Click the Layer Mask icon to make a layer next to it.
In this layer mask, we'll brush in a custom brush around its inside perimeter which will
mask out our image thereby revealing the paperbase under it.
Open your Brush Tool and Brush Picker.
Scroll to the bottom and open the Colored Pencil Textures folder.
I'll pick "Colored Pencil 4", but feel free to try out the others as well.
I'll make its size 175 pixels.
Its opacity and Flow are both 100%.
Open the Brush Settings panel by pressing the F5 key at the top of your keyboard.
Click "Shape Dynamics".
All the "Controls" are "Off"
and the "Size Jitter" and "Roundness Jitter" are both 0%.
Make the "Angle Jitter": 20%.
Then, close the panel.
Brush around the inside perimeter to reveal the paper base.
This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. Thanks for watching!