This Photoshop tutorial shows you how to make those exciting water splashes and add them to photos to really make them pop! Spoiler alert, these are much easier to do that you think, check out the video and see for yourself and then share your water splash effects with the rest of us over at the We are having a contest for the best water Splashes images over in our CAFE Facebook page Its free to enter and you could win a free A while back, I was fortunate to have one of my photographs featured on the cover of Photoshop User Magazine. (for a cover story i wrote). This was a photo of model Llana that I captured in my studio. I then Added the water splash and 3D effect for a tutorial that I wrote in the magazine.
Because this effect was so well received, I decided to make a quick Photoshop tutorial here at PhotoshopCAFE. This tutorial gets directly to the point and I show you exactly how I make my water splash effects. Check out the video above and read the text below to see all the steps. For this tutorial, rather than use my own photos, I decided to grab a couple of images from Adobe stock: This way you can grab them yourself and follow along. Become an Adobe Stock Contributor: 10 free images from Adobe Stock Step 1: prepare the image I combined the dancer with the background, Then we really make it pop with the water splashes (watch the video tutorial at the top of the page) Step 2: Create the splashes In this case, we are going to make brushes out of the splashes. The advantage to this method is that its really easy to reuse the splashes for other things and it’s really fast to work.
BrushKing provide one of the largest collection of free Photoshop brushes, You can easily find and download them in the different. There is 16 High Resolution Splatter Brushes that I made with lots of unused white paint that I stock at home:). 20 Dazzling Fire & Water Effect Photoshop Actions. Tested and optimized for use on Photoshop CS3, CS4, CS5, CS6, CC. Get it done in seconds with only a few clicks.Simply open up a photo and brush where you want to apply the effect then play the action.
The disadvantage is that you don’t get to keep all the original colors. (I’ll be doing a second tutorial next week that shows another method that preserves the colors). A: Open your image that contains your splashes, here is the stock photo, linked above. B: Make a selection around it with the rectangular marquee tool. C: (Optional) If the image lacks contrast, then press Cmd/Ctrl+L for levels. Move the Black triangle to the right d: Choose editdefine Brush Choose the bush tool from the toolbar and select your new brush.
Tap on your page to paint with the brush. Pressing the or keys will change the brush size. Here are some painting tests to see it works. Continue these steps with different splashes to make a series of brushes. Step 3: adding the splashes to the photo a. Select the brush tool (b key) b.
Choose white as your foreground color, so we will make white water. Choose the Splash brush to paint with. Create a new layer to paint on. In this case I made the layer behind the dancer image. Resize the brush or keys.
With Opacity turned up to 100, I tapped once with the brush to create the water. Feel free to reposition, rotate, and scale the water. This is why its on a new layer. Here I have made the background black, just so you can see the water better. This time I chose another brush and added more splashes on a new layer. To manipulate splashes, choose a new layer and tap with another brush. Press Ctrl/Cmd+T for free transform.
Drag around the bounding box to scale, rotate and stretch the water into the position you like. Keep adding more splashes, all of these are behind our dancer. Also, add some splashes in front of our dancer and manipulate the water to do what you want it to do.
(Feel free to use liquify too). And this is what it looks like when I show the original background (watch the video at the top to see all the painting in real time). Each splash is on its own layer.
This is what the layers panel looks like. Here is the final result where I have pushed the colors a little bit using This is the same process used to make the funky colored splashes like you see here. (to do this, I just selected the water layers into group and applied a colored gradient over the top 1. Select all the water layers in the layers panel 2. Press Cmd/Ctrl+G tp put them in a group, or Layermerge layers (Ctrl/cmd+E) to make a single layer out of all the splashes. Lock transparency in the layers panel 4. Apply a colored gradient and tune the colors.
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Adding a watercolor effect to a design has become pretty popular lately. Besides it being popular in web design, it also looks really nice when you edit your photos and want something different. It is pretty difficult to replicate the watercolor effect digitally, but with some work and practice you can definitely achieve great results. You just have to follow some tutorials that you can find online and download some brushes that you will need to work with. If you choose to work in Photoshop, then the diversity of brushes you can choose from is huge. You sometimes might get confused, but the important thing is to choose the ones that you will really need, otherwise you will end up hoarding lots of stuff you won’t even use on your computer. We have saved you some time and gathered 30 sets of watercolor brushes for you to choose from.
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Hopefully these will be helpful for you and you future cool designs. Watercolor Free Brushes Foliage Sketches Photoshop and GIMP Brushes A set of Photoshop brushes composed of various foliage, in the form of sketches. These are drawn by hand and are all high resolution, with the average size being about 2000 pixels.
Watercolor Splatters Includes 32 high-resolution splatter brushes that fascinate by its professional execution. Each blob has its unique shape and intersection of layers that is ideal for producing watercolor effects with depth. It works in various Photoshop versions starting from old-timey CS. As a bonus, you will get 3 extra photo textures. Impress your audience with animated websites and web presentations. With, we don’t make you start from an empty slate. All you have to do is to pick the elements you like best and combine them.
Each slide has been carefully crafted to satisfy three key criteria: aesthetic, function and usability. That way you know every element works together seamlessly while enhancing the impact of your content. WaterColor EXTREMUM The artist offers a huge pack for facilitating creation of watercolor effect.
There are 41 detailed brushes that look exceptionally good not only on small or standard screens but also on huge ones. They are compatible with PS 7 and higher versions. WaterColor Reloaded This is another vigilantly created pack of watercolor brushes from the same author.
It has 83 items that can come in handy in different art projects. Note: this time brushes do not have such a fine quality so that they are suitable for small resolutions. Watercolor brushes It’s an excellent set of 20 brilliant, decent watercolor brushes that look splendid when a vibrant coloring is applied. They perfectly work in old Photoshop versions and licensed under CC. HIGH RESOLUTION WATERCOLOR BRUSH 9 high-quality watercolor brushes with a distinctive grunge touch are hidden in this freebie.
Resolution of 2500×2500 px provides you with an enormous potential, making graphics appropriate for numerous artworks, especially those where legibility and detail play the first fiddle. 22 WATERCOLOR BRUSHES This set of Photoshop watercolor brushes is great to have on hand. They are sleek, neatly executed, highly detailed and can be used both for personal and commercial projects. Here you will find 22 splatters. WG Dry Paint Strokes Unlike the previously listed above samples, this one offers tools for recreating dry paint strokes. It is another way of conveying watercolor touch.
There is only 10 yet high-quality and varied items that can be used for personal purposes only. Soft Watercolor brushes The set differs from others with its realization. While the majority of such type of packages include watercolor splatters with ragged edges, this set has a more smooth lines that well-suited to subtle, delicate environment. Watercolor Brush Pack The pack recreates interesting watercolor effects that are suitable for prettifying backgrounds. It includes 7 vigilantly designed and treated items.