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Water colour - Rob1955 - 09-18-2018
Does anyone know how I can achieve this effect in Gimp?
https://10steps.sg/tutorials/photoshop/creating-an-abstract-watercolor-wallpaper/
I already have some 'splash' colour backgrounds I can use, but I don't know how to do it in gimp.
RE: Water colour - Espermaschine - 09-19-2018
The PS tutorial can be imitated with filtering (G'MIC), watercolour brushes and a layermask.
The most important step is to cut out a head, desaturate, adjust values, invert and paste as a layermask, that is attached to a transparent layer, which is to be filled with the watercolourbrushes.
free brushes/textures can be found here:
https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-free-Watercolour-Brushes-by-ChrisF
https://blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/freebies/25-free-watercolour-circle-textures-in-jpg-png
https://mediamilitia.com/watercolors-pack-36-free-images/
alternative techniques can be found here:
http://gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=16211
RE: Water colour - Rob1955 - 09-19-2018
(09-19-2018, 07:16 AM)Espermaschine Wrote: The PS tutorial can be imitated with filtering (G'MIC), watercolour brushes and a layermask.
The most important step is to cut out a head, desaturate, adjust values, invert and paste as a layermask, that is attached to a transparent layer, which is to be filled with the watercolourbrushes.
free brushes/textures can be found here:
https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-free-Watercolour-Brushes-by-ChrisF
https://blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/freebies/25-free-watercolour-circle-textures-in-jpg-png
https://mediamilitia.com/watercolors-pack-36-free-images/
alternative techniques can be found here:
http://gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=16211
Thanks for the links. All excellent. I've installed G'Mic, brushes, and downloaded the watercolour pics. Not sure how to use G'Mic, I've never used it before. The alternatives aren't really the end result I'm looking for, more inline with the Photoshop I attached. This has given me a lot to work on. Thanks again.
RE: Water colour - rich2005 - 09-19-2018
Been trying a few things and as with most of these 'tutorials' the base image has been very carefully chosen. Get something more run-of-the-mill and not so easy.
The stumbling block I found is finding an equivalent to that PS watercolor filter. It is not actually rendering a watercoler in the tutorial but applying a degree of shading/hatching. Plenty of artistic effects in gmic but nothing I can find to give a decent effect.
The rest is very straight forward. An exercise in layer masking.