Instant Watercolour Painting

Here's how to turn this:

At the Smithsonian Flight Museum, Washington, DC

into this:

Little Butch

Open the photo (will be background).

Duplicate the photo (i.e. the background layer) 3 times.

On the first layer (from the bottom):

Filter>Artistic>Cutout, 4, 4, 2
Blend Mode: Luminosity

layer 1

On layer 2:

Filter>Artistic>Dry Brush, 10, 10, 3
Blend Mode: Screen

layer 2 (including layer 1)

just for fun here's what layer 2 looks like by itself

On layer 3:

Filter>Noise>Median>12 pixels
Blend Mode: Soft Light

Note: make all the layers visible to achieve the end result




Instant Watercolour Painting

I was having so much fun. Here's another one I did.


Beautiful BC Mountains

Just one more:


view from the tower in Policka

Policka, Czech Republic

I noticed the clouds disappeared so I may need to tweak some settings.

Clouds are back (I used cutout filter 8,4,2 instead of 4,4,2)

Hand Colouring a Black and White Photo

I started with a colour photo.

Original

Remove colour by, either:

Image>Adjustments>Gradient Map>Black to White

b/w

Or, another way to remove colour is by:

Enhance>Adjust Colour>Remove Colour

I find this one more grey than b/w

• Add a plain New Layer above the photo
• Use Blend Mode: Colour
• Paint with orange paintbrush

100% opacity

Here's what it looks like with a reduced opacity:

70% opacity

Of course, I just had to posterize it.


I just love posterizing!