Hi, I would like to know how to make these water colour effects?
I've tried several brushes and even tweaked my own brush settings and used filters and I still didn't get the way I want it to.
Pls help
These are probably real watercolours on paper, scanned so they can be used as a texture.
Using a brush is a good way of approaching this, but as you have already found out, you need the perfect one
Layering different levels of opacity with a soft brush might do the trick for the pink example. It doesnt look too far away from your regular Solid Noise.
Filtering can mimick watercolours. Maybe somebody has found a routine that works, i dont know of any.
There are a few places on the web where you can get free watercolour textures (use your search engine, i think texturemate had a few...).
I know that Teela Cunningham has a channel on youtube for making this kind of stuff (although for PS) and gave away free watercolour textures on her website.
For everything else try stock sites and pay.
EDIT:
added a few resources:
https://chrisdesign.deviantart.com/art/w...-326284761 (brush)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxDHR-cwy5k (Gimp tutorial by Chris Fiedler)
https://every-tuesday.com/how-to-add-wat...typography (Teela's site and freebie)
https://youtu.be/T2wiU5tyfxo (PS tutorial)
http://www.texturemate.com/content/free-...122010-005 (texture)
Seeing the color profile those images come with, guessing from some version of PS
I can not think of any easy way(s) in Gimp, but then I am not an artist. My stab at it.
The pink swirly thing might start life as a circular selection, painted in with pinks then the iWarp filter applied. It is a very sensitive filter however, not easy to use.
The grungy image? Very hands on. Build up from layers, texture can come from the old Gimppressionist filter.
Expanding on rich's idea. How about using a watercolour texture with a layermask ?
The layermask is made with the coffestain filter (Filter - Decor - Coffee Stain) and treated with the Whirl and Pinch Filter, plus a bit of manual smudging.
Problem is that the coffestain filter produces only random shapes.
I was able to come up with this.
The basic idea was to use a filter called ZigZag some guy posted on
gimpchat ages ago.
It imitates the PS filter of the same name.
Got the inspiration from a logo of a record label that uses an S with this filter, and it rips the seams, just like OP's logo.
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I made a Solid Noise layer with low values (1,2px) to get a texture with light and dark areas, then cut out a circular shape and applied the ZigZag filter, Pond Ripples Style 33/11.
Appplied as a layermask to blend two shades of pink and then touched up with Chris F's watercolour brush.
Did a few more "artistic" stuff, that is hard to explain but you get the basic workflow.
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