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Photoshop How-To: Go from Snapshot to Watercolor
Sure, Illustrator CS2 has new Live Trace and Live Paint features for converting photos into fine art. But who needs new software when Photoshop CS can transform photos with spectacular results?
Written by Gregory Georges on June 8, 2005
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Whether you're trying to disguise a ho-hum digital photo or explore your fine-art side, this technique for turning a photo into a watercolor or a pen-and-ink sketch is sure to satisfy.
The clearly defined steps and abundant screenshots make it easy to follow along. You can choose to mimic a watercolor, a pen-and-ink sketch, or combine the two into a pen and ink with a watercolor wash.
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Excerpted from "50 Fast Photoshop CS Techniques" by Gregory Georges. Copyright © 2004 Wiley Publishing. All rights reserved. Reproduced here by permission of the publisher.
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source file?
It would be nice to make the source image available to be able to compare my results to the author's (to know I'm doing it correctly).
Outstanding
I already have CS2 -- but this is so good, I'm going to buy this book.
Quality not good enough
I am a graphic artist first, but also a fine artist, and I just don't think the final result is good enough. I don't see this as a big breakthrough. It's not horrible, but it's weak.