Photoshop How-To: Go from Snapshot to Watercolor
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.
This article was last modified on January 3, 2023
This article was first published on June 8, 2005
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