Video Tutorial: Painted Watercolor Effect in Photoshop

In today’s video tutorial I explain how to create a realistic painted watercolor effect in Photoshop. We’ll use a variety of filters to replicate the mottled appearance of real life watercolour paintings. This technique works particularly well with landscape images, which are also a popular subject for real life watercolour paintings. If you want to save some time, check out my free Artistic Photo Effect Actions, which includes a ready made script for this watercolour effect, along with other painted, inked and sketched styles.

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Video Tutorial: Painted Watercolor Effect in Photoshop

Behind The Scenes: How Stella Caraman Creates Beautiful Watercolor Textures

When you think of great digital resources, you may not picture someone covered in paint, spending hours working on real, physical artwork. But that’s exactly how Stella Caraman created her popular product, Aquarelle Designers Kit.

In the video below, you’ll see Stella at work as she carefully creates all the great watercolor designs that will eventually be converted into digital patterns, brushes, and shapes.

Seeing this kind of dedication and craftsmanship go into products at Creative Market makes us so happy. Our community of designers is unmatched in talent and we love nothing more than to see someone pour themselves into a product like this one. Every time you use Creative Market resources, you’re supporting someone just like Stella in their creative endeavors.

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Behind The Scenes: How Stella Caraman Creates Beautiful Watercolor Textures

70 Beautiful Watercolor Graphics, Effects, Brushes, and More

One of the hottest recent design trends is watercolor graphics. Some days it seems like watercolor brushes, patterns, backgrounds, and effects are taking over Creative Market! We finally took the time to sit down and put together this huge collection of our favorite watercolor resources. Enjoy!

Ultimate Watercolor Packs

To start this collection out, here are some all-in-one watercolor packs that are overflowing with all kinds of different resources. A special shout out to both Nicky Laatz and Make Media Co. for setting the bar so high in this area and breaking a few sales records while they were at it.

Brushes

If you’re just dipping your toe into the world of watercolor-themed design, the first thing you’ll want is a good watercolor brush back. These are incredibly versatile tools that allow you to apply watercolor effects to any artwork that you create.

Vector

Most great watercolor resources you’ll find are for Photoshop, but vectors lovers need not dismay, there are still plenty of great, infinitely scalable watercolor resources too.

Graphics

Watercolor graphics tend to share a floral theme, which you’ll see repeated in nearly all the items below. If you’re looking to bring a little bit of nature into your designs, start here.

Type & Fonts

Once you’ve got your watercolor graphics figured out, it’s time to think about type. You can’t just choose any old font either. In order to really hit that watercolor feel for your type, you need something with a thick, brushed feel. Here are some fonts and lettering packs that nail this aesthetic.

Patterns

The next two sections have you covered in the watercolor background department. We’ve got patterns and textures aplenty.

Backgrounds and Textures

Effects

These watercolor effects will allow you to take existing artwork/photographs and apply a watercolor feel. These are really useful for bringing all your best resources into watercolor realm.

Mockups & Templates

To finish out our huge roundup, here are some great scene mockups and file templates with a watercolor aesthetic. These will help you show off all your watercolor artwork in a usable format.

70 Beautiful Watercolor Graphics, Effects, Brushes, and More