redone a aquarel from the past

[joto]

Another one of my favorites:

[raynerj]

Hi Joto,

I discovered something that might help you in your search for the perfect watercolor. Do not use a pur color in the shape. Use a fractal plasma with a shade either 5% lighter or daker than your selected color. You will achieve the painterly effect that you are looking for.

[joto]

Thanks John, I will experiment with that.

Jolande

[miress]

Hi Joto,

your aquarel is very nice...and I try to play with it. Photoshop.

[RAMWolff44]

A challenge for all those that would like to play with Jolande's piece is to use XaraX, which is native to what was trying to be accomplished! There are filters you can apply from WITHIN the program like blurs and other effects just as well as any other program. XaraX DOES somewhat support MOST PS compatible plugins.

Let's do try to stay more on topic with all this experimenting.

[Egg Bramhill]

Here's my attempt. Trying for very soft edges. Haven't got time to complete it but I might do later. Just straight Xara, no filters.
Egg

[raynerj]

My attempt... Not complete, just experimenting.

[joto]

Wow John, that really looks like watercolor pencilstrokes, how did you do that? I hope I have the time today to experiment with the tips I've got. Richard I've tried working with PS filters within Xara but there all greyed out when I try to use them! What do I do wrong?

Jolande

[raynerj]

Hello Jolande,

Here is the .xar file. I used fractals and lots of transpariencies. It is all xara

[RTK]

Nice work, Joto! I really like it!

Something you can also play around with, is to create a couple of bitmap copies of your final image:
(1) Play around with inreasing saturation, brightness etc. of them.
(2) Place the on-top of vectors and experiment with different transparencies.
(3) Off-setting some of them.

(As in Tao's first image above.)

Again, keep up the good work!