Create a Watercolour Painting Effect - Affinity Photo iPad Tutorial

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So in this video i'll be showing you how to add a watercolour painting effect to your pictures.

i'll be using this picture for the example, and i'll be leaving links to all the pictures i use in the description

I first need to duplicate it. So i'm going to the move tool and im clicking on the layer to highlight it in the layers studio and i'm holding my finger on the screen for a second then letting go so the options come up and im clicking duplicate

Then I'm going to the filters studio and I'm scrolling down to detect edges.
So you have the choice of detect edges, detect horizontal or detect vertical edges. so this will isolate and strengthen horizontal or vertical edges or both while darkening the rest of your picture. In this case I'll be using detect vertical edges.

Just a tip, if the filter doesn't work, if you're clicking on it and it's not doing anything, you might need to rasterize the layer you're working on. To rasterize, I'm in the layers studio, im making sure i'm on the right layer. Which you'll be able to see because that layer is highlighted. I'm clicking this , then rasterise.
and rasterising just means that you will be converting that layer into a pixel layer, so that the pixels can be manipulated.

now i need to change the blend mode, so i'm going to the layers studio and im clicking these three dots and im clicking here to change the blend mode to ‘subtract’.

So now the picture is very dark so i'm going to the ‘adjustments studio’ and im adding a ‘brightness and contrast adjustment’ and i'm bringing the brightness up to 33 percent and the contrast up to 3 percent.

If you're working on a different picture just be aware that the settings i'm doing won't necessarily work for your picture.

then i want to saturate the colours a little bit, so i'm going back to the adjustments studio and i'm scrolling down to the bottom and i'm clicking on vibrance.
The difference between vibrance and saturation is that vibrance allows you to adjust the intensity of subtle colours in your picture while minimising the over saturation of more intense colours and skin tones are preserved to retain a natural appearance while saturation controls the intensity of the colours equally. so increase the vibrance if you want it to be subtle and increase the saturation if you want it to be intense , basically

now there's a lot of contrast and dark spots , so i'm going to the ‘adjustments studio’ and im adding a ‘curves adjustment’ and i'm bringing up shadows , which is the bottom left node and i'm adding a node in the middle of the line, which will be the midtones and I'm bringing that back towards the centre.
To make it look more like a painting, you can add a canvas texture. And I'm making sure that it covers all corners of the picture. Then im changing the blend mode to multiply and im bringing down the opacity






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