Watercolor Tests

Here are 3 versions of the same image. The first one with the paper texture I did using entirely Photoshop. The second one is done entirely in Painter. The last one with two garlics is the original.



I got more of what I wanted out of Photoshop with the watercolor than I did from Painter. I took a big speckley brush and opened up the spacing and jittered the angle. I masked those marks with a bristley brush set to wet edges and used that same wet edges in overlay to get the way that watercolor marks look darker at their edges. I think Painter does a much better job at the loose ink brushwork. I wasn't doing a good job of matching the saturation in the photoshop version.