Playing with watercolors again. This time I tried Chris's tutorial from memory. Not too shabby, I think I have the basics, although I did forget some steps, and totally forgot to do the plasma thingy at the end, lol.
version 1


version 2...added the plasma layer, took away the green background


Personally, I prefer version 2.

The white flowers are from the Catalpa tree, they look sort of like little orchids. The yellow flower is from the American Yellow Poplar, and remind me of a cross between a tulip and a passion flower.

2-ton: nice job on those! the top one is perhaps a little bit more believable as a watercolour, but i liked the bottom one better too. they're both very pretty, and the flowers are exotic to a swede.

i missed this thread a bit, because its not what im usually into but i really love some of the results
especially the first flower 2-ton did !

AnMal's initial design reminds me a of a banknote and i was wondering if it would be cool to add these very fine lines that you have on banknotes to make them harder to forge

Now I wish I knew of some great frame scripts...not python plug ins because I never seem to be able to access them (OSX is probably the culprit). I have used the one in G'mic arrays and frames, but are there some other favorite programs floating around?

just one more...this is my dog Red. He's an Australian Shepherd and the biggest love-bug ever. I took the pic and gimped it all in one 3 hr. period, a fun way to spend my day off, lol.

2-ton: beautiful picture! you've really got the hang of this now . i like the white lines, real watercolours with white contours saved out usually look great.

yes, the white lines and also the plasma effect are two interesting effects from Chris's tutorial. I still have to reference my tutorial notes to do these, lol. It is incredibly hard to render fur out of a background, and to make watercolor-y edges where you don't have a definite edge.