Playing on Photoshop

Pictured left is the spray paint effect we learn in class. This was quite a challenge for me to make it look authentic, but I know I will improve - I am still getting my bearings with photoshop.


Below is the watercolour image I created following a tutorial; Create Cool Watercolor Effects on Photoshop. 

The aspects I found challenging were first of all, making my use of strokes resemble hair authentically, in a way that really did look like hair. Sometimes I made it too thick, or the strokes just looked unnatural to me. 


Perhaps the biggest issue I had was with masking; following the steps exactly as they told me, I just could not figure it out... Whenever I selected the brush after adding the mask, and using black, it would just colour in behind the picture, or wipe out the whole background with it. In the end I solved this by just using the pentagonal wand tool - I simply cropped off the rest of her body rather than masking it. 


Finally, I could not figure out how to make my own gradient for the text. The tutorial said to create a blue, red, green and yellow gradient, but I could not find where to do this. Instead I just used a preset red, blue and yellow gradient - unfortunately green is missing.