Topic awaiting preservation: Photograph > Watercolour > Print

Does anyone know of how to transfer a photograph into a watercolour painting, yet still preserve the detail. Most of the plugins/filters, tend to change the details very slightly (blur and soften).

Personally I would break out the watercolors

I have never seen any filtered product that looks realistically like a watercolor painting. They usually just look cheap and filtered.

FWIW

You can do that kind of thing in Painter. It takes some work to create the right brush, but then you can paint the image to look as if it were a water color.

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I've seen a lot of technical seeming watercolours in a lot of real estate publications. Are these all hand drawn in Painter then?

I can't say what oterhs have done. Especially without seeing the images.

I was just suggesting a tool that I know will allow you do do that kind of work. Personally I find it easier to simulate non-digital techniques (such as oil painting, guach, water colors, charcoal, etc.) in Painter than in Photoshop. That is what Painter was designed to do while Photoshop was designed to allow you to do photo manipulation as you would in a darkroom.

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-- not necessarily stoned... just beautiful.