Watercolor Painted Text Effect | Photoshop Tutorial

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In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, we’ll start by choosing a free brush pack from Brusheezy and working with a custom color palette from coolors.co to paint with a masked layer to create a perfect watercolor text effect. Check out the tutorial and leave a little like on the video if you enjoy it!

Download Font, Brush Pack, Color Scheme, and Place Text

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Before we get started, you’ll want to download the font we’re using here (or find a similar font that you already have.) Also, download the exact Watercolor Brush Pack that I use in this Photoshop tutorial right here. I also used the cool service called coolors.co to create a custom color scheme and exported the PNG and dragged that into Photoshop so I could easily sample from it as I use my watercolor brushes. I typed out the word “Watercolor” sized at 400pt. Reduce the Fill Opacity of the Type layer to 0%.

Clip Layer & Paint the Watercolor Effect

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Create a new layer above the text we just created and use the hotkey Cmd/Ctrl + Alt/Opt + G to clip this new blank layer to the Text layer and grab the Brush tool and right-click and use the fly-out menu and choose to Load Brushes and find the watercolor brush pack and use these watercolor brushes and start painting to build up an effect. Hold down Alt/Opt and you will get a temporary eyedropper which you can use to sample from the color palette PNG we copied into Photoshop and paint a good mixture of color to get a great watercolor effect. TIP: Check out the video above to see exactly how I work this process.

Add Some Layer Styles and Adjustments to Finish the Effect

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I want to add some Layer Styles to the Type layer (NOTE: We reduced Fill Opacity because that will allow us to see Layer Styles that we apply to this layer.) We’ll add a very subtle, yet sharp Drop Shadow with these settings: Blend Mode: Overlay, Color: Black, Opacity: 40%, Angle: 90°, Distance: 4px, Spread: 0, Size: 2px. I also added a subtle Bevel and Emboss with these settings: Chisel Hard, Depth: 500%, Size: 2px, Soften: 0, Angle: 90°, Altitude: 30°, Highlight: Screen blend mode, Color: White, Opacity: 25%, Shadow: Multiply blend mode, Color: Black, Opacity: 15%. As always, check out the full tutorial at the top of this post to see exactly how I created this effect.

Tags: Watercolor, Brushes, Photoshop, Photoshop CC, Photoshop Tutorial, Photoshop Tutorials, Text Effect, Text Effects, Painted Effect, Special Effect, Masking, Clipping Mask, Custom Text, Type, Typography, Custom Typography

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