

An even balance between dark darks and light lights is ideal. Increase contrast by utilizing your levels and brightness/contrast layer adjustments. Remember to fully desaturate your texture before creating your brush.To remove a watercolor’s paper background (so it can be placed on any color), check out video #7 in this course. If you already have the texture as a transparent png or psd file, perfect! You’ll have to use a texture that already has its background removed.

Softer, lighter colored textures will yield less dramatic effects.

Here are the most important things to keep in mind as you create your watercolor photoshop brushes:
