Simulating Watercolor Paper’s Texture

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Frank_Reynolds
Nov 18, 2008
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When photographing a watercolor painting that Is on a textured paper the background usually has patchy look that does not look good when it is reproduced as four-color halftone. Therefore to make a more pleasing reproduction you have to dropout the background.

Photoshop has filters to simulate the conversion of photography into a work of art, but there are no filters that work at making just a textured background of an image that already is a work of art. Has anyone found a way to simulate texture of watercolor papers in just the background layer?

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alan_ruta
Nov 18, 2008
I would do it the hard way once, e.g. scan a blank piece of watercolor paper and retouch, color correct until you have a nice and "even" texture.

Then in the future you can blowout the backgrounds and overlay your texture.

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Lundberg02
Nov 19, 2008
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