Create watercolors and other art styles with Generative Fill
How to generate oil paintings, sketches, watercolors, and cartoons with Generative Fill in Adobe Photoshop.
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Introduction
Hello, my name is Russell Preston Brown from Adobe.
And this super advanced tutorial is all about working with Adobe Photoshop and the new Generative Fill feature.
In this tutorial, I want to demonstrate how to turn this photograph into a piece of art.
Check this out.
Using artistic prompts to transform photos
I've created a cartoon vector art an oil painting, a pencil sketch and a watercolor.
I did this by using these expressions you see here as my prompts.
So I'm using artistic terms as a prompt when creating a Generative Fill.
But there's more to it.
There's a superuser tip and technique, and I'm about to show it to you now.
Let's start here with my Original Image right here.
Step 1: Creating an intensity mask with quick mask mode
Here it is.
I'm now going to select the letter Q on my keyboard.
Just like that.
Notice that my Original Image is highlighted over here to the right.
I'm in the Quick Mask mode.
If I fill this area of my image, I can then seal it and create a mask.
This is how we're going to do it and watch very carefully.
It's a bit complicated.
I'm going to go right over here to my Foreground Color and tap once here.
Notice my Brightness value right here.
I'm going to set this Brightness value to 40%. 40% will then create a 40% mask, an intensity mask that's going to be used for, for example, a watercolor that I'm going to create.
So I want a 40% combination of my original image and a watercolor.
I'm going to select OK.
That's step number one.
Step 2: Filling the mask and generating a watercolor effect
Next, we'll go to the Edit menu and down to Fill..., we're going to fill with the Foreground Color and select OK.
So I've filled the entire image area with a 40% value as you see here.
That is a mask.
I now can select the Q key again on my keyboard.
We don't see the mask as a selection, but it's there.
We know it's there because the Generative Fill Taskbar has appeared here.
It's allowing us to tap right in here, and now I'm going to type in the word Watercolor.
Now I select Generate.
It's going to process this 40% mask of a combination of this image and the watercolor.
The results will be really quite amazing as you're going to see right here.
Cool.
So I'm using 40% for this.
Step 3: Experimenting with mask percentages and art styles
I can choose different percentages and get different results.
So there's your tip and technique, in fact, a superuser tip and technique for creating a watercolor.
Try using some of the other prompts that I worked with, like a Pencil Sketch, Oil Paint and Cartoon Vector.
Give this a try, have some fun, experiment.
Remember, you could also run this process and check out the three different Variations which will be created each time you do this.
There you have it, give it a try.
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