watercolor look

[Justin Productions]

Depending on wich version of After Effects you are using, if you have AE 6.5 (or higher), go into Effect > Adjust > Photo Filter. Then choose Cooling filters and adjust the parameters to your needs.

Plenty of other ways to do this, but probably the fastest and easiest.

Justin Productions
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Adobe After Effects 6.5 Professional

[Ron Lindeboom]

One of the favorite ways that I have used to do this, is to create a few layers of the exact same footage in the exact same positions on the timeline. Then, adjust opacity of the layers and add watercolor filters, etc., to one layer but one another and use blend modes to affect the image. Using this technique, you can soften the edges of your image without totally losing them to the watercolor effect, and you can also add just enough watercolor effect that you don’t end up with the canned look that you often see used when people use the plug-ins on a single layer image.

Sometimes, I will desaturate one layer, add a charcoal-like look to it, soften its opacity just enough to blend it into the image, add a bit of watercolor to the image layer above it (which is the same image, remember?), adjust the level of opacity on this layer and also try various blend modes to taste.

The bottom layer is my basic untouched version of the image and so the “stacked” and effected versions of the image atop it, affect the image and change its look.

Using things like this, you won’t end up with that “Hey, I used re:Vision FX’s Van Gogh or one of DigiEffects’ paint plug-ins” look.

Best regards,

Ron Lindeboom

[Lessevolvedman]

Not quite watercolour but kinda close and looks pretty cool..

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=1&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/chao_joe/chinese_painting/index.html

//lessevolvedman
http://www.lessevolvedman.com.au

[Ron Lindeboom]

Another thing you can do is try using Posterize Color on your main or even subsequent image layer. See how it affects your image.

You can get some very cool looking effects using it.

Best regards,

Ron Lindeboom

[Michael Szalapski]

And there’s always the ever popular duplicate footage, blur, blend mode=darken.

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