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How to Create A Watercolor Quote in Photoshop

03/04/15

How to Create a Watercolor Quote in Photoshop

Hi guys! You might remember a couple weeks ago when I shared this freebie, and I asked if any of you would be interested in learning how I made it. Well some of you said yes and I’m here today to show you!

I get asked all the time what program I use to make my freebies, and there isn’t one straight answer. As a designer, I use Adobe Creative Suite and depending on the design, I use either Illustrator, Photoshop or InDesign. And sometimes I use a combination of them. I know most people don’t have these programs, trust me I know they’re expensive. I’m still using the version I got in college with my student discount 😉

Wanna know a secret though? You can download a FREE 30 day trial of any of them from Adobe’s website!

This is my first video, so hopefully I explained everything well and don’t sound silly.

 

 

Download the Watercolor Brushes HERE and visit Design Seeds for some color inspiration!

Let me know if you had any issues with the video! I’d like to do more of these so I want

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  1. Kelli says

    August 21, 2016 at 2:19 pm

    Hi there, I downloaded the brushes but they didn’t show up in my photoshop. Any suggestions?

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    • brepurposed says

      August 22, 2016 at 9:52 am

      Hi Kelli! Did you open the brushes tab and scroll all the way down to the bottom? That’s where it added them for me. They might be hiding down there!

      Reply
  2. Jen says

    October 10, 2015 at 2:06 pm

    Hi! I am loving your technique here and it is EXACTLY what I want to do for some artwork for my entryway. I have Photoshop but am NOT well practiced with it. I can follow directions, however, and was able to complete everything you instructed. Here’s my problem and I’m hoping you know of a setting I can switch on/off to make it work. When I switch to the brush tool and click on my blank layer, one click makes it BAM full strength color. There’s no multi-clicking to get darker colors. It means that all of my brush strokes are opaque and it looks more like someone spattered paint instead of brushed watercolors. I’ve certainly tried online helps but I’m having a hard time even wording my question to then know which menu to search. I know its a long shot- but I’m so close to getting this that I don’t want to totally give up yet!! Thanks so much for putting this together for us novices 🙂

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    • brepurposed says

      October 12, 2015 at 8:12 pm

      Hey Jen! I’m glad this tutorial was helpful! If you haven’t figured it out already, you should just be able to adjust the opacity of your brush. That way it won’t be full strength right off the bat. In my version of Photoshop there is a little box right along the top menu when I have my brush clicked on. If you have trouble finding it, just go to the “help” menu in Photoshop and search opacity. Hope that helps!

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      • Jen says

        October 14, 2015 at 3:54 pm

        You are a genius! I saw that earlier but assumed it was the same as the opacity slider on the right side of my screen that kept changing the opacity for the whole layer at once. Tricky Photoshop 😉 Thanks so much!! Can’t wait to get this finished and hung up!!

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        • brepurposed says

          October 23, 2015 at 9:10 am

          Yay, glad that helped!

          Reply
  3. Becky @dempsterlogbook says

    March 15, 2015 at 12:25 am

    What a great tutorial! I am pinning this one for future use! Thanks for linking up at Motivational Monday.

    Reply
    • brepurposed says

      March 16, 2015 at 8:19 pm

      Thank you so much Becky, glad you enjoyed it!

      Reply
  4. MandiB says

    March 14, 2015 at 3:26 am

    I really enjoyed this! Thank you!

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    • brepurposed says

      March 14, 2015 at 6:11 pm

      You’re welcome! Hope it was helpful!

      Reply
  5. Kyla @HouseOfHipsters says

    March 12, 2015 at 12:39 pm

    There’s so many times that I take knowing Photoshop for granted. Nice tutorial! Hope you are enjoying the new gig! Curious how you like it.

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    • brepurposed says

      March 12, 2015 at 9:47 pm

      Same here! I got great feedback from it so I guess I’ll have to do more. And the job is going great! Definitely still adjusting to working full time but it’s challenging me in new creative ways which is great 🙂

      Reply
  6. Emily @ Two Purple Couches says

    March 11, 2015 at 9:30 am

    One of these days I’m going to master Photoshop! Thanks for sharing your tutorial; I’m featuring this at today’s Creative Spark party. Thanks for joining us each week 🙂

    Reply
  7. Jennifer @ Brave New Home says

    March 7, 2015 at 1:26 am

    Great first video! I was actually wondering how to achieve this technique but didn’t know how to search for it. Thanks for sharing and keep ’em coming, please!

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    • brepurposed says

      March 9, 2015 at 1:05 pm

      Awesome! Glad I could help you out and I’ll def be making more 🙂

      Reply
  8. Erica says

    March 6, 2015 at 3:26 pm

    This is seriously so cool and helpful! I haven’t opened up Photoshop in a while – I always seem to use Illustrator for everything, but now I’m going to open up PS more to play 🙂 Thanks for the awesome video!

    Reply
    • brepurposed says

      March 9, 2015 at 1:05 pm

      Yay, glad you like it! I love Illustrator too but it’s amazing all the cool techniques you can do in Photoshop!

      Reply
  9. Christine from So Domestically Challenged says

    March 6, 2015 at 12:16 am

    How awesome! Thank you so much! I have got to log more time with Photoshop and start getting this stuff down.

    Reply
    • brepurposed says

      March 9, 2015 at 1:04 pm

      You’re welcome Christine! There’s a lot to learn, that’s for sure!

      Reply
  10. Amy @ Homey Oh My! says

    March 5, 2015 at 12:21 pm

    This was eye-opening. You are an excellent teacher, Bre. Thanks for the helpful tutorial!!

    Reply
    • brepurposed says

      March 5, 2015 at 7:33 pm

      Yay, glad you liked it Amy!

      Reply
  11. Paula says

    March 5, 2015 at 12:47 am

    Hi great tutorial , things for that . That’s anther new project I have to master xx

    Reply
    • brepurposed says

      March 5, 2015 at 12:41 pm

      I’m glad you liked it! You’ll be a master in no time 😉

      Reply
  12. Erin says

    March 4, 2015 at 8:22 pm

    Great tutorial! Excited to have come across your blog from Lambert’s Lately! And now I’m off to go through more of your posts 🙂

    Erin @ by Erin Creative Co.
    http://www.byerincreativeco.com/blog/

    Reply
    • brepurposed says

      March 4, 2015 at 9:47 pm

      Yay! So glad you stopped over and happy creeping 😉

      Reply

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