Water Color

Water Color

How can I best create a water color effect from a digital photo file?

Ive seen a few sites for how to make a digital picture into a wonderful water color pic. Anyone know how it is done and the website for information? Also Ive seen something that will change a digital pic into a coloring book type drawing for you to color in yourself. ?

From the Adobe website, http://www.adobe.com , you can get a 30 day trial of either Photoshop ($650), or Photoshop Elements 4 ($90).

From the Corel Website, http://www.corel.com , you can download 30 day trials of Paintshop Pro X ($80) or Painter ($380) or Painter Essentials 3 ($80) (Painter is the best for these kind of effects).

The cost may be worth it if you are anticipating a lot of use on them. At least you can try them out and see if it's something you want to invest in.

Painter Essentials 3 from Corel may do all you need, and it is affordable at $80 US.

Here is a free program that may do all you want ... it is aimed towards painterly effects:

http://www.snapfiles.com/reviews/Project_Dogwaffle/dogwaffle.html

Also, the below websites have image-editing software with a varying degree of complexity and capability that are totally free.

http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/

http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/

http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/software/PhotoPlus/

http://www.pabird.supanet.com/~pabird/freesoftware/brushstrokes/

http://www.ultimatepaint.com/download.php

http://park18.wakwak.com/~pixia/download.htm

http://picasa.google.com/index.html

http://www.photofiltre.com

http://www.ambientdesign.com/artragedown.html

Hope this helps

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