Fashion Watercolor Artwork

Fashion Watercolor Artwork
Fashion Watercolor Artwork

First we'll look at the importance of choosing the right imagery and watercolor textures. Then we'll go through some basic but powerful techniques for our design composition: background image extraction, layer masks and adjustment layers.

The tricks you'll learn here can be applied in any design that requires a stunning background to bring the person/product to life.

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Fashion Watercolor Artwork Photoshop Tutorial


Tutorial Details

  • Program: Photoshop Cs3
  • Difficulty: Beginner
  • Estimated Completion Time: 45 mins

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Step 1

Let's start by choosing our photo. The model's pose is crucial in a fashion artwork. An excellent fashion photo will have the model in a stylish and effortless pose. A well lit photograph goes without saying. For this tutorial I've picked this beautiful stock image from Katanaz.

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Step 2

Next brainstorm ideas for the background artwork. You should ask yourself " What elements can I use to complement the model". Even when doing an artistic background with watercolor splashes, you should have a theme and use design elements that will enhance the model/product. Here my inspiration came from the lovely bird necklace and the bright yellow and orange tones. They make me think of a forest in summer. Hence the treesand the summer color palette.

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Step 3

We're now ready to begin our artwork! Let's say we create this artwork for a fashion website. The rule of thumb for a website is to have the width at 960px but we'll create our artwork larger so that people with wider screens can view more of the background. Create a new canvas of 1440 x 900 pixels, 72 dpi.

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Step 4

Paste the picture of the model and rename the New Layer "model". Resize (CTRL + T) the image proportionately to 45% of it's original size. Apply a default Filter > Smart Sharpen to sharpen the image.

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Step 5

Now let's remove the gray background behind the model. Use the Magic Wand Tool, Tolerance 10, click to make a quick selection on the left side background. Next hold Shift and click on the right side background to add it to the selection.

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Step 6

Right Click on the canvas and choose Select Inverse from the drop down menu.

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Step 7

With the Magic Wand Tool still selected click on Refine Edge. This will allow you more control to refine the edge of our selection. It is a quick and easy tool that you can use in most projects where you need to extract a background.

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