Watercolor FX

FX Tool for the free FX Box for Adobe Photoshop® from CC-2014 and newer

Watercolor FX creates a realistic looking watercolor illustration from your image with only one click. Best suitable are sources like portraits, object images and landscapes.

See how it works

When creating the watercolor illustration, the source will automatically be optimized:

• best effect setup
• resize small images
• center masked areas

After creating the watercolor illustration, it can be edited like:

• change color and contrast and presets
• hide or modify overlay effects
• play around with the visibility or opacity, blend mode of the individual detail layers like color flow, splashes and pencil strokes
• change the background color

IMPORTANT: You need our free FX Box to load this Watercolor FX into Photoshop. Install the FX Box first. Use FX Box from your download package or download it for free: www.the-orange-box.com

It‘s as simple as that

• Mask the area of the source image that should be watercolored
• Click “Paint it now!”
• Customize the overlay effects, detail layers and background colors

Good to know

• You first need to install the free FX Box to load the Watercolor FX tool
• The source image always remains unaffected
• The color mode of the output image ist always RGB with a resolution of 300 dpi
• With optimization the longest side of the final watercolor illustration is at least 3000 pixel
• The Watercolor FX tool is language independent
• Works with PC and MAC

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What you get

• Installer to load the Watercolor FX into the FX Box in Photoshop CC-2014 or newer
• Short Instructions PDF + install video tutorial
• FX Box v1.1

Tested on MAC and PC

Photoshop CC-2015.5, Photoshop CC-2017, Photoshop CC-2018, Photoshop CC-2019, Photoshop CC-2020, Photoshop CC-2021, Photoshop CC-2022

If you are using a Mac with Apple Silicon M1 and Photoshop from CC 2021 v22.3 and higher, please read: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/photoshop-for-apple-silicon.html

This Plugin is language-independent. Therefore you do NOT change your Photoshop language setup. Note: If you not sure that this plugin work with your Photoshop installation, try a free FX Tool first. You can download it from our homepage www.the-orange-box.com

Item Support

If you are reporting an issue:

• give us as much information as possible (Photoshop version number, used Photoshop language, OS version)
• tell us what exactly you have done
• screenshots are helpful
• videos are very helpful (try this free app)

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