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Today the art of using watercolor is not limited to the canvas only, rather you can see loads of websites that have beautifully incorporated hand-drawn images and creation within their web designs. Such web designs look visually appealing and entice visitors. Watercolor masterpieces, because of their soft flowing strokes and smooth pastel colors, look visually gratifying; and incorporating such characteristics into a web design definitely brings outstanding results.
In this round up, we present a beautiful collection of some amazing and pleasing watercolor effects in website design. We hope that you will find this post interesting as well as inspiring for you. Enjoy!
Although all the brush sets are free to use, we would appreciate if you read the license agreements carefully before using them for commercial purposes.
The coolest thing in any design work is use of watercolor effects. So in this tutorial we will show a quick way to simulate that effect using only Photoshop and some brushes.
There are plenty of ways to create a Watercolor Effect in Photoshop. Some are very cheesy and you can easily tell that a simple filter has been used. In this tutorial, we will be using Layer Masking. It is one of the most fascinating and powerful Photoshop method, to use layer masks in your designs.
This is a short tutorial about creating convincing watercolor effects in Photoshop. We’ll use a picture of a crane, several watercolor brushes and a texture to obtain this particular effect.
In this tutorial you will learn how to make a clean and simple watercolor design studio layout for a blog.
In this tutorial, we will show you some helpful techniques for creating this type of background.
In this tutorial we will use Photoshop, some brushes from Brusheezy and some stock photos.
In this tutorial you will learn how to use the Art History Brush and combine it with watercolor custom brushes to create a nice background header image and more. Let’s get it started!
In this Photoshop effects tutorial, we’re going to learn how to easily make a photo look more like a watercolor painting. This photo effect works best on images where maintaining rich colors and strong contrast is more important than keeping any fine details, since you’ll be losing a lot of detail with this effect.
In this round up you have seen some stunning and visually pleasing watercolors effects in web design and tutorials and Brush Sets. We have compiled this collection for your inspiration to let you see how you can also accomplish a stunning web design by using watercolor effects. Do share your opinions with us via comment section below. Enjoy!
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Jameel Khan is a web graphic designer and has been working in this field for 4 years. He also writes for other blogs and is also the founder member of www.webdesigncore.com. His biggest passion is blogging and vector illustrations.
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012 15:18
Alal the designs were great.
Saturday, September 8th, 2012 12:34
loved your article….. thnx for this wonderful list :)
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012 01:49
This is a great collection. I enjoy it. Thank you for this collection.
Tuesday, August 21st, 2012 22:21
Great collection of website. I visit most of them regularly. As a developer, I find that they are a great source of inspiration.
Tuesday, August 21st, 2012 09:09
I have not been to any such website/blog that uses mentioned stunning effects in the background of their blog but the collection you have shown here are really stunning. Looks great!
If I have such website with me I’d definitely have used these brush sets. :)
Tuesday, August 21st, 2012 00:31
Cool collection! I like the last 3 from them. Thanks for compiling!
Monday, August 20th, 2012 10:59
I really enjoy this collection of water color effects. It never ceases to amaze me what these designers can come up with. I especially love the grungy type of website designs. Good one!
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Casey Dennison
Monday, August 20th, 2012 10:59
I really enjoy this collection of water color effects. It never ceases to amaze me what these designers can come up with. I especially love the grungy type of website designs. Good one!
Irfan Siddiqui
Tuesday, August 21st, 2012 09:09
I have not been to any such website/blog that uses mentioned stunning effects in the background of their blog but the collection you have shown here are really stunning. Looks great!
If I have such website with me I’d definitely have used these brush sets. :)
sanjay
Tuesday, August 21st, 2012 00:31
Cool collection! I like the last 3 from them. Thanks for compiling!
Mandeep Singh
Tuesday, August 21st, 2012 22:21
Great collection of website. I visit most of them regularly. As a developer, I find that they are a great source of inspiration.
Ruhul Amin
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012 01:49
This is a great collection. I enjoy it. Thank you for this collection.
Lucile
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012 15:18
Alal the designs were great.
shruti
Saturday, September 8th, 2012 12:34
loved your article….. thnx for this wonderful list :)