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Digitising Watercolors. Step-by-step Guide
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Watercolor to Digital: Multiple Paths
Olga Shevyakova teaches her personal workflow for digitizing watercolors—a skill valuable whether you're moving to design work or exploring digital trends. She covers both raster and vector approaches.
Scanning, Editing, Vectoring
The class breaks into three parts: capturing high-quality scans, refining in Photoshop, then tracing and post-processing in Illustrator. Each step builds on previous work.
Monetize or Explore
Once you've digitized your watercolors, options open: design applications, Etsy shops, print-on-demand products, or simply having digital versions of your work. The technique itself becomes a gateway to new possibilities.
About this course
There are several ways to make your watercolors digital. In this class, Olga Shevyakova, graphic designer and illustrator, will show you her personal process of getting watercolors into digital version (both raster and vector). This -minute class is broken up into tree main parts: Scanning, Editing in Photoshop and Converting into vector in Illustrator. In these parts you’ll know about scanning tips for having a high-quality image, editing in Photoshop process, and, finally, about tracing and post-processing results in Illustrator. By the end of the class you’ll be able to use your watercolors for any design purpoces here and there. Or, since digital watercolor is trendy nowadays, you can open up an Etsy shop for example and start making money!
As a bonus you will receive a little cute watercolor set, so you can start your design process immediately.
For this class you’ll need Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator (if’re going to make vector version of your drawings). You can get free trial version of both at adobe.com anytime.
Trailer Music - "Private Eye" by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under CC BY 3.0
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