About This Project
![](http://www.the-orange-box.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/sketch-fx-photo-effect-plugin_01.png)
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.
![](http://www.the-orange-box.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/printable_300_dpi_watercolor_fx_plugin.png)
Editable
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
![](http://www.the-orange-box.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/how_it_works_watercolor_fx_plugin.png)
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
![](http://www.the-orange-box.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/trenner.png)
Automatic optimization
When creating the watercolor illustration, the source will automatically be optimized:
- best effect setup
- resize small images
- center masked areas
![](http://www.the-orange-box.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/trenner.png)
Good to know
- 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
![](http://www.the-orange-box.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/trenner.png)
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
![](http://www.the-orange-box.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/get-the-fx-box-first-1.png)
Tested
- Photoshop CC-2014 – CC-2019 on PC
- Photoshop CC-2014 – CC-2019 on MAC
This Plugin is language-independent. Therefore you do NOT change your Photoshop language setup.
![](http://www.the-orange-box.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/trenner.png)
Examples
![](http://www.the-orange-box.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/example_watercolor_1.jpg)
![](http://www.the-orange-box.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/example_watercolor_2.jpg)
![](http://www.the-orange-box.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/example_watercolor_3.jpg)
![](http://www.the-orange-box.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/example_watercolor_4.jpg)
![](http://www.the-orange-box.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/example_watercolor_6.jpg)