Expressive Watercolours for PS CS5+

Inspired by watercolor artists such as Chien Chung Wei, Joseph Zbukvic and of course John Singer Sargent. This set contains a total of 30 custom brushes, mixer brush variants and erasers for getting an authentic watercolor effect. This pack is in tool preset (.tpl) format.

 I've grouped these brushes into 3 main categories.

• Opaque. No opacity controlled by pen pressure. I often use these for shape creation for masking or adding back flecks of exposed paper.
• Pooler. These are the fun ones, they have the wet on dry effect of pigment pooling on the edge of brush strokes.
• Soaker. Gives the wet on wet effect of adding darker washes on top of existing areas of paint. I mainly use these on new layers with  blending modes + the included wet edge layer styles.
• Choose between tool preset .tpl and standard .abr format.

As watercolor is a transparent medium i get the most authentic results from building up from light to darker tones using various blending modes on new layers, this has a nice effect with color and preserves texture. The blending modes I use the most are linear burn, linear light, multiply, color dodge, soft light and good old normal layers.

The included paper texture layer styles add a pattern overlay texture to a layer that remains even if smudged or painted over with opaque brushes. This allows you to work on a single layer apposed to adding a layer with a blending mode when you want to use another colour.

For reference the PC specs i use these brushes with are AMD FX 8350 cpu, 12GB DDR3 ram, GTX 960 graphics card.

If you have any problems just message me and i will do my best to get back to you.

Recources 

Using tool presets https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-use-photoshop-tool-presets-1697605

Using layer styles https://www.photoshopessentials.com/basics/using-layer-effects-and-layer-styles-in-photoshop-cc-2020-complete-guide/

Fixed a few brushes missing from the ABR files that were present in the TPL files.

Added 4 paper texture layer styles that apply a pattern overlay to a layer. These add a paper texture to a layer that remains even when smudged allowing you to do more on one layer.

Create a new layer > Double click the layer to bring up layer styles window. You can also click the fx icon at the bottom of the layers window > Click "styles" in the top left of the window > Click the arrow at the right of the styles menu to bring up the options > Click load styles > Select "Paper texture layer styles" from the folder you downloaded the files to.

Select from one of the 4 layer styles.