Recreating "Just add water" blender in Photoshop?

[shaneandhisdog]

Hi,

After nothing but problems with painter on my Mac (glitches, crashes, random slowdowns etc) i've finally decided to move my entire workflow into PS CS3.

The only brush I find I really miss is painter's "Just add water" blender.

I've tried in vein to recreate a lag free equivalent in PS without success, so I was wondering if any of you guys know how to make one?

[Portus]

Check this thread:

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=138805

[shaneandhisdog]

Check this thread:

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=138805

Ahh, scatter, I didn't even think of that! But after reading that thread maybe leaving just add water behind is a good thing. Some great painting tips there.

[jfrancis]

http://forums.sijun.com/viewtopic.php?t=42565&view=previous&sid=74daf266515353c00196d4312401ff6f

[jfrancis]

Jump the painting to a new flat layer on top.

Blur the top layer a fair amount.

Give the top layer a mask. Make the mask black (I think) to fully hide the top blurry layer

Paint white in the layer mask with a brush of your choice and it will feel a lot like 'just add water'

If you like it, maybe merge it down, if you like painting on only 1 or 2 layers

[jfrancis]

I made a little video about how I like to Blend Colors in Photoshop (http://www.digitalartform.com/archives/2009/07/how_to_blend_co.html) that includes what I describe in the post above