Line Art Watercolor

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By John Sweeney - 16th of January 2007

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"Use of the Smart Blur edge only"

1. Open your image up. On the layers Pallet make a copy..
   
2. Click Filter > Blur > Smart Blur. Smart blur allows us to create line drawings. we can determine the number of lines by setting a threshold, or a value that determines what differences in colours will give us a line. 100% difference is like black and white so where black and white meet, you will get a line, or blue and orange.
   

The radius will tell the program how far away are you measuring the colour differences. On this image we will set the following:

• Set the Mode to Edge Only
  
• Set the quality to medium
  
• Set the threshold 30
  
• Set the Radius to 5
  

* When done click OK.