Here are 25 Artistic Photoshop Actions for applying the watercolor & sketch painting effects to your photo and turning an ordinary photograph into a work of art. Keep in mind that not every image will work well with the watercolor & sketch effect applied to it. You should stick with photos that will look even better after deep contrast and bright colors are made more apparent. Also, you will lose a lot of detail when you apply the watercolor effect, so avoid applying it to images that would look worse if loss of detail were to occur.
by Zeplix
Beautiful, creative and artistic Watercolor Photoshop Action! Super-easy to use! Just open up one of the 3 Photoshop documents included in the download, paste in your image or photo, and click the action! In just a few seconds, Photoshop will run over 70 different actions, ending up with a beautiful final watercolor image! Your original image remains 100% untouched! The effect ends in a neatly layered folder, so you can easily tweak the effect!
by sevenstyles
This action quickly transforms your photos into watercolor and pencil artwork. You simply load up your photo, hit play on the action and see your result! You then have great control over the final look of your design.
by sodasong
This action is made using a method for multi language. Treated very carefully in every single step to ensure the scripts can work on any language versions of Photoshop. It has been tested and works perfectly on English and French versions.
by profactions
Incredible Photoshop ACTION Pro transform your photo into proffesional sketch look with little effort. Highly detailed result, easy to use, customise and improve. One click action.
by BlackNull
Create awesome pieces of contemporary art from your photos and images in few clicks! Save hours of work with this action, it’s easy to use, just pick an image, brush the interested area and click play!
by dgas99
Work only with ENGLISH language photoshop.
by Kesaulya
by Iltaen
9 Photoshop actions convert your photos to hand drawn sketches + 1 special action for text and shapes. + 10 actions with fine-tuning parameters + Usability hierarchy of layers.
by ShinyPixel
Smart Painting Effect is a Photoshop plug-in that converts your photo in beautiful and realistic painting. Just run the action and watch your drawing come to life!
by Grafx_Forge
Simplify your life and do not spend hours of time trying to create effects like this manually, get it done in minutes with only a few clicks. Get this action and it will turn your photo in to a sketch.
by erengoksel
Turn your photos into color sketches. The overall result depends on the photo you use, the image size and the values you set when you run the action.
by kevinhamil
These Photoshop watercolor actions convert photos to watercolor paintings with just a click. Great for both web and print. Easily customizable – All Smart Objects and non-destructive effects.
by Pasulukha
Watercolor & Sketch Painting Photoshop Action to convert your photos into paintings very quickly. Of course experience with real watercolor still like more, but that still does not prevent you using digital painting to create countless paintings quickly. Just one click to run action, after the action has finished rendering, it creates a well organised layer structure.
by ShinyPixel
Vibrant Watercolor Effect is a Photoshop plug-in that converts your photo in realistic watercolor painting. Just run the action and watch your drawing come to life! All you need is Adobe Photoshop No additional programs to install. Once these Actions are loaded, they will remain in Photoshop until you remove them (if you ever do). They will always be accessible with just a click of the mouse.
by M-e-f
Real Watercolor Painting Photoshop Action – very realistic painting watercolor effect without any painting skills in just 1 click! One minute and it is done! Great time saver when you need client work to be done or make a gift for a friend or just for the personal use and fun!
by CharlesPerrault
by rojdark
Simply load up your photo, hit play on the action and see your result! You then have great control over the final look of your design. For the best results, please use photo’s over 1000px high.
by MiraNAX
Perfect for movies, games, posters, etc. Easily modify text colors and patterns.
by lokkodesign
Watercolor Photoshop Action. Fully customizible Every time you run the action you will get a unique result Working on CS3, CS4, CS5, CS6, CC versions
by Logic_Design
Actions Watercolor Effects is a pack of professional Photoshop effects. It’s a must-have for any digital artist – photographer, graphic or web designer and scrapbooker alike. With this is professional pack you may turn your ordinary photos into extraordinary watercolor artworks. The result is a photo that looks like it was made by a human, not a computer. Create powerful images with the professional standard using powerful tools and professional methods. Enhance your creativity and boost your productivity with the Actions Watercolor Effects.
by Saturce
It`s a set of Photoshop files and actions designed to create print-ready, high resolution watercolor effects.
by mrikhokon
This action set has been developed for any type of cover design for example magazine, book, advertisement , poster, Photographers and Personal graphic or designers.
by Pro-FX
This action works in a non-destructive way to achieve a high quality look. So, the original image layer will remain unchanged. This action is exclusively designed for photographers & graphic designers. It’s a must have for photo effect lovers.
by kainraziall
Photoshop action to transform photos into subtle, gorgeous pencil drawings.
by KrystalDesigns
Vector Sketch Photoshop Action.
I really love the watercolour and sketching applications, but I see they are for Photoshop CC; I have Photoshop Elements 13 (in English) and would like to know if these actions/filters will work with Elements. Many thanks.