Saturday, March 17, 2007

The ever long quest for watercolor

I would really like to figure out how to do this water color technique digitally:


Here's another example:


This one was done by hand - in other words someone actually used watercolor paints to fill it in, but there has to be a way to do this in photoshop or something....

I see it everywhere in magazines - especially Backpacker or Outside. Anyone got it figured out?

2 comments:

Cathy Dowd said...

Do you have a larger version of that map?

MapGirl said...

I found a good discussion of this over at Cartotalk. Still no concrete solutions though.