Watercolor Textures

Watercolor (or watercolour in British English; aquarelle in French) is a traditional painting technique using pigments suspended in water-soluble binders. This translucent medium has evolved from Paleolithic cave paintings to digital design applications. For digital artists seeking to replicate its organic aesthetics, below are professional resources and techniques

We also added a watercolour png set with 10 watercolor images with transparent background. Use the watercolor stroke png images to create your own watercolor Photoshop brushes. 

The watercolor stroke, watercolor splatter and watercolor stain are painting elements used for photo effects, logos, T-shirt designs and so on. 

Use the gouache texture as a watercolor overlay texture for your photos. You will get an interesting effect. The aquarelle texture is easy to customize. Use a Hue/Saturation adjustment or a Gradient Map adjustment to edit the colors. With little effort you can create a blue watercolor texture, red watercolor texture, green watercolor texture, etc. 

The brush textures are also useful if you want to make other graphics like a watercolor logo or any other watercolor design.

Watercolor PNG

A painting texture is beautiful for all kinds of designs like posters, backgrounds, T-shirt art and other designs for web or for print. Use one of our paint texture images to create artworks.

A watercolor image can be bright and colorful or very light and serene like pastel watercolor images usually are.

If you need a watercolor texture black and white, all you have to do is to use a desaturate filter. Color filters and blending modes are needed if you want to create a unique watercolor background that no one else has. 

The watercolor texture pack also contains watercolor overlay png images. A watercolor texture png has a transparent background. That means that you can use the watercolor png transparent almost anywhere.

A watercolor transparent can be used as backgrounds, as photo overlay or used as a mask for pictures. 

The set contains free watercolor png images (only blue watercolor png images). By using a hue filter or a color filter you can make a pink watercolor png, green watercolor png, orange watercolor png, red watercolor png, etc. 

To create a pastel pink watercolor background or any other pastel watercolor png, use a hue filter and increase the brightness. 

Click on the watercolor textures free download to get these freebies. Free watercolor textures are abundant on the internet so you have plenty of options.  

The watercolor texture Photoshop free pack includes all the images that you see in the previews.

I use the watercolor textures for Photoshop mainly to make photo effects. I will also release a set of watercolor brushes Photoshop freebies. 

To help you in your artistic projects, download my watercolor paper texture and combine them with watercolour images. 

If you are aiming for a distressed look, check out these grunge textures along with these vintage paper textures from our gallery.

Watercolor Effect Online

If you don’t have Photoshop and need a stylish photo editing online use this free online photo editor.

This online graphic design software has lots of free watercolor textures, strokes, brushes and stains. You have lots of smart photo filters and adjustments to play with.