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Watercolor
Soft painted watercolor stylization
Softens local detail and color transitions to create a watercolor-like painted treatment.
Watercolor
Overview
What Watercolor does
The effect can work from luminance alone or across RGB, which changes whether it mostly reshapes tonal structure or also changes color boundaries.
Smoothness controls how strongly small detail is consolidated into watercolor-like regions.
Show Gradient is useful for diagnosing the internal edge or gradient structure that drives the stylization.
When to use it
Illustrative transitions
Stylized establishing shots
Poster and title backgrounds
Soft artistic inserts
Mixed-media looks
Watercolor in context
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