Gold Trim on watermark effect help + Brushes thumbnail

[sebastians84844479]

Hi Guys

so as it says above i got 2 issues.

First is the brushes ive gotten online. a bunch of water mark brushes and before i upgraded to 2018 photoshop i could see what the brush looked like before using it and now its just a swipe of the brush which doesn't tell me what I need at all. Also it says they are all dried blood splatter.

issue 2 is I.m not entirely sure how to do this, I basically want to create a watercolour effect on the corner of a page and then have a gold trim around it that blends into the colour. So like a slow gradient from the colours into a gold trim blending gradually and nicely. I tried feathering a gold texture over the watercolour effect after layer masking it to match the general shape of the watercolour effect but didn't work.

Any help would be greatly appreciated thank you.

[melissapiccone]

You can turn on brush tip in the fly out menu. Can you post a screenshot of the other part. It would help to see it.

[sebastians84844479]

Hi Thank you for that already much better, still preferred how it was before when I could see all the brush tips no matter how zoomed out i was

and for the second part here is an example of the water colour effect

[melissapiccone]

Not sure exactly what you are going for - I made a rectangle, added a layer mask and if you double click on the mask, you can control the feather.

[sebastians84844479]

thats nice and thank you for teaching me you can feather the layer mask! byt what i wanted to is to basically have a gold trim from the outline of the trim of the watercolour effect and then feather from there to the crner of the page with gold . So theres a gradient from gold to colours on the water colour effect only.

[melissapiccone]

You can still do it with this technique. I did the whole page, but you can do the same thing with just the corner.

[sebastians84844479]

So then say i apply a gold texture around the page mask it so its only in the watercolour selection and then can i give it a directional feather? i want the gold trim to be on the outline of the watercolour effect and then fade as it faces the the corner

[melissapiccone]

Yes - you can use your original file. I saw the gold layer in there. Add a layer mask in your gold layer.