How to Create an Out of This World, Medieval-Fantasy Themed Photo Manipulation

The result:

When that’s done, change the Blending Mode, Opacity and Fill to the following:

• Blending Mode: Hard Light
• Opacity: 30%
• Fill: 30%

The result should be similar to the following:

Now, what we’re going to do with the duplicated layer is that we’re going to make it look like a painting. To do that, go to Filter > Artistic > Water Color on the Menu bar; once done, input the following:

• Brush Detail: 5
• Shadow Intensity: 1
• Texture: 1

The image will now look like this:

Unfortunately, we do not want our image to look like that mess, so change the Opacity and Fill of this duplicated layer to the following:

• Opacity: 40%
• Fill: 40%

The result:

Next, click on our original layer (Flattened Image) and then duplicate this layer once again. Put this duplicated layer above all the layers that we created. Now, go to Filter > Artistic > Dry Brush on the Menu Bar and set the following values:

• Brush size: 2
• Brush Detail: 8
• Texture: 1

The result will be as follows:

Once again, this doesn’t look right, so let’s change the following:

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Final Results

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