This is a simple way of turning any photograph into a beautiful piece of art.
Above, you can see the original image, and the image created in this tutorial. The image used can be found here:
STEP 1
Duplicate the background layer right click on the layer > duplicate layer
(or use shortcut ctrl + J).
STEP 2
Change the layer style to Overlay
The image should look a little something like this...
Duplicate the layer again (ctrl + J), this time changing the style to screen.
STEP 4
Merge these layers together to make one layer.
Right click on a layer > merge visible.
Right click on a layer > merge visible.
STEP 5
Now it is time to create the blur. Duplicate this new merged layer (ctrl + J). For this you will use a filter called Gaussian Blur : Filter>blur>Gaussian blur.
Change the radius of the pixels to your desired choice. I think it’s good to be blurred enough to be different from the image, but not so much that you can’t tell it’s the same image. For this I used 7px.
STEP 6
Using the rectangular marquee tool, make a selection similar to that shown above.
STEP 7
Hit the delete button, which will remove that part of the image.
To remove the selection go to Select>deselect (or shortcut ctrl + D).
This is how your image should be looking.
STEP 8
The final step is to create the border.
To do this go to Layer>layer style> stroke
To create the frame, we will use these values.
Choose a light colour for the frame
