First start by creating two copies of your picture (Layer >> Duplicate Layer... >> OK) Hide the top layer and click the second layer
Your layers should look like this:
Next apply a Gaussian Blur with a radius of 20(Filter >> Blur >> Gaussian Blur... >> 20.0 >> OK) It's ok if you can't see you picture that's supposed to happen
Next we are going to fade the Gaussian blur to Darken (Edit >> Fade Gaussian Blur... >> Darken >> OK)
And this is how it should have turned out:
It's ok if it lost a lot of detail Next we will apply poster edges (Filter >> Artistic >> Poster Edges... >> I used these settings, you night need to ajust them
This is how mine turned out:
Now click on the top layer and unhide it
Now we are going to do the exact opposite as we did before So we will start with the poster edges with the same settings as before (Filter >> Artistic >> Poster Edges... >> OK) This is mine:
Now we apply the gaussian blur this time at a raduis of 10 (Filter >> Blur >> Gaussian Blur... >> 10.0 >> OK) Here is how it should look:
Now we will fade the Gaussian Blur (Edit >> Fade Gaussian Blur... >> Darken >> OK)
Now We change the second layer to and opacity of 50%
You should not be able to see any change Now we will change the top layer to screen
Now you will have and awesome cartoon effect on any picture!
