I. Smoothening the Photo
1. Open the jpg-image in Photoshop
2. Filters Blur Gaussian blur (radius: around 2-6. Should be really unsharp)
3. Edit Fade gaussian blur (mode: Darken). This step must be made immediately after blurring, else you will not find it in the Edit menu…
4. Filter Blur Smart Blur to smoothen out the picture. mode: “normal”, quality: “high”. Radius (0.8) and Threshold (25)

II. Creating Outlines
5. Make sure the Layers-palette is visible by checking Window Layers
6. Duplicate your layer by Image Duplicate. Name the layer “Outlines”. A new layer should appear in the Layers-palette after you click OK.
7. Filter Blur Smart Blur Mode: “edges only”, quality: “high”. Play with radius (85) and Threshold (65) to get outlines, but not too much “inlines”.
8. Image Adjust Invert
9. Change the mode for the “Outlines” layer from Normal to Multiply (see figure above). This will make all white completely transparent and everything black non-transparent.
10. Filter Blur Blur
11. Change Opacity (see figure above) to 60%
12. Layer Duplicate Layer. Name it “Outlines 2”
13. Filter Artistic Cutout. Levels: 8, Edge Simplicity: 0, Fidelity: 3
14. You might want to increase the Saturation. Click on your “Background” layer in the Layer palette and Image Adjust Hue/Saturation. Saturation +30

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