Anime Girl with Sword Picture

The Smudge Tool will help us to smudge the bounds a little.



Giving the necessary woolen texture to the textile is possible by copying the layer with the coloring (ctrl+j). Erase everything on it, except the clothes. First we should hide the visibility of the main colored layer by clicking on the eye near the layer. That is what you should get:



Select the next combination Filter - Texture - Grain with the following adjustments:



Then decolorize the layer: Image - Adjustments - Desaturate (shift+ctrl+u). Group it with the main colored layer (ctrl+g) and blur it out a little, selecting the filter (Filter - Blur - Gaussian Blur).



Change the layer's type on Luminosity and minimize the Opacity till 75%.



Combine these layers (ctrl+e) and create a new layer that must be grouped with the colored layer (??trl+g). Choose now a brush with smooth edges and white color and decolorize the edges of the clothes, the hair and the girl's instrument on her shoulder. Decolorize some places near the contours.



Copy this layer and move the copy under the layer with white stripes, blur it out (Gaussian Blur) and change its color into yellow one, using the next command: Image - Adjustments - Selective Color.



Continue with the background's layer. It must be painted with the same color, the lightest girl's hair is. Make a copy of this layer using eyedropper tool and apply on a new layer above the previous one Filter - Render - Clouds.



Process the upper layer now. Its brightness and contrast should be changed: Image - Adjustments - Brightness/Contrast.



Then change its color with Image - Adjustments - Hue/Saturation (ctrl+u).

 

Select now the Eraser Tool of big size and smooth edges and erase partially this layer:



Change a little more its brightness, contrast and the colors, using the same commands applied earlier:





Pass to the layer containing the contours and change their color, selecting Image - Adjustments - Selective Color.



Copy the layer (ctrl+j) and blur the copy out (Gaussian Blur).



Minimize the layer's Opacity till 90%.



Picture now an oval on a new layer, upper than the rest of them, in the upper left corner. The oval should be blurred out very intensively (Gaussian Blur). You may see in the picture below how it should look finally:



On the picture it should look this way:



Combine all the layers: Layer - Merge Visible (shift+ctrl+e). Then apply the Crop Tool and Rectangular Tool, to insert the picture into a frame:



Correct a little more the colors, making use of the next combination: Image - Adjustments - Curves (ctrl+m).





Finished!

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