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Candy 自習作業1：

Taken from Designer community 

STEP 1:

Open your image in Photoshop and duplicate the main layer by dragging a copy of your layer into the “Create new layer button” or go to:

Layer > New > Layer via Copy (Ctrl + J)

Now select the duplicated layer, click on layer options and choose overlay.
(if your basic picture is already a dark one, you might choose soft light instead of overlay)
With the duplicated layer still selected, go to:

Filter > Blur > Gaussian blur > radius 5,0

STEP 2:

Select the layer with your original image on it. Now duplicate the original layer again, then drag it above the gaussian blur layer. With this layer selected, we go to :

Filter > Blur > Radial blur with the following settings: amount 25 / zoom / best.

If you are done with this, reduce the opacity on this layer to 25%.

Now with this layer still selected, link the other two layers, then go to:

Layer > Merge Linked (Ctrl + E)

STEP 3:

Now duplicate the merged layer, and choose:

Filter > Sharpen > Sharpen more > and set the layer opacity to 60%
(Layer opacity might vary, depending on your basic picture)

Now merge those two layers again.

Would you believe, if I say, you are done? Well almost …

For most images, those three steps will do. For example I was repeating step 2 (with soft light instead of overlay) and step 3 (with a opacity of 40%) again.

For a special touch I used trendy diagonal lines (you know how to do them) and the following settings on the final picture:

Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation > Saturation -10

If your final picture is getting too dark in some places, adjust it by using Levels. (Experiment with that)