Let’s take a look at the original pictures and renderings first:
![Photoshop converts real people into hand-painted effects](https://images.downcodes.com/u/info_img/2009-08/06/071127_edu_ps_yuanchang_01.jpg)
Original picture ![Photoshop converts real people into hand-painted effects](https://images.downcodes.com/u/info_img/2009-08/06/071127_edu_ps_yuanchang_02.jpg)
step:
First make her skin a little more transparent, enter the channel, and copy the green channel, as shown in the picture:
![Photoshop converts real people into hand-painted effects](https://images.downcodes.com/u/info_img/2009-08/06/071127_edu_ps_yuanchang_03.jpg)
Open Filter--Other--High Contrast Preservation, set the radius to about 12, you can repeat this several times. Then click the Load Selection button with the circle pattern below. As shown in the picture:
![Photoshop converts real people into hand-painted effects](https://images.downcodes.com/u/info_img/2009-08/06/071127_edu_ps_yuanchang_04.jpg)
Go back to the layers panel and click on the original image:
![Photoshop converts real people into hand-painted effects](https://images.downcodes.com/u/info_img/2009-08/06/071127_edu_ps_yuanchang_05.jpg)
Then press the Select--Invert button. Open the Curves (CTRL+M) tool again and make it a little brighter. You can control the parameters yourself. The effect is as follows. The skin is more transparent than before:
![Photoshop converts real people into hand-painted effects](https://images.downcodes.com/u/info_img/2009-08/06/071127_edu_ps_yuanchang_10.jpg)
Then pull out the eyes first, press CTRL+J to copy the layer, cut out the mouth and eyebrows separately, and press CTRL+J to copy them as well. Next, select back to the original background layer and press CTRL+ALT+ ~ to select the highlight. Press Filter--Blur--Gaussian Blur. The parameters can be controlled by yourself. I set it to 9. The effect is as follows:
![Photoshop converts real people into hand-painted effects](https://images.downcodes.com/u/info_img/2009-08/06/071127_edu_ps_yuanchang_06.jpg)
Then use the Dodge and Burn tools in the toolbox to paint the whites of the eyes and eyeballs respectively to make the eyes look deeper, as shown in the picture:
![Photoshop converts real people into hand-painted effects](https://images.downcodes.com/u/info_img/2009-08/06/071127_edu_ps_yuanchang_07.jpg)
Then create a new layer, set the foreground color to your favorite red, then use the brush to slowly apply it on the appropriate parts of the lips, and then change the layer style to soft light. The effect is as follows:
![Photoshop converts real people into hand-painted effects](https://images.downcodes.com/u/info_img/2009-08/06/071127_edu_ps_yuanchang_08.jpg)
Then I used the blur tool, combined with changing the opacity, and slowly applied it along the texture of the hair. The effect is as follows:
![Photoshop converts real people into hand-painted effects]()
Finally, I adjusted the details and added a few words. hehe. The effect is as shown below. (Maybe the effect is still a little lacking, I hope to communicate more with you:)
![Photoshop converts real people into hand-painted effects](https://images.downcodes.com/u/info_img/2009-08/06/071127_edu_ps_yuanchang_02.jpg)