effect orton" 
will explain how to obtain, with photoshop and only 8 passes, a considerable improvement of your artistic photos (in up the original photo, below that with effect orton)
Orton Effect is named after photographer Michael Orton who first used this technique by making a sandwich of two slides of the same subject, with the first focus , overexposed and the second of two diaphragms, blurry, overexposed to a diaphragm. This personal style of photography has been described as "impressionistic" and "flu-like watercolor. The traditional system is rather complex and requires the use of a tripod and, after shooting and development of slides, the sandwich assembly and duplication.
With Photoshop we can get this beautiful effect and, moreover, we can control it and modify it until you reach the desired result.
NB Always remember that the effects vary with the resolution and the magnification of the final print, especially if you are working for the print shop.
To learn more about Michael Orton: www.michaelorton.com
To this tutorial I used a picture of the funds the Mac OS9, called Lily Pad, reduced to 50% bringing the resolution to 144 ppi.
1. Open the photo and save it as. Psd, this serves to maintain levels.
2. Duplicate the layer "Background" and call it "screen".
3. Clear the display level "background" level with the "screen" active open the menu Image / Apply Image / Screen.
4. Duplicate the layer "screen" and call it "blurs".
5. Maintain the level display "screen", with the level "blurs" active open the menu Filter / Blur / Gaussian Blur.
6. In the Layers set Multiply.
7. Open the File menu / info file and enter the data applied to Screen and Gaussian Blur (work with InDesign and import native Photoshop files, use this trick to remember the parameters applied to the manufacturing of photo).
8. Here is the finished file, for distribution you can save a copy as. Jpg.
