How to make effect like this picture

[JamesATaber]

Dear friends.

Does someone know how to make a picture like the picture attached to this post. Unfortunately I don't have the original image.

Bigger size of the image

http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/3...katebeckin.jpg

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[Tony W]

Try looking up Smudge Painting tutorials.

Plenty of links here from another forum member, palms, http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/pho...resources.html Should keep you occupied for some time

[Boneappetit]

It is not very complicated. It also can be done with surface blur layer, and a mask to apply s-blur only on skin... Although the hair looks like they used Topaz Clean. Perhaps that was all, an adjusted preset of Topaz Clean..

[Repairman]

Lovely photo. I used to create that effect by using a chalk texture brush and smearing the pixels. Easy to do but you need to be patient and maintain constant stroke pressure. It gets a bit boring after a while and you have to resist the temptation to rush it. That said there is probably a filter that does it automatically now!
R.