Transform a photo to an aquarelle painting

- Open your picture you wish to edit and duplicate it by right-clicking on it in the layers window

I'm using the following picture as an example:



- go to Filter > Artistic > Dry Brush and change the following settings:



This is the result you should get



- Next, Press Ctrl+L to set the levels

- Change the levels settings as shown below:



- Go to Filter > Texture > Texturizer and change the following settings:



Depending on the picture it could be that you need to tweak a few of the settings I just showed you, but if everything went well you should end up with something like this: