Tonight's Art Project

So in Photoshop you're supposed to be able to recreate various painting techniques like oil painting, chalk and charcoal. Tonight I was working on adjusting a photo in preparation of applying the watercolor filter. Here's the original image (cropped).



I used the blur tool, hue adjustments and the cloning tool to de-emphasize the background and the distracting orange sleeve, to remove the lollipop stick from her mouth and to lighten her eye color (the filter made them completely black). Here's my final project result. Click on the image to see a larger size.