Fairytale Scene - The Photoshop: Professional Retouching and Compositing Tips, Tricks, and Techniques - page 474

FT layer at the top of the layer stack. Do this by using the Merge Down command
in the Layers panel menu (located in the upper-right corner) ( Figure 9.74 ) .
Figure 9.74
I then added the painterly look I covered in Chapter 4 .
3. Create two copies of the FT layer by pressing Command/Ctrl+J twice. Rename the
top layer sharpness , and the layer below it look .
4. Turn off the sharpness layer by clicking the eye icon to the left of the layer thumb-
nail. Click the look layer, and go to Filter > Noise > Reduce Noise. Set Strength to
10 and all other sliders to 0. Click OK.