Stonewashed Portrait Effect

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After

This is the stonewashed portrait effect from the NAPP tutorials. For this project I used alot of layer masks and the gaussian blur tool. I think it turned out well because it made the part of the image that I wanted to be the focus appear that way. It made the player pop from the background. I think it turned out well, but if I did it over again I might choose a simpler background so the image would pop even more from the background.