This is the tutorial I chose to focus on. I like it because it really elaborates on the usefulness of layers and their interaction to create the overall image composition.
It also explains some of the finer adjustments one can make with various filters and the effects they have.
You can take an image like this:
And turn her into a ghost!
Isn't that cool?
I actually tried this tutorial out about a year ago. Here was the result (finally found it backed up on my external hard drive, yay):
I didn't really like how blurry they made the image in the tutorial, so I lessened the motion blur layer slightly on mine. I also added some eerie "eyes" in the background with a simple white paintbrush tool to make it look like I was being chased by some ethereal creature. In hindsight, the added blur would have probably helped a little bit with the image, since I'm supposed to be running in this picture. Ah well.
Anyways, click the link above, read the steps. It's simpler than it may look. The instructions are pretty straight-forward and although it's not in video format, it has a lot of useful screenshots to show what everything looks like.
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