Photo Effects: Instant Photo To Oil Painting Action

Step 9: Select The "Texturizer" Filter From The "Texture" Set

Finally, open up the Texture set in the center of the Filter Gallery and choose Texturizer:

Again, I won't bother showing the large preview area on the left in the Filter Gallery since it takes up too much space in the screenshot. From the Texture drop-down list, choose Canvas, then set Scaling to 65% and Relief to 2. Last but not least, select Top Left from the Light drop-down menu to set the light direction.

When you're done all that, click OK to apply all four filters at once to the photo. Here's what mine looks like at this point:

Step 10: Duplicate The Background Layer

Now that we've saturated the colors in the photo and applied all four filter effects to it, we need to duplicate the Background layer, and the easiest way to do that is to use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+J (Win) / Command+J (Mac), which gives us a copy of our Background layer in the Layers palette:

Normally, I'd be renaming this new layer to something more descriptive than what Photoshop calls it by default, "Layer 1", but since all of these steps are being recorded into an action and we'll never be doing this again manually, there's no point. "Layer 1" will do just fine.