I decided to do a project based of the tutorial "Inspired by the gaming world"

Following are the steps I used to create this look.

I found a picture on the internet that I liked and would provide good color and contrast

Filter Menu

-Blur

-Surface Blur

-Radius 15

-Threshold 15

 

Filter Menu

-Filter Gallery

-Texture

-Grain

-Grain Type- Vertical

-Intensity 11

-Contrast 43

Hit okay and go out of the menu

 

Filter Menu again

-Filter Gallery

-artistic

-Poster Edges

-Thickness 5

-Intensity 0

-Posterizing 3

Hit Okay

 

Edit Menu

-Fade Gallery

-opacity 20%

-Mode-Mulitply

hit okay

 

Then I used my magic wand tool and selected the girl in the image and made a duplicate layer. Brought up the Hue/Saturation for this layer and adjusted it to Hue-8, Saturation-4, Lightness +4. Then I duplicated the layer again and created a slight gradient behind her head with radial gradient tool with an opacity of 16%.

 

I added the text because I thought it made it almost look like an ad of some kind and I thought it looked cool, the type is at an opacity 47%, white with  blending mode at soft light, typeface used is Mistral at 99.67.

 

Finally I created a square box to create the frame, I set inside color to none and border to black with a scale of 6.