Now that you have finished applying your effects to your layers it is time to play with depth. Turn off the view of all of your layers except the background. Use your magic wand to highlight several areas. To highlight more than one area at a time hold down your shift key after your first click of the magic wand. You can now add as many areas as you would like by still clicking areas with your magic wand. The lighthouse is a definite. The tree is also a definite. The rest is up to you. After you have the areas highlighted go back to your top layer, that now looks rather like a big blur. Make sure your top layer is activated. Use your eraser at any setting you would like. It is only going to erase what you have selected. This is what I erased and how the top layer looked before the next step.
Please note that the lighthouse and the some of the trees are now showing the layer underneath.
Next your are going to adjust the opacity of your layers. Press L or go to tools view check layers palate view. Adjust the sliders on the right hand side of your layer palate. Feel free to adjust to anything that would look good on the photo you are using. I made these choices.
When you are happy with the way that your final layer looks merge visible layers. You can add any frame you want at this stage and be finished or you can add a beveled frame.
To add a beveled frame I chose the to use the pattern of the picture itself for the color of the frame. Go to your Styles setting and choose pattern.. Set your pattern size to a scale of 27%, angle 0. Choose a background color that is NOT in your photo. Now go to Image, Add border and add a border of 15 pixels, make sure that your symmetric area is checked so that the border will be the same size all the way around.
While the border is still selected, apply the impasto setting in brush strokes that comes with the preset without changing any of the settings. Do not deselect yet.
Next apply a bevel to the border. I used the metallic bevel with the following settings. Width 9, Smoothness 15, Depth 3, Ambience 0, Shininess 50, angle 315, Light white, Intensity 50, Elevation 30.
