Photoshop-how to convert photo into a digital painting

It is amazing to convert a photo into a painting .The enthusiasm in seeing a own photo as painting will be immense
The tips and tricks may be bit hard .However when you get familiarised with it , it will be give good result and it can be adopted as a hobby.The step by step method will guide you to enrich your knowmledge in this task and start enjoying the world of photoshop.
First of all you need to install photoshop trial version or paid student version of the Adobe photoshop
Install it in your system either it can be a laptop or Desktop. this will work in windows and Mac operating systems
that’s  all Now you are ready to start your lessons
Step 1
start photoshop
open a new document
go to file meu
click place embedded file