Transcription: One of the fun things about Photoshop is that you can create artistic effects with your photographs without having to dabble in charcoal and paint. In the magazine this month I've had a look at a few of the artistic effects that you can create on your photographs and on this video I'm going to start with a mezzotint effect. To create the mezzotint effect I'm going to start by duplicating the background layer of the image. To do that I right click and choose duplicate layer and then just click OK. I like to duplicate the background layer of the image because that gives me the background layer t ...