How to use photoshop to turn colors into hand-painted ones?

Method:

Open a photo with PS.

Click-Image-Adjustment-Decolorization.

Turn black and white after decoloration?

Copy the layer background on layer mask?

Click-Image-Adjust-Reverse

Effect after inversion

Change the layer mode to linear gradient? (The photo will turn white after changing to linear thinning)

Click-Filter-Blur-Gaussian Blur (adjust the blur radius to about 10- 15).

Effect of Gaussian blur

Click-Image-Adjust-Brightness Contrast (do brightness contrast, and finally save the picture).

Effect after saving