Turn a regular photo into a high-tech digital artwork. Digital Star Effect Photoshop Tutorial Creating the Dots – Part One First, we’ll transform a photo into a series of circles. This is done by combining several filters. Step 1 Open an image to edit. Step 2 Duplicate the layer (Layer> Duplicate Layer or Ctrl+J). Step 3 Select the new layer and apply a Mosaic filter (Filter> Pixelate> Mosaic) wit