The Orton effect - How to

Here are the steps  to achieve the orton effect:

1.  Open  the image to be edited in photoshop.
2. duplicate the background layer and call it 'bright'

3. change the blending mode of the layer to 'screen' and keep the opacity at 100%

4.right click on this layer and select 'merge down'

5. duplicate this layer and call it 'blurred'

6. apply  gaussian blur by selecting Filter--> Blur--> Gaussian Blur

7. The amount of blur depends onthe reqd effect. For this picture, I have set the blur to 40  pixels.
8. Set the blending mode of this layer to multiply.

9. merge down the layers and we have the final picture.

Here are the Before and After: