Photoshop's Filter menu includes no less than 105 highly cre-ative filters, which can be applied once, reapplied, or com-bined with other filters to create any effect your imagination ca
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with Filters
Introduction
Adobe Photoshop filters are a designer's dream come true
With filters you can turn a photograph into an oil painting or
a watercolor; you can even change night into day
Photoshop's Filter menu includes no less than 105 highly
cre-ative filters, which can be applied once, reapplied, or
com-bined with other filters to create any effect your imagination
can dream up
The potential combination of filters and images literally
runs into the millions This means that Photoshop filters are
truly an undiscovered territory As a matter of fact, the Filter
Gallery lets you view the effects of one or more filters on the
active document This level of power gives you unbelievable
creative control over your images
Other commands, such as the Fade command, let you
reduce the effect of the applied filter You can even apply a
blending mode to the final image In addition, you can utilize
a channel mask to control how the filter is applied to the
image You could also use a black to white gradient channel
mask to slowly fade the effects of the filter from left to right
Photoshop even lets you protect your intellectual property
by embedding a customizable watermark into the image that
is almost invisible to see, and virtually impossible to remove
In fact, you can print an image that contains a watermark, run
it off on a copy machine and rescan it, and the watermark is
still there Now that's protection
Take a moment to view some of the various filter effects
that Photoshop offers Because there are 105 filters available,
we can't show you all of them, but we think you'll enjoy
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What You’ll Do Work with the Filter Gallery Create and Work with Smart Filters Apply Multiple Filters to an Image Modify Images with Liquify Work with Liquify Tool Options Work with Liquify Mask Options Work with Liquify View Options Create a Liquify Mesh
Apply a Liquify Mesh Use the Lens Blur Filter Work with Photo Filters Blend Modes and Filter Effects Build Custom Patterns Use the Fade Command Control Filters Using Selections Use a Channel Mask to Control Filter Effects
Protect Images with Watermarks
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to all of Photoshop's filters and lets you apply the filters to any raster image, while viewing a large preview of the results The Filter Gallery dialog box is composed of three sections—Image Preview, Filter Selection, and Filter Controls When you use the Filter Gallery to modify the image, you see exactly how the image will look; there is no guess-work involved When you apply a filter to an image, you are physically remapping the pixel information within the image Photoshop contains
105 filters and the combinations of those filters are astronomical If you are a math wizard, you know there are over 100 million combinations available, and that means no one has yet discovered all the ways you can manipulate an image in Photoshop…have fun trying
Working with the
Filter Gallery
Work with the Filter Gallery
Open a document
Select the Layers panel, and then
select the layer you want to modify
with a filter effect
Click the Filter menu, and then
click Filter Gallery.
Change the image preview by
clicking the plus or minus zoom
buttons, or by clicking the black
triangle and selecting from the
preset zoom sizes
If necessary, drag the lower right
corner in or out to resize the Filter
Gallery dialog box
Click the expand triangle, located
to the left of the individual
categories, to expand a filter
category Filter categories include:
◆ Artistic
◆ Brush Strokes
◆ Distort
◆ Sketch
◆ Stylize
◆ Texture
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to view its default effects on the
image
Modify the effects of the filter
using the filter controls
To temporarily hide the Filter
Selections, click the Show/Hide
Filter Thumbnails button, located
to the left of the OK button
Click OK.
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Did You Know?
You can reapply a specific filter effect
using a shortcut Press Ctrl+F (Win) or
A+F (Mac) to reapply the last filter to
the image
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a normal layer for Smart Filters Smart Filters appear in the Layers panel below the Smart Object layer, where you can show or hide them independently You can apply any filter to a Smart Object except Liquify and Vanishing Point
Creating and Working
with Smart Filters
Create and Work with Smart
Filters
Open a document
Use one of the following to create
a Smart Filter:
◆ Smart Object layer Select a
Smart Object layer, click the
Filter menu, select a filter, then
specify the options you want
◆ Normal layer Select the layer,
click the Filter menu, click
Convert for Smart Filters, and
then click OK.
Select the layer with the Smart
Filters in the Layers panel
Click the arrow to the right of the
layer to display the filter effects
Select from the following:
◆ Show or Hide Click the eye
icon
◆ Move Drag the effect up or
down the list
◆ Delete Drag the effect to the
Delete icon at the bottom of the
Layers panel
◆ Duplicate Hold down Alt (Win)
or Option (Mac), and then drag
the Smart Filter from one Smart
Object to another, or to a new
location in the Smart Filters list
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Not only does Photoshop's Filter Gallery let you apply and view a filter effect, it lets you view the multiple effects of two or more filters The Filter Gallery has its own Layers panel, and you can have multiple filter layers The order of the filters influences their impact on the image, so when you use more than one filter, try dragging the filter layer up or down in the stack to see the different possibilities Experiment with dif-ferent stacking orders to create unique, eye-popping special effects
Applying Multiple
Filters to an Image
Apply Multiple Filters to
an Image
Open a document
Select the Layers panel, and then
select the layer you want to modify
with a filter effect
Click the Filter menu, and then
click Filter Gallery.
Select the filter you want
Adjust the filter as necessary
Click the New Layer Effect button,
located at the bottom of the Filter
Adjustments section You can add
as many effects layers as needed
Select and adjust a second filter
(repeat steps 4 and 5)
Adjust each individual effect by
clicking on the effect layer you
want to change
To change the filter’s influence on
the image, drag an effect layer to
another position in the stack
To temporarily show or hide the
effect on the image, click the
Show/Hide button.
To delete a selected effect layer,
click the Delete button.
Click OK.
IMPORTANT Once you click
the OK button, the effects are
permanently applied to the active
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