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Photoshop for Designers: Filters

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Overview

Learn how to maximize the potential of Photoshop filters by combining filters and through the use of Smart Objects, blending modes, and filter masks.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
1. Overview
  • Watch this first
2. Blurring for Effect
  • Vary focus in a scene with Field Blur
  • Combine Diffuse Glow and Iris Blur
  • Add a Bokeh effect
  • Create a tilt-shift effect
  • Create a blur effect with Motion Blur and Puppet Warp
  • Compare Motion Blur and Path Blur
  • Create a Radial Blur
  • Use the Path Blur filter
  • Work with the Spin Blur filter
  • Create strobe effects with the Spin Blur filter
3. Artistic and Brush Stroke Filters
  • Use the Cutout filter
  • Use Cut to create an angular portrait
  • Turn on the neon
  • Use the Poster Edges filter
  • Create an engraved look with a pattern overlay and the Displace filter
  • Combine the Watercolor and Water Paper filters
  • Add drama with the Angled Strokes filter
4. The Camera Raw Filter
  • Use Camera Raw as a filter
  • Add grain
  • Portrait retouching with the Camera Raw filter
  • Color Grading with the Camera Raw filter
  • Correct perspective
  • Add a vignette with the Camera Raw filter
5. Sharpening for Effect
  • Sharpening overview
  • Unsharp Mask and Smart Sharpen
  • Sharpen with Vivid Light and Surface Blur
  • Sharpen with Gaussian Blur
  • Ultra high contrast black-and-white with High Pass
  • Sharpen and line art
6. Working with the Distort Filters
  • Create a tiny planet with Polar Coordinates
  • Create a circular pattern with Polar Coordinates
  • Control the Wave filter
  • Create op art with the Wave filter
  • Create Art Nouveau type with the ZigZag filter
7. Effective Use of the Pixelate Filters
  • Use the Color Halftone filter
  • Use Color Halftone for a black-and-white halftone effect
  • Create a pencil sketch with the Fragment filter
  • Create an authentic mezzotint
  • Add rain—or snow
  • Create a misregistration effect
  • Experiment with pointillist techniques
8. The Render Filters
  • Create a logo with the flame filter
  • Create a flaming meteorite with the Flame, Path Blur, and Lens Flare filters
  • Tips for using Fibers
  • Add drama with Lens Flare
9. The Sketch Filters
  • Create a charcoal portrait
  • Make it shine with the Chrome filter
  • Create a stippled portrait with Graphic Pen filter
  • Create a woodcut effect
  • Create a circular halftone effect
  • Create a scan-line portrait
  • Create a hand-painted look using the Photocopy filter
  • Create an illustration with the Stamp Filter
  • Create swirling patterns with Circular Halftone and Liquify
  • Age a photograph by adding reticulation
  • Add a craquelure pattern
10. The Stylize Filters
  • Create a painterly look with the Diffuse filter
  • Create a line drawing with the Find Edges filter
  • Create a glowing-edges effect
  • Create effective solarizations
  • Create a repeating pattern with the Offset filter
  • Experiment with the Offset filter
  • Work with the Oil Paint filter
  • Further experimentations with the Oil Paint filter
  • Put a face on a coin using Emboss
11. Vanishing Point
  • Add a picture frame
  • Simple application of the Vanishing Point filter
  • Distort the image in perspective
  • Switch the image
Conclusion
  • Goodbye

Taught by

Nigel French

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