Photoshop: Filters for Photography

Explore best practices for working with filters in Photoshop, and the optimal filters to use for enhancing your photographs.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files

1. Increased Flexibility with Smart Filters

• Smart Filter essentials
• Applying Smart Filters in Photoshop
• Smart Filter workflow in Photoshop
• Smart Filter workflow with Lightroom or Camera Raw
• How do Smart Filters affect file size?

2. Using Camera Raw as a Smart Filter

• Correcting a photograph using Camera Raw
• Enhancing a photograph using Camera Raw
• Masking in Smart Filter effects
• Improving a landscape with Camera Raw Smart Filter
• Selective Sharpening with Camera Raw and Masks

3. Applying Creative Effects with Filters

• Creative blending and blur effects
• Crafting a look with blending modes and Smart Filters
• Working with light and solving common problems
• Creating a fire effect
• Using plugin filters to boost your creativity

4. Putting It into Practice

• Challenge: Selective Sharpening a travel photo
• Solution: Selective Sharpening a travel photo
• Challenge: Creating a motion effect
• Solution: Creating a motion effect
• Challenge: Adding blur to a portrait
• Solution: Adding blur to a portrait
• Challenge: Blending in a lens flare effect
• Solution: Blending in a lens flare effect
• Challenge: Improving landscape color with Camera Raw
• Solution: Improving landscape color with Camera Raw

Conclusion

• Next steps