Photoshop for Designers: Filters

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

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