Chapter 14

Filters: The Fun Side of Photoshop

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Finding out about Smart Filters

Bullet Being productive with “fix it” filters

Bullet Getting artsy with creative filters

Bullet Adding wackiness (and precise correction) with Liquify

Bullet Taking a quick look at some specialized filters

The Photoshop Filter menu includes some 75 commands that you can use to fix, flatter, finesse, and freak out your photos. Open the Filter Gallery to access almost 50 additional filters. You can use most of the filters on most of your artwork and some of the filters on some of your artwork, and you probably won’t ever use quite a few of the filters.

In this chapter, I start you off with a discussion of the Smart Filters feature, something you should get used to using just about every time you apply a filter. Next, you get a look at what I call the “production” filters, the key filters you use to improve or repair your images, including the improved filters for sharpening and the capability to use Camera Raw as a filter ...

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