Adobe® Photoshop® CS3 Classroom in a Book®

Chapter 11. Advanced Compositing

With the huge assortment of filters available for Adobe Photoshop, you can transform ordinary images into extraordinary digital artwork. You can select filters that simulate a traditional artistic medium—a watercolor, for example—or you can choose from filters that blur, bend, sharpen, or fragment images. In addition to using filters to alter images, you can use adjustment layers and painting modes to vary the look of your artwork.

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In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

• Record and play back an action to automate a series of steps.

• Add guides to help you place and ...