Adobe® Photoshop® CS2 Studio Techniques

Step 13—Creative Effects

Now that we have an immaculate, perfectly adjusted image, the sky is the limit as far as where you can take it with creative techniques. You can combine images into an interesting collage, use blending modes to create special effects, apply filters to distort or stylize the image. Since we covered those ideas in the last few chapters, I'm not going to talk about any specific techniques, but will instead talk about some of the challenges you might encounter.

All of Photoshop's filters can only affect a single layer, which means you should either duplicate the retouching layer (or the original image layer if you haven't performed any retouching) and then apply the filter (it's okay that Adjustment Layers are applied to ...