Chapter 21. Effects & Filters
In this chapter, after learning the differences between filters and effects, you’ll learn how to apply them directly and via a graphic style; explore a few effects and fiilters in depth; rasterize an object to prepare it for filters; and use the Filter Gallery and Effect Gallery.
Effects and filters: An overview
Effects and filters apply distortion, texture, color adjustment, artistic, shape, and stylistic changes to objects and images, with results ranging from subtle to marked. Many of the filters on the Filter menu have matching counterparts on the Effect menu . In fact, the Filter and Effect menus are so interdependent ...
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