Inside Photoshop® CS

Chapter 7. Filters

In this chapter, you'll learn

• How to make the most of Photoshop's native filters

• How to use third-party filter packages

After almost 10 years of plug-in filters being available for Photoshop, there really isn't much more to say, except for the hilarious and pointed motto of Alien Skin, makers of several suites of plug-ins, “We take the drudgery out of creativity.”

What do plug-in filters mean to the creative individual? Essentially, they do at least one of two things:

• They enable us to do things that would be very hard to do manually.

• The enable us to do things that would be impossible to do manually.

This chapter explores the “next step” in the use of plug-in filters: What happens when you use a versatile filter in combination ...