September 2006
Beginner
574 pages
24h 23m
English
Content preview from Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual
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Filters, Effects, Layer
Styles, and Gradients
There’s a popular saying among artistic types who use software in their studios:
tools don’t equal talent. And it’s true: no mere program is going to turn a klutz into
a Klimt. But Elements has a few special tools—filters, effects, and Layer styles—that
can sure help you fool a lot of people into thinking you’re a better artist than you
actually are. It’s amazing what a difference you can make to the appearance of any
image with only a couple of clicks.
Filters are an automated way to change the appearance of your image. You can use
filters for enhancing and correcting your image, but Elements also gives you a
bunch of other filters that are great for unleashing all your artistic impulses, as
shown in Figure 13-1. You’ll find the original photos (courthouse.jpg and
paulownia.jpg) on the “Missing CD” page at www.missingmanuals.com,ifyou
want to play around with these images yourself.
Most filters have settings that you can adjust to control how the filter changes your
photo. Because you get more than a hundred different filters with Elements, there
isn’t room in this chapter to cover each filter individually, but you’ll learn the
basics of applying filters, and you’ll get in-depth coverage of some of the filters
you’re most likely to use frequently.
Effects are like little macros or scripts, designed to make very elaborate changes ...
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