Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop CS3 in 24 Hours

Chapter 16. Applying Filters to Turn Your Picture into Art

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• Artistic Filters

• Brush Strokes Filters

• Sketch Filters

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In Hour 9, “Advanced Painting Techniques,” you saw how Photoshop’s filters could help imitate other media. You looked specifically at the Watercolor, Colored Pencil, Charcoal, and Underpainting filters. But those are still just the tip of the iceberg. Under the general headings of Artistic, Brush Strokes, and Sketch filters, Photoshop offers 37 filters that you can apply alone or in combinations to turn your so-so picture into a masterpiece. In this hour, you run through the alphabet of the Artistic, Brush Strokes, and Sketch effects. You will be amazed, boggled, confounded, ...