Teach Yourself VISUALLY™ Photoshop® CS4

Chapter 10. Applying Filters

With Photoshop's filters, you can quickly and easily apply enhancements to your image, including artistic effects, texture effects, and distortions. Filters can help you correct defects in your images or enable you to turn a photograph into something resembling an impressionist painting. Photoshop comes with more than 100 filters; this chapter highlights only a few. For details about all the filters, see the Help documentation.

• Turn an Image into a Painting

• Blur an Image

• Sharpen an Image

• Distort an Image

• Add Noise to an Image

• Turn an Image into Shapes

• Turn an Image into a Charcoal Sketch

• Apply Glowing Edges to an Image

• Add Texture ...