The Enthusiast's Guide to Photoshop

24. STACKING EFFECTS

IN THE BASIC panel, you’ll notice that the sliders have a limit to which they can be pulled. That does not mean you need to stop there, however. The technique I’m sharing here is a little bit of a hack, but I tend to use it when I want to get a little extra out of the file, or when I want to create a really cool look (Figure 24.1).

For example, let’s look at the image of an artist in New Mexico (Figure 24.2). The picture is pretty cool, but I want to add a little bit of grit to it, so I’m going to grab the Clarity slider and drag it out to 100 (Figure 24.3). This added a little bit of grit, but not as much as I wanted. I’m ...