Effects
It’s time to take a little break from photo corrections and have some fun with textures and effects.
Playing around with effects is something I have done since my first forays into Photoshop, and I still enjoy the process. It really comes down to a directed kind of experimentation, and I find it also helps develop a sense of how filters behave. Although the filters in Photoshop are getting pretty long in the tooth and have some frustrating limitations, they still offer the creative artist a reasonable amount of flexibility.
In places, this chapter certainly wanders beyond the theme of blending modes and adjustment layers, but keep in ...
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