#55 Photoshop Tips: Enhance Your Filter Effects

Posted on 5:52 PM by Daniy

This is how to take control over cool filter that you apply to your images. If you used to select some areas and start to apply filters on it, from now on I suggest you to make that process on a new fresh layer. Press Ctrl+J [Mac: Command+J] after you do a selection and it will put the selected area up on its own layer. By the Photoshop words, it’s a Layer via Copy.

You will have the advantages from this trick because as you put the area on its own area, you have more control over the images. For example, you can change the Blend Modes of the layer after you applied filters on it. By multiplying it, screening it, or overlaying it, you will be astonished with more visual effects that may never thought before.

Also, you will have control of your filter "after the fact". This means after you applied the filter, you felt it too intense, you can always lower the opacity of the layer to calm it down a bit.

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2 Comments:

At February 3, 2008 at 9:22 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is how to take control over cool filter that you apply to your images. If you used to select some areas and start to apply filters on it, from now on I suggest you to make that process on a new fresh layer. Press Ctrl+J [Mac: Command+J] after you do a selection and it will put the selected area up on its own layer. By the Photoshop words, it’s a Layer via Copy.

 
At April 18, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Blogger Ben V Hoff said...

Thanks. This is very cool.

 

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