Photoshop for Designers: Filters

Course details

Photoshop filters are often misused by designers. Filtered images can look garish or generic—but with the right application, the results can be eye-catching and unique. Author Nigel French teaches a creative approach to filters, explaining how to combine them with other filters and with the Photoshop masking and blending tools for maximum visual impact. Learn how to add blur, artistic and brush stroke effects, sharpening, distortion, pixilation, and illustration and painterly effects—all completely nondestructively. Plus, learn how to use Camera Raw as a filter and stack filters to create unique combinations.

Learning objectives
Blurring with filters
The importance of Smart Filters
Sharpening with filters
Creative use of filter blend modes
Painting in the effect of a filter using filter masks
Combining filters

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome

1. Overview

02 - Watch this first

2. Blurring for Effect

03 - Vary focus in a scene with Field Blur
04 - Combine Diffuse Glow and Iris Blur
05 - Add a Bokeh effect
06 - Create a tilt-shift effect
07 - Create a blur effect with Motion Blur and Puppet Warp
08 - Compare Motion Blur and Path Blur
09 - Create a Radial Blur
10 - Use the Path Blur filter
11 - Work with the Spin Blur filter
12 - Create strobe effects with the Spin Blur filter

3. Artistic and Brush Stroke Filters

13 - Use the Cutout filter
14 - Use Cut to create an angular portrait
15 - Turn on the neon
16 - Use the Poster Edges filter
17 - Create an engraved look with a pattern overlay and the Displace filter
18 - Combine the Watercolor and Water Paper filters
19 - Add drama with the Angled Strokes filter

4. The Camera Raw Filter

20 - Use Camera Raw as a filter
21 - Add grain
22 - Portrait retouching with the Camera Raw filter
23 - Color Grading with the Camera Raw filter
24 - Correct perspective
25 - Add a vignette with the Camera Raw filter

5. Sharpening for Effect

26 - Sharpening overview
27 - Unsharp Mask and Smart Sharpen
28 - Sharpen with Vivid Light and Surface Blur
29 - Sharpen with Gaussian Blur
30 - Ultra high contrast black-and-white with High Pass
31 - Sharpen and line art

6. Working with the Distort Filters

32 - Create a tiny planet with Polar Coordinates
33 - Create a circular pattern with Polar Coordinates
34 - Control the Wave filter
35 - Create op art with the Wave filter
36 - Create Art Nouveau type with the ZigZag filter

7. Effective Use of the Pixelate Filters

37 - Use the Color Halftone filter
38 - Use Color Halftone for a black-and-white halftone effect
39 - Create a pencil sketch with the Fragment filter
40 - Create an authentic mezzotint
41 - Add rain or snow
42 - Create a misregistration effect
43 - Experiment with pointillist techniques

8. The Render Filters

44 - Create a logo with the flame filter
45 - Create a flaming meteorite with the Flame, Path Blur, and Lens Flare filters
46 - Tips for using Fibers
47 - Add drama with Lens Flare

9. The Sketch Filters

48 - Create a charcoal portrait
49 - Make it shine with the Chrome filter
50 - Create a stippled portrait with Graphic Pen filter
51 - Create a woodcut effect
52 - Create a circular halftone effect
53 - Create a scan-line portrait
54 - Create a hand-painted look using the Photocopy filter
55 - Create an illustration with the Stamp Filter
56 - Create swirling patterns with Circular Halftone and Liquify
57 - Age a photograph by adding reticulation
58 - Add a craquelure pattern

10. The Stylize Filters

59 - Create a painterly look with the Diffuse filter
60 - Create a line drawing with the Find Edges filter
61 - Create a glowing-edges effect
62 - Create effective solarizations
63 - Create a repeating pattern with the Offset filter
64 - Experiment with the Offset filter
65 - Work with the Oil Paint filter
66 - Further experimentations with the Oil Paint filter
67 - Put a face on a coin using Emboss

11. Vanishing Point

68 - Add a picture frame
69 - Simple application of the Vanishing Point filter
70 - Distort the image in perspective
71 - Switch the image

Conclusion

72 - Goodbye