Adobe Photoshop 7 Tutorials
Filters / Filter Basics / Blur
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Well if there is one thing Photoshop excels at, it's adding special effects to an image. And you can do that by applying a filter to a particular image or layer. On the filter menu, you can see that there are several different options available to you. If you go down to the, this section, notice that Photoshop tries to break them up in some overall descriptive terms. The bottom of this palette after this little mark here, there are some third-party filters that other vendors have created, that I have installed into my computer. Essentially I would break up Photoshop filters into two different categories. Special effect filters, and productivity filters. And I want to show you some of my favorite filters. One of my favorite filters is the blur filter, and the way I often use this is to create a custom kind of glow. So what I might do is with my flower image here, I'm going to copy this to a new layer, and I'm going to choose a glow color - maybe a red color, and I'll go ahead and fill that with red. And now I'm going to drag my red copy right underneath the flower, and with that layer selected, I'm going to go to the filter menu and choose blur>Gaussian blur. And this creates the best blur effect I find. It brings up the blur dialogue box, and you can see some basic features that are common with many of these filter interfaces. One of them is the plus and minus button here - this will actually zoom out our preview of our filter. And I can also move into the preview area and click and drag around to see how this will effect the different areas of my filter. Many of these filters have a preview button, so you can check to see how it will be updated in real time in your image. And this particular filter has a slider that is going to affect the radius of my effect, in this case the blurring radius. So I can think of this as an intensity slider also. Also, many of these filters adhere to the reset button feature, so if you have multiple sliders that you've edited, you can always press the option key on the Mac or the Alt key on the PC, and cancel will turn to reset. It will take me back to the original values that were associated with this filter. So there is my custom glow created by using the Gaussian blur filter. I'm going to show you another feature of filters, so I'm going to go ahead and select my snail layer. Now that I've used the filter, notice when I press on the filter menu, the last used filter is added to the top. And what I can do is add that exact same filter effect at the last used intensity, simply by choosing this option, and then it will run the filter with those last parameters. I'm going to go ahead and undo that, and show you one of my all time favorite options. And that is if you hold down the option key, or the Alt key on the PC, and choose the last used filter, it'll simply bring up the dialogue box for this filter, so that we can control the effect if we want to change it slightly.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Photoshop 7 |
| Author: | Andrew J. Hathaway |
| SKU: | 33329 |
| ISBN: | 1889347272 |
| Release Date: | 2002-09-05 |
| Duration: | 11 hrs / 152 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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