Subtitles of the Movie

Now let's take a look at some Special Effects that are specifically designed for photographs. Now keep in mind, you can apply any of the Special Effects that are in this Palette to a photograph obviously, but some are more meant for text and objects than they are for a photograph, but these in this grouping, third from the left, are specifically made for photographs. Let's take this shot of Yosemite, Yosemite Falls, and we'll do a Faded Photo Ð no, let's don't do the Faded Photo. Let's do the Old Photo, and we'll click on this and we can drop the Opacity, let's leave it up kind of high. Now, in and of themselves these special effects are very good. You can just leave, if you want to, you can just leave things exactly the way they are, but if you really want to develop the reach of how these special effects can really affect your images you've got to get used to using the Blend Modes, and those Blend Modes are located right here in the Layers Palette. You click on it and you see that giant dropdown list and all kinds of choices. Now we've been over this before, you know basically how it works, but get in the habit of just clicking on things and seeing how they work. Some do more things than others. Let's do Overlay and see how that looks. And then you can reduce the Opacity or increase the Opacity, you can adjust how that's going to look and I don't like that particular result, so let's go back. Let's try this one, and isn't it amazing that there's a sub-industry of people who do nothing but restore old photographs and here's an effect that wants to duplicate the effect of an old photograph, so go figure. Let's do Overlay. There you go. Now that's definitely looking like an old early 1920s, 30s color image. And if we reduce the Opacity on this just a little bit we can bring out some of the detail in the trees that wasn't there before and let that go. Now, let's go and look at the frame, click on this. Now we know that we need to go back here and bring up the brightness on the image, click OK. Now let's double-click on the effect and let's enhance the look of that dropdown, or that Drop Shadow and there you have an image ready to print if, of course, you like that with just a special effect. Just one suggestion. Let's take a look at the swimmer over here and do a couple of things with this one, completely different. And let's click on this Vintage Photo and then let's do a Blend Mode of Overlay and that doesn't look half bad. Let's do, let's say, let's add another Instance of this, there you go. Now there's a nice little effect, and let's multiply like that and that's what you do. You just keep clicking till you like what you see, and we can brighten this, hit OK, go to our frame and there you have it. There's a very quick yet, you know, effective use of the Special Effects on photographs in Photoshop Elements 7.