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Creating painterly effects using Filter Gallery - Photoshop Tutorial

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Creating painterly effects using Filter Gallery

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- [Instructor] There are a number of filters that emulate traditional drawing and painting effects, add textures and create interesting special effects all under Photoshop's filter gallery. Now one word of caution, if your image is in 16 bit and you select the filter menu, the filter gallery will be grayed out because it only works in eight bit. So if you do have a 16 bit image, you'll need to go to the image menu, select mode, and then convert it to eight bits per channel. Alright, under the filter menu, I will convert this for smart filters and then return to filter and select the filter gallery. On the left hand side we have the preview area. I'm going to use command zero in order to zoom out to fit on screen, but there are additional options for zoom controls in the lower left. On the right we have a number of different categories of filters, and we have little preview icons for each one of the filters. When we select a filter, it will display additional options for that filter. We can hide these icons if we want to by clicking the double chevrons and then select them from the list, but I'm going to go ahead and keep them visible for now. I want to start by choosing the brush strokes and then the spatter, and I'm going to increase the spray radius to 20. We can see that now we have a spatter effect, and if I zoom in, we can see it a little bit more clearly. If I want to add a second filter, I can click the plus icon at the bottom. It'll add a duplicate of the previous filter, but I'm going to choose distort and then diffuse glow. I'll increase the graininess and then decrease the glow amount, as well as the clear amount. I'll use command zero in order to zoom out and we can see the effects of both of those filters. Now the stacking order does matter, so if I wanted to move the diffuse glow below the spatter, I can just drag and drop it in the filter area. Alright, let's apply that and then I'm going to use command J on MAC, CTRL J on Windows, in order to create a duplicate to explore some more filters. I'll double click where it says filter gallery, use command zero to fit in screen, and I'm going to change the top filter here to the angled strokes, and just leave it set at the default. Then I'll select the bottom filter, and under artistic I'll add the colored pencil. I'm going to increase the stroke pressure as well as the paper brightness. Then let's apply that, but we don't have to stop there. If I want to add another filter, I can choose the filter menu, come down to pixelate, and then add the mosaic filter. I'll change the cell size to 35 and then apply that. But the mosaic filter is being added on top of the filter gallery, and I want it added first, so I'm going to drag it down underneath the filter gallery. Now in order to have this filter fade from the photograph to this effect, I'll select the smart filter mask, tap the G key to select the gradient, right click to reset the tool, and because my gradient is going from black to white and black is going to hide the filter and white is going to reveal it, I'll drag a gradient across the image. Excellent, let's duplicate layer zero. I'm going to hold down the option key on Mac or the Alt key on Windows, and then drag it up to be above the first layer copy. Then I want to make changes to the filter gallery, so I'll double click on that. Use command zero or Ctrl zero to fit on screen, and this time I want to create a black and white drawing. So for the top layer, I'm going to change the spatter to a sketch filter called chalk and charcoal. I'm going to increase the chalk area and I'm going to decrease the stroke pressure. Then I'll select the diffuse glow, and under distort I'll choose glass. I'm going to increase the distortion a bit and change the texture to tiny lens, and increase the scaling to 130%. There are a number of additional filters in the filter gallery, including the ability to add textures to your images that you should explore when you have time on your own. But you can see how quickly I can create some very different artistic effects using the filter gallery filters in Photoshop.

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