Section 4-Smart Filters

Smart Filters allow you to do Non-destructive editing to your images. 

Requirements for your PowerPoint slides: 

1. Use two different original pictures which will show the "before and after" of the Smart Filters you apply.
2. Use a combination and blend at least two filters together for each original picture.
3. Label the filter combination you used in your PowerPoint slide.  

 

For even more help with Smart Filters, click the link HERE.

 

How Do I Apply Smart Filters?

It’s easy to apply a Smart Filter in Adobe Photoshop CS6!

1.   Create a duplicate layer of the image you want to apply a Smart Filter to.
Keyboard Shortcut: Ctrl + J

2.   Go to the Filter Menu

3.   Select "Convert for Smart Filters"

o    You will see the Smart Object icon appear on your layer in the layers panel.

4.   Now go back to the Filter Menu. You can select any combination of filters that you'd like.

o    Once applied, you rearrange, reorganize, turn on/off, and format/edit the filters you have already applied.

If you want to apply a mask to your Smart Filter:

1.   Select the Filter Effects Mask Thumbnail (white box in your layers panel).

2.   Use a selection tool to select the object you want to mask

3.   With the marching ants selecting your object, go to the Edit Menu, and select the Fill command.

4.   You want to fill your mask with the color black (often defaults as the Foreground color).

5.   You will see the object you selected now outlined in black in the Filter Effects Mask Thumbnail

6.   If your selection was not perfect, edit it:

o    You can use your brush tool and the color black/white to add/subtract from your mask. 

And you're done!

 

In the example above, you will see I applied a Smart Filter. I added the filters wind and motion blur. I also created a mask which you can see in my Filter Effects Mask Thumbnail and masked the giraffe so that it appears in its original form.