Collection of basic Photoshop techniques: Application of filters (1) – Use of filters

The concept of filter: It is mainly used to achieve various special effects on images. Filters usually need to be used in conjunction with channels, layers, etc. to achieve the best artistic effect. If you want to apply filters to the most appropriate position at the most appropriate time, in addition to your own art skills, you also need your familiarity and manipulation ability with filters, and even a rich imagination.

The following uses 4 examples to explain several commonly used filters:
1. Watercolor filter—the effect of watercolor

Use Photoshop to open a maple leaf picture (or your favorite picture), execute the menu – Filter – Artistic Effect – Watercolor, in the pop-up dialog box, adjust the brush details to 10, the dark tone intensity to 0, and the texture to 1, and then Click “OK”. Figure 1.

Figure 1

The effect of Photoshop’s built-in filter is not very obvious, so we need to add a watercolor effect. Click “Channel” – create a new channel, then execute the menu – Filter – Noise – Add noise, the amount is 50%, Gaussian distribution, monochrome. As shown in Figure 2. alt=”Tutorial on synthesizing scenes from “Magic Night”_16xx8.com”

Figure 2

After that, go to the menu—Image—Adjustments—Invert, then Filter—Blur—Gaussian Blur 2.0. After finishing, go back to the layer and click on the background layer, so that you can get a more realistic watercolor effect. As shown in Figure 3.

Figure 3

2. Find edges—wood panel painting effect

Mainly by using the “filter” function to achieve a variety of material effects.
First open a picture. The one I opened here is a picture of a soldier model, and then execute the menu-Filter-Stylize-Find Edges. We don’t need too many colors. At this time, execute the menu – Image – Mode – Grayscale, convert the image to gray, and adjust the color level values ​​to 0, 1, and 220. Then save this as a PSD file and close. As shown in Figure 4.

Figure 4

Open a wood grain material (wood grain material production method), then execute the menu – Filter – Texture – Texture, click the small triangle next to it – Load texture, this time select the PSD of the soldier avatar just made file and adjust the quantity to 100, lighting to up, and convexity to 8. That’s it. As shown in Figure 5.

Figure 5

3. Wind filter—cave effect.

Use the wind filter to create a cave effect, and change the color to create flying fire.

Create a new image, set the front and rear scenery to white and black respectively (shortcut key D), execute menu – Filter – Rendering – Clouds, and then execute Filter – Rendering – Layered Clouds, in order to get a clearer texture Layer, press CTRL F multiple times to use layered clouds, the author used it 12 times here. As shown in Figure 6.

Execute menu–Filter–Stylize–Wind, select Hurricane for mode, and select right for direction; then execute Gaussian Blur 2.5, execute menu–Image–Rotate canvas–90 degrees counterclockwise; as shown in Figure 6.

Figure 6

Execute the menu – Filter – Rendering – Lighting to add lighting effects to the cave. Here you can set the values ​​according to your own preferences. The last step is color adjustment, menu-image-adjustment-hue/saturation, adjust the gray cave color and you can complete it. As shown in Figure 7.

Figure 7

4. Lattice formation – the effect of tearing paper.

First open a picture, use the polygonal lasso tool to outline an area anywhere in the picture, this area is the area where we want to tear the paper, and then click “Enter Quick Mask”. At this moment, the entire picture should be slightly red. , the area just outlined with the polygon tool is of normal color.Color; then execute menu-Filter-Pixel-Lattice. As shown in Figure 8.

Figure 8

Click the channel panel, then click “Load channel as selection” on the far left, then return to the layer panel, create a new layer, then execute the menu-Edit-Fill-White, and then double-click this layer. To adjust the layer mode, bevel and embossing: style inner bevel, method smooth, depth 112, direction, size 6 and other defaults; then adjust the stroke and find a color you like. As shown in Figure 9alt=”Tutorial for synthesizing scenes from “Magic Night”_16xx8.com”

Figure 9

When you achieve this step, you can also add effects, such as finding a swimsuit picture with a suitable body shape and replacing it in a blank space, hehe~.
Summary: Through this study, we have applied several commonly used filter effects to examples. After you are familiar with the built-in filters, you can also download some plug-in filters, which will make your pictures more exciting!

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