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The most useful production filters in Photoshop Part 1
Photoshop offers you so many filters, however most fall into the creative category which create effects more suited to one particular task rather than everyday studio production work. There are a great deal that also fall into the seen it a 1000 times or downright cheesy-don’t use category – Ill be skipping these for obvious reasons (eg Watercolour and Rough Pastels!)
If you ask most professional Photoshop users they will generally only use a handful of filters that they use 90% of the time – which I will outline and explain the usage of below.
Gausian Blur
Obvious one, fantastic quality blur, great for depth of field effects, softening layer masks and obviously anything that needs a blur! You often get better results by not trying to apply your blur all in one go – try applying it 2 or 3 times at lower settings rather than applying it once at a higher setting.
Add Noise
Digital artists strive for clean images with little or no noise in them… But noise can be your friend if used gently! This filer is really good for matching up images in a comp and making layers ‘marry’ in your composition. 3D artists often use this also, sometimes clean renders need a bit of noise to make them look more real!
Median
This works a little like Gausian Blur, but attempts to keep edge detail in – useful if you heavily enlarge an image or for general smoothing – obviously at the expense of image detail!
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Written by Jonny Allbut - freelance graphic designer
Last modified: 15 July, 2005 (08:46) | First published: 15 July, 2005
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