Tips for selecting Photoshop filters

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Photoshop's filters have five main functions: Optimizing print images, optimizing web images, improving productivity, providing creative filters, and creating three-dimensional effects. The advent of filters greatly enhances the functionality of Photoshop, and with the filter, we can easily create a very "professional" artistic effect. But with a wide variety of Photoshop filters, how do we choose a practical photoshop filter?

One, Text effects processing filter selection

Use Photoshop to make the special effects word not only first-class visual effects, but also very practical. Using Photoshop's plug-in filter to make the special effects word is much simpler.

1. Preferred Ulead_type.plugins

Before you need to pass through the layer, channel, path and other complex operations to get results, here only need to use Ulead_type.plugins, after a simple adjustment, you can complete. It can make dozens of kinds of special text changes, such as glass, metal, relief, relief, flame, snow, neon, stamp ... Wait a minute.

Note: before applying these effects, convert the text layer to a normal layer (right-click the "T" flag of the type layer and select "Render La-yer").

2, arbitrary arrangement of text photographic

Is it difficult to arrange some text on a specific path? If you make it out of thin air, you have to adjust it one word at a time, and now it's easy to photographic. We just create a new file, draw a circle, and then select the Filter-photographic menu to enter the filter interface. Then draw a curve with the pen tool. Then use the "T" text button at the end of the curve click, in the text panel to set the font and size, enter text.

Remember: don't forget to turn the stroke into 0 in the option panel, which is to set the width of the curve to 0 to avoid the appearance of the curve. Finally press apply to new Layer (Generate new Layer) command.

Second, Button effect processing filter selection

Buttons are the objects we often want to make, and we can use good filters to help us make them easy.

Photo Tools is one of the most powerful and effective Plugins in Photoshop. One of the components Photobutton is now the best button-making tool.

In this filter, the button has very rich properties, with shape, bevel, color, texture four tags to organize them, respectively, set the button shape, bevel, color and texture.

The program presets 7 kinds of bevel shapes, and you can design more complex bevel types by using the "bevel shape" curve. To define a new button shape, first select one of the most similar built-in shapes, then press the Pen tool, move the cursor to the preview window, and the button's contour and control node are displayed, dragging the contour and control nodes, and the shape of the button changes. Photobutton also allows you to set the number of buttons, the arrangement of the button, the distance between the buttons, can be a breath on the button for batch production, very convenient.

Three, Border effect processing filter selection

Is it too corny to boxy photos or other pictures? So give them a character border, is a graphic image processing work often to do. Then you have to choose Photo/graphic Edge, although it can not be directly to the drawing, but to give you the existing photos, pictures plus the frame of the cool dead is a piece of cake.

Photo/graphic Edge contains 40 kinds of filter effects, such as: Carve, Bevel, Glow, shadows and lighting, as well as 1000 kinds of background patterns, so you can apply directly to the picture. At the same time, the border can rotate, resize, change width, and can apply multiple borders as well as filter effects, and cross-combine to work better.

Four, Texture material processing filter selection

How does the image processing work not involve the texture material processing? Andromeda Company's new series of filter products Techtures is the best choice. She not only has a pleasing and beautiful interface, but also provides up to 900 kinds of seamless materials.

Although you start with a fixed set of patterns, you can pass these patterns again, creating an almost infinite pattern combination. You can control the blending of these patterns, or you can apply them in a block or weave way to the image. You can also create 3D-effect textures, such as bump maps (bump maps) and environment maps (environment maps), which are stunning.

All of these are based on your specific needs to select the filter, and finally give you the recommendation of three classic Photoshop filter:

1, KPT Series-This is a unique set of filter plug-ins developed by the Metatools company, the interface is made fine, the function is very powerful.

2, Eye Candy--eye Candy Library with 21 filters, you can easily achieve carving, chrome, shearing, flame, fluff, preparation and other special effects.

3, xenofex--This is the alien Skin Softwave Company's another filter boutique, the operation is simple, the effect is splendid, is the graphic image design Another good assistant, is called the stunt Master.

Clever use of filters can simplify our work a lot, and the effect will be better, why not?

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