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Filtering live, editable text - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
Filtering live, editable text
Another advantage to Smart Filters is that you can apply them to editable text and vector-based shape layers as well. So I'm working here inside Mirror man.psd. It's another variation on that low resolution composition that we saw back in the previous chapter. The original image comes to us from Olly of the Fotolia Image Library, took the right half of the guy's face and flipped it, so he's absolutely symmetrical and a bit menacing as well. So notice that we have these Text layers and this Shape layer. Go ahead and select one of the Text layers and then go up to the Filter menu, choose Blur, and choose Gaussian Blur; really any old filter will do at this point. You'll get an alert message that says, hey, if you want to apply a filter, which is only applicable, by the way, to a pixel-based image layer, then you're going to have to rasterize this text, meaning convert it to pixels, is that something you want to do? And the answer is of course not, Cancel out. What you've got to do is…
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This time, "smart" means dynamic1m 37s
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Introducing Smart Filters6m 28s
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Traditional High Pass sharpening5m 17s
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Smart High Pass in the Lab mode7m 57s
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Sharpening a high-frequency image7m 46s
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Retroactively reducing noise7m 31s
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Which filters are Smart Filters?6m 20s
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Shadows/Highlights as a Smart Filter4m 37s
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Nesting one Smart Object inside another7m 11s
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Drawing a mask from a nested Smart Object8m 7s
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Better Shadows/Highlights inside Lab9m 16s
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Tempering saturation values in Lab6m 59s
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Filtering live, editable text9m 2s
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Enhancing filters with layer effects4m 33s
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Applying a filter multiple times4m 59s
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Creating a synthetic star field7m 7s
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Making a stucco or drywall pattern6m 28s
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Land, sea, and clouds8m 27s
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