One of the great things about applying distortions as smart filters is that you can then turn around and augment the effects using blend modes. For example, take a fragile line blasted with Radial Blur. Then apply the Twirl filter and set the effect to Multiply. Now you can see the blasted line and the twirled one on top of each other, thereby bolstering the effect. In the end, Deke achieves an effect that you’ll have to see to believe.
assign the Smart Filters combined with Blend Modes. … All right, so, I'm going to go ahead … and collapse the 1st lines layer … just to save a little bit of room on screen, … and then I'm going to expand … this all 2nd lines folder right here, … but that's going to give us an awful lot of twirl, … as you're seeing right here, … which to my mind is too much, … but because I've applied Twirl as a Smart Filter, … I can modify the effect just by double-clicking on it … which will, once again, bring up … the Twirl dialogue box if ever so slowly, … and that will take the Angle value down to just 20, … and I'll click OK. … And so, this is how things look … before we assign the Twirl filter, … and notice how long it takes to turn the filter off. … Whereas if I just press Control + Z, … or Command + Z on a Mac, to reapply the filter, … it happens very quickly. … All right, here's something else that's going to happen slowly. … I want to modify the Blend Mode … by double-clicking on this little slider's icon …
Author
Deke McClelland
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1/26/2021Released
1/13/2011Note: Because this is an ongoing series, viewers will not receive a certificate of completion.
Skill Level Intermediate
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