Applying Smart Filters

Here, we're going to dig in to how to work with Smart Filters, and along the…way, I am going to share with you a really fun technique that you can apply…to your image which allows you to add Contrast and Color Saturation and a Soft Glow.…Well, the first step for working with the Smart Filter is to convert the layer.…Because Smart Filters allow you to constantly edit the filter, you need to…change the characteristics of the layer so that we're not actually applying the…filter to the pixels themselves.…Let me show you what I mean.…

Well, here you can either right-click or Ctrl+Click, and then choose Convert to…Smart Object or on the other hand, you can go to your Filter pulldown menu, and…then you can select Convert for Smart Filters.…Well, let's use either technique to go ahead and do that, which opens up this…dialog which says, to enable the Smart Filters which you can constantly edit,…it's going to convert this layer into a Smart Object. Well great!…That's exactly what we wanted to do, we will click OK.…