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Create a woodcut effect

Create a woodcut effect - Photoshop Tutorial

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Create a woodcut effect

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to create a wood cut effect. Here's where we begin, and as always, I will convert my background layer to a smart object so that we can apply smart filters to it, nondestructively. The first thing I want to do is really bring out the edges, and one technique for this is to use a high pass filter. So, I'll come to the filter menu and to others and choose high pass. Now, I'm going to use a very large amount of high pass, much more than one would, typically, when working with a photographic image. Let's go with 30 pixels. Now, I need to change the blending mode of that filter, and I'll double click on my blending mode options and then come to linear light, and you can see that that's really going to make the image punchy. So, the next thing I want to do is add some texture. We're supposing that this is a wood cut, obviously, it makes sense to add a wood texture. Typically, one would just create a layer of wood texture, and then use a blending mode…

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