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Introducing Smart Filters - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
Introducing Smart Filters
I am going to start things off by showing you some Smart Filter applications for a few common filter scenarios that we examined back in the advance portion of this series. So I'll show you how to sharpen with Smart Filters, I'll show you how to smooth, and I'll also show you how to apply Shadows Highlights, and those were the topics, incidentally, of chapters 15, 16 and 17 respectively. So we're going to start things off with one of the sharpening examples that we first saw on Chapter 15 and that's Rodents in love.jpg. And the first thing that we need to do, because this is a flat JPEG file, we need to go ahead and convert the background layer into a Smart Object and you can do that in a couple of different ways. One is to go to the Layers panel, click on the flyout menu icon, and choose Convert to Smart Object or if you loaded DekeKeys you can press Ctrl+Comma or Command+Comma on the Mac and that will convert the background item into a Smart Object then any filter you apply becomes a…
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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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