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Modifying the filters’ appearance

Modifying the filters’ appearance - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop: Smart Objects

Modifying the filters’ appearance

- [Instructor] We've seen how you can double click the names of any of the filters in the Layers panel to open the dialogue and change the parameters of that filter, but next to each filter are these small icons. When we double click one of those, that brings up Blending Options, not for the layer, but specifically for this filter. So, we can lower the opacity of each individual filter without affecting all the rest, and we can also change the Mode of each filter. So, we can change the Mode of this from Normal say to Dissolve, and you can see a few ragged edges showing through here. We could change it to Color Burn. We could change it to Lighter Color. So, it'll only brighten up what's there. We could change it to something like Vivid Light which will give a slightly more harsh effect. Exclusion, and so on. In other words, it gives us the ability to take every one of our filters and apply them in a whole range of different ways. For now, let's put this back to Normal and leave it as…

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