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The advantages and disadvantages of using Smart Filters

The advantages and disadvantages of using Smart Filters - Photoshop Tutorial

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The advantages and disadvantages of using Smart Filters

One of the advantages of working with smart filters is they allow you to make adjustments with more flexibility. One of the disadvantages is file size, and in order to see some file size differences or comparisons we need to navigate to Bridge. You can navigate to Bridge from Photoshop by clicking on the File pulldown menu and then choose Browse in Bridge. Here in Bridge, I have the original image, and then I have the image where I've duplicated the layer, applied a blur, and changed the blending mode to soft light. So I just used a traditional layers approach. Let me double click this layer so that you can see how this one appears. Again here, we have a duplicate version of the image. We apply blur and soft light blending. Let's go back to our browse and bridge option by going to File > Browse and Bridge, and let's look at the comparison between these two. Between these two, we can obviously see that we have this effect being applied, yet we also have an increase in file size. The…

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