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This time, "smart" means dynamic - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
This time, "smart" means dynamic
Just as a Dynamic Adjustment layer ensures that you can modify color adjustment settings well into the future, a Smart Object combined with a dynamic Smart Filter lets you add a High Pass, Reduced Noise, Shadows Highlighted and other Filter settings any time and as many times as you like; plus, you can adjust the Opacity of the effect and apply a Blend mode. It's all parametric all of the time. But again the Word Smart is misapplied here. There is nothing smart about dynamic operations unless Adobe is trying to imply that you're smart to use them. But then does that make the standard Static Filters Stupid Filters? I believe Adobe has a major explaining to do. I begin this chapter by walking you through a few familiar examples from the advanced portion of this series, but this time I applied is dynamic Smart Filters instead of static ones. I'll show you how to nest one smart object into another to take advantage of multiple filter masks. We'll see how Shadows Highlights often produces…
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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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