Understanding Adobe Photoshop CS4- P10: Learning Adobe Photoshop is essential to success in digital media industries. Photoshop is a gateway into several related technologies. From digital image acquisition and processing to typography and compositing, Photoshop is often your fi rst introduction. If you can master this program, you can go on to success with several other technologies. With this in mind, it is important to learn Photoshop with one eye on the present and the other on the future. | 258 Chapter 14 Maximizing Filters Ink Outlines The Ink Outlines filter redraws an image with fine narrow lines. These lines go over the original details simulating a pen-and-ink style. Spatter The Spatter filter produces rough edges while simulating the effect of a spatter airbrush. When using this effect be sure to simplify it. Sprayed Strokes The Sprayed Strokes filter is very similar to Spatter. It produces rough strokes of the dominant colors in the image. Sumi-e The Sumi-e filter tries to simulate a popular Japanese painting style. The image looks like it was painted with a wet brush full of black ink on rice paper. The result is a soft blurry image with rich blacks. This filter closely resembles Dark Strokes. The Guide to Standard Filters 259 Distort Filters The Distort filters allow you to bend push squish and completely reshape your image. These tools can simulate 3D space and can be quite useful when building backgrounds. Many of these filters are memory intensive so if your computer is slow be patient. Diffuse Glow The Diffuse Glow filter acts very much like a diffusion filter applied to a camera lens. It is possible to get a very subtle or dramatic effect. The glow color is driven by your loaded background color a white or off-white looks best. If you get strange results choose a different color. The image will be rendered with film grain and white noise with the glow fading from the center of the selection. Displace In the two examples of the Displace filter I ve used a grayscale file to displace distort the source photo. Can this filter do a lot Yes. But it requires you to build your own displacement maps grayscale files for it to work. 1. Create or locate a grayscale file to act as a displacement map. Black areas will move pixels to the right down or both. White pixels will move the image left up or both. And 50 Gray will have no effect. You must save the map as a flattened Photoshop format file. 2. Choose Filter Distort Displace. 3. Enter the scale .
