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Stacking up Smart Filter effects

Stacking up Smart Filter effects

From the course: Photo Tools Weekly

Stacking up Smart Filter effects

- [Voiceover] In the previous movie, I introduced you guys to this whole idea of working with smart filters. And in this movie, I wanna take it up a notch, and talk about how we can stack up filter effects. I came upon this sailboat one day this year when I was walking along the beach, and I just thought, "Man, oh so tragic." And what I wanna do with this image is create a black and white image, which has a bit more of mood or maybe depth to it. To do that, we'll be working with smart filters. So, let's begin by going to the background layer, right-click or control+click, and choose Convert to Smart Object. That's typically what I do on my own work flow because it's the fastest way to convert a layer to smart object. Next, I go to the filter pull-down menu, and here begin to think about what I wanna do. Now, one of the things that I wanna do is convert this image to black-and-white. So I go to my Camera Raw Filter, it has a lot of controls for black-and-white. Jump over that tab for…

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