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Create a painterly look with the Diffuse filter

Create a painterly look with the Diffuse filter - Photoshop Tutorial

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Create a painterly look with the Diffuse filter

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- [Narrator] For this example, I'm going to use the diffuse filter. Multiple applications of the diffuse filter, in combination with reduce noise, and smart sharpen. And that's going to give me this result that we have here on the right, where... Well, it's difficult to describe, but it's not so far away from the effects that you might get using the oil paint filter, which we'll see later on in this course. So let's just take a look at how this has been achieved. And you can see from my list of smart filters, that I've applied the diffuse filter three times. Each time with the same settings, there are four different settings with diffuse. Normal, darken only, lighten only, and the one that I'm using, anisotropic. Yep, I didn't know what it meant either. But it's the one that works best, that's all we need to know. And there are no further settings with the diffuse filter, so we don't have many options. If we want more, we just apply it a second, or indeed, a third time. And then…

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