From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Mastery
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Enhancing a Smart Filter mask - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Mastery
Enhancing a Smart Filter mask
- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to refine our filter mask so that the tail is blurrier and the head is in sharper focus. So notice right now we have this kind of bounce around the head whereas in the final version of the image we have nice, sharp edges. And so while there's a stubble difference, notice these bottom teeth right here. In the final image, they're nice and sharp, whereas right now they're positively glowing. And so the first thing I'm going to do is press control zero or command zero on a Mac to zoom out. And then I'm going to view the filter mask independently of the rest of the image by alt or option clicking on its thumbnail here inside the layers panel. Alright, now what we want to do is make the head black so that the head is protected and we want to make the tail white so that it gets a full blast of the blur effect. And I'm going to do that by going up to the image menu, choosing adjustments and then choosing the levels command, or you can press a…
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Blur and noise focus your attention1m 18s
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Adding depth of field with Field Blur7m 5s
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Masking a Blur Gallery effect7m
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Enhancing a Smart Filter mask4m 52s
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Matching natural noise with the Blur Gallery8m 36s
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Introducing noise with Field Blur3m 52s
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Light Bokeh and Bokeh Color4m 33s
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Painting with randomly fluctuating colors7m 39s
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Creating a blurry vignette with Iris Blur7m 1s
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Backing off a Blur Gallery filter4m 10s
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Creating a fake miniature with Tilt Shift9m 28s
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Simulating motion with the Path Blur filter7m 5s
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Creating elliptical motion with Spin Blur6m 18s
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Reducing noise in Camera Raw6m 48s
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Sharpening fine detail in Camera Raw7m 17s
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Rounding and blurring letterforms8m 48s
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Turning a photo into a dot drawing6m 41s
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Creating a high-resolution dot drawing5m 55s
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