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Overview of filters

Overview of filters - Photoshop Tutorial

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Overview of filters

- [Instructor] There are over 100 filters that ship with Photoshop, and they're all located under the filter menu. Now a number of these filters are associated with Filter Gallery, and others are simply listed under the menu, broken down into smaller categories. I like to think of filters as belonging to one of three primary categories, either practical or utilitarian, artistic, or content creation filters. So the practical filters include solutions for sharpening images and making color adjustments, and reducing noise in images. The artistic filters apply creative effects, such as paint splatters and distortions or blurs, or traditional photographic effects, like glows. Finally, the content creation filters help us to render new items and effects, such as trees or flames and clouds, lighting effects, and more. In the next few videos, we're going to take a look at some techniques that make use of some of the more commonly…

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